Shri Narendra Modi
Hon’ble Prime Minister
ABOUT
SEMICON India 2025
The 'SEMICON India 2025' is being organised by India Semiconductor Mission in partnership with SEMI and industry associations under the visionary leadership of Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi with the aim to positioning India as a trusted partner in the global Semiconductor Supply Chain to drive forward the vision of the India Semiconductor Mission.
Event Dignitaries
Hon’ble Prime Minister
Hon’ble Union Minister for Railways, Information and Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
Hon'ble Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha
Event Speakers
Chairman, EPIC Foundation & National Quantum Mission and Co-Founder HCL Infosystem
Additional Secretary, MeitY
President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs
COO, Infineon
CEO, ISM
Former Secretary, MeitY
Principal Secretary, IT&E, Go-Uttar Pradesh
Former Secretary, MeitY
President, KLA
President & COO, Dixon
CEO, Lavorro
BCG
CEO, Rapidus
Senior Partner, AZB
President SEMI India and IESA
Professor Emeritus, Stanford
Managing Partner, Venture Catalyst
VP, SIEMENS INDIA, Head of Sales Digital Industries
President & CEO, 3DGS
EVP & CRO, Siemens EDA
CIO and President AI, Tata Electronics
Secretary, ITE&C, Go-Andhra Pradesh
Head of Treasury Markets Sales, Axis Bank
Engineering VP & General Manager, Semiconductor Equipment, KLA
CEO, ASML
CEO, Seoul Semiconductor
MD Advanced packaging, Lam Research
SVP, Sandisk
DC, DoI, Govt. of Maharashtra
Head – Strategy & Business Development, Inox Air Products
SVP, Micron
MD & CEO, SiCsem
Professor, IIT Madras
SVP, iMEC
SID
SVP, Micron
Executive Director, SLAC Stanford Univ
VP, Country Head India, GlobalFoundries
CEO, Netra Semi
Ex-MD, Cadence
CTO, Cyient Semiconductor
Member of the Executive Board Merck KGaA/ CEO Electronics.
VP, SIEMENS AG
Representative Director & President, Advantest
SVP, Sumitomo Chemical India Limited
VP and Head of product management, Uno Minda
DG, SCL
Head of our Global Businesses, JACOBS
VC, GSV
Principal Secretary, GoG
GM & VP, IBM Semiconductor
CTO, AMD
DG, NIELIT
MD, UHP Technologies Private Limited
President, PSMC
President, CP Plus
Partner, Mckinsey
CEO, Hero Electronix
CEO, Axiro Semiconductors
CTO, InCore Semiconductors
Advisor, ISM
Co-Founder, Counterpoint
CTO and Senior VP, Applied Materials
Founder & CEO, IndieSemiC
Co-founder and CEO
President Semiconductor Products Group (SPG), Applied Materials
CEO, 7 Rays
DST, Go-Gujarat
Chief Global Marketing and Business Development Officer, RIR
Chairman, ICEA
OSD, Customs Policy Wing, Department of Revenue
Director, IIT Gandhinagar
CEO, Kaynes SemiCon
CEO, Tata Electronics
Co-Founder, Micromax
Chief Secretary, Go-Assam
Advisor to Guidance, Go-Tamil Nadu
Investment Commissioner, Go-Chhattisgarh
President & CTO, Crystal Matrix
Vice President & Country Manager, Siemens EDA
Secretary, MeitY
CEO, Mindgrove Technologies
CEO, L&T Semiconductor Technologies
CVP, AMD
CDO & GH, L&T Semiconductor Technologies
Vice President, Global Workforce Development & Initiatives at SEMI
CEO, Quantumscape
Founding Managing partner, Celesta Capital
Advisor, India Semiconductor Mission (ISM)
ED, CDAC Bangalore
Director, IIT Bhubaneswar
IISc Bangalore
President, Teradyne
President & COO, Polar Semiconductor
Sr Director, Lam Reseach
Head CB and SC, Tata Electronics
CEO, Digital Economy Mission, Go-Karnataka
CEO & Founder, Aheesa Digital Innovations
Cofounder & partner, Bharat Innovation Funds
Managing Editor, CNBC
VP, Kearney
VP, Central R&D and MD, India Alphawave Semi
Corporate Officer, AOI Electronics Japan
CEO, ANRF
Partner & India Pvt Leader, EY
Promoter, Chairman & MD, NetWeb Technologies
PhD, GVP, BD & Growth, SPG, Applied Materials
Director, R&D, Resonac
CEO, Premji Invest
Prof-in-Charge, SEMIX, IIT Bombay
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Secretary, DHE, MoE
CEO, Tokyo Electron
CEO, LAM Research
CEO & Chairman, ASIP
Vice President, Renesas
Vice President, Invest India
CEO & founder, 3rd iTech
Head of Quality, CG Power
CEO, KINSUS
HoB, HSBC
EVP and GM, Tokyo Electron Limited
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Agenda
| Day-1 | ||
| Time (Hrs) | Session Name & Description | Participants/Speakers |
| Hon’ble Prime Minister arrives at Yashobhoomi (IICC) | ||
| Inaugural Session | ||
| 09:55AM-10:00AM | Hon’ble Prime Minister Arrives at Inauguration Hall | |
| 10:00AM-10:02AM | Memento presentation to Hon'ble PM by Hon’ble MEIT | |
| 10:02AM-10:06AM | SEMICON India Video | |
| 10:06AM-10:10AM | Welcome Address by Hon’ble MEIT Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw | |
| 10:10AM-10:13AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Ajit Manocha, President & CEO, SEMI |
| 10:13AM-10:16AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Christophe Fouquet, CEO, ASML |
| 10:16AM-10:19AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Prabu Raja, President SPG, Applied Materials |
| 10:19AM-10:22AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Timothy Archer, CEO, LAM Research |
| 10:22AM-10:25AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Toshiki Kawai, CEO, Tokyo Electron |
| 10:25AM-10:28AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Mark Papermaster, CTO, AMD |
| 10:28AM-10:31AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Kai Beckmann, CEO , Merck/EMD. |
| 10:31AM-10:34AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Alexander Gorski, COO, Infineon |
| 10:34AM-10:37AM | Address by leaders from Industry | Sriram Viswanathan , Founding Managing partner, Celesta Capital |
| 10:37AM-10:40AM | Address by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi | |
| 10:40AM Onwards | Address by Hon’ble Prime Minister | |
| Hon’ble Prime Minister Departs | ||
| Session 2: Advancing Semiconductor Fab Projects in India | ||
| 11:50AM-12:00PM | Keynote Address | Mr. S Krishnan, Secretary, MeitY |
| 12:00PM-12:10PM | Keynote Address: Advancing Semiconductor Projects in India With ASML Technology Innovation and Collaboration | Mr. Christophe Fouquet, CEO, ASML |
| 12:10PM-12:20PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Satheesh Kuppurao, PhD, Group Vice President, Business Development & Growth, Semiconductor Products Group, Applied Materials |
| 12:20PM-12:30PM | Sustainable Growth of Semiconductor Industry in India | Mr. Takeshi (Go) Okubo, EVP and GM, Tokyo Electron Limited |
| 12:30PM-01:15PM | Panel discussion on Fab Supply Chain | Dr. Kai Beckmann, Member of the Executive Board Merck KGaA/ CEO Electronics (Moderator), Ms. Mona Khandhar, Principal Secretary, Govt of Gujarat, Mr. Srinivas Satya, Senior Vice President of Components and Chief Supply Chain Officer, Tata Electronics, Mr. Brian Haas, Vice President, Central Engineering, KLA, Mr. Haris Osman, Senior Vice President, R&D (iMEC), Mr. Koti Vadlamudi, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Jacobs |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 3: Advance Packaging Projects & Infrastructure Readiness | ||
| 02:15PM-02:25PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Gursharan Singh, SVP, Micron |
| 02:25PM-02:35PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Ahmad Khan, President, KLA |
| 02:35PM-03:35PM | Panel discussion on Advanced packaging | Mr. Hem Takiar, Corporate Vice President, Package Development & Engineering, Micron (Moderator), Mr. Raghu Panicker, CEO, Kaynes Semicon, Mr. Koichi Tsukui, Representative Director, President & Group COO, Advantest Corporation, Mr. Shannon Poulin, President of the Semiconductor Test Division at Teradyne, Mr. Scott Chen, CEO, President and Board of Director, KINSUS Interconnect Technology Corp Mr. Venkata Simhadri, Co-founder & CEO, ASIP |
| 03:35PM-03:45PM | Keynote Address | Dr. Chee Ping Lee, MD Advanced packaging, Lam Research |
| 03:45PM-03:55PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Takatoshi Ikeuchi, Director, R&D, Resonac |
| Session 4: Smart Manufacturing & R&D in Semiconductor | ||
| 03:55PM-04:05PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Dato’ KL Bock, Senior Vice President, Sandisk |
| 04:05PM-04:15PM | Keynote Address : AI-FIRST Software Defined Manufacturing | Dr. Bobby Mitra, CIO and President AI, Tata Electronics |
| 04:15PM-04:45PM | Fireside Chat of FAB Setup and Scale UP | Mr. Siva Sivaram, CEO Quantumscape (Moderator), Mr. Atsuyoshi Koike, CEO, Rapidus, Mr. Mukesh Khare, GM & VP, IBM Semiconductor, Mr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO, ANRF |
| Session 5: Artificial Intelligence (AI) | ||
| 04:45PM-04:55PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, MeitY & CEO, IndiaAI |
| 04:55PM-05:45PM | Panel Discussion on "AI-Made, AI-Powered: The Symbiosis of Intelligence and Silicon" | Mr. Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, MeitY (Moderator), Mr. Sanjay Churiwala, Corporate Vice President, AMD, Mr. Rahul Sharma, Co-Founder, Micromax, Mr. Ankush Oberoi, CEO, Levorro, Mr. Sanjay Lodha, Promoter, Chairman & Managing Director, NetWeb Technologies |
| Day-2 | ||
| Time (Hrs) | Session Name & Description | Participants/Speakers |
| Session 1: Sustainability & Workforce Development | ||
| 09:00AM-09:10AM | Keynote Address | Dr. Vineet Joshi, Secretary, DHE, MoE |
| 09:10AM-10:10AM | Panel discussion on Industry experts on Workforce Development, Skilling Agencies, WFD Leaders (Opening remarks by Prof. Manoj Choudhary) | Prof. Manoj Choudhary, Vice-Chancellor, Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (Moderator), Ms. Shari Liss, GH-WD, SEMI, Prof. Rajat Moona, Director, IIT Gandhinagar, Dr. M M Tripathi, Director General, NIELIT, Dr. Udayan Ganguli, Prof-in-Charge, SEMIX, IIT Bombay, Dr. S D Sudarsan, Executive Director, CDAC, Bangalore, Mr. Rene Cortez, Head of Quality, CG Semi Power Pvt. Ltd. |
| 10:10AM-11:10AM | Fireside Chat on Green Energy for a Sustainable World | Mr. Masaru Tsuchiya, Partner, Mckinsey & Company(Moderator), Prof. Jagjit Nanda, Executive Director, SLAC Stanford Univ, Mr. Saurabh Agarwal, Partner, Ernst & Young |
| Session 2: Investments & State Policy and Implementation | ||
| 11:10AM-11:40AM | Fireside Chat on Catalyzing Investments in Semiconductor Sector and role of Financial Institutions. | Mr. Vinod Subramanian, Vice President, Invest India (Moderator), Mr. Vishal Iyer, HoB, HSBC, Mr. Brejesh Chalill, Head of Treasury Markets Sales, Axis Bank |
| 11:40AM-12:40PM | Panel Discussion on States Implementing Semiconductor Projects | Mr. Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Former Secretary, MeitY (Moderator), Ms. P. Bharathi, Secretary, DST, Go-Gujarat, Mr. Anurag Yadav, Principal Secretary, IT&E, Go-Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Ravi Kota, Chief Secretary, Go-Assam, Mr. Vishal Dev, Principal Secretary, E&IT, Go-Odisha, Mr. Bhaskar Katamneni, Secretary, ITE&C, Go-Andhra Pradesh |
| 12:40PM-01:40PM | Panel Discussion on State Policy | Mr. Ajay Sawhney, Former Secretary, MeitY (Moderator), Mr. Raja Manickam, Advisor to Guidance, Go-Tamil Nadu, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, CEO, Digital Economy Mission, Go-Karnataka, Ms. Ritu Sain, Investment Commissioner, Go-Chhattisgarh, Shri Deependra Singh Kushwah, Development Commissioner, DoI, Govt. of Maharashtra, |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 3: Compound Semiconductor and Display | ||
| 02:40PM-02:50PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Alexander Gorski, COO, Infineon |
| 02:50PM-03:00PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Chung Hoon Lee, CEO, Seoul Semiconductors |
| 03:00PM-04:00PM | Panel Discussion on Compound Semiconductors by Global and Academia Experts | Mr. Srinivasan Raghavan, Professor, IISc Bangalore (Moderator), Mr. Surya Iyer, President & COO, Polar Semiconductor, Mr. Shreepad Karmalkar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar, Mr. Guru Thalapaneni, MD & CEO, SiCsem, Mr. Perry Schugart, CMO & Head of Business Development, RIR Power Electronic Ltd, Dr. Rao V R Maganti, President & CTO, Crystal Matrix |
| 04:00PM-04:30PM | Fireside Chat on Display Semiconductors | Mr. Harit Doshi, Executive Board Member, SID (Moderator), Dr. G. Rajeswaran, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Madras, Mr. Abhijeet Kotnis, President & COO, Dixon Technologies (India) Ltd |
| Session 4: Semiconductor Product Creation | ||
| 04:30PM-04:40PM | Keynote Address | Dr. Randhir Thakur, CEO & MD, Tata Electronics |
| 04:40PM-05:40PM | Panel Discussion on Making India a Product Nation (Opening remarks & context setting by Dr. Ajai Chowdhry) | Dr. Ajai Chowdhry, Co-founder, HCL Chairman, EPIC Foundation (Moderator), Mr. Kartikeya Joshi, President and Head R&D, Uno Minda Limited, Mr. M A Johar, President, CP Plus, Mr. Sundeep Gupta, VP, Central R&D and MD, India Alphawave Semi, Mr. Nikul Shah, Founder & CEO, IndieSemiC |
| 05:40PM-05:50PM | Keynote Address | Mr. Sandeep Kumar, CEO, L&T Semiconductor Technologies |
| 05:50PM-06:00PM | Keynote Address : Beyond Simulation - Bridging the Real and Digital World | Mr. Aditya Ramkrishna, VP, SIEMENS INDIA, Head of Sales Digital Industries |
| Day-3 | ||
| Time (Hrs) | Session Name & Description | Participants/Speakers |
| Session 1: DLI-Design, EDA/Design, Product Creation, Startup Ecosystem development | ||
| 09:00AM-09:10AM | Keynote Address | Mr. Jyothis Indirabhai, CEO, Netra Semi |
| 09:10AM-09:20AM | Keynote Address: Driving the Semiconductor Future: Three Pillars of Transformation | Mr. Ruchir Dixit, Vice President & Country Manager, Siemens EDA |
| 09:20AM-10:20AM | Panel Discussion on Semiconductor Startups in India: Challenges, Champions & the Road Ahead | Shri Jaswinder Singh Ahuja, Former MD, Cadence (Moderator), Dr. Neel Gala, CTO, InCore Semiconductors, Mr. Parag Naik, Executive VP, Semiconductors, Tejas Network, Mr. Jitendra Chaddah, VP & Country Head, GlobalFoundries, Mr. Sridharan Mani, CEO & Founder, Aheesa Digital Innovations, Dr. Kamaljeet Singh, Director General, Semi-Conductor Laboratory |
| 10:20AM-11:20AM | Panel Discussion on Investing in India’s Chip Future: VC & Startup Perspectives and Priorities | Mr. Pradeep Vajram, CEO, 7 Rays (Moderator), Mr. Som Pal Choudhury, Co-founder & partner, Bharat Innovation Fund, Mr. Nikhil Rajpal, CEO, Hero Electronix, Ms. Vrinda Kapoor, CEO & founder, 3rd iTech, Mr. Shashwath T R, CEO, Mindgrove Technologies |
| 11:20AM-12:20PM | Panel Discussion on Opportunities for Global Investment Alliance in India | Ms. Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC, (Moderator), Mr. Sriram Viswanathan, Founding Managing partner, Celesta Capital, Mr. T K Kurien, CEO, Premji Invest, Prof A. Paulraj, Professor Emeritus, Stanford, Mr. Omkaram Nalamasu, CTO and Senior VP, Applied Materials, Mr. Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, Managing Partner, Venture Catalyst |
| 12:20PM-01:00PM | Fireside Chat on Challenges and Demand | Mr. Sanjay Gupta, CDO & GH, L&T Semiconductor Technologies, (Moderator), Mr. Jan Crols, CTO, Cyient Semiconductor, Dr. Naveen Yanduru, CEO, Axiro Semiconductor |
| Lunch | ||
| Session 2: International Cooperation | ||
| 02:00PM-03:00PM | Panel Discussion on International Technical Cooperation | Mr. Neelkanth Mishra, Advisor, ISM (Moderator), Mr. Martin Chu, President, PSMC, Mr. Viresh Patel, Vice President, Renesas, Mr Shuichi Sawamoto, Corporate Officer, AOI Electronics Japan |
| Session 3: India Semiconductor Mission - way forwards | ||
| 03:00PM-03:30PM | Fireside Chat on Policy and Regulatory Challenges | Ms. Aarthi Sivanandh, Senior Partner, AZB, (Moderator), Shri Vimal Anand, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce, MoC&I, Shri R. Anant, Director (Customs), Department of Revenue |
| 03:30PM-04:30PM | Panel Discussion: Market Research : End Equipment and Semiconductor Consumption perspective | Mr. Ashok Chandak, President, SEMI India and IESA (Moderator), Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Vice President, Kearney, Mr. Ankush Wadhera, MD & Partner, Boston Consulting Group, Mr. Neil Shah, Co-Founder, Counterpoint, Mr. Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA |
| 04:30PM-05:30PM | Panel Discussion on Semiconductor Ecosystem Development | Dr. Surinder Singh, Advisor, India Semiconductor Mission (Moderator), Mr. Manjunath Jyothinagara, Managing Director, KAS Group, Mr. Diganta Sarma, Head Strategy & Business Development, Inox Air Products Private Limited, Mr. Sushan Mahuli, Senior Director, Supply Chain, Lam Research, Mr. Kunal Mittal, Senior Vice President, Sumitomo Chemical India Limited |
| 05:30PM-05:50PM | Closing and Summary | Shri Amitesh Kumar Sinha, CEO, India Semicondcutor Mission & Shri Ajit Manocha, President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs |
| Hi Tea | ||
| Time (Hrs) | Parallel Session (Track 1) | Parallel Session (Track 2) |
| Venue | Champa | Neelkamal |
| Sep 02 2025 (Day 1) | ||
| 09:55AM - 12:00PM | Inaugural Session | Inaugural Session |
| 12:00PM - 05:30PM | WorkForce Development (WFD) | Components & Materials (ELCINA) |
| Sep 03 2025 (Day 2) | ||
| 10:30AM - 11:30AM | India - Netherlands Roundtable | B2B - India-South Korea |
| 12:00PM - 01:00PM | India - Singapore Roundtable | |
| 02:00PM - 03:00PM | India - Malaysia Roundtable | B2B - India-Japan |
| 03:30PM - 04:30PM | India - U.S Roundtable | |
| Sep 04 2025 (Day 3) | ||
| 09:00AM - 04:30PM | SEMI University Training | SID Conference |
