Dell Technologies Forum 2026 Highlights AI Infrastructure Push in India

Dell Technologies Forum 2026 held in Mumbai focused on AI infrastructure moving beyond GPUs and data center capacity, with sessions covering deployment scale, data sovereignty, endpoint devices, consumption-based spending and workforce skills.

L&T Vyoma managing director Prashant Chiranjive Jain detailed the company’s shift from data centres and colocation to AI factories, including a 10,000-GPU Nvidia B300 AI Factory at its Chennai campus. The company describes it as India’s largest single-cluster AI infrastructure, built to support inference, fine-tuning and training workloads. Dell Technologies, Nvidia and L&T Vyoma collaborated on the infrastructure design across power, cooling, networking and storage.

“India’s AI economy is creating roles faster than employers are able to fill them, and those roles require new skillsets,” said Manish Gupta, President and Managing Director, Dell Technologies India.

Jain also addressed data sovereignty, positioning it as core to L&T Vyoma’s AI and cloud strategy. The company operates a sovereign AI cloud and hyperscale data center platform aimed at data sovereignty, regulatory compliance and secure AI adoption. He spoke about owning and operating the technology stack and securing workloads within sovereign borders, along with the role of an orchestration layer in enabling secure operations.

Dell also addressed AI’s extension to endpoint devices. Jacinta Quah discussed how intelligence spans the data centre, cloud and desktop, covering AI PCs, on-device workloads, endpoint security and device management. Dell positions AI PCs for everyday workflows and workstations for compute-intensive tasks.

On the financial services side, SBI Funds Management CTO Rahul Dayal outlined the company’s shift to a hybrid architecture, combining cloud with on-premises infrastructure for workloads requiring it. The company uses Dell APEX, a consumption-based model, to align infrastructure spending with business growth and scale capacity as needed.

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Empowering India’s Future Workforce, a national skilling programme targeting 23,000 young people for roles in AI, cloud and electronics manufacturing. The initiative involves Dell, FITT-IIT Delhi, Learning Links Foundation and Generation India Foundation, working with 100 ITIs and 90 higher education institutes across Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune.

Four curricula are being developed for AI application development, cloud development, assembly line operations and field technician roles, with input from more than 40 employers. Dell is committing over 2,000 hours of employee mentorship to the programme.