India, Feb. 19 -- The AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi is not another technology gathering. It is a signal. A signal that artificial intelligence is no longer a pilot project tucked inside IT departments. It is now an enterprise mandate.

PM Narendra Modi framed AI as a civilisational turning point, comparing it to the discovery of fire and the birth of written language. The difference, he emphasised, is speed and scale. AI is moving faster than any technological shift before it.

For enterprises and the IT channel ecosystem, that message carries weight. Because when technology moves fast, business models must move faster.

The PM introduced the MANAV framework, placing moral and ethical foundations, accountable governance and national ...