EA India Virtual
Effective Altruism India Virtual
The event will cover 4 themes across 2 days, including AI Safety, Health & Development, Reducing suffering and increasing welfare for animals and other sentient species, and Meta-infrastructure (funding, fellowships, community infrastructure) to fuel efforts in these areas.
Day 1: Thursday, 21st May 2026 (9 PM - 11:30 PM IST)
Day 2: Friday, 22nd May 2026 (9 PM - 11:30 PM IST)
Speakers from leading organisations will share short lightning talks on their work and individual journeys, lessons for individuals thinking of starting initiatives in India, and key priorities for the year ahead.
The agenda includes a combination of:
Lightning talks
Networking
1:1s, meetups
Organisation Fair to meet organisations working across these cause areas
Invited organisations include MATS, Impactful Giving, SteadRise, InDevelopment, Sentient Futures, Tarrina Health, Dognosis, Apart Research and more.
Questions that will be explored:
Where are the highest-leverage opportunities to steer the future in a hopeful and exciting direction?
What's happening with transformative AI and what does it imply for the economy, health, development, and the lives of other species on our planet?
How do we distinguish signal from noise, evaluate what's actually working, and notice when our assumptions break?
Agenda highlights for each theme:
AI Safety
- AI Safety needs more founders
- Hardware Sovereignty and Technical Governance
- How I turned from a doomer to an optimist
- How the “Alignment” framing leads to competing technical priorities
- Navigating the AI Safety Ecosystem: From India to AISI
Eliminating suffering and improving animal welfare
- Existential Hope for the future of sentient life
- Effective interventions for animal welfare advocacy
- Effective pathways to reduce animal suffering and the ethics of digital life
- Fundraising for working to improve the lives of species beyond humans
Development and Health
- The levers of progress in India over the next 25 years
- How progress happens OR DOESN’T in the developing world
- What transformative AI means for the future of developmental economics and health
- For-profit organisations as a legitimate vehicle for impact within EA causes
- How dogs smell cancer before machines can
Meta-infrastructure
- Fundraising for AI Safety research
- What it takes to fund High-Impact work in India
- Which suffering reduction interventions are the most effective?
- How do you evaluate messy meta-infrastructure level interventions when impact takes years to manifest?
Who should attend:
You work on or are interested in supporting efforts in AI safety, AI governance, Animal Welfare, or Global Health and Development.
You've heard of Effective Altruism and want to meet people who take it seriously.
You're figuring out how to build a career that actually matters.
You have a project, idea, or org and want honest feedback from people who get it.
Free. Virtual. Register once for both days.