India, Feb. 16 -- Wafaa Amal, a veteran in the payments and banking sectors globally, can see trends before many others can. As CEO of Prisme.ai, a sovereign agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform, she puts forward two considerate beliefs in a conversation with HT, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. First, that AI no longer needs to be proven, but industrialised. And secondly, she says, "India is a case study for a lot of countries who have the same means and yet they are a step behind, especially with the same level of constraints with regulation and sovereign solutions".

"We can say we are behind in Europe, as are some other countries, because regulation is very hard. I know India has similar requirements as well. From my point...