Industry experts speaking at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event said India should ride the AI wave to emerge as a product nation. While the country has excelled in engineering and software services, it has yet to fully master the entire product value chain from design and development to engineering and manufacturing, said Kamal Bali, chairman of CII Innoverge 2026, the trade body’s flagship national innovation summit scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on July 22 and 23.