The India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), in collaboration with the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), inaugurated the three-day ‘AI Champions for Digital Governance’ Summit at Hotel Samrat, New Delhi, today, reflecting a commitment to advancing the Government of India’s IndiaAI Mission. The programme, held from July 13 to 15, 2026, combines leadership training with hands-on workshops on AI-driven organisational transformation, data-based decision-making and the responsible adoption of generative AI in public sector organisations, covering AI-enabled productivity, prompt engineering, document analysis, data extraction and drafting using Claude. It marks the first programme being conducted by LBSNAA in New Delhi, designed to train senior leadership and operational teams in practical AI application. Inaugural attendees included Smt. S. Radha Chauhan, Chairperson, Capacity Building Commission; Shri Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Culture; Shri Ganesh Shankar Mishra, Joint Director, LBSNAA; Shri Atul Sobti, Director General, SCOPE; and Smt. Mugdha Sinha, Managing Director, ITDC.