India, Oct. 1 -- The Dell Technologies Forum 2026 brought more than 13,000 technology and business leaders, customers and partners together across Mumbai and Bengaluru around a common challenge: moving AI from experimentation into real enterprise use.

The message was less about AI as a standalone technology and more about what needs to sit around it. Dell positioned infrastructure, data, security, talent and partnerships as connected parts of the journey, especially as 42% of leaders in the Dell-Vanson Bourne Study say they are falling behind the pace of disruption.

Manish Gupta, President and Managing Director, Dell Technologies India, argued that AI strategy cannot scale without the right foundations. Nearly half of organisations stil...