At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, the Tata Group successfully ran the Tata AI Sakhi Immersion Program, a hands-on training initiative designed to help rural women artisans and entrepreneurs learn and use artificial intelligence (AI) tools) in their businesses and daily work. The program brought together 1,553 women participants from six states — including Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Delhi NCR — in a structured workshop that focused on practical AI usage rather than theory.
Participants were organised into three groups — Artisanal, Basic Digital Literacy and Advanced Digital Literacy — with each cohort receiving dedicated mentorship (one mentor for every five women) to ensure personalised guidance throughout the session. During the2.5-hour immersion, women collectively completed 4,727 AI-powered tasks using AI tools on their own mobile phones in their local languages.
Women learned how to generate product designs and visuals, create marketing material, research government schemes, translate documents, and draft business communications, helping them apply AI directly to enhance their entrepreneurial activities and everyday tasks. This approach aims to boost confidence, productivity and creativity among rural women entrepreneurs by integrating AI into their economic and administrative work.
Hosted in the presence of dignitaries including Smriti Irani (Chairperson, Alliance for Global Good, Gender Equity & Equality, CII) and Aarthi Subramanian (Executive Director & COO, TCS), the program reflects the Tata Group’s effort to make advanced technology accessible to grassroots communities and support inclusive, technology-led growth across India.
