

Building Population-Scale Digital Public Infrastructure for AI
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.