Connect | India // Major Panel: India in the global AI race - Ready to lead?

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Speakers

Sunil Kumar Ojha

Managing Principal, Ramboll

Pramod Deshmukh

Director Data Center Facilities Design Engineering Services, India., Ramboll

Vipin Shirsat

Vipin Shirsat

General Manager, India, Princeton Digital Group

Bimal Khandelwal

Chief Executive Officer, STTGDC India

Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta

Co-Founder, MD & CEO, Yotta Data Services

Chirag Bharatia

Chirag Bharatia

Director, Infrastructure Services, Oracle Cerner

India’s AI ambitions are accelerating, supported by national initiatives, growing enterprise adoption and significant investment into digital infrastructure. Yet becoming a global AI hub requires more than deploying GPUs at scale.

It demands alignment across power availability, capital structures, policy clarity, talent development and infrastructure delivery. As global competition intensifies, India must determine whether it is building for domestic demand alone or positioning itself as an international AI infrastructure destination. The decisions made today around site strategy, sovereignty, partnerships and long-term capacity planning will shape the country’s competitive standing for the next decade.

This opening panel will examine what must align for India to compete at global AI scale, and whether the foundations are truly in place.

 

 

India’s AI ambitions are accelerating, supported by national initiatives, growing enterprise adoption and significant investment in digital infrastructure. Yet becoming a global AI hub requires more than deploying GPUs at scale. Power availability, capital, policy, talent and infrastructure delivery must all align to support the scale and speed of AI development. This session will explore where India stands today and what needs to happen next to compete at global AI scale, including:

  • The role of policy, sovereignty and international partnerships in scaling AI infrastructure
  • Whether India has the talent and infrastructure delivery capability to support sustained AI growth
  • How power availability, capital and site strategy are shaping where AI capacity gets built
  • The steps India needs to take to become a global destination for AI infrastructure investment