Six years ago, when NEP 2020 was announced, the world paid attention. Not just India. International universities, global foundations, multilateral organisations, and education ministries across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East all leaned in because what India does with its education system doesn’t just affect its own 1.4 billion people. It sets a precedent for every large, diverse, developing nation trying to figure out the same questions.
That global attention hasn’t faded. If anything, it’s intensified. And the Elets World Education Summit 2026, coming to the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi on 15 and 16 September, is where that attention converges into action.
India’s Education Scale, And Why It Matters to the World
The numbers are hard to ignore. India’s school system serves 246.9 million students across over 14.72 lakh schools. Its higher education system comprises 1,362 universities and over 52,500 colleges enrolling more than 46.5 million students at the tertiary level. No country outside China operates at this scale.
But scale alone isn’t the story anymore. What makes India genuinely significant on the global education map is the ambition behind the scale, the push to internationalise, to integrate AI into learning systems, to build institutions that are globally competitive, and to position India not just as a source of students for foreign universities, but as a destination in its own right.
The World Education Summit 2026 Delhi is designed precisely for this moment.
A Truly Global Platform, Not Just an Indian One
This Education Summit brings together Indian and international education leaders on equal footing. Confirmed global engagement includes representatives from foreign universities actively exploring India entry strategies, international EdTech companies seeking India partnerships, embassy education attachés from key partner nations, and global foundations channeling investment into India’s skilling and learning infrastructure.
For international delegates, this is the single most efficient point of access to India’s education ecosystem, policymakers, institutional leaders, and sector innovators, all in one place, over two focused days in New Delhi.
For Indian institutions and EdTechs with global ambitions, it’s the room where those ambitions meet real counterparts.
Chairman – National Educational Technology Forum (NETF)
Chairman – Executive Committee, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
Chairman – National Board of Accreditation (NBA)
“What Elets has built over two decades spreading its wings not only across India but to more than 10 locations across the globe is remarkable and worth mentioning.”
What the 2026 Edition Takes On
The agenda is built around conversations that actually need to happen not panel discussions that rehash what everyone already knows:
- NEP 2020 at the implementation stage, what’s genuinely changing on the ground, what’s still stuck in paperwork, and what state governments are doing differently from each other.
- AI in education, India’s linguistic and socioeconomic diversity makes this harder and more important here than almost anywhere else. The summit will address real deployment challenges, not just possibilities.
- India as a global education hub, with new international student policies in place and foreign universities entering the market, the question is no longer if India becomes a global education destination but how fast.
- Skills and industry alignment, India’s graduate output is vast. Closing the employability gap requires industry and institutions to build bridges that currently don’t exist at the required scale.
Hon’ble Tourism & Higher Education Minister
Government of Nagaland
“Digital Learning platform is one of the best platforms in this nation for educators, educationists, policymakers, industry leaders, and people to learn.”
The World Education Summit Awards 2026
The World Education Summit Awards have become one of the most credible recognitions in Indian education, not because of the ceremony, but because of the rigour behind the selection. Schools, universities, EdTechs, and individual leaders who are building something real get recognised here.
The 2026 Awards are open for nominations across categories covering school innovation, higher education excellence, EdTech impact, teacher development, and inclusive education.
Why This Room Matters
Delhi is where education policy in India is written. The Hyatt Regency is where the people who write it, implement it, fund it, and build around it will be on 15 and 16 September 2026.
Whether you are a Vice Chancellor navigating internationalisation, a school leader scaling quality, an EdTech founder building for Bharat and beyond, a global university finalising your India strategy, or a policymaker looking for what’s actually working, the World Education Summit 2026 is the most concentrated, high-quality two days you can spend this year.
The World Education Summit 2026 India isn’t just another event on the calendar. It’s where the next chapter gets written.
The real question isn’t whether India will emerge as a global education powerhouse, the trajectory is already clear. The question is: who will be in the room when the decisions that shape that journey are made?
15–16 September 2026 | Hyatt Regency, New Delhi
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