MediaNama to Host Closed-Door AI Spam Roundtable in Delhi

MediaNama has scheduled an invite-only roundtable on AI's role in spam prevention for Wednesday, 12 August 2026, bringing together operators, regulators and industry voices to discuss how machine-learning systems are being deployed against unsolicited communications in India.

The session runs from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM at Viceroy Hall inside The Claridges hotel on Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road in New Delhi. It is organized with support from Airtel, and The Quantum Hub is listed as the community partner.

Attendance is by approval only, and the discussion will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule, meaning participants can share the substance of what is said without attributing specific comments to individuals or organizations. Anyone requesting to attend should expect a registration confirmation by 11 August 2026, a day ahead of the event.

The agenda is split into two blocks. The first, from 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM, focuses on how automated spam detection systems function and how the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) currently regulates unsolicited commercial communication. This includes TRAI's directions to telecom operators and the coordination limits tied to Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the blockchain-based framework India uses to register and trace commercial senders.

The second block, running 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM, shifts to consequences. Participants will examine how tightening spam rules affects legitimate business messaging, including the recurring problem of false positives, where genuine transactional or promotional communication gets flagged or blocked alongside actual spam.

That tension sits at the center of India's ongoing telecom compliance debate. Enterprises rely on SMS and voice channels for OTPs, alerts and marketing, and any AI-driven filtering system that over-corrects risks disrupting services customers depend on. The roundtable's structure, pairing a technical session on detection with a policy session on business impact, suggests organizers want to address both sides of that trade-off in one sitting.

Details of the event and a companion reading list were published by MediaNama ahead of the session, though no list of confirmed attendees or speakers has been made public, consistent with the event's closed, approval-based format.