India, Feb. 17 -- As the India AI Impact Summit 2026 unfolded on the second day, the air was thick with a sense of historic inevitability-the conversations around artificial intelligence (AI) were no longer confined to experimentation. The debate had shifted to architecture and how AI should be built for a country of 1.4 billion people.

At the AWS Symposium organised on the sidelines of the summit, Jaime Valles, Vice President, AWS Asia Pacific and Japan, and Uwem Ukpong, Vice President, AWS Global Industries, described what they called the "India Way" - a model of digital transformation that prioritises scale, inclusion and public good over isolated commercial returns.

For a country that built Aadhaar and UPI as Digital Public Infrastr...