Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026
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Join the World Futures Forum 2026 – Annual Conference on Global future trends, strategic foresight and innovative leadership. This event brings together top experts to discuss emerging scenarios, sustainable development, future technologies and policy strategies to shape tomorrow’s world.
Inaugural session featuring senior government leaders, multilateral partners, and industry leaders setting the context for AI-led industrial and MSME competitiveness.
Expert dialogue on cluster development strategies, policy frameworks, digital collaboration, and AI-enabled productivity and competitiveness.
How AI-driven design, digital monitoring, IP-led innovation, and academia–industry partnerships accelerate cluster-level innovation and scale MSMEs through global collaboration.
Enabling MSMEs to meet global standards using AI-driven quality tools and UNIDO digital frameworks to access international markets.
Co-creating India-specific cluster priorities and actionable roadmaps, including pilot projects and technical cooperation pathways.
Presentation of UNIDO’s 2025–26 India roadmap, highlighting Phase II implementation through digital skills, Centres of Excellence, and inclusive AI, aligned with AIM Global and global frameworks such as the Global Digital Compact to drive industrial transformation and inclusive growth.
Outlining key milestones, targets, and strategic priorities for India AIM Global Centres of Excellence, with a focus on the Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh CoEs.
Exploring pathways to an inclusive digital economy by enabling SME access to AI through infrastructure, open-source tools, and partnerships for financial inclusion, education, and public-good applications.
Live demonstrations of industry-ready AI and robotics solutions, showcasing real-world applications that deliver measurable efficiency, quality, and sustainability gains for MSMEs.
Closed Door Roundtable
World Futures Forum (WFF) is a biennial platform of the World Entrepreneurship Development Organisation, USA for discussing the future of industry, enterprise and livelihoods across the Global South, to advance practical frameworks and future-ready solutions for competitiveness, innovation and inclusive growth.
