🧠The AI Collective Mumbai | Lightning Talks đź§
​Join us for a reinvigorating evening at the AI Collective Mumbai Chapter as we reconnect and showcase the community’s energy through Lightning Talks!
​Event Overview
Come together with Mumbai’s vibrant AI community for a series of short, high-impact presentations. This event offers a collaborative stage for members—whether seasoned professionals or passionate newcomers—to share projects, insights, experiments, or lessons learned in artificial intelligence.
​What to Expect
​Lightning Talks: A lineup of 5-minute rapid-fire talks. Presenters cover diverse and exciting topics in AI, from real-world applications and novel research to creative experiments or thought-provoking challenges.
​Open Networking: Arrivals begin with informal networking—meet new faces, catch up with familiar friends, and exchange ideas before the program starts.
​Audience Participation: The format encourages questions and quick exchanges after each talk, creating a dynamic, interactive experience.
​Speaker Opportunities: Volunteers can sign up to speak ahead of time or, if available, on the night itself. All voices and levels of experience are welcome.
​Event Flow
1. Check-in & Networking: Mingle over light refreshments.
2. Welcome & Chapter Update: Brief remarks reflecting on the community’s journey and plans ahead.
3. Lightning Talks: Fast-paced presentations with audience Q&A.
4. Open Discussion & Feedback: Wrap up with a group conversation about the talks and ideas for the chapter’s future.
5. Closing Networking: Continue connections and discussion informally.
​Who Should Attend?
- AI professionals, students, researchers, startups, and anyone curious about artificial intelligence.
- No public speaking experience is required—just excitement to share and learn!
​Why Attend?
- Get inspired by community members’ real stories and projects.
- Expand your local network in a welcoming, inclusive environment.
- Spark new collaborations and find peers who share your AI interests.
​Whether you're ready to take the stage or simply want to listen and engage, this event is open to all who want to drive Mumbai’s AI community forward.
​As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 70,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
​All attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective are subject to our Code of Conduct.