IACongress India 2026 · New Delhi · 29–30 October
One hundred practitioners.
Two days. One document.
An invitation-only working summit on AI and intelligent automation in India, ending with the signing of the Delhi Declaration on Intelligent Automation.
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Why this is different
Three things set the format apart from a conference
A closed room.
Around 100 people, selected for what they have built and deployed. No public registration, no walk-ins, no vendor floor. Everyone in the room is there because someone else in the room benefits from them being there.
A working format.
Small groups, facilitated sessions, real disagreement on the record. Participants work rather than watch. There is no audience and nobody sits through two days of slides.
A document that outlives the event.
Most conferences end on Friday. This one produces a text that gets cited, quoted and argued with for a year — written by the room, signed by the room, published days later.
How the two days work
A sequence, not a timetable. The schedule is set with the participants.
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Before arrival: the pre-reads
Participants receive written pre-reads ahead of the summit. The room starts from a shared baseline instead of from introductions.
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Day one: diagnosis
Small working groups. What is actually working in deployment, and what is not. Every session is captured.
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Day one: the disagreements
Where the groups do not agree, the disagreement goes on the record rather than getting smoothed over. That is the material the text is built from.
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Between sessions: synthesis
Everything said in the room is recorded and synthesised with AI between sessions — themes, contradictions between groups, and the first draft text. The room does the thinking; the machine does the assembly; the editors do the judgement. For a summit about automation, we automate the part that should be automated.
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Day two: the draft on screen
The draft goes up and the room argues it line by line, until every participant can live with the text.
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Day two: the signing
The Declaration is signed before anyone leaves.
The Delhi Declaration on Intelligent Automation
Automation is moving faster than the field's ability to make sense of it. The Declaration is an attempt to put order and shared language into that — written by the people doing the work, not about them.
Who is in the room
Indicative composition of the hundred seats
Two rules
The person invited attends. Invitations are personal and not transferable. No delegates, no substitutions.
Nobody pitches from the floor. There is no vendor floor and no sales conversation in session. The room is for the work.
See the contributors already confirmed. The full room, and any institutional partners, are listed closer to the date.
Confirmed contributors
Practitioners already confirmed to lead and contribute to the working groups
The list grows as invitations are accepted. Contributors work inside the groups — there are no keynote slots.
No sponsors. Experts only.
This summit has no vendor floor, no sponsor logos, no pitching from the room. Every seat is filled by a practitioner, founder, researcher or policymaker working on intelligent automation — not by a sponsorship cheque. The Delhi Declaration is written by the people in the room, for that reason.
Where
Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan — New Delhi, 29–30 October 2026
Bharat Mandapam
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi 110001 — India
The summit uses a closed working space inside the complex. Room details and access instructions are sent with the invitation.
- ~17 km from Indira Gandhi International Airport
- Supreme Court (Pragati Maidan) metro station
- Hotels in Connaught Place and nearby
Request an invitation
Tell us what you are working on. Invitations are issued on a rolling basis as the hundred seats are filled.
Request an invitationPartnership and institutional enquiries: events@ia-congress.org