​Unlocking India's Demographic Dividend: Blue Dots^AI as Digital Rails

​📅 Session Details

​Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:25 PM IST
Venue: Shakuntalam Banquet, Sushma Swaraj Bhawan

​🎯 What This Session Is About

​India has 600 million workers whose livelihoods depend on acquiring new skills in an economy being reshaped by AI. The question isn't whether to train them. It's how to do so at speed and scale without recreating the bottlenecks of traditional credentialing systems.

​Blue Dots^AI represents a different approach: lightweight, AI-powered skill verification that travels with workers across sectors and geographies. Not another certificate to collect, but digital rails that make skills visible and actionable.

​This session brings together state governments, platform economy leaders, and infrastructure builders to examine what it takes to make skill recognition a public utility rather than an institutional privilege.

We'll explore early deployments, the governance challenges of AI-verified credentials, and how India's scale constraints force solutions that work for informal economies, not just formal employment.

​⭐️ Speakers

​Moderator: Gaurav Gupta, Chief Growth Officer, EkStep Foundation

​Speakers:

• ​Virender Singh, Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra

• ​Madan Padaki, Founder & CEO, 1BRIDGE

• ​Abhinav Gopal, Chief Development Officer, Government of Uttar Pradesh

• ​Manmeet Kaur Nanda, Additional Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

• ​Sreeram Ananthasayanam, Partner, Deloitte India

​This session is part of the AI Impact Summit 2026, exploring how artificial intelligence can drive meaningful social change across sectors.