Ambani, Adani scout engineers turning AI Summit into jobs fair

India’s two largest conglomerates are using the ongoing India AI summit as a recruiting ground to scout and handpick young engineers, as the race to build AI tools and applications has intensified in the country with global players ramping up investments.

Executives from Reliance Industries Ltd. and the Adani Group are hunting for talent as applicants line up with their resumes and GitHub profiles to show off their projects.

It is a great place to find talent, said Priyanshi Bavishi, a marketing executive at AdaniConnex Pvt. Ltd. “Industry is still niche, so the qualified people have great prospects.”



The week-long summit has some of the most influential leaders from the tech world, like Alphabet Inc’s Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman from OpenAI Inc. delivering lectures. French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver the keynote.

For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the summit is an international stage where India’s vast tech-savvy population and software talent can be showcased as a force that can shape the future of AI. The country has already received $50 billion in AI investments.

On Monday, Anthropic PBC announced a partnership with Indian technology firm Infosys Ltd. to develop advanced artificial solutions for specific industries. The Adani Group, in turn, announced Tuesday that it plans to invest $100 billion by 2035 in data centers. Google has invested $15 billion in developing its “first AI hub in India.”

“We are a service-oriented nation. But we are looking for ideapreneurs,” said Siddharth Sood, a consulting partner at Delhi-based Ernst & Young LLP. “We are hiring a few dozen right now. AI for Cyber, and Cyber for AI — this is the area I’m hiring for.”

As AI talent remains scarce within the broader pool of India’s vast tech graduates, the event also offers a timely window for job seekers to submit their resumes, allowing companies to keep them on file. At the summit, AI engineers, data scientists, cloud developers are all in high demand. Executives at Dell Technologies and Salesforce are planning to tap talent which would not come their way through the conventional process of online applications, many of which are rejected by AI-trained software.

Students have been coming in droves since early morning and hiring is high on our agenda, said Viral Tank, a senior manager with Analytics at Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP. “It works both ways. I am looking for people. They are looking for jobs.”

As tech leaders hire, sell product and share expertise, the Indian government is looking to expand to newer AI Models and double their investments, even as it continues to lag behind China.