

Stanford US-India AI Summit
How is AI being built, studied, and scaled across US-India today?
This interactive roundtable event hosted by SIPEC brings together faculty, academic researchers, and leaders from industry - including founders, investors, and operators across tech and AI - to explore India’s rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
The evening program bridges academia and industry perspectives for an open dialogue on opportunities, challenges, and the collaborative pathways shaping AI’s future in the US-India corridor. The conversation will explore the full pipeline: foundational research and talent development, entrepreneurship and venture building, policy and governance, and the broader social contexts influencing how AI is developed and deployed.
Dinner will be provided, and programming will conclude with networking with leaders across academia, venture capital, and the AI startup ecosystem.
Keynote address:
Dr. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Principal Investigator, BharatGen
Featured speakers:
Shawn Jain, Founder of Sythefy and former researcher at OpenAI and Microsoft
Manthan Shah, Principal at WestBridge Capital
Ashwin Rao, Adjunct Professor (Stanford ICME), EVP of AI at o9 solutions, and former VP at Target Corporation
Shriti Raj, Assistant Research Professor at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)