In a market where AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to execution, adopting the technology is only the beginning. The harder test is what it delivers: does it solve a meaningful problem, change how a business operates, and create measurable value? That proof can come through transformation, efficiency, customer outcomes, innovation and sustained business impact. The ET AI Awards 2027 are built around that distinction, recognising the organisations, teams and leaders turning AI from an ambition into measurable results.Presented by The Economic Times, the awards return for the second edition with a framework designed to recognise excellence in applied AI-innovation across India. The programme brings together 50 award categories across four tracks, reflecting the different ways organisations, teams and leaders are driving the AI adoption journey.The Innovation & Impact track covers startup, SME and enterprise categories, recognising AI-led innovation across industries. Functional Excellence looks at how AI is being applied across critical business functions, from finance and risk to HR, engineering, cybersecurity and business operations. The Leadership track recognises individuals and teams driving AI forward, while Special Awards spotlight flagship and emerging areas of AI innovation.The breadth of the categories reflects how far the AI conversation has moved. A startup building an AI-native business is solving a different challenge from an enterprise transforming its supply chain. A technology leader driving adoption across an organisation has a different role from a team building intelligent automation or advancing responsible AI.The awards recognise that range.At the heart of the programme is a structured evaluation process. Participants choose the track and category that best fits their AI innovation, submit details and put their nomination forward for review by an independent expert jury.For an ecosystem evolving at this pace, recognition can help establish more than individual winners. It can create visibility around the organisations and people setting new standards for how AI is applied, scaled and led across India.The ET AI Awards 2027 is built to identify those benchmarks.Because the next phase of India's AI story will be defined by those who do more than participate in the transformation. It will be shaped by those who lead it.Nominate Now.