The 20th edition of the India Digital Summit (IDS), the annual conference of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), is scheduled to be held on January 29–30, 2026, at Leela Bhartiya City, Bengaluru. The theme of the conference is ‘India’s AI Moment: Leveraging the Intelligent Economy’.
IDS 2026 is expected to draw over 7,500 attendees and will feature more than 300 speakers across 60+ sessions organised under five tracks.
The summit is being organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Make in India. India Digital Summit 2026 is an official pre-summit event of the AI Impact Summit 2026. Several sessions will focus on artificial intelligence, covering both AI builders and users. These include sessions on ‘Building a National AI Stack for Viksit Bharat 2047’, ‘Building new Digital Infrastructure for India’s Financial Ecosystem’, ‘How AI Is Shaping the Future of Media and Entertainment’, and ‘Indian AI at Scale: Powering a Million MSMEs’.
The conference will feature more than 300 speakers, including Priyank Kharge, Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Government of Karnataka; Manjula N (IAS), Secretary, Department of Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology, and Science and Technology, Government of Karnataka; Sahil Kini, CEO, Reserve Bank Innovation Hub; Rajesh Magow, Co-Founder and Group CEO, MakeMyTrip; Hitesh Oberoi, Co-Promoter, Managing Director and CEO, Naukri; Chandan Khaitan, CEO, Muthoot FinCorp One; Dinesh Agarwal, Founder and CEO, IndiaMart; and Kiran Mani, CEO – Digital, JioStar.
The India Digital Summit brings together policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, founders, and decision-makers to discuss opportunities, challenges, and regulatory frameworks shaping India’s digital economy. The sessions will be spread across five tracks: AI Readiness and Adoption, Cyber Resilience, Offline Intelligence, Intelligent Commerce, and Creative Intelligence.
The Title Partner of IDS 2026 is JioHotstar. The event is co-powered by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Getepay and is being organised in association with Meta. Other partners include PhonePe, PayPal, Times Internet, Jagran News Media, IDA Ireland, Proximus Global, FirstHive, PaySprint, and In-Solutions Global.
The 2025 edition of the annual report ‘Internet in India’, produced jointly by IAMAI and Kantar, will be launched at IDS 2026. Based on the ICUBE study, the report is built on a sample of nearly one lakh consumers across more than 400 towns and over 1,000 villages, examining patterns of digital adoption and online behaviour across regions.
The 16th edition of the India Digital Awards (IDA) will also be hosted as part of IDS 2026. The awards will recognise individuals, organisations, platforms, and initiatives across six categories and 47 subcategories.
