Why Attend

Why Attend?

The IDC AI & Data Summit India is more than just a conference — it’s where the country’s technology leaders come together to shape the future of AI-driven enterprises.

Infrastructure Evolution: Edge, Cloud and AI Platforms

With 75% of AI workloads expected to run on hybrid infrastructure, Indian organizations need agile, cost-effective, and secure architectures. This theme examines the future of AI infrastructure spanning edge computing for real-time use cases, multi-cloud strategies, AI accelerators, and enterprise-ready AI platforms.

Business Value and ROI from AI & Data

As budgets come under scrutiny, enterprises need clear answers on AI’s commercial impact. This theme focuses on practical value pathways: productivity gains, revenue models, cost optimization, and industry-specific ROI, helping leaders justify investments and prioritize the highest-value initiatives.

People, Culture and AI Readiness

With 55% of Indian enterprises facing digital skill shortages, the human dimension of AI adoption is critical. This theme explores how organizations can build a future-ready workforce, nurture AI-first cultures, redesign roles, and drive change management to ensure adoption matches ambition.

Ecosystems, Partnerships and Innovation Models

India’s AI momentum is accelerating through collaboration startups, hyperscalers, global partners, research hubs, and industry alliances. This theme highlights how enterprises can leverage ecosystem-driven innovation, co-creation models, and partnership strategies to accelerate outcomes and derisk transformation.

Future Regulation & Strategic Foresight

With AI regulation evolving globally and India evaluating its own policy frameworks, organizations must prepare for future compliance. This theme offers forward-looking insights into emerging regulations, safety standards, security expectations, and long-term strategic bets shaping the next decade of AI in India.

Key Theme

The summit this year will spotlight how innovation, intelligence, and resilience are reshaping enterprises through AI, cloud modernization, agentic architectures, and cybersecurity.

Data Value Reinvention in the Age of AI

India’s enterprises are rethinking the way data is collected, shared, and monetized. With AI investments outpacing overall tech spend, organizations must unlock new value streams from data powered by real-time analytics, proprietary datasets, and modern data platforms. This theme focuses on how Indian businesses can move from data volume to data value at scale.

Scaling AI: From Pilot to Enterprise Deployment

While many Indian organizations have launched AI pilots, fewer have achieved enterprise-wide scale. This theme explores what it takes to operationalize AI across functions addressing architecture, scalability, data readiness, MLOps maturity, and measurable outcomes, so enterprises can confidently move from experimentation to transformation.

AI Governance: Trust, Transparency and Responsible AI

As India prepares for AI governance frameworks and enterprises formalize AI risk policies, responsible AI is no longer optional. This theme highlights practical governance models, ethical guardrails, fairness frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies essential for safe, transparent AI adoption in large organizations.

Data Sovereignty, Governance and Interoperability

With India’s evolving data protection landscape and rising emphasis on local data management, organizations must navigate sovereignty, cross-border data flows, and secure interoperability. This theme provides clarity on building compliant, resilient data ecosystems balancing innovation with regulatory expectations.

Generative and Agentic AI: The Next Frontier

Indian enterprises are rapidly moving from curiosity to high-value GenAI applications across customer service, productivity, development, and operations. This theme explores next-wave innovations: agentic systems, autonomous workflows, multimodal models and what they mean for competitiveness in India’s digital economy.