Kamal Ghorui
Amidst a sea of global tech CEOs, leaders and senior policymakers at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, one speaker stood out – Ranvir Sachdeva, an eight-year-old coder who called himself a technologist. He became the youngest person to address the summit currently underway at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Ranvir took stage to discuss how he is linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day Artificial Intelligence (AI).“I’m here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I’m talking about how I’m linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I’m also covering the different approaches which the rest of the nations are building AI with,” Sachdeva told news agency ANI.“I’m talking about how India is building AI with. I’m sharing my own use case of an Indian AI model just released and how I’m contributing to India’s GDP and driving AI literacy with it,” he added.
Ranvir Sachdeva: Impressing the tech titans
Ranvir’s talent has brought him face-to-face with the biggest names in the industry. He met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI’s Sam Altman at the summit, and shared photos on his Instagram. Sachdeva has also met Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Doreen Bogdan-Martin at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva last year. In 2024, he met António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General,Perhaps his most famous encounter was with Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2023. Cook visited New Delhi in 2023 for the opening of the Delhi store. Ranvir showcased his coding skills in a one-on-one session. At that time, he was 5-years-old, and he has been coding since the age of three. He stood in line outside the store with his parents, waiting for the store to open. He has won a gold medal as a “Super Presenter” in the 2022 Global Reading Challenge. Further, at the age of 6, he became the world’s youngest TEDx Speaker, talking about technology and innovation. He has reportedly created a prototype rocket ship for Mars exploration that earned him recognition from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
