What is the story about?
As the AI Impact Summit 2026 is set to begin tomorrow (Monday), several world leaders, global CEOs, representatives of international organisations, and
experts will be attending the first international AI summit hosted in the Global South. The summit will be hosted at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will continue for four days, set to conclude on February 20. The AI Impact Summit will be held at Bharat Mandapam from February 16 to 20. Over 10,000 police personnel will be deployed to look over the grand event.
List of World Leaders Attending AI Summit
- Bhutan – Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister
- Bolivia – Edmand Lara Montano, Vice President
- Brazil – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President
- Croatia – Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister
- Estonia – Alar Karis, President
- Finland – Petteri Orpo, Prime Minister
- France – Emmanuel Macron, President
- Greece – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister
- Guyana – Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, Vice President
- Kazakhstan – Olzhas Bektenov, Prime Minister
- Liechtenstein – Hereditary Prince Alois, Hereditary Prince of the Principality of Liechtenstein
- Mauritius – Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Prime Minister
- Serbia – Aleksandar Vučić, President
- Slovakia – Peter Pellegrini, President
- Spain – Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, President
- Sri Lanka – Anura Kumara Disanayaka, President
- Seychelles – Sebastien Pillay, Vice President
- Switzerland – Guy Parmelin, President
- The Netherlands – Dick Schoof, Prime Minister
- United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
Additionally, ministerial delegations from over 45 nations will participate. The United Nations Secretary-General and senior officials from several international organisations will be coming to join for the mega event.
Who Else Will Be Attending AI Summit?
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, along with other senior UN officials, is also expected to attend the Summit in New Delhi.
Further, the UN Chief will be accompanied by Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies; Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO); Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); Kamal Kishore, Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Moreover, senior officials from UNDP, UN Women, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, FAO, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) will also be there.
List of Tech Leaders Attending AI Summit
- Jensen Huang - Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
- Julie Sweet - Chair & CEO, Accenture
- Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
- Sundar Pichai - CEO, Google and Alphabet
- Shantanu Narayen - Chair and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Adobe
- Sridhar Vembu - Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Zoho Corporation
- Yann LeCun - Chief AI Scientist, Meta
- Bill Gates - Chair, Gates Foundation, and co-founder of Microsoft
- Brad Smith - President & Vice Chair, Microsoft
- Cristiano Amon - President & Chief Executive Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated
- Dario Amodei - Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Anthropic
- Demis Hassabis - Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Google DeepMind
- Aarthi Subramanian - Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Executive Director, Tata Consultancy Services
- Alexandr Wang - Chief AI Officer, Meta
- Aparna Bawa - Chief Operating Officer (COO), Zoom
According to the sources, guests would be accommodated at 10 hotels in and around Delhi NCR. Each hotel will be placed under the supervision of a senior DCP-rank officer.
Around 100 personnel will be deployed at each hotel. The staff will manage entry and exit points and monitor guest movements, TOI reported.
