India, March 3 -- Some tech summits feel like a festival of demos. Lots of big claims. Lots of shiny slides. Then everyone goes home and the real world stays the same. The AI Impact Summit 2026 week in New Delhi did not feel like that.

It felt like a signal.

The public message was direct: India should not remain a consumer of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It should become a creator and exporter. The ambition is to place India among the top three AI superpowers in the world. That kind of statement does two things at once.

First, it creates urgency. When the highest level of government frames a technology as a national priority, it becomes harder for enterprises to treat it like an "innovation lab project." AI stops being a weekend exper...