ICCC 2026
Theme 2026“Converging Futures: Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and AI in the Autonomous Era”
A focused half-day working session convened by Dr. Pavan Duggal with international legal experts and industry leaders. The lessons are turned into specific recommendations on AI and agentic AI for submission to Agentic AI Ecosystem Governance Stakeholders and the Government of India.
When an AI agent acts, who answers, on what record, and under what law?
Held every year without interruption since 2014, ICCC has consistently anticipated technological inflection points and addressed their legal, policy and civilizational consequences ahead of mainstream regulatory discourse: from early internet law and cyber offences, through mobile, social media, cloud and big data, to Artificial Intelligence and autonomous systems today.
Organised under the leadership of Dr. Pavan Duggal, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, ICCC brings together jurists, policymakers, regulators, technologists, law enforcement agencies, corporations and academia.
ICCC 2026 is convened at a time when Artificial Intelligence has moved from assistive systems to agentic systems capable of autonomous reasoning, planning and execution. The 2026 edition places Agentic AI at the centre of its inquiry and examines how it is reshaping four domains.
How statutory design, enforcement machinery and judicial reasoning must adapt when the actor in question is an autonomous system.
Agentic tooling lowers the cost of attack and lengthens the chain of attribution. Investigation, evidence and mutual legal assistance need re-engineering.
Board accountability, data fiduciary duties, reasonable security safeguards and running autonomous agents inside regulated enterprises.
Digital and AI sovereignty, strategic autonomy, the rise of the Global South and what autonomous intelligence does to human institutions.
All sessions are 60 minutes. Moderators to be announced.
14:00-18:00 IST (08:30-12:30 UTC)
09:00-17:45 | Hall A, Hall B, Roundtable 1, Roundtable 2
09:30-14:30 | Hall A, Hall B
Full draft agenda. Every session, hall and time slot for all three days, with filters by day and room.
Open the full programmeDrawn from government, the armed forces, the judiciary and the Bar, academia, enterprise security and international institutions. Summit speakers are listed on the Summit page.
Speakers as on the draft agenda of 4 November 2026, subject to final confirmation.
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India | Conference Director, ICCC
Dr. Pavan Duggal has convened ICCC every year since 2014 and provides its intellectual direction and continuity. His practice and scholarship span cyberlaw, cybercrime, cybersecurity law, data protection and artificial intelligence law, and his recent work addresses the accountability and liability of agentic AI systems.
He has served as Cyber Security Consultant to the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and as Cyberlaw Advisor to the National Investigation Agency. He is the author of 203 books, and has authored frameworks including the AI Accountability Framework 2026 and the Duggal Global Agentic AI Liability Framework, both deposited with permanent DOIs and offered as proposals for scrutiny. See all twelve AI instruments.
Twelve instruments, model laws and working papers, each deposited on Zenodo with a permanent DOI: agentic AI liability, AI agency, black-box evidence, hijacked agents, AI accountability rights, the Global South and AI consciousness.
All twelve, with summaries and DOIs. Proposals and working papers offered for scrutiny, not law in force.
See all AI instrumentsCentral and State Ministries, law enforcement agencies and sectoral regulators.
Judges, Senior Advocates, General Counsel and in-house counsel.
CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs, risk officers and board directors.
Vice-Chancellors, IIM Directors, institution heads, think tanks and international delegates.
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International Conference on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime & Cybersecurity
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ICCC 2026 runs from 25 to 27 November 2026. Day 1, Wednesday 25 November, is the online International Agentic AI Accountability and Liability Summit 2026, 14:00-18:00 IST. Days 2 and 3 take place at the Scope Convention Centre, SCOPE Complex, CGO Complex, Pragati Vihar, New Delhi 110 003.
A half-day online working session that opens ICCC 2026, on one question: when an AI agent acts, who answers, on what record, and under what law. It tests the leading liability models and turns the lessons into specific recommendations on AI and agentic AI for submission to Agentic AI Ecosystem Governance Stakeholders and the Government of India. See the Summit page.
Day 2 opens with the Inaugural Session and the Opening Plenary, followed by four parallel venues: two plenary halls (Hall A and Hall B) and two corporate roundtables (Roundtable 1 and Roundtable 2). Day 3 runs in two halls and closes with the Valedictory Session. All sessions are 60 minutes.
Yes. ICCC 2026 is a hybrid conference, and Day 1 is held entirely online. Please write to the secretariat for participation options.
Each edition produces an Outcome Document adopted by delegates and shared with governments. The ICCC 2026 Outcome Document is adopted at the Valedictory Session on 27 November.
Choose the relevant option in the enquiry form above, or write to info@cyberlawcybersecurity.com. The secretariat will share the Sponsorship Prospectus. Final deliverables are confirmed in a Sponsorship Agreement.
ICCC is organised by Cyberlaws.Net & Pavan Duggal Associates, Advocates, under the leadership of Dr. Pavan Duggal, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Conference Director.
Join jurists, regulators, enterprise leaders and academia in New Delhi and online, 25 to 27 November 2026.
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 14:00-18:00 IST (08:30-12:30 UTC) | Online
Day 1 of ICCC 2026, the International Conference on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime & Cybersecurity
The Government of India has publicly signalled that it is working towards a dedicated law on AI. That question will sit at the centre of any such law, and it is being asked across the world.
Allocation of responsibility across developer, deployer, operator and user; boards, insurers and regulators: who carries the loss.
What record must exist, and who must hold it, so that a court can find who authorised the agent, what authority it had and what it did.
Liability doctrines, jurisdiction, enforcement and the Global South common minimum, tested against the draft texts.
From 9 December 2026, the revised Product Liability Directive treats software and AI as products, bringing them under no-fault liability. The separate AI Liability Directive was withdrawn in 2025.
The Information Commissioner’s Office is taking evidence on agentic AI until 20 November 2026, to shape its future guidance.
IMDA launched a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI in January 2026, built on the principle that humans remain accountable for what agents do.
There is still no settled international answer on who is liable when an autonomous agent causes loss.
Position as stated in the Summit brochure of 4 November 2026.
On 25 November 2026 Dr. Pavan Duggal convenes international legal experts and industry leaders on one question: when an AI agent acts, who answers, on what record, and under what law.
The Summit will test the leading liability models and how each works across borders, and will turn the lessons into specific recommendations on AI and agentic AI for submission to Agentic AI Ecosystem Governance Stakeholders and the Government of India.
08:30-12:30 UTC. Online.
Accountability when an autonomous agent acts: allocation of responsibility across developer, deployer, operator and user; boards, insurers and regulators: who carries the loss.
The evidentiary foundation of agent accountability: what record must exist, and who must hold it, so that a court can find who authorised the agent, what authority it had, what it did, and whether the act stayed within that authority.
Liability doctrines, jurisdiction and the draft texts: criticism of the positions and draft texts under consideration; jurisdiction, enforcement and the Global South common minimum.
Written notes received by 5 December 2026 to be published with consent.
Speakers as on the draft agenda of 4 November 2026, subject to final confirmation.
Introduced at the opening and open to criticism in Session 3. Each is deposited with a permanent DOI. They are proposals for scrutiny, not law in force. See all twelve AI instruments by Dr. Pavan Duggal.
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Dr. Pavan Duggal convenes the Summit as Day 1 of ICCC 2026, the conference he has directed every year since 2014. He opens the Summit with the question and the six instruments under consideration, and closes it with what the Summit records and the road to the ICCC 2026 Outcome Document.
Recommendations are framed independently, and every participant’s input is weighed on merit.
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Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Conference Director, ICCC 2026
ICCC 2026 Secretariat
Days 2 and 3 continue at the Scope Convention Centre, CGO Complex, New Delhi, 26 and 27 November 2026.
Theme: “Converging Futures: Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and AI in the Autonomous Era”. 25-27 November 2026, Scope Convention Centre, CGO Complex, New Delhi. All sessions are 60 minutes. Moderators to be announced. All times IST.
Draft programme. Titles, timings and rooms are subject to change and will be confirmed in the published programme. Sponsor-led sessions are reserved on 26 and 27 November.
Twelve instruments, model laws and working papers on agentic AI liability, AI accountability, evidence, AI agency, the Global South and AI consciousness. Each is deposited on Zenodo with a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI), so it can be read, cited and checked by anyone.
The legal questions that arise when AI systems act on their own.
A Conceptual, Normative, and Operationally Precise Blueprint for Accountability, Responsibility, and Governance in the Era of Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Agents
Addresses the liability gap created by agentic AI systems that set goals, plan, use tools and act without continuous human direction, and proposes a five-tier liability stack.
A draft international normative framework for agentic AI systems, released for international consultation on 19 October 2026.
A reference legislative text on evidence in agentic AI: what records an agent must generate, who preserves them, how they are proved in court, and what may be inferred when evidence that ought to exist is missing.
Authority, Attribution and the Unauthorised Act of an Autonomous Agent
Examines the legal effect of an autonomous agent’s act where that act requires a person’s legal authority, including acts beyond authorisation and agent-to-agent contracting.
Who bears responsibility when an AI agent is manipulated, for example through a concealed instruction in a webpage or email, or acts defensively at machine speed.
Who answers for AI outcomes, and what rights and remedies follow.
Framework and Doctrines
A proposed legal architecture for holding identifiable natural and legal persons accountable for the outcomes of AI systems, with eleven foundational principles and eleven legal doctrines.
A proposed universal declaration of rights, responsibilities and remedies for the governance of artificial intelligence, convened by the International AI Accountability Forum.
Adopted by acclamation at the inaugural session of the International AI Accountability Forum, New Delhi, 14 May 2026; translates the Declaration into obligations, liability standards and institutional mechanisms.
Outcome document of the Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Tech Law & Governance, adopted at New Delhi on 24 July 2025.
Governance architecture for the Global South, and the legal treatment of AI consciousness.
A Common Minimum Denominators Approach for the Global South Group of Nations
An operational legal architecture adopted at the Second Global South AI Law and Governance Dialogue (28 May 2026), built in three layers: national AI law, sector policies and evolving best practice.
Towards an AI Consciousness Legal Protocol
Proposes a ten-article protocol setting the technical and legal parameters to be met before law recognises the consciousness of an AI system, and the rules that apply meanwhile.
The outcome of the previous edition of this Conference.
Adopted by the participants, 19 to 21 November 2025, New Delhi, India
Adopted by the participants of the twelfth edition of ICCC on 21 November 2025, on the theme "Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem: Opportunities and Challenges".
These are proposals, draft texts and working papers by Dr. Pavan Duggal, offered for scrutiny and contestation. They are not law in force. Register as at 5 November 2026; records checked on Zenodo on 9 November 2026.
