NEW DELHI: India's IT minister apologized on Tuesday to visitors to a global artificial intelligence summit who had complained of overcrowding and other organizational problems on the first day.
The AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the fourth in a series of annual gatherings to discuss the fast-evolving technology, is the largest edition yet and also the first held in a developing country.
Organizers are expecting tens of thousands of attendees, from top-level national delegations to companies, campaigners, and students.
But not all areas of the vast conference site were open when big crowds showed up to the five-day event that opened on Monday, with some visitors saying the entry systems and other provisions were not up to scratch.
"If anybody has faced any problems yesterday, my apologies for that. We are working very hard," IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at a news conference on Tuesday.
"We definitely will make efforts to make it more smooth and make it more enjoyable for all of you," he said.
On Monday, the media center and most of the exhibition zones had not yet opened to general visitors, although Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the booths in the late afternoon.
"Gates are closed, so could not access my own booth at the AI Summit," startup founder Maitreya Wagh wrote on X on Monday.
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