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

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