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Minister Josephine Teo’s Visit to India for India AI Impact Summit (19 Feb – 20 Feb 2026) (Factsheet)

20 February 2026

  1. Minister for Digital Development and Information Mrs Josephine Teo participated in the India AI Impact Summit from 19 to 20 February 2026.

(A) Singapore Partners India and Canada to Establish Network of AI-for-Science Institutions

  1. In the lead up to the Summit, Singapore co-chaired the Science Working Group, alongside India and Canada. This culminated in the endorsement at the Summit of the establishment of a Network of AI-for-Science Institutions – a virtual network that operates through a collaborative digital platform, connecting industry and academic stakeholders keen to accelerate scientific discovery supported by AI.

  2. The Network will facilitate knowledge-sharing and ecosystem-building, with a specific focus on supporting the systematic application of AI to accelerate experimentation, modelling, and discovery across applied scientific domains. Its main objectives are to:

    1. foster an active and inclusive AI-for-Science community;

    2. share best practices and AI-for-science use cases;

    3. strengthen scientific research ecosystems;

    4. enable resource pooling, open science outputs, and equitable access;

    5. advance inclusive participation in AI-for-Science; and

    6. catalyse sustainable research partnerships and funding linkages.

  3. The Network will complement and add value to existing international science cooperation frameworks and AI-for-science initiatives by acting as a connective layer across institutions and disciplines.

(B) Singapore to Host 2nd Edition of International Scientific Exchange for AI Safety 2026

  1. At the Summit, Singapore will also share our plans to host the second edition of the International Scientific Exchange (ISE) for AI Safety later this year. The inaugural ISE in 2025 brought together over 100 leading AI safety experts from 11 countries, representing industry, civil society and government. The culmination of ISE 2025 saw the publishing of the Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities, which seeks to build a trusted ecosystem through identification of key AI safety research domains.

  2. ISE 2026 will build on the momentum from 2025 and continue to provide a technical platform to convene like-minded stakeholders and advance grounded AI safety scientific conversations. ISE 2026 will dive deeper into current developments within the AI landscape such as agentic AI and its resultant risks. The event will examine specific areas such managing the safety and security challenges arising from agentic AI, complementing ongoing efforts by frontier companies and standards bodies to tackle them.