UP.AIACT.IN Report 2026: India’s First AI Diffusion Report on Central India

Description

UP.AIACT.IN is an AI Industry Diffusion Report & Matrix as an extension of the AIACT.IN Project, launched by Indic Pacific in 2023.

This report + matrix addresses a simple question.

What should be some operationally specific ways to transform Uttar Pradesh’s AI economy?

This report & matrix should be viewed from the perspective of how one can transform an ambitious industrial & intellectual hub like UP, with its local and unique realities and how talent, resource, and sector-specific aspects can be aligned to build UP’s AI and manufacturing economies.

UP.AIACT.IN does not impose models from other places, but retrofits certain measures, which help the talent and start-up economy prefer UP as the next innovation hub of Central India.

UP.AIACT.IN also fills a crucial gap in documenting the history and patterns of Uttar Pradesh’s information technology industry in collaboration with the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Contributing Authors

 

Manu Awasthi, PhD Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Smita Srinivas, PhD The Open University, UK
Amol Datt Lucknow-origin Tech & Data Specialist
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay Kolkata-based technology architect
Akash Bansal CEO, Orangewood Labs
Arunabh Mitra, PhD HCLTech Hyderabad
Sohan Basak NeuroPeek
Sagar Singamsetty Managing Partner, Grayspace Consulting
Saiyam Pathak Kubesimplify
Ravi Sharma OpenBio AI
Dr Hemant Adarkar Technology Advisor and Resident Senior Fellow, Artha Global
Prateek Arora Indian AI artist and filmmaker, proponent of Indofuturism
Satvik Pendyala Research Associate, American Enterprise Institute
Saanjh Shekhar Product Management – Agentic AI Product, Genpact
Sridhar Ganapathy Principal, Technology and Innovation, Artha Global
Sharmadha Srinivasan Principal, Artha Global
Ishana Deshpande Principal, Artha Global
Rupal Mathur Co-Founder, Rhett.Legal
Prathik Karthikeyan Chief of Legal Engineering & Growth, LITT
Swastik Grover Co-Founder, Rhett.Legal
Anup Pai e-Samudaay
Bogdan Grigorescu Vice-President, Industry & Policy, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law
Sunil Khemka
Co-Chairperson, AI Development Committee, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law
Deepanshu Singh
Distinguished Expert of the Advisory Council, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law
Amrit Anand Investment Professional
Sonal Shah Conservation Architect
Achyut Tiwari Founder of GeoLiquefy & Curator of IndianExceptionalism.org
Simrin Kapoor Honorary Member, Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law

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IndoPacific.App Identifier

AIACT-UP2026

Editor(s)

Abhivardhan, Aditya Jakki, Ayushi Agarwal, Nisha Singh

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