MIT Sloan Management Review Brings Its Global AI Research Forum to India
Convening enterprise leaders, academics, and researchers around a single question: What does it actually take to deploy autonomous AI at scale?
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India has emerged as one of the world’s most consequential test beds for enterprise AI. Scale, engineering talent, and sector diversity are converging to compress the journey from pilot to production. According to the NASSCOM AI Adoption Index, 87% of enterprises in India now use AI, with banking, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing accounting for roughly 60% of the value created.
At this inflection point, the AI Research Forum (AIRF), an invite-only gathering by MIT Sloan Management Review, will make its India debut in Bengaluru on July 23, as leading organizations shift from experimentation to real-world implementation.
As AI systems gain autonomy, enterprises must confront a growing set of questions: where does autonomy create value, where does it introduce risk, and how should control be defined and enforced?
For Indian organizations operating at scale, this is no longer a future-state discussion. It is already an operational challenge. Autonomous capabilities are being deployed unevenly across functions, often without clear frameworks for accountability, oversight, or performance measurement.
Themed “Autonomous AI in Practice,” AIRF Bengaluru is designed to examine this transition through a practical lens. Part of a global initiative with editions across the Middle East and Asia, the forum brings together enterprise leaders, researchers, and practitioners to explore how organizations are deploying, managing, and scaling AI systems, and how decision-making authority is shifting as a result.
“AIRF brings research rigor into the boardrooms where AI strategy is actually being shaped,” says Ravi Raman, Publisher of MIT Sloan Management Review India. “The scale of deployment across India’s banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail sectors is unprecedented. Organizations navigating this shift need frameworks built for scale.”
The forum comes as companies push AI deeper into operational environments, raising urgent questions about where autonomy should sit within the enterprise, how decision-making authority should be shared between humans and machines, and how performance and accountability should be defined.
AIRF Bengaluru follows successful editions in Dubai and forms part of MIT Sloan Management Review’s expanding research and events platform across Asia and the Middle East. The series reflects MIT SMR’s broader commitment to grounding AI strategy in empirical research and practitioner insight, while convening the leadership conversations shaping the next phase of enterprise AI.
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