AI CONCLAVE AND AWARDS
Glade Brook in talks to join Sarvam’s funding; AI startup may hit $1.5 billion valuation
US-based Glade Brook Capital is in discussions to invest $20-25 million in Sarvam AI's $320-350 million funding round, valuing the AI startup at $1.5 billion. Strategic investors like Nvidia, Amazon, and HCLTech, alongside venture capital firms, are also participating in the round.
The two problems holding back India’s home decor market: Supply and discovery
As Indian consumers grow more design-conscious, a new wave of platforms is rethinking how home decor is sourced, curated, and discovered, starting with the gaps that have long held the market back.
Challenger brands ride the premium wave in India’s evolving F&B sector
Premiumisation is the new currency in India’s F&B sector. Young consumers and a demand for global flavour profile, convenient snacking, and clean-label products are driving this surge.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: How L&T Finance is rewiring lending
At the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025 in Bengaluru, Dr. Debarag Banerjee, Chief AI Data Officer at L&T Finance, unveiled how AI tools such as Cyclops and Nostradamus are slashing credit losses and driving profitable growth in lending, all engineered to serve diverse segments of the population.
From India to the world: How VAHDAM India is redefining global wellness
An exclusive interaction with Bala Sarda, Founder and CEO, VAHDAM India
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ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025: Meet the Innovation & Impacts Award winners accelerating AI at scale
The ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025 recognised high-growth startups and SMEs deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real industry problems. From fintech and pharma to logistics, commerce, defence, and education, the Innovation & Impacts Awards celebrated organisations that translate AI capability into measurable business outcomes and sector-wide transformation.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: The AI room everyone wants to be in
India’s artificial intelligence ecosystem has seen numerous AI events, AI conferences, AI summits, and AI networking forums. But once in a while, an AI leadership summit rises above the noise. The ET AI Conclave & Awards is the defining AI event India has been waiting for, the AI leadership summit in India that industry insiders have quietly marked as unmissable, happening in Bengaluru on 26 February 2026.
‘Don't rush to deploy AI build foundations first’: PhonePe CTO Rahul Chari
According to PhonePe CTO Rahul Chari, organisations should adopt AI in a phased manner, starting with human-in-the-loop systems. “The right approach is to start with human-in-the-loop enablement, reduce friction and time, and only then progressively remove humans from the loop where it makes sense,” he said.
Special category honours AI trailblazers: Meet the league of innovators across sustainability, accessibility, and more at the ET AI Awards 2025
As the curtains came to a close on the ET AI Awards 2025, held on February 26, in Bengaluru, the Special category saluted pioneers in business models, platforms, sustainability, customer service, HR, and accessibility. Their work fuels scalable AI adoption. Here is the complete list of winners.
ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025: And the winners of the Functional Excellence Awards are…
From cybersecurity and automation to marketing innovation and generative creativity, this category’s winners proved that AI in India is no longer experimental, but operational.
The 1% that keeps leaders awake: Accuracy anxiety takes centre stage at ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025
As AI systems move from proof-of-concept to production, across hospitals, boardrooms, and beyond, leaders debate the high stakes of precision. Here are the key takeaways.
ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025: Meet the Leadership Award winners shaping India’s AI decade
The ET AI Awards & Conclave 2025 recognised the leaders defining India’s artificial intelligence momentum. From frontier research and startups to enterprise scale and global expansion, the Leadership Awards spotlighted individuals and teams turning AI ambition into measurable business impact and long-term national competitiveness.
Deploy AI in healthcare with caution; build guardrails first, says Manipal CEO
Speaking at ET's AI Conclave and Awards 2025, Dilip Jose said that AI should be integrated into clinical workflows as a force multiplier and not deployed as a standalone efficiency tool. Laina Emmanuel, cofounder of BrainSight AI, and Abhijeet Vijayvergiya, cofounder of Nektar.ai, also shared their views on the use of AI in healthcare.
Jury verdict at ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: India’s AI strengths shine, but compute crisis and moat hunt loom large
From bubble-busting to reframing India’s AI ambition resets, these sharp takes give a reality check to India’s AI momentum, while urging risk capital and scaling to claim global app-layer dominance.
At ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025, Vivek Raghavan of Sarvam AI warns against India’s digital colonialism
At the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025 on February 26, 2026, in Bengaluru, Vivek Raghavan, Co-founder of Sarvam AI, outlined why India must do the “hard things” and train models at scale.
‘The Bharat is not in this room…it is the vegetable seller who doesn’t know GB’: Inside Indic language scaling at ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025
At the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025, leaders unpacked scaling Indic AI for 1.4 billion Indians, spotlighting quality data, rigorous evaluations, and diversity as the true path to superpower status amid the global AI race.
Is India Inc impatient with AI? ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: Panel probes return on AI
At the first-ever edition of the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025, experts dismantled any grand notion of AI to make sense of profitability for the business ecosystem. Here are some hard facts.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: Trust, sovereignty, and scale define India’s AI moment
At the first ET AI Conclave & Awards, in Bengaluru, leaders, policymakers and founder-innovators cut through the noise to focus on infrastructure, ethics, inclusion and the real ROI of trust in India’s AI decade.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: “We’re rushing to production without the right scaffolding”
At the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025, PhonePe Founder and CTO Rahul Chari made the case for AI-first engineering without sacrificing architecture, governance, and recovery.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: “If it works in India, it can work in 40–50% of the world”
At the ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025, MeitY Startup Hub CEO Dr. Panneerselvam Madanagopal unpacked India’s AI strategy, from sovereign guardrails and sub-$1 compute to why startups must trade width for depth.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: “Differentiation comes from doing something hard”
LossFunk Founder Paras Chopra and Peeyush Ranjan, Founder-CEO of Fermi.ai, tackled the uncomfortable truth about models, moats, and India’s AI future in a panel discussion, arguing that India’s real battle is culture, not compute.
ET AI Conclave & Awards 2025: “Data dumps are here and now. Data moats take years”
In a crisp, insightful panel discussion, Uniphore’s Ravi Saraogi and Sravanth Aluru of Avataar.ai broke down what it takes to monetise data at population scale, and why India’s biggest advantage may not be data itself, but the velocity at which it learns from it.
'Missing context' big challenge for scaling AI in India: Uniphore cofounder Ravi Saraogi
Uniphore achieved the unicorn tag in 2022 and closed a $260 million funding round in 2025 from US chip majors Nvidia, AMD, cloud data storage company Snowflake, and data analytics firm Databricks.
ET AI Conclave and Awards: India’s most anticipated AI leadership night
India’s AI revolution is reaching its climactic moment, and it’s happening at the ET AI Conclave & Awards, on 26 February 2026, in Bengaluru. If you think you’ve seen every AI event India has to offer, think again. With just one day left, the ET AI Conclave & Awards is poised to be the most significant AI event India has ever witnessed, a night where innovation, strategy, and recognition come together to shape the future of artificial intelligence in the country.
Final 48 Hours: ET AI Conclave and Awards is the most important Indian AI leadership summit this year
The final countdown has begun. With just two days remaining, the ET AI Conclave and Awards is set to emerge as the most powerful AI conference India will witness this season. Hosted by The Economic Times, the ET AI Conclave and Awards is not just another AI event, it is India’s defining AI leadership, where enterprise AI, generative AI, AI governance, and artificial intelligence innovation converge at scale.
ET AI Conclave and Awards is set to redefine India’s AI leadership moment
Only two days remain before the ET AI Conclave and Awards takes center stage as India’s most anticipated AI conference in India and the most influential AI awards platform. The ET AI Conclave and Awards, hosted by The Economic Times, is not just another AI event happening in India or even seen before, the ET AI Conclave and Awards is where enterprise AI, generative AI, responsible AI, and AI innovation converge at scale. The countdown has begun. The urgency is real. The AI ecosystem is watching.
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