- One of the world’s largest Virtual Summit on “Intelligent Electronics & Semiconductor”
- Network of Global Visionaries as Speakers – Vinod Dham, Father of Pentium, Amitabh Kant, CEO Niti Ayog, Prof. Arogyaswamy Paulraj, Stanford, Dr. Siva Sivaram, President Western Digital, Mark Papermaster, CTO, AMD, Ajay Sawhney, Secretary Meity, John Neuffer, President, Semiconductor Industry Association, USA, Nivruti Rai, Country Manager, Intel India, K.C. Ang, Global Foundries and many more
- Four Padma awardees part of the Vibrant speaker line-up
- Strong Global Leadership Representation from Government, Industry & Academia
Bengaluru, NFAPost: India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the premier industry body for the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) domain in the country announced its flagship event – Vision Summit 2020.
For the first time in the history of IESA, the 15th edition of the annual summit which is slated for August 19th, 20th and 21st will be conducted on a Global Virtual Platform.
The Vision Summit 2020 will give focus on the Intelligent Electronics & Semiconductor sector, feature a powerful line-up of visionaries, industry experts, government bureaucrats, strategists, policymakers, innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Future of electronics
The three-day event will have the participation of eminent personalities like NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan, Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya, Data Security Council of India Vice President Vinayak Godse, STPI Director-General Dr Omkar Rai, Karnataka Department of Electronics, IT, BT and S&T Additional Chief Secretary Dr E V Ramana Reddy, IAS, UC Berkley Prof Emeritus David Patterson and Ciena Networks CEO Gary Smith.
These people will share their views and vision on the future of electronics and semiconductor cutting across verticals. This vision summit will drive ecosystem synergies to transform 1.3 billion lives with a focus on enabling a self-reliant digital economy for India.
The theme of Vision Summit 2020 #VisionSummit2020 is ‘Intelligent Electronics: Driving self-reliant digital economy: Transforming 1.3 billion lives’. This three day summit’s vision is to foster & accelerate Electronics & Semiconductor manufacturing, 1K start-ups, 10K IPs and 1000K jobs stepping into the new decade besides the focus on importance of Electronics & Semiconductors in the strategic areas which have an national economic impact with citizen empowerment.
Semiconductor ecosystem
Commenting on the preparation of IESA for the summit, IESA Chairman and Seedeyas Innovation CEO Dr. Satya Gupta, said with the wide sweep of changes in the global geopolitical situation, time is prudent to lead the charge as a nation and invite the like-minded domestic and global patrons of India to join the journey of developing electronics and semiconductor ecosystem.
“Through this Vision Summit coupled with Industry & Government’s thrust, we would like to reinforce that India is extremely serious and the top leadership is ready to take all the imperatives to develop “Intelligent Electronics & Semiconductor technology & products to drive Self-Reliant (Atmanirbhar) Digital Economy and Transform 1.3 Billion Lives,” said IESA Chairman and Seedeyas Innovation CEO Dr. Satya Gupta.
Commenting on the preparation of IESA for the summit, IESA Chairman and Seedeyas Innovation CEO Dr. Satya Gupta said IESA’s goal is to synergise and augment all efforts globally by being part of the integral transformation process.
Critical products
“IESA Vision Summit will help in reshaping the industry, develop critical products, generate jobs, invigorate the economy and set the stage for furthering innovation in emerging areas like ATMAS – Agri-Tech, transformative education, MedTech, automotive & strategic security among many other,” said IESA Chairman and Seedeyas Innovation CEO Dr. Satya Gupta.
The speaker line-up for this edition of the Vision Summit will share their perspectives on how to make fundamental changes to improve the Indian ESDM ecosystem. Vision Summit has always seen a homogenous mix of industry, policymakers, corporates & start-ups. This Vision Summit will also witness the eminent speakers like:
- Ajai Chowdhry, Founder, HCL
- Lars Reger, EVP and CTO, NXP Semiconductors
- Dr. B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Executive Chairman, Cyient Group
- Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY
- Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education
- Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member Niti Ayog
- Aruna Sundararajan, Former Secretary MeitY and DoT, Independent Director, LTI – An L&T Group Company
- Deepak Bagla, Managing Director & CEO, Invest India
- Dr. Manish Gupta, Director Google Research
- Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to GoI
- Dr. Rob Atkins, ARM Fellow
- Anil Agrawal IAS, Joint Secretary, DPIIT, Head Start-up India
- Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners
- Ruchir Dixit, Country Manager, Mentor – A Siemens Business
- Tarun Verma, CEO, Silicon Catalyst, US
- Dr. Pradip Dutta, Group V.P. & MD South Asia, Synopsys
- Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Industry, Commerce & IT, Govt of Telangana
- Manoj Mishra, IAS, Secretary of Electronics & IT, Odisha
- Manu Gulati, Founder & SVP, Nuvia
- Dr. Vamsi Bopanna, SVP, Xilinx
- Dinesh Ramanathan, CEO & Co-Founder, Next Gen Power (GaN Fab)
- Santhosh Kumar, Managing Director, Texas Instruments
For more information about the Vision Summit 2020, please visit https://www.iesavisionsummit.org
Ecosystem development
India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) is the premier industry body committed to the development of the Indian Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) ecosystem.
The IESA’s vision is to bring stakeholders from the Indian industry, government, and academia on a common platform to work towards making the Indian ESDM sector globally competent.
The IESA’s member base of 350+ companies represents a spectrum from Large Global Corporations to Large, SMEs and Start-ups from Domestic Technology companies in ESDM space, including Academic Institutions and Venture Capital firms.
