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SKIMS will host the Official Pre-Summit Event of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on 22 January 2026 at SKIMS, Soura, themed “Transforming Healthcare Through Responsible Artificial Intelligence.” The pre-summit event will be conducted as SKIMS Artificial Intelligence Summit 2026, the first dedicated summit ,AI in-healthcare in Jammu & Kashmir, that has been officially affiliated/approved by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, under the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 framework.
Speaking about the upcoming event, Prof. Mohd Ashraf Ganie, Director, SKIMS & EOSG, stated that the pre-summit will serve as a vital platform to deliberate on the ethical, safe, and impactful integration of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare, with strong emphasis on patient safety, accountability, transparency and public trust.
The event will bring together policy makers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers and technology experts to examine how responsible AI can strengthen healthcare delivery, enhance patient outcomes and build future-ready health systems.
The summit is being organised by the Skill Development Unit, Centre of One Health SKIMS, in collaboration with DataLEADS and the Multidisciplinary Research Unit (MRU), SKIMS. The summit will focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence in:
Enhancing diagnostics
Improving patient safety
Strengthening biomedical research
Streamlining hospital operations
Ethical governance, privacy and data protection
The key programme highlights of the summit include: Plenary panel discussions on AI in clinical medicine, diagnostics, hospital management and medical education, Panel deliberations on data privacy, protection and ethical AI governance, a dedicated session on responsible use of AI in hospitals,
hands-on workshops on AI preparedness for healthcare professionals,
exposure to emerging AI-driven health technologies, opportunities for academic–industry collaboration and partnerships and focus on SKIMS/Valley-specific AI solutions
The summit aims to identify SKIMS/Valley-specific operational challenges and explore pilot AI solutions to improve healthcare delivery systems, including:
Triage optimisation
ICU monitoring
Billing automation
Bed management and hospital workflow optimisation
The summit aligns with key national initiatives including:
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
Digital India
IndiaAI Mission
National and global participation
The summit will also be supported by the Information Technology Department Govt. of J&K and National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) as a partnering institution. Prof. Digamber Behera, Padma Shri awardee and President, NAMS, a nationally renowned pulmonologist and medical leader, will attend the summit.Other eminent speakers from across India and abroad include experts from ICMR, AIIMS New Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Mandi, KMMS (UK), PwC India, Denmark, DataLEADS and other institutions.
As healthcare remains among the most impactful and sensitive domains for AI deployment, it requires contextual adaptation, strong ethical safeguards, and robust governance frameworks. Jammu & Kashmir, with its unique geographic and demographic characteristics and healthcare delivery challenges, offers an important setting to explore region-specific AI use cases aligned with national priorities.
The SKIMS Artificial Intelligence Summit 2026 has been conceived as a sector-focused and evidence-driven Pre-Summit Event designed to generate healthcare-specific insights and policy inputs, identify operational challenges, and propose scalable AI solutions tailored for institutions like SKIMS and the broader healthcare ecosystem.
The India-AI Impact Summit 2026 is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, guided and overseen through high-level governmental mechanisms reflecting its strategic national importance. It aims to shape India’s AI trajectory in alignment with national development goals, ethical governance, and public good outcomes.
As an officially affiliated Pre-Summit Event, the SKIMS AI Summit 2026 forms an integral component of the national summit ecosystem by contributing domain-specific healthcare perspectives to national deliberations, aligning regional healthcare priorities with national AI policy frameworks, and supporting translation of the national AI vision into sector- and institution-level action.
Healthcare professionals, allied stakeholders, researchers and innovators are encouraged to participate and be part of this nationally significant dialogue shaping the future of healthcare in India. Cni