India’s AI Moment Goes Global As Sunil Bharti Mittal, Adobe CEO Make Big Bets On India’s Tech Future

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder-Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, and Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO of Adobe, shared their perspectives on artificial intelligence and India’s global role. Both leaders underlined AI’s transformative impact across sectors such as healthcare, connectivity, education, and personalized medicine. Narayen highlighted India’s potential to lead in AI adoption, open standards, data trust, and content authenticity, while Mittal emphasized India’s strength in frugal innovation and “jugaad.” Together, they stressed that India’s scale, openness, and innovation mindset uniquely position it to shape responsible and inclusive AI for the world.