Prior to the Global AI Impact Summit 2026, A HIGH-LEVEL SILICON VALLEY ROUNDTABLE Gathered Diplomats, Technologists and Enterprise Leaders to develop a more inclusive, globally informed agenda.
Published: December 12, 2025 10:55 AM IST
In the run up to the Global AI Impact Summit 2026, a roundtable of high-level diplomats, AI policymakers, deep-tech founders, global investors and enterprise technology leaders convened in Silicon Valley, including Abhishek Goel, a global delivery expert who has a track record of leading large organizations through modernization at scale. The meeting, which was organized by the Consulate General of India in San Francisco and attended by the Embassy, was chaired by Mr. Singh as the CEO of the AI India Mission and the Chief Organizer of the upcoming Summit. This was aimed at creating a more inclusive and globally informed agenda of the event.
Diplomatic representatives stressed that AI must be treated as a global public resource with the potential to transform healthcare, agriculture, education and climate resilience. They highlighted the need for deeper collaboration between advanced and emerging economies, as well as wider access to compute, high-quality datasets, multilingual models and open research frameworks. A recurring theme was ensuring that AI’s benefits reach a broad set of nations rather than remaining concentrated among a few technologically dominant ones.
Industry leaders added practical considerations. The founder of a flying-car aviation company noted that while AI can significantly accelerate engineering, it should not be allowed to autonomously control flight-critical functions. A senior Salesforce executive said leaders in emerging markets must choose carefully which layers of the AI stack to prioritize, whether foundational models, infrastructure or applications, as no ecosystem can realistically dominate all three.
Amid these perspectives, Abhishek Goel offered one of the session’s most grounded strategic viewpoints. While others focused on technology, regulation and infrastructure, Goel shifted the discussion to a more fundamental issue: whether enterprises are organizationally prepared to adopt AI at scale. He argued that many obstacles are not technical but strategic — ranging from unclear ROI and evolving job roles to decision-making structures not yet ready for AI-enabled operations. According to Goel, meaningful AI maturity will require pairing technological advancement with organizational redesign, capability-building and workforce readiness so that companies can translate innovation into sustained enterprise value.
He also highlighted the expanding role of Global Capability Centers (GCCs) in emerging economies. Once viewed primarily as engineering support hubs, GCCs are rapidly evolving into advanced AI centers of excellence responsible for model refinement, automation and enterprise-wide transformation.
Cybersecurity experts raised additional concerns. A board member from Zscaler emphasized that enterprise-level AI adoption will depend on sovereign and confidential computing models that ensure trust, compliance and cross-border operability, without which deployment across emerging economies will remain limited.
Robotics innovators pointed to physical-AI systems as an important productivity frontier, while infrastructure investors stressed that AI scalability will depend on manufacturing capability, resilient supply chains and access to competitive capital, all of which remain unevenly distributed across regions.
The roundtable concluded without a single consensus view, underscoring the complexity of the issues ahead. What did emerge, however, was a clearer understanding of the forces that will shape AI’s next decade, including safety, sovereignty, infrastructure, enterprise readiness, talent and economic considerations. Participants agreed that AI’s future will rely as much on leadership decisions and governance as on technological progress itself. Mr Singh closed the session by noting that the perspectives shared would help define the priorities of the upcoming Global AI Impact Summit.
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