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India's First Leadership Conclave on AI Governance

AI Trust &
Governance Conclave

Who Governs When AI Decides?

Date Saturday, 23 May 2026
Location Bengaluru
Format Half-Day
Delegates 150+ Leaders
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India's Defining
Governance Moment

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a technology concern. It is a boardroom imperative, a regulatory frontier, a constitutional question, and a societal reckoning — all at once. As AI systems make decisions in credit, healthcare, justice, and employment, the question of accountability has never been more urgent.

"When an algorithm denies a loan, decides a bail hearing, or recommends a diagnosis — who is responsible? Who governs?"

— The Core Question of Our Era

The AI Trust & Governance Conclave convenes India's most influential decision-makers, policymakers, technologists, and ethicists to forge answers, frameworks, and commitments — not just conversations.

₹1.2T
India's projected AI market by 2035
0
Comprehensive AI governance laws in India today
85%
Of Fortune 500 boards yet to adopt AI risk frameworks
2025
The year the governance gap becomes a liability
  • 01 Boards without AI literacy are making trillion-rupee decisions about AI adoption blind to systemic risk.
  • 02 India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act demands AI accountability, but frameworks to comply do not yet exist.
  • 03 Startup founders are building AI-native companies with no ethical guardrails — creating future regulatory debt.

Four Defining Conversations

Each track is designed to move from problem to framework to action — with India-specific context at the center.

01
Governance Frameworks and AI Operational Reality
While responsible AI principles are widely articulated, translating them into operational practice remains a major challenge.

Critical Themes
  • Moving from policy principles to engineering controls
  • Lifecycle governance: design, deployment, monitoring, and audit
  • Managing hallucinations, reliability risks, and performance uncertainty
  • Internal accountability: ownership of AI risk within organizations
  • Aligning legal expectations with technical feasibility
02
Innovation, AI Leadership and Public Authority
India's AI growth strategy emphasizes innovation, capability building, and global competitiveness. As AI scales, alignment between industry velocity and public accountability becomes essential.

Critical Themes
  • Enabling innovation without creating governance gaps
  • Regulatory readiness for large-scale AI deployment
  • Public–private collaboration in setting AI guardrails
  • National AI priorities and institutional responsibility
  • Building trust while maintaining innovation momentum
03
Data Trust, Governance & Operations
As data trusts take shape as critical infrastructure for AI ecosystems, their credibility will depend on their ability to secure, control, and govern sensitive data at scale. Beyond compliance, data trusts must function as trusted custodians.

Critical Themes
  • Secure Data Stewardship & Access Control — encryption, role-based permissions, and authorized access frameworks
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing — anonymization, federated access, and privacy-enhancing technologies
  • Continuous Monitoring & Risk Management — real-time audit trails and breach detection protocols
  • Accountability, Auditability & Traceability — logged, traceable AI decisions with clear lines of responsibility
  • Trusted Multi-Stakeholder Oversight — independent experts, security auditors, and institutional stakeholders
04
Civil Society & Public Policy
AI governance in India must emerge from broader public policy priorities — inclusion, welfare delivery, development and distributive justice — rather than risk classification alone. AI Regulation can become an effective tool of democratization in India.

Critical Themes
  • How is public good and distributive justice seen in India
  • AI in Digital Public Infrastructure and population-scale service delivery
  • Preventing exclusion, bias, and denial of rights in automated systems
  • Accountability for AI in governance and welfare delivery
  • Balancing innovation, growth, and social protection
  • Adapting global frameworks of public good to Indian realities
  • Building a governance model rooted in public good and inclusive development using AI Regulation

150+ Voices Who
Shape Decisions

This is not a technology conference. This is a governance summit. Every delegate holds — or directly advises — authority over how AI is deployed, regulated, or funded in India.

CEOs & Founders Board Members Chief Risk Officers Independent Directors CLOs & Legal Counsel CDOs & CTOs CXOs & C-Suite Policy Researchers Impact Investors Think Tanks AI Startup Founders ESG Leaders Compliance Officers Public Policy Academia Promoters of Mid-sized Enterprises Senior Product Leaders Consultants & Advisors Students — Law, Eng, Business

"The boardroom needs to understand AI before AI renders the boardroom irrelevant."

— Conclave Founding Principle
Actionable frameworks — leave with board-ready AI governance templates and risk matrices.
Peer access — closed-room sessions with India's top 100 AI decision-makers.
Policy influence — conclave outcomes feed directly into India's AI regulatory consultation process.
Recognition — Inaugural AI Governance Leadership Awards presented at the conclave.

Practitioners Who
Hold Authority

Curated voices — not keynote tourists. Every speaker at the Conclave is accountable for AI governance in their domain.

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Chief AI Officer
Financial Services
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To Be Announced
Independent Director
Nifty 50 Company
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To Be Announced
Secretary, MeitY
Government of India
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Professor of AI Law
IIT / IIM
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To Be Announced
Founder & CEO
AI Unicorn
Speaker confirmations in progress — Q2 2025 announcement

The AI Governance Dialogue Starts Here.

Whether you are a board director navigating AI risk, a founder building responsibly, a regulator shaping frameworks, or a student entering the AI economy — this conclave is where India's governance conversation is forged.

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