India AI Summit: From Sam Altman to Sundar Pichai — full list of tech CEOs to attend major expo in Delhi

All eyes are on the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to be held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 16 February to 20 February. Tech leaders from about 100 countries are expected to participate as the world’s largest companies aim to expand their presence in what is seen as a critical growth market.

Which tech CEOs will attend?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis are all expected to attend.

Reuters reported that Nvidia's media agency in India, MSL, confirmed via email that CEO Jensen Huang would not be travelling to India due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Huang had been scheduled to address the media in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Here's thefull list of tech moguls who are expected to attend India AI Impact Summit 2026:

1. Amanda Brock, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), OpenUK

2. Matthew Prince, CEO, Cloudflare

3. Anastasia Stasenko, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer (Co-Founder & CEO), Pleias

4. Anna Tumadóttir, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Creative Commons

5. Aparna Bawa, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Zoom

6. Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI

7. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson & CEO, Salesforce India

8. Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder, Rubrik

9. Borje Ekholm, President & CEO, Ericsson Group

10. C Vijayakumar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Director, HCLTech

11. Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Anthropic

12. Giordano (Gio) Albertazzi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), VERTIV

13. Harshil Mathur, CEO and Co-Founder, Razorpay

14. Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst

15. J. Trevor Hughes, President & CEO, IAPP

16. Jay Chaudhry, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chairman, and Founder, Zscaler

17. Jeff (Jeffrey) Shapiro, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Scanline VFX

18. Jorge Solis, CEO, Soufflet Malt

19. Julie Sweet, Chair & CEO, Accenture

20. Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl

21. Naveen Tewari, Founder & CEO, InMobi

22. Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO, Credo AI

23. Olivier Blum, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Schneider Electric

24. Raj Koneru, CEO, Kore.ai

25. Richard Marko, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ESET

26. Salil Parekh, CEO & MD, Infosys

27. Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI

28. Sameer Jain, Founder & CEO, Net Solutions

29. Sanjay Mehrotra, Chairman, President and CEO, Micron

30. Shantanu Narayen, Chair and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Adobe

31. Sir Demis Hassabis, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Google DeepMind

32. Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet

33. Umesh Sachdev, CEO and Co-founder, Uniphore

34. Victoria Espinel, CEO, Business Software Alliance

35. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO, Paytm

36. Vishal Sikka, Founder and CEO, Vianai Systems

37. Vivek Mahajan, CTO, Fujitsu Limited

All about the India AI Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the India AI Impact Expo 2026 on 16 February at the Bharat Mandapam, where the G20 Summit was hosted for the first time in 2023.

The Expo is expected to attract over 2.5 lakh visitors, including international delegates, and aims to foster global partnerships and business opportunities within the AI ecosystem.

In addition, more than 500 sessions featuring over 3,250 speakers and panellists will be conducted during the event.

Over 600 high-potential startups are participating, many of which are already building globally relevant, population-scale AI solutions deployed in real-world settings.

The Expo will be held across 10 arenas covering more than 70,000 square metres and will host global technology companies, startups, academia, research institutions, Union Ministries, State Governments, and international partners.

Thirteen country pavilions will highlight international collaboration in the AI ecosystem, including participation from Australia, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Serbia, Estonia, Tajikistan and African nations.

More than 300 curated exhibition pavilions and live demonstrations will be organised across three thematic "chakras"--People, Planet, and Progress--reflecting AI's broad-based impact across sectors.

The Impact Summit, the first international AI summit hosted in the Global South, will showcase New Delhi's ambition: to shape an AI future that is inclusive, responsible, and impactful.

Under the IndiaAI Mission, the country is unveiling 12 indigenous foundation models developed by homegrown startups and consortia, trained on vast Indian datasets and tailored to the nation's 22 official languages.

The summit will showcase them alongside the AI Impact Expo, a sprawling 70,000-square-metre showcase of real-world applications, from precision farming to accessible education.