Global Sugar AI Summit

Baramati 2026

The world’s first decision-grade AI forum for the agricultural value chain — from field to factory.

An Experience Driven forum on applied AI across the sugar value chain, anchored in mill operations
February 8, 2026 | Baramati, India
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About The Summit

The Global Sugar AI Summit is envisioned as a focused forum for organizations moving beyond experimentation and beginning to apply artificial intelligence in meaningful, operational ways within the sugar industry. As AI adoption accelerates, early adopters across mills, agri-businesses, and supporting institutions are navigating shared considerations around data readiness, decision confidence, organizational change, and long-term value – areas that benefit from collective learning beyond technology alone.

The summit will bring together pioneering practitioners and ecosystem partners for a day of shared learning, candid discussion, and connection. Designed to bring diverse perspectives into the room, this forum creates space for practical insights: what has worked in real operating environments, what has proven difficult, and what sustained investment in AI truly requires.

The summit is hosted by a coalition of organizations spanning agricultural research, enterprise AI, agro-industrial operations, and education. Together, the hosts contribute complementary perspectives across farm practices, advanced analytics, large-scale sugar production, and capacity building – grounding the forum in both hands-on experience and long-term learning.

With participation from practitioners across multiple geographies, the summit enables cross-regional comparison and peer learning across diverse operating contexts. Selected industry participants will also join as sponsors and contributors, forming a focused ecosystem committed to advancing responsible and impactful AI adoption.

GLOBAL SUGAR AI

Summit 2025
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Advancing Artificial Intelligence in Sugar Production
Baramati, India
Febuaray 07, 2025
Venue
Sharadchandra Pawar Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, Baramati

The Global Sugar AI Summit is not a Conference

It is a working forum to discuss and learn:
How AI improves recovery, efficiency, and margins
How agriculture & manufacturing intelligence must work as one continuum
How mills can start small &
scale safely
Impact

Understand where AI creates maximum impact

See live examples of deployed AI

Learn how to start with low risk

Gain clarity on investment vs return

Build connections with peers & experts

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Attendees in 2024 (Limited to 300)
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Your journey
through the event

Gain insights from world-class leaders, innovators, and experts who are shaping the future of AI. Each speaker brings unique perspectives, real-world experience, and actionable knowledge you can apply right away.
1
9.00 - 9.30 aM
Welcome & Opening Keynote
Setting the context for applied AI in the sugar industry and outlining the objectives of the forum.
2
10:00 - 11:30 aM
Critical AI Foundations for the Long Game
A focused discussion on the foundational elements required to build durable AI capability, including data readiness, decision confidence, organizational alignment, and governance.
3
11:30 - 11:45 aM
Coffee / Tea
Break
4
11:45 - 1:00 PM
AI Models in Practice: Sugar Farm and Mill Review
Review and discussion of applied AI models across farm and mill operations, with emphasis on real-world deployment, outcomes, and operational learnings.
5
1:00 - 2:00 PM
lUNCH
break
6
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Roundtable Discussions: Lessons from the Field
Interactive, peer-led conversations exploring what has worked, what has proven difficult, and how organizations are adapting AI approaches in live operating environments.
7
4:00 - 4:15 PM
bREAK
8
4:15 - 5:45 PM
Ecosystem Needs and Opportunities
A forward-looking discussion on collaboration across mills, technology providers, researchers, and institutions to strengthen AI adoption and impact across the sugar value chain.
9
5:45 - 6:00 PM
Closing Reflections & Wrap-Up
Closing Reflections & Wrap-Up

Meet Our Speakers

Gain insights from world-class leaders, innovators, and experts who are shaping the future of AI. Each speaker brings unique perspectives, real-world experience, and actionable knowledge you can apply right away.
Anand Mahurkar
Founder & CEO of Findability Sciences
Guillermo Medina
CDO at Pantaleon Sugar Holdings & leads Stomata Labs
Isao Matsugaya
Vice President, AI, SB Telecom America
Radhika Krishnaswamy
Senior Vice President at Findability Sciences
Mandar Kulkarni
Vice President at Findability Sciences
Dr. Naina Bandyopadhyay
Vice President at Findability Sciences
Sergio Jose Barrios
Vice President - AI, Pantaleon Sugar Holdings
Dr. Nilesh Nalawade
CEO, ADT Baramati

Event at a Glance

Global AI Sugar Summit is the Davos of the sugar and agri economy — the global stage for AI-driven transformation across the sugar value chain, and the platform where the future of sugar and agriculture is imagined, engineered, and led. Bringing together the world’s most influential producers, policymakers, technologists, mill owners, growers, and investors, the Summit defines what’s next for the industry.

Hosted annually in Baramati, at the heart of India’s sugar belt, it reflects India’s leadership as one of the world’s largest sugar producers and a rising force in Agri-AI innovation. This inaugural edition sets a global agenda for productivity, sustainability, and profitability—where early association signals leadership and positions pioneers at the forefront as global players shape the future of sugar together.
Demos
Demonstrate AI-driven optimization in sugar manufacturing
DATA DRIVEN
Showcase integrated agriculture + factory intelligence
ai readiness
Enable mill leaders to understand AI readiness
one platform
Create a neutral industry
platform for collaboration, position Baramati as a global hub for Sugar + AI innovation

Our Sponsors

CO - HOSTS
Platinum SPONSORS
Gold SPONSORS
OUR SPONSORS

Shaping the Next-Gen
Sugar Industry with AI

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