​Building Population-Scale Digital Public Infrastructure for AI

​AI Impact Summit 2026

​📅 Session Details

​Date: Friday, February 20, 2026
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:25 PM IST
Venue: L2 Audi 1, Bharat Mandapam

​🎯 What This Session Is About

​How does AI move from promising demonstrations to durable, population-scale systems that serve hundreds of millions?

​Join global leaders for a critical conversation on building the diffusion infrastructure that transforms AI from perpetual pilots into trusted, "normal and boring" public services. This session examines the shared rails, adoption pathways, and institutional arrangements needed to reduce risk for adopters and enable AI to deliver inclusive outcomes at an unprecedented scale across agriculture, education, health, and governance.

​The binding constraint isn't technological capability, it's adopter risk. Reputational concerns, operational complexity, compliance challenges, and workforce anxieties slow institutional adoption. We'll explore how diffusion infrastructure turns adoption from a special project into routine operations.

​⭐️ Speakers

​Moderator:
Shankar Maruwada, CEO, EkStep Foundation

​Speakers:

• ​Nandan Nilekani - Chairman, Infosys

• ​Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic

• ​Esther Dweck - Minister of Management and Innovation, Brazil

• ​Trevor Mundel - President, Global Health, Gates Foundation

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