Brazil President Lula da Silva is coming to India for AI Impact summit

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will visit India later this month to participate in the India AI Impact Summit, which is to be held from February 16-20 in New Delhi.

While addressing a press briefing, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that President Silva will be paying a State Visit to India from February 18 to February 22 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The main day of the Brazilian State Visit bilateral talks will be on 21st February. President Lula will be hosted by our President on 21st and there will be several other dignitaries who will be calling on him, including the Vice President of India. President Lula will be accompanied by several ministers and a business delegation and there are several events that have been planned and engaging the business delegation as well…” he said.

#WATCH | Delhi: MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, "At the invitation of PM Narendra Modi, President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be paying a State Visit to India from 18th to 22nd February 2026. President Lula will be participating in the 2nd AI Summit, which is… pic.twitter.com/22iFV0SavP

— ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2026

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The MEA spokesperson further said that French President Emmanuel Macron would also visit New Delhi to participate in the AI Summit.

India AI Impact Summit

The India AI Impact Summit 2026 will be held from February 16-20 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. It is the first global AI summit to be hosted in the Global South. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the main plenary on February 19.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Microsoft President Brad Smith, and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon are all expected to attend.

The summit is organised around three pillars called ‘Sutras’ — People, Planet, and Progress. These branch into seven ‘Chakras’ or working groups.

Each one covers a specific domain: AI skilling, social inclusion, AI safety, scientific research, sustainable computing, democratising AI access, and economic growth.

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The summit is expected to produce more than 15 substantive deliverables, moving the conversation away from the largely declaratory AI governance discussions that have characterised earlier forums, the Bletchley Park summit in the UK, Seoul’s summit in South Korea, and Paris’s forum in 2025.