Hosted by ARANYAJ Society for Educational & Environmental Development

Venue & travel

WEBEL, Salt Lake Kolkata

The summit runs 10–12 September 2026 at WEBEL, Salt Lake, Kolkata — in Sector V, the state's established technology district.

The venue

WEBEL sits at the centre of Salt Lake Sector V — around 430 acres of technology campus, home to more than seventy IT companies. Holding the summit here puts the conference, the AI Challenge and the twelve-zone Expo inside the ecosystem they are about, rather than in a convention centre detached from it.

Hall allocation

Which halls carry which track, and the detailed floor plan for the Expo, follow closer to the summit alongside the full programme. What is fixed today is the venue, the city and the three dates.

The venue's conference room — a long table set with delegate microphones, facing a wall-mounted display.

Inside the venue

The conference room and the surrounding rooms, as they stand today. Hall allocation for the three days follows with the floor plan.
  • The conference room seen from the head of the table, facing the display wall.Conference room
  • Delegate seating along the conference table, with additional rows behind.Delegate seating
  • The signed entrance to the conference room, door open onto the seating.Entrance
  • A smaller adjoining room finished in wood panelling.Breakout room

Getting there

  • By Metro

    Salt Lake Sector V is the terminus of the East–West Metro line, connecting straight through central Kolkata and across the river to Howrah.

  • By rail

    Howrah and Sealdah are the two main terminals. Both connect to Sector V by metro, bus and taxi.

  • By air

    Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is the nearest airport, north-east of the city and a short drive from Salt Lake.

  • Around the precinct

    Sector V is a dense, walkable technology district — app-based taxis, buses and autos all serve it heavily through the working day.

A Kolkata Metro train at a platform.

While you are in Kolkata

Three days is enough for the summit and very little else — but the city is worth the extra day at either end.
  • The Victoria Memorial lit at night.

    Victoria Memorial

    The city's most photographed building, and the gardens around it, twenty minutes from the centre.

  • A decorated Durga Puja pandal at night.

    Durga Puja

    Kolkata's defining festival, and a UNESCO-listed piece of intangible heritage. It falls after the summit, but the city builds toward it for months.

Access & assistance

If you need step-free routing, a sign-language interpreter, reserved seating, captioning or any other adjustment to take part, write to us well ahead of the summit and we will arrange what we can. Tell us what you need rather than what you think is available.

Request an access arrangement

The earlier you ask, the more we can put in place.

Email
aranyajseed@gmail.com
Phone
8240331565

Accommodation — a warning

The summit does not appoint third-party housing agents. Book only through channels published on this website. If someone contacts you offering “official” summit accommodation, it is not official — report it to aranyajseed@gmail.com.

The Howrah Bridge over the Hooghly at dusk.