Bengaluru Tech Summit: IIIT-B to showcase research projects, startup innovations

IIIT-B will present a range of projects and highlight its work on AI skilling and technology startups at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026.

The International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) will showcase its research in artificial intelligence (AI), digital public infrastructure (DPI), healthcare, telecommunications and smart manufacturing at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026, to be held from Tuesday to Thursday.

The institute will present a range of projects, from digital identity systems used by countries across the world to AI-based tools for healthcare monitoring, smart manufacturing, and autonomous vehicles. It will also highlight its work on AI skilling and technology startups.

The institute will showcase five digital public infrastructure initiatives — MOSIP, OpenG2P, CDPI, COSS and INJI — which together support over 45 countries.

MOSIP helps countries build national digital identity systems and is being rolled out in more than 30 countries. OpenG2P helps governments provide welfare benefits, while CDPI and COSS support countries in developing digital public infrastructure. INJI provides an open-source platform to issue, store and verify digital credentials, the institution said.

Research in healthcare will include projects developed by the institute’s Electronics and Health Research Centre (EHRC), covering public health, surgery, assistive and rehabilitation devices, self-care tools and Tele-MANAS.

Among the projects on display will be a set of AI-based tools for remote health monitoring. These include a project aimed to predict the risk of sepsis at an early stage, FatigueShield, which forecasts fatigue and heat-stress risks and ArogyaSense, which helps identify the most clinically relevant information from health data, besides other projects.

IIIT-B COMET Foundation will showcase a prototype of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), a technology that uses electronically controlled surfaces to direct wireless signals, reduce interference and improve network coverage, particularly indoors and in private 5G networks. The project was developed with support from the institute’s Technology Innovation Hub under the Department of Science and Technology’s NM-ICPS programme.

The Karnataka AI Hub, supported by the State government and anchored at IIIT-B, will showcase its initiatives to build AI capabilities among students, professionals, researchers and entrepreneurs, while the institute’s Web Science Lab will present AnumatiDPI, a consent management platform that allows individuals and organisations to control access to and sharing of their data.