India's AI Vision on the World Stage.
Rootle at India AI Impact Expo 2026
People. Planet. Progress. The largest AI exhibition in India's history, and Rootle was there — giving India's AI vision a stronger voice.
India's Largest AI Exhibition,
A Defining Global Moment
Organised by MeitY under the IndiaAI Mission, the India AI Impact Expo 2026 was the experiential showcase of the fourth global AI summit — the first ever hosted by a Global South nation.
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 marked a defining inflection point in the global AI story: the first in the series of international AI summits — following Bletchley Park, Seoul, and Paris — to be hosted by a developing nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Expo on February 16 at Bharat Mandapam, with French President Emmanuel Macron and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressing the summit. The scale was unlike anything before it in India's AI history.
The Expo spanned over 70,000 square metres across 10 thematic arenas, with 400 plus exhibitors from 30 countries, 13 country pavilions, and over 150,000 visitors across five days. Sessions ran across the full breadth of AI's application: healthcare, agriculture, education, sustainable industry, digital public infrastructure, and enterprise deployment. India's own announcements included a plan to add more than 20,000 GPUs to the national compute base and the launch of BharatGen Param2, a 17-billion parameter multilingual model supporting 22 Indian languages.
For Rootle, this was the most significant AI event in India's history and the right platform to position voice AI as a tool that delivers on the People, Planet, and Progress agenda, not just an enterprise efficiency play.
Giving India's AI Vision
a Stronger Voice
Voice AI is not just an enterprise tool. At a summit built around People, Planet, and Progress, it is a delivery mechanism for inclusion, access, and scale.
Dhaval and Shivam spent five days on the expo floor alongside 400 plus exhibitors from 30 countries, in a room where AI's role in India's social and economic future was front and centre. The conversations were different here. Less about procurement cycles and more about possibility: how voice AI can reach the customer who prefers to call rather than tap, the patient who needs healthcare guidance in their own language, the borrower in a Tier-3 town who deserves the same quality of support as a metro customer.
At the same time, the enterprise conversations were sharp. Policymakers, ministry officials, technology leaders, and founders were all on the same floor, and the interest in responsible, deployable AI was high across every interaction.
How does voice AI support India's multilingual, multi-literacy reality at scale?
Can voice AI drive financial inclusion for customers who are not comfortable with apps?
What does responsible AI deployment look like for a DPDP and TRAI-compliant voice agent?
How quickly can voice AI be embedded into existing government or enterprise infrastructure?