At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, five Indian startups—Yesgnome, Metasports (Hitwicket), Koyozo, Youth Buzz (Ourcadium), and Evivve—will showcase cutting-edge AI innovations in gaming and enterprise transformation. A high-profile investment panel will explore India’s fast-emerging AI-powered gaming ecosystem and global growth ambitions.
When the India AI Impact Summit 2026 opens its doors, it will not simply be another technology conference—it will serve as a declaration of India’s accelerating influence in the global artificial intelligence landscape. Governments, researchers, policymakers, investors and technology leaders from across the world are set to converge at the premier global conference to explore AI’s transformative potential across industries. Yet, among the many sectors represented, gaming and interactive technology are poised to capture particular attention.
Under the summit’s gaming and interactive technology category, five pioneering Indian startups—Yesgnome, Metasports (Hitwicket), Koyozo, Youth Buzz (Ourcadium), and Evivve—will demonstrate how AI is reshaping creative production, live gameplay, immersive storytelling and enterprise readiness. Together, their participation signals a broader shift: India is not merely adopting AI tools but building original, AI-native platforms with global ambitions.
For Yesgnome, the spotlight will fall on Sketly AI, its AI-powered art creation platform designed for game studios and creative teams. At a time when production timelines are shrinking and asset demands are multiplying, Sketly AI addresses one of gaming’s most persistent bottlenecks: scalable, stylistically consistent asset creation. The platform enables teams to generate production-ready character designs, environments, UI elements, storyboards, and animation components with speed and precision. What distinguishes Sketly AI is its proprietary style-training system, allowing studios to train the AI on a defined visual aesthetic to maintain cohesion across large-scale productions. Rapid iteration tools, sprite sheet generation and asset enhancement capabilities streamline workflows that traditionally required significant manual labour. By reducing creative friction while preserving artistic direction, Yesgnome aims to empower both indie developers and global studios to scale output without compromising quality.
If Yesgnome demonstrates how AI can transform creative pipelines, Metasports illustrates how generative intelligence can redefine live player experiences. The company will showcase Hitwicket, its competitive multiplayer cricket game that has amassed more than 18 million users worldwide. At the summit, Metasports will unveil its Generative AI-powered real-time commentary engine—a system that analyses live gameplay scenarios, produces contextual text commentary and converts it into expressive voice output. Unlike pre-scripted commentary loops common in sports games, this engine generates personalised narration for every match. The technology interprets in-game dynamics, player strategies and pivotal moments to craft a broadcast-style storytelling experience unique to each user session. By blending generative AI with live sports mechanics, Hitwicket exemplifies how personalisation and immersion are becoming central to mobile gaming’s next evolution.
Hardware innovation, too, will take center stage. Koyozo will present its integrated mobile handheld gaming ecosystem, designed to convert smartphones into console-grade gaming devices. At its core is the Koyozo One, a flagship handheld featuring hall-effect joysticks and triggers, dual connectivity via Type-C and Bluetooth, haptic feedback, modular accessory support and pass-through charging. But the device is only part of the story. Complementing the hardware is Koyozo Club, an intelligent platform layer that offers automatic button mapping, game discovery, remote play integration, performance analytics and personalised control profiles. In a market often fragmented by device inconsistencies and varied performance standards, Koyozo seeks to deliver a seamless ecosystem tailored for competitive and immersive play. The company’s approach underscores how AI and intelligent systems can extend beyond software into integrated hardware experiences, redefining how India’s vast mobile gaming community engages with high-performance play.
Youth Buzz, through its immersive technology platform Ourcadium, will offer a more conceptual and interactive showcase with “Man vs. GPT.” The live experience explores the evolving relationship between human creativity and AI adaptability. In the format presented at the summit, human participants compete against AI-powered opponents that learn and adjust across rounds using behavioural patterning and real-time decision loops. The result is a dynamic contest in which the AI’s strategy evolves visibly, challenging players to continuously rethink their moves. Designed as an audience-friendly demonstration, the experience simplifies complex AI systems into accessible gameplay. By translating machine learning principles into a tangible human-versus-AI format, Youth Buzz highlights adaptive difficulty systems and intelligent interaction models while showcasing original Made-in-India intellectual property in immersive entertainment.
While gaming innovation will command attention, Evivve shifts the focus toward a deeper structural question: is leadership cognitively prepared for AI transformation? The global Behavioural Intelligence and Organisational Transformation lab will debut its Enterprise Cognitive AI Readiness Tool at the summit, drawing attention to what it describes as the “Human Cognitive Infrastructure” gap in AI adoption. Grounded in its neuroscience-based AFERR Model—Activation, Forecasting, Experimentation, Realisation, and Reflection—the tool evaluates organisational readiness beyond technical preparedness. It examines how leaders frame problems, adapt decision-making processes and collaborate alongside intelligent systems. At the summit, Evivve’s booth will function as a live diagnostic lab, inviting policymakers and enterprise leaders to participate in executive simulations. The company will also present its “State of Cognition: India AI Snapshot 2026,” offering real-time insights into AI leadership readiness during the event. In doing so, Evivve broadens the summit’s narrative from technological capability to cognitive transformation.
Complementing the product showcases will be a high-profile panel discussion titled “The New Gold Rush: Investing in India’s AI-Powered Gaming Future,” curated in collaboration with the Game Developers Association of India. The session will convene global investors and industry leaders to examine India’s expanding footprint in AI-driven game development and interactive media. Discussions are expected to center on evolving investment trends, generative production models, skilling frameworks and policy support needed to accelerate growth. As global capital increasingly looks toward emerging markets for innovation scale and talent density, India’s combination of technical expertise, creative depth and massive user base presents a compelling proposition.
The collective presence of Yesgnome, Metasports, Koyozo, Youth Buzz and Evivve reflects a larger national ambition. India is positioning itself not only as a cost-efficient development hub but as a creator of globally competitive AI-native platforms. From production pipelines and immersive storytelling to enterprise cognition and hardware ecosystems, the startups represent different nodes of a rapidly maturing innovation network.
At a time when artificial intelligence is redefining industries worldwide, the India AI Impact Summit 2026 becomes more than a showcase—it becomes a statement. It signals that India’s AI story is no longer confined to backend engineering or service delivery. Instead, it is expanding into original IP, intelligent ecosystems and immersive experiences capable of shaping global markets. In the convergence of gaming, cognition and AI, India is staking its claim in what many are calling the next great digital frontier.
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