HYDERABAD, 27 March 2025 – AI Days 2025, the second edition of the flagship AI conference organized by Viswam.AI (IIIT Hyderabad and swecha.org), will be held on April 12-13, 2025, in Hyderabad. Building on the success of AIDays-2024, this conference will have technology leaders and AI enablers deliberating on experiences, insights and case studies that will help advance
AI innovation focuses on solving challenges specific to India and the Global South.
The conference will bring together about 2000 participants from across the AI spectrum: developers, architects, startups, tech leaders, and policymakers. Day one is focused on building solutions through Masterclasses from very senior AI leaders and workshops on the latest AI tools and technologies. Day two is focused on knowledge from industry leaders and policymakers.
The conference will be inaugurated by the Honourable D. Sridhar Babu, Minister for IT, Electronics & Communications, Government of Telangana, and key government officials, including Jayesh Ranjan IAS, Special Chief Secretary, Department of ITE&C.
Prof. PJ Narayanan, Director of IIIT Hyderabad, said, “AI is bringing an unusual situation where AI is still actively being worked on in research groups across the world. The industry is almost in parallel adopting much of the same technologies. Significantly bridging the time and space gap between research and industry. This AI Days conference will bring together thought leaders from both these worlds”.
The 2-day conference will include Round Tables that will have industry CXOs, policymakers, researchers, and thought leaders deliberating on the state of the art of research, the solution possibilities, and challenges to the fore. Themes include India’s Own LLMs, Building Low-Cost AI, Community sourcing AI, and Data Privacy & Policy. The conference will also see the culmination of the two-month AI Hack Days program, with 25+ organizations and around 250 teams at the finale Spark Camp.
Key conference speakers include: Soumith Chintala, Co-Founder of PyTorch; Srini raju, Chairman, of iLabs Capital; Renata Avila, CEO, of Open Knowledge Foundation; Rohit Chennamaneni, Co-Founder, of Darwinbox; Chaitanya Chokkareddy, CTO, Ozontel; Tarun Dua, Founder E2E networks; Abhishek Upperwal, Founder & CEO – Soket AI Labs; Anoop Kunchukuttan, co-lead of AI4Bharath; Prof CV Jawahar, dean IIIT Hyderabad. Apart from several Technology Leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Meta, Micron, Darwinbox, and E2E Networks, and about 25+ CXOs.