Coromandel AI Conclave, 2026
The Coromandel AI Conclave 2026 is the Official Pre-Summit Event of the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026, hosted by Peritum Partners that convenes key stakeholders and contributors who are actively shaping how India engages with artificial intelligence – across industry, government, academia, civil society, and the broader innovation ecosystem. Held in Chennai, the Conclave is envisioned as a space for articulating a distinctly South Indian and Global South perspective on how AI is reshaping business, society, and everyday life.
Tthe Conclave is built around three broad themes:
From hype to execution – how India Inc. can move from experimentation to durable AI-enabled business strategy.
Human-first governance – how identity, safety, and rights can be protected in an increasingly automated world.
Building guardrails for the next decade – how India’s legal and regulatory architecture can be made AI-ready while still encouraging innovation and investment.
The Conclave will host a public-facing plenary discussion to bring out diverse perspectives and real-world experiences from across sectors under the following three themes:
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Theme I: From Hype to Strategy: Charting the Path of India Inc. in the New AI Economy
This theme will consider how Indian enterprises and high-growth startups can move beyond pilots and buzzwords to build grounded and scalable AI strategies. The conversation will draw on real implementation stories, sector-specific use cases, and the organisational shifts required to weave AI into core business processes rather than treating it as a peripheral experiment.
Speakers will examine business-model innovation in an AI-first world, the growing role of AI in venture capital and M&A due diligence, and how leadership teams can approach substitution, augmentation, and reskilling within the workforce. The session will also address information security and data governance, AI-driven financial forecasting and decision-making, and what effective go-to-market execution looks like in an AI-enabled marketplace.
Theme II: Human-in-the-Loop: Protecting Identity, Ensuring Safety, and Guaranteeing Rights in an Automated World
This topic will centre the individual in an increasingly automated and AI-mediated world. Discourse will examine the new categories of risk that arise as powerful AI tools become widely available, and how law, technology, and institutions can respond to these imminent risks and harms.
The discussion will additionally cover deepfakes and synthetic media, misuse of personality, image, and voice, data privacy concerns, and the rise of audio theft and impersonation. Panellists will also analyse the evolving landscape of content moderation and platform responsibility, questions of bias and discrimination in AI systems, and what a meaningful 'human-in-the-loop' standard should look like in practice – for consumers, workers, and citizens.
Theme III: Building the Guardrails: Architecting India’s AI-Ready Legal and Governance Framework
Theme III will look ahead to the legal, regulatory, and governance architecture that will shape India’s AI journey over the coming decade. Under the theme Building the Guardrails: Architecting India’s AI-Ready Legal and Governance Framework, we will explore how emerging approaches to AI governance interact with existing laws and regulatory frameworks on data, information technology, competition, consumer protection, and sector-specific regulation.
Speakers will discuss how liability and accountability may be allocated in complex AI systems, the challenges posed by cross-border data flows and globally distributed AI supply chains, and the role of standards, self-regulation, and regulatory sandboxes. The discourse will further focus on how policymakers, businesses, and legal practitioners can collaborate to design guardrails that support innovation and investment, while protecting rights, building trust, and strengthening long-term resilience in the AI ecosystem.
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