Gandhinagar hosted a regional Pre-Summit on AI Governance at Gandhinagar. The event, organised by the IndiaAI Mission under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in partnership with the Government of Gujarat and IIT Gandhinagar, prepared the groundwork for the India–AI Impact Summit scheduled for February 2026 in New Delhi.

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The conference brought together senior government leaders, researchers, and industry representatives to examine how AI can support the country’s economic and social goals. The inaugural session was attended by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Rajnikant Patel, Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Rameshbhai Sanghavi, Science & Technology Minister Arjunbhai Modhwadia, Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Das, MeitY Additional Secretary Abhishek Singh, and Ponugumatla Bharathi, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Gujarat.

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This year’s theme, AI for Good Governance: Empowering India’s Digital Future, underscores the focus on practical, citizen-centric applications. Speakers from MeitY, Bhashini, Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM Research, NVIDIA, Oracle, and AWS led the discussions on how AI is being deployed across government departments, ways of digital systems that can improve services in both urban and rural areas, and how emerging technologies such as generative AI are evolving. The programme also covered key sectors including agriculture, healthcare, financial inclusion, and language accessibility through platforms like BHASHINI.