NEW DELHI — The FutureCrime Summit has steadily evolved into one of India’s most visible forums for conversations on cybercrime, digital risk, technology law, forensics and national security. The 2026 edition is scheduled for August 6 and 7 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi, where organizers are now inviting professionals to apply as speakers for a platform that has increasingly become a meeting ground for investigators, policymakers, industry leaders and digital security practitioners.
The summit’s current public positioning is expansive: it convenes dialogue on cybercrime, AI, digital forensics, data privacy, cybersecurity, threat intelligence, incident response, malware analysis, ransomware, financial fraud, digital investigation, the dark web, cryptocurrency crime and blockchain forensics. That breadth reflects the reality organizers are trying to capture — that technology-enabled crime is no longer a narrow specialist issue, but a systemic challenge touching finance, policing, governance, law and enterprise resilience.
What Past Editions Have Already Established
The invitation to new speakers is also rooted in the summit’s own recent history. On the official summit site, organizers say previous editions drew more than 1,800 delegates and security professionals, featured 120-plus global speakers and cyber experts, represented 50-plus organizations, and included 30-plus panels, talks and workshops. The same materials describe the event as fully focused on the future of cybercrime defense.
Coverage of earlier editions shows how that scale translated into substance. The 2025 edition was framed as India’s biggest technology crime conference, with sessions spanning cyber forensics, digital threats and technology law. Topics included mobile, cloud and network forensics, blockchain and dark web forensics, crypto crime, AI-enabled crimes, deepfakes, ransomware, malware, phishing, social engineering, UPI fraud, instant loan fraud, the DPDP Act, IT Act rules, GDPR, DORA and sectoral compliance expectations from regulators such as RBI, IRDA and SEBI.
That breadth is part of the summit’s appeal to prospective speakers. It is not built around a single discipline, but around the convergence of cyber investigation, policy, compliance, digital trust and emerging forms of technology-assisted crime.
The Kind of Speakers the Summit Has Attracted
Past editions have also featured a notably high-level speaker roster. The summit website’s speaker gallery and reporting around earlier editions name figures such as Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member of NITI Aayog and former DG of DRDO; Lt Gen M.U. Nair, National Cybersecurity Coordinator; Rajiv Jain, former Director of the Intelligence Bureau; Justice Talwant Singh, former judge of the Delhi High Court; Dr. Vikram Singh, Former UP DGP; Dr. Gulshan Rai, former National Cybersecurity Coordinator and former DG of CERT-In; Sanjay Bahl, Director General of CERT-In; and Dr. Pavan Duggal, advocate at the Supreme Court of India.
Taken together, those names underscore what organizers are trying to signal with the 2026 speaker call: this is a stage where government, law enforcement, judiciary, policy, corporate security and cyber expertise have historically met on equal footing.
Why the 2026 Speaker Call Matters
The summit is organized within the broader ecosystem of the Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF), which describes itself as an IIT Kanpur’s AIIDE-CoE incubated, Section 8 non-profit working across cybersecurity, digital crime, fraud risk management, cyber laws, cyber forensics and policy research. The organization says it is committed to building India’s digital resilience through research, training, capacity-building and national-level collaborations.
That institutional backdrop matters because FCRF’s work extends beyond the summit itself. Reporting on the foundation states that it has trained thousands of law enforcement officers and cyber professionals, runs professional programs in cyber crisis management and digital governance, and hosts the Future Crime Summit as India’s largest summit on tech-enabled crime.
Organizers are now inviting applications from a wide range of professionals — including government officers, law enforcement personnel, policymakers, CISOs, CTOs, chief risk officers, fraud risk professionals, AML and compliance specialists, cybercrime investigators, digital forensics experts, AI security researchers, legal professionals, scholars and security consultants. The official summit page explicitly frames the audience as a broad cross-section of leaders, innovators and defenders working against the next generation of technology-driven crime.
Interested applicants may apply through the following link: https://summit.futurecrime.org/apply-as-a-speaker. Alternatively, they may send their CV, work experience and relevant profile details to research@futurecrime.org.
In a country where the criminal use of technology is outpacing institutional adaptation in finance, law enforcement, governance and enterprise security, the summit’s call for speakers is also a call for expertise itself — a search for people who have seen these threats up close, and can help define how India responds next.
