India's tech services sector remains key in the AI era, Nasscom says

Economic Times reported that Nasscom's U.S. CEO Forum warned Indian technology-services companies that AI will force a change in how they sell and deliver work. The message was that services firms need to act more like AI consultants and transformation partners, not only outsourcing vendors. That shift matters for India's IT sector because AI threatens some labor-arbitrage models while creating demand for advisory, integration, and change-management work.

Key details: Published June 26, 2026, The comments came through Nasscom's U.S. CEO Forum, Indian tech services firms were urged to move toward AI consulting, The story connects AI adoption with the future services-labor model.

Why it matters: The AI transition for services firms is as much a business-model question as a tooling question.