AI Summit 2025
150+ AI founders, researchers, and policymakers confronted one question: could India build AI on its own terms rather than follow Silicon Valley?
Overview
Co-hosted with Forbes India, the summit brought foundational-model builders, applied-AI founders, researchers, and policymakers into one room. Ashish Vaswani and Pranav Mistry helped sharpen a recurring question about whether India could lead rather than imitate. The conviction that remained was that India's scale could become an advantage if founders solved education, health, and agriculture at costs the rest of the world could adopt.
Speakers
Abhishek Singh
MeitY
Anand Daniel
Partner, Accel
Ashish Vaswani
Co-founder and CEO, Essential AI
Balaraman Ravindran
Professor, IIT Madras
Dr. Geetha Manjunath
Co-founder and CEO, Niramai Health
Dr. Harrick Vin
CTO, TCS
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Lead, BharatGen
Kalika Bali
Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India
Manu Chopra
CEO & Co-Founder, Karya
Mitesh Khapra
IIT Madras, AI4Bharat
Pranav Mistry
Founder and CEO, TWO AI
Prashant Warier
Co-Founder & CEO, Qure.ai
Prashanth Prakash
Partner, Accel
Pratyush Kumar
Co-Founder, Sarvam AI
Prayank Swaroop
Partner, Accel
Sanket Shah
CEO, InVideo
Sharad Sanghi
CEO, Neysa Network
Shekhar Kirani
Partner, Accel
Soham Ganatra
Co-Founder, Composio
Vas Natarajan
Partner, Accel