Lumikai On Building AI-native Companies From India At India AI Impact Summit 2026

The India AI Impact Summit 2026 offered a clear read on how quickly AI-native company building is accelerating in India, and Lumikai brought more than 12 of those companies to the floor, building across interactive media, gaming, creator tech and digital platforms. Across three sessions and a series of product showcases, convened by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES), the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and ecosystem partners, the conversation stayed firmly on execution.

The sessions explored how AI is reshaping content creation, interactivity, distribution and platform economics, what true AI-first product architecture looks like in practice and what it takes to move from demo to real product, real users and real scale. Founders and team members from the Lumikai tribe showed the ecosystem what they’re building across games, digital platforms, creator tools and new media infrastructure, including Salone Sehgal, Niyaz Laiq, Aditya Deshpande, Maharishi R B, Suparna Singh, Adarsh Muthappa, Abhishek Nevatia, Arjun G., Chirag Goyal, Gaurav Gupta, Karunakar Dubey, Nitin Dhir, Rahul M., Rohan Chaudhary and Swaraj Chauhan.

For Lumikai, the summit showed its AI and interactive media thesis actively unfolding in the market, with India’s AI story being built by operators and founders creating new consumer experiences with AI at the core.

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