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Event Recap · January 29–30, 2026 · Bengaluru

India's Largest Digital Economy Platform.
Rootle at India Digital Summit 2026

Two days. Policymakers, C-suite executives, and India's most consequential digital conversations. We were in the room.

The Leela Bharatiya, Bengaluru
IAMAI Flagship · 20th Edition
AI, Fintech and Digital Transformation
India Digital Summit 2026 Bengaluru
Representing Rootle.ai at IDS 2026

20 Years of India's
Digital Agenda in One Room

Organised by IAMAI, IDS 2026 brought together India's senior-most policymakers, regulators, founders, and C-suite leaders for two days in Bengaluru.

The India Digital Summit is the flagship annual conference of the Internet and Mobile Association of India, and the 2026 edition marked its 20th year. Held at The Leela Bharatiya in Bengaluru on January 29 and 30, IDS 2026 brought together the full spectrum of India's digital economy: policymakers and senior bureaucrats, investors, founders, and enterprise technology leaders across fintech, AI, and digital infrastructure.

The summit's agenda centered on where India's digital scale meets AI ambition. With over 900 million internet users and an AI market projected to grow past USD 17 billion by 2027, the conversations at IDS were not exploratory. They were operational. Keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, and masterclasses ran across two days, with a dedicated exhibition floor where emerging technology companies brought their products in front of decision-makers who have the authority to deploy them.

For Rootle, the IDS floor placed voice AI directly in front of the people shaping how India's largest enterprises think about customer engagement, automation, and AI-led growth.

20th
Edition of India's Premier Digital Summit
900M+
Internet Users Shaping India's Digital Economy
150+
Exhibition Stalls across the Expo Floor
$17Bn+
India's AI Market Projected by 2027
IAMAI Flagship
Policymakers, Regulators, Founders and Enterprise C-Suite

Voice AI in Front of
the People Who Deploy It

The IDS exhibition floor is a different standard of engagement. The visitors are not explorers. They are buyers, builders, and decision-makers.

Dhaval and Arun spent two days on the IDS floor engaging with enterprise leaders, fintech founders, and digital-first companies who are moving past the question of whether to adopt AI and into the harder question of where it delivers measurable outcomes first.

Voice AI for customer support, lead qualification, and outbound engagement landed as exactly the kind of operational AI that IDS audiences are looking to deploy. Not a pilot. Not a proof of concept. A production-ready layer that goes live in 48 hours on existing infrastructure.

20th
Edition of IAMAI's Flagship Summit
150+
Exhibition Stalls
$17Bn
India's AI Market by 2027
48hr
Rootle Go-Live Time
What the Room Was Asking

How does voice AI hold up against India's language and accent diversity at enterprise scale?

What does compliance look like under TRAI and DPDP for an AI-powered calling agent?

Can this integrate with the CRM and telephony stack we already have in place?

Where are companies seeing the fastest ROI: support, sales, or collections?

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Three Things That
Stayed With Us

01
India's AI Moment Is Not Coming. It Is Already Here.
The conversations at IDS 2026 were not about AI readiness. They were about AI deployment: which stack, which vendor, which use case, which KPI. India's enterprise sector has crossed the threshold from exploration to execution, and voice AI is firmly in scope.
02
Compliance Is Now a Feature, Not a Footnote.
With DPDP Act enforcement gaining momentum and TRAI guidelines tightening around automated calling, enterprise buyers at IDS were asking hard questions about data handling and regulatory alignment. Rootle's compliant-by-design architecture came up as a genuine differentiator in those conversations.
03
The Fintech Sector Moves Fast and Sets the Benchmark.
BFSI and fintech dominated the IDS floor, and their expectations for AI performance are the highest in any vertical. The fact that Rootle is already deployed in financial services, with measurable outcomes, changed the nature of conversations from evaluation to integration planning.