Overview
The AI4Agri Global Conference & Investor Summit was organised by the AI and Agri Tech Innovation Center in partnership with Government of Maharashtra, India AI Impact Summit 2026 at the Jio World Convention Centre BKC, Mumbai on 22-23 February 2026. The conference served as a platform for leadership, innovation and scale with a mission for leveraging AI and AgriTech for agricultural transformation, collaboration, through partnership, investment, knowledge sharing and innovation. With 5,000+ participants, the conference featured 100+ speakers from various government, international, national, inter-governmental organisations from India, Thailand, Japan, USA, Singapore, Netherlands, Philippines, and South Korea.
Dr. Manzul Kumar Hazarika, Director of Geoinformatics Center (GIC) was invited as one of the keynote speakers for the session on “Transforming Agriculture at Scale Through Remote Sensing and Geospatial Intelligence”. Geospatial intelligence is currently being used to monitor farmlands, and it is enabling early warning, crop monitoring, yield estimation, and risk assessment at an unprecedented scale. Dr. Hazarika made a presentation on “Applications of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Intelligence in Agriculture and Recent Advances”, where he highlighted the applications of AI algorithms and tools such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Image Segmentation, Foundation Model are reshaping decision-making from farm to policy levels.
