Akamai to convene India’s tech leaders for closed-door summit on running AI at real-world scale

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation into live digital systems across payments, commerce, media, and enterprise software. As organizations embed AI into customer journeys and core workflows, the focus is shifting to how reliably these systems perform under real-world load.

Against this backdrop, Akamai Technologies, in partnership with YourStory, will host the Akamai Digital India Leadership Summit in Bengaluru on February 27, 2026. The invitation-only gathering will bring together CTOs, CISOs, and senior engineering leaders from across fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, media, and digital platforms for focused conversations on the infrastructure, economics, and security shaping the next phase of AI deployment in India.

The summit will feature leaders building and operating AI at massive scale across sectors. Among the key voices are Mohit Saxena, Co-founder and CTO of InMobi and GlanceAI, Kiran Kumar Katreddi, VP of Platform Engineering at Meesho and Ganesh Gopalan, Co-founder and CEO of Gnani.ai alongside senior leadership from Akamai Technologies in India and globally.

The event will also bring together engineering and security leaders such as Pranav Tiwari, Head of Engineering APAC at Postman India; Sanath Moguluri, VP of Voice AI Engineering at Jio; Sagar Gaonkar, CTO of Eloelo Group; Sujatha Iyer, Head of AI Security at Zoho Corp; Mukesh Solanki, CISO at KreditBee, among others, representing platforms where AI is embedded into live customer journeys, financial systems, and media ecosystems.

The timing of the summit builds on the Akamai and NVIDIA collaboration and the continued expansion of Akamai Inference Cloud, a distributed edge infrastructure built to deliver real time AI processing at scale, closer to end users.

By combining NVIDIA’s advanced AI compute architecture with Akamai’s globally distributed edge network, the platform enables millisecond-level decision-making for applications such as fraud detection, personalization, dynamic pricing, industrial automation, and real-time analytics – capabilities increasingly critical to digital businesses operating at scale.

Offering the NVIDIA perspective, Jigar Halani, Vice President at NVIDIA India, will explore what it takes to build agentic AI on top of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure, and how inference must evolve to operate reliably across identity systems, payments networks, and public digital services.

The shift toward distributed inference is prompting technology leaders to reassess where compute should reside and how performance, security, and cost can be balanced as AI becomes foundational infrastructure rather than experimental capability.

The conversations will focus on the economics of continuous inference in India’s price-sensitive environment, the trade-offs between centralized and distributed architectures, and the evolving security realities of live AI systems across fintech, commerce, SaaS, and media platforms.

With attendance intentionally limited, the summit is designed as a closed-door working forum rather than a traditional conference, creating space for candid, operator-level exchange among leaders responsible for running production systems at scale.