Google Cloud hosted Cloud Day India 2026, gathering more than 600 founders, promoters, managing directors and technology executives, bringing production-ready artificial intelligence (AI) directly into the hands of the nation’s rapidly expanding small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and mid-market enterprises. The gathering drew key decision-makers across critical sectors powering India’s economy, including manufacturing, retail, logistics, media, and financial services.
AI is projected to add $15.7 trillion to the worldwide economy by 2030, according to data from the World Economic Forum. Roughly 52% of organisations globally have already deployed active AI agents within production environments – helping lean teams improve productivity and scale operations. At Google Cloud Day India 2026, Google Cloud showcased how its unified AI stack, combining Gemini models, Google Workspace, data analytics and secure infrastructure, helps Indian SMBs bridge this gap through practical, scalable AI solutions.
At the event, Preeti Lobana, VP and Country Manager, Google India, highlighted that the SMB segment represents a foundational pillar in achieving the nation’s “Viksit Bharat” economic ambitions. Giving examples of ONDC and Siyarams, she said that within these enterprises, AI is increasingly serving as an engine to power their upcoming chapter of scale and competitive growth. “Across Asia Pacific, the businesses pulling ahead are not those with the biggest IT budgets, but those turning AI into a continuous engine for growth, and India’s small and mid-sized businesses are leading that shift,” said Taru Dahiya, Managing Director, SMB, Google Cloud Asia Pacific.
The push comes as AI shifts global markets. As the only provider with first-party solutions across the entire AI stack, from DeepMind research and Gemini models to Workspace and secure infrastructure, we give every business the same AI that powers Google products used by billions. The technology is ready now, and with our partners on the ground, it works for businesses of any size, at every scale,” Dahiya added. Highlighting that SMBs cannot afford the ‘integration tax’ of stitching together separate vendors, Google Cloud addressed this with a unified stack in which every layer works together. For example, Gemini in Google Workspace and Gemini Enterprise let teams draft proposals, summarise customer threads and build no-code agents across Indian languages, without technical training. Beyond everyday productivity, agentic workflows tackle frontline bottlenecks, from AI-powered defect inspection on factory production lines to Gemini agents that reconcile e-way bills and vendor invoices. Underpinning this, Google Cloud’s regions in Mumbai and Delhi NCR, combined with built-in threat protection, provide smaller businesses enterprise-grade security from day one, and customer data is never used to train foundation models.
“The playbook is clear: eliminate operational drag today and reinvest that capacity to invent the future.