Trinidad and To­ba­go reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to co­op­er­a­tion with the Re­pub­lic of In­dia dur­ing the AI Im­pact Sum­mit 2026 held from 18-20 Feb­ru­ary in In­dia.

Do­minic Smith, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, rep­re­sent­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go at the Sum­mit. The event con­vened Heads of Gov­ern­ment, Min­is­ters, tech­nol­o­gy ex­ec­u­tives, and pol­i­cy lead­ers to ex­am­ine the im­pact of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence on gov­er­nance, eco­nom­ic re­silience, and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

Smith’s par­tic­i­pa­tion fo­cused on col­lab­o­ra­tion in large-scale dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion of pub­lic ser­vices, de­vel­op­ment of se­cure dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture, eth­i­cal AI adop­tion frame­works, and sov­er­eign da­ta gov­er­nance.

In­dia’s dig­i­tal iden­ti­ty sys­tems, pay­ment ecosys­tems, and na­tion­al AI strate­gies pro­vid­ed in­sights for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s AI ini­tia­tives. The en­gage­ment cre­at­ed av­enues for knowl­edge ex­change, tech­ni­cal co­op­er­a­tion, and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty-build­ing.

Dur­ing the Sum­mit, Smith held dis­cus­sions with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Gov­ern­ments of the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, the Unit­ed States, sev­er­al African na­tions, and Switzer­land. Se­nior lead­ers from the glob­al tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed. The dis­cus­sions ex­plored col­lab­o­ra­tion in AI gov­er­nance, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, da­ta pro­tec­tion, and in­no­va­tion ecosys­tems.

Smith stat­ed, “For small states, dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion must be de­lib­er­ate, sov­er­eign, and part­ner­ship-dri­ven. Our strength­ened en­gage­ment with In­dia sig­nals our re­solve to build se­cure dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture, ad­vance eth­i­cal AI adop­tion, and po­si­tion Trinidad and To­ba­go as a se­ri­ous tech­nol­o­gy part­ner glob­al­ly.”

The Min­istry’s par­tic­i­pa­tion re­in­forces Trinidad and To­ba­go’s role as a re­gion­al tech­nol­o­gy hub and its com­mit­ment to in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion that ac­cel­er­ates in­no­va­tion while safe­guard­ing na­tion­al in­ter­ests.