Shri Narendra Modi
Hon’ble Prime Minister
ABOUT
SEMICON India 2026
The ‘SEMICON India 2026’ is being organised by the India Semiconductor Mission, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), in partnership with SEMI and industry associations, under the visionary leadership and guidance of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
SEMICON India 2026 is centred around the theme “Silicon to Systems : Building the Ecosystem” The event aims to further strengthen India’s position as a reliable partner in the global semiconductor value chain. In addition to the main conference, SEMICON India 2026 will feature a comprehensive exhibition, along with initiatives such as Workforce Development programmes, Country Pavilions, Hackathons, and other engagements to foster innovation, collaboration, and capacity building across the semiconductor ecosystem.
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
Event Speakers
Associate , Peak XV Partners
Sr. Vice President – Investments , IvyCap Ventures
Sr Investment Director ,Applied Materials
Director, Lam Capital & Corporate Development , Lam Research India
Vice President & Head of Customer Service , Siemens
Program Manager, Kaynes Semicon
Partner and Semiconductor Tax Practice, EY
President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs
Senior Director of Technology , MediaTek
Corporate Vice President , Micron
India Country Manager , Teradyne
Managing Director, India Operations, Synopsys
CEO and Additional Secretary , ISM - MeitY
Sc. H & ex-CEO , GAETEC
Director (Technical), Former CMD (Additional Charge) , ECIL
VP Engineering, UST
Managing Director & Partner , BCG
Joint Secretary, Customs
CEO , NITI Aayog
President, SEMI India and IESA
Vice Chairman & Managing Director , DIXON
President , Applied Materials India
Principal , AktiVentures
Senior Algorithm Manager , Applied Materials
President & CEO , 3dGS
Partner , Bain & Company
Member of the Executive Board & CEO Electronics , Merck
Professor , IIT-M
Partner , Bain & Company
Founder & CTO , Ananant Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Scientist-H, Solid State Physics Laboratory (SSPL) , DRDO
Corporate Vice President of Computational Products , Lam Research
VP and Site head, AMD
IAS, MD&CEO Guidance, Guidance Tamil Nadu
Chief Business Officer , L&T Semiconductor Technologies
Head Strategy and Business Development Inax Air products, Inax Air
Director HR , KLA India
Presiden KLA India/ KLA-Global Leader, KLA India
Professor , IIT-M
Chief Operating Officer , UST
India President, Intel
Managing Director & Founder , SiCSem
Senior Manager / Talent Acquisition Lead
CEO , Omniply Technologies
Scientist Engineer SD , SCL
Mr. Henri Berthe, President, Schneider Semiconductor
VP & India Country Manager, NXP Semiconductors
Professor , IIT Madras
Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam , Government of Assam
Executive Director, Scientist , NIELIT
Vice President Strategy & Business Development , Ecolab
ASIC IP Head , Ericsson
CEO , Infineon
Joint Secretary (Explosives Section), DPIIT, PESO
Speaker
Country HR Senior Director , NXP Semiconductors
Secretary to Government, Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department , Andhra Pradesh
Software Engineering Manager , KLA
Secretary, Department of Industries , Bihar
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , NXP Semiconductors
Additional Secretary & Director General , Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Senior Department Manager, Tata Electronics
Principal secretary Department of science and technology , Government of Madhya Pradesh
Director General , NIELIT
President Renesas, India and Vice President Renesas Electronics, Renesas
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce
Head of Business Management | Heterogeneous Integration , Applied Materials
Managing Director , KAS GROUP
Vice-Chancellor , Gati Shakti University
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer , AMD
Senior Partner , McKinsey
General Manager, IBM Semiconductors & VP, Hybrid Cloud Research, IBM
General Manager & Vice President , IBM Semiconductors
Secretary, Department of Electronics, IT, BT, Government of Karnataka
VP Country Head India, Marvell
CTO & Co-Founder , InCore Semiconductors
Assistant Professor , University of Albany/Ramaiah
MD and CEO, Invest India
Secretary Department of science and technology, Government of Gujarat
President , CDIL Semiconductors
Chairman , ICEA
Director-People Experience , SANDISK
Director-People Experience , SANDISK
Vice President of Supply Chain , LAM Research
SVP, R&D / Semiconductor Technologies Executive, IMEC
President, Semiconductor Products Group , Applied Materials
Chairman of Board and General Partner , 7 Rays
Senior Fellow , AMD
Vice President, Memory Technology , SanDisk
VP Corporate Silicon Engineering , AMD
Chief Operating Officer (COO) , Applied Materials India
CEO, Kaynes Semicon
Professor, Department of Physics, Project Director, QMD Hub , IIT Delhi
Former Group Director, Quantum Technology Group , SAC/ISRO
Director General , ELCINA
Founder and CEO, Vervesemi
SVP, Sandisk
Ericsson
Chairman , Resolute
CEO & Managing Director , Tata Electronics
Senior Director , Infineon Technologies
Business Head – Product Groups/FATP , Tata Electronics Private Limited
Chief Executive Officer , IDSPS
Vice President , Wipro
Vice President & Country Manager , Siemens EDA
Executive Director , C-DAC
Secretary , MeitY
Joint Secretary , Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) , IIT Delhi
CEO, L&T Semiconductor Technologies Ltd
Chairman & CEO , Micron Technology
Executive Director , NIELIT
Ecolab
Vice President & Managing Director – APJ Region , Intel
Managing Director , Endiya
Group Vice President, Business Development , Applied Materials
SVP, Global Products Group , LAM Research
VP, Global Workforce Development , SEMI
Senior Lecturer , NAMTECH
Chairman , India Chip Pvt Ltd
Scientist Engineer-SD , SCL
Director Smart Mfgn , Micron
CEO / Mission Director, (ANRF)
Founder & CEO , YourStory
Senior Technical Officer , NIELIT
Assistant Professor , NAMTECH
Co-Founder & COO , Sahita Technologies
CEO , Maven Silicon
Director , VIT
Speaker
President , Metlink Assoc
IISc Bangalore
Senior Vice President, Intel
Founding Managing Partner , Celesta Capital
Regional Sr Director-GTM , Synopsys
Partner , Bain & Company
Director General , MAIT
Partner , PwC
Head of Strategic Programs and Managing Director, India , TYLsemi
Investment Principal , Speciale Invest
Chairman & Executive Director, Dixon Technologies
Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology and Director , Amity University
Senior Advisor / Former Group Coordinator, R&D Electronics, (MeitY)
Managing Director , Applied Materials India
Joint Secretary , Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
President , DISCO Hi-Tec
President, Fujifilm
SVP Corporate , Fujifilm
Vice President , University of Albany/Ramaiah
Vice President - TSAT Business Head , Tata Electronics
President & CEO , TEL
Prof-in-Charge, SEMIX, IIT Bombay
Director of Technology Development, Micron
Senior Vice President - Strategy and Business Development , Tata Electronics
Vice-Chancellor , Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
Director , Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
CEO, ASIP
Vice Chairman , University of Albany/Ramaiah
Senior Vice President , Infosys
Foreign Secretary , Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Additional Chief secretary E&IT Dept. And Chairman OCAC, Government of Odisha
Managing Director - India , Analog Devices
Chief Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Officer , ASML
Executive Director , KOITRA
Senior Representative , JICA India Office
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Agenda
| Time / Hrs | Duration | Theme | Topics Covered | Speaker | Room |
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| 09:55AM - 11:15AM | 80 min | Inauguration of SEMICON India 2026 | Inaugural Speech - Industry Perspective |
Shri Ajit Manocha, President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs Shri Sanjay Mehrotra, Chairman & CEO, Micron Mr. Jochen Hanebeck, CEO, Infineon Dr. Randhir Thakur, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Electronics Mr. Toshiki Kawari, President & CEO, Tokyo Electron Mr. Benjamin Hein, Member of the Executive Board & CEO Electronics, Merck Dr. Prabu Raja, President, Applied Materials Mr. Sesha Vadarajan, SVP, Global Products Group, Lam Research Mr. Wayne R Allan, Chief Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Officer, ASML |
Bramhakamal |
| Welcome Address by Hon'ble MEIT Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw | |||||
| Address by Hon'ble Prime Minister | |||||
| 11:45AM - 12:30PM | 45 min | Exhibition Inauguration / Opening | |||
| 12:30PM - 1:30PM | 60 min | Networking Lunch | |||
| 01:30PM - 01:40PM | 10 min | Policy | - | Shri S. Krishnan, Secretary, MeitY | |
| 01:40PM - 01:50PM | 10 min | NextGen Manufacturing | - | Mr. Sesha Vadarajan, Senior Vice President, LAM Research | Amaltas |
| 01:50PM - 02:00PM | 10 min | Edge-AI - Trends | Mr. Lee Rager, NXP CTO | ||
| 02:00PM - 02:10PM | 10 min | Opportunities for India in AI, Data Centre, Automotive and Power | Mr. Jochen Hanebeck, CEO, Infineon | ||
| 02:10PM - 02:20PM | 10 min | The Next Decade of Semiconductor Innovation: Building Trusted Technology Together | Mr. Srinivasan Iyengar, SVP, Intel | ||
| 02:20PM - 02:30PM | 10 min | Advancing Semiconductor Projects in India | Mr. Allan Wayne, Chief Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Officer, ASML | ||
| 02:30PM - 03:15PM | 40 min | Growing together: India's commercial Fab and the Ecosystem |
Mr. Ankush Wadhera, BCG (Mod) Mr. Utpal Shah, TPEL Mr. Guru Thalapaneni, SiCSem Mr. Dominic Pawala, KLA Mr. Santhosh Viswanathan, Intel |
Amaltas | |
| 03:15PM - 03:25PM | 10 min | NextGen Manufacturing | Mr. Prabu Raja, President SPG, Applied Materials | ||
| 03:25PM - 03:35PM | 10 min | Packaging | Building the next generation manufacturing ecosystem- why India's opportunity is bigger than building fabs | Mr. Shikhar Malhotra, Chairman, India Chip Pvt Ltd | Amaltas |
| 03:35PM - 04:10PM | 40 min | Conversation with Global Leaders on Advanced Packaging |
Mr. Sujay Shetty, Partner-Advisory, PwC. (Mod) Mr. Tim Melnitsky, Tata Mr. Manish Ranjan, Heterogeneous Packaging, Applied Materials Mr. Akshay Singh, Micron Mr. Santhosh Viswanathan, Intel Mr. Ravi Malhotra, 3DGS |
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| 04:10PM - 04:20PM | 10 min | Developing Equipment R&D and Manufacturing Ecosystem in India | Trusted Innovation, Navigating Complexity by Advantest | Mr. Yoshiaki Yoshida, Chairman, Advantest | Amaltas |
| 04:20PM - 04:30PM | 10 min | The Future of Assembly: How Advanced Dicing Technology is Empowering India's Semiconductor manufacturing | Mr. Takatoshi KYO - President DISCO Hi-Tec. | ||
| 04:30PM - 04:40PM | 10 min | Developing Equipment R&D and Manufacturing Ecosystem in India | Mr. Manjunath Jyothinagara, MD, UHP Technologies Private Limited | Amaltas | |
| 04:40PM - 04:50PM | 10 min | AI Transforming Industry | AI at the future of our Industry - From Semiconductor design to Electronics manufacturing to the Supply chain that connects them | Mr. Gilroy Mathew, COO, UST | Amaltas |
| 04:50PM - 05:00PM | 10 min | - | - | ||
| 05:00PM - 05:45PM | 45 min | AI Impact on Industry Future; AI for Electronics Manufacturing; AI in Semiconductor Design; AI-enabled Supply Chains. |
Mr. Bo Huang, Partner Bain & Company, Bain, (Mod) Mr. Prakash Raghavendra, Senior Fellow, Software Systems, AMD Mr. David M. Fried, VP & Chief AI Officer, LAM Mr. Ravin Bishnoi, VP Country Head India, Marvell Mr. Ritesh Tyagi, VP Global Head Silicon, Wipro Mr. Shishir Kotha, Director Smart Mfg, Micron |
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| 05:45PM - 05:55PM | 10 min | - | Mr. Prasad Sandireddy, VP Memory Technology, Sandisk | ||
| 05:55PM - 06:05PM | 10 min | Enabling AI and Digital Ready Semiconductor Fabs | Mr. Henri Berthe, President, Schneider Semiconductor | ||
| Time / Hrs | Duration | Theme | Topics Covered | Speaker | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15AM - 09:25AM | 10 min | Concept to chip delivery | The New Innovation Pipeline - From concept to chip delivery, competitive advantage now comes from engineering the whole system, not optimizing isolated stages. | Mr. Vikram Meghal, SVP Engineering, Infosys | Amaltas |
| 09:25AM - 09:35AM | 10 min | From Concept to Silicon | From Concept to Silicon: Strengthening India's Design Enablement & Test Ecosystem | Mr. Sandeep Kumar, CEO L&T Semiconductor, L&T | |
| 09:40AM - 09:50AM | 10 min | Supply Chain 360 | - | Mr. Hermaine Nanie Torres, GM, CEO, Kaynes | |
| 09:50AM - 10:20AM | 30 min | Supply chain related challenges, import etc. |
Ms. Aisha Ali Hussaini, Partner Incentive Practices, EnY(Mod) Mr. Peter Holland, VP Supply Chain, LAM Mr. Diganta Sharma, Head Strategy and Business Development Inax Air products, Inax Air |
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| 10:20AM - 10:30AM | 10 min | Electronic Systems & Product: Driving the Next Phase of India's Electronics Growth | Driving the Next Phase of India's Electronics Growth | Mr. Balaji Thirumalai, Partner Bain & Company | Amaltas |
| 10:30AM - 11:10AM | 40 min | Large-Scale Manufacturing; Paving the Path for Deeper Domestic Value Addition By ICEA and SEMI |
Mr. Pankaj Mohendroo, ICEA Mr. Rajendra Velagapudi, Cyient DLM Mr. Aditya Ramakrishna, Siemens Mr. Ranganathan V, Tata Mr. Raminder Singh Soin, Resolute Ms. Pallavi Verma, IAS, Guidance |
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| 11:10AM - 11:20AM | 10 min | Investment in India | Global investment in Deeptech Companies | Mr. Sriram Viswanathan, Celesta Capital | Amaltas |
| 11:20AM - 11:40AM | 20 min | Powering Global Progress | Future of the semiconductor sector and its role in global development and productivity |
Mr. Mark Patel, Sr Partner, McKinsey Shri Ajit Manocha, President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs |
Amaltas |
| 11:40AM - 12:25AM | 45 min | Research and Development | Research and Development for Advanced Technologies |
Ms. Sunita Verma, MeitY (Mod) Prof. S Kamalkar, IIT-Bh Dr. Thumala Rao, Advanced Packaging Dr. Mukesh Khare, IBM |
Amaltas |
| 12:25PM - 12:35PM | 10 min | International Collaboration | Global Partnership and opportunities for Global Companies in India | Shri Vikram Misri, Foreign Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs | |
| 12:35PM - 12:45PM | 10 min | Investment in India | Ms. Nivruti Roy, MD & CEO, Invest India | ||
| 01:00PM - 02:00PM | 60 min | Networking Lunch | |||
| 02:00PM - 02:10PM | 10 min | Redefine 3D IC Performance for AI-With AI | Mr. Ruchir Dixit - VP & Country Manager India, Siemens EDA | Amaltas | |
| 02:10PM - 02:20PM | 10 min | Challenges and Opportunities using AI for Silicon and System Design | Mr. Gokul Subramaniam, President and CEO, Intel | ||
| 02:30PM - 03:00PM |
Design : Products and Fabless: From Concept to Chip: The Innovation Pipeline |
Fireside Chat with Hon'ble Cabinet Minister. Host Rishi Raj, Financial Express |
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Cabinet Minister, Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India |
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| 03:00PM - 03:25PM | 25 min | From Concept to Silicon: Strengthening India's Design Enablement & Test Ecosystem |
Mr. Amit Khanuja, Synopsys Dr. Sudarshan, CDAC Mr. Hitesh Garg, VP & India Country Manager, NXP |
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| 03:25PM - 04:00PM | 45 min | Scaling India's Fabless Ecosystem: From Innovation to Global Leadership |
Mr. Rama Shukla, SVP, Sandisk Mr. Ankit Garg, VP Engineering, UST, (Mod) Mr. Dhirendra Verma, CEO, L&T Mr. Deepak Agarwal, CVP India Site head, AMD Mr. Jeyenth Vijayaraghavan, Ericsson Mr. Venkata Simhadri, ASIP |
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| 04:00PM - 04:35PM | 35 Min | Policy Forum + State Spotlight Session | States Powering India's Semiconductor Ambition |
Mr. Ashok Chandak, SEMI India and IESA Dr. J.B. Ekka, IAS, Assam Shri Vishal Kumar Dev, ACS, Odisha Smt. P. Bharathi, IAS, Gujarat Dr. N. Manjula, Karnataka Shri M. Selvendran, IAS, MP |
Amaltas |
| 04:35PM - 05:10PM | 35 min | States Powering India's ESDM Ambition |
Shri Vagesh Tiwari, MeitY, (Mod) Shri Kattamneni Bhaskar, IAS, Andhra Pradesh Shri Ajit Kumbhar, IAS, Maharashtra Shri Alok Kumar, UP Shri Kundan Kumar, IAS, Bihar |
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| 05:10PM - 05:20PM | 10 min | Leadership Forum | Women leadership Experience and Summary of Women forum Track | Mr. Jaya Jagadish, Country Head & Senior Vice President, Engineering , AMD | Amaltas |
| 05:20PM - 06:00PM | 40 min | Women Shaping the Electronics and Semiconductor Industry |
Mr. Shraddha Sharma, YourStory(Mod) Mr. Alpa Sood, Teradyne Mr. Usha Gogineni, Micron Mrs. Radhika Viswanathan, Chief Operating Officer, Applied Materials Mr. Malini Narayanamoorthi, Renesas Mr. Lavanya Sanagavarapu, Tata |
Amaltas | |
| Time / Hrs | Duration | Theme | Topics Covered | Speaker | Room |
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| 09:15AM - 09:25AM | 10 min | Compound semiconductors | Compound semiconductors in the Cognitive Age | Mr. Chuck Mattera, Founder & CEO, Avalanche Thinking | |
| 09:30AM - 10:20AM | 50 min | Leadership Forum: Industry Synergy for National Priorities | Industry Associations Advancing India's National Agenda |
Shri Ajit Manocha, President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs Mr. Pankaj Mohendroo, Chairman, ICEA Mr. Rajoo Goel, ELCINA Col. Sunil Zadki, MAT Mr. Ashok Chandak / Mr. Navin Bishnoi, IESA / SEMI |
Amaltas |
| 10:20AM - 11:15AM | 55 min | Investment Facilitation and Ease of Doing Business | Enabling India's Semiconductor Growth: A Whole-of-Government Approach to Regulatory Framework & Ease of Doing Business |
Mr. Sunil Puri, JS, MeitY (Mod) Shri Manish Chadha, JS, MoC Mr. Anupam Prakash, JS, Customs Mr. Suneet Jharagwal, JS, DPIIT Mr. Rahul Kumar, Mission Director, Gujarat State Electronics Mission Mr. Raghu Panicker, CEO, Kaynes Semicon |
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| 11:15AM - 11:45AM | 30 min | Sustainability & ESG | Building a Responsible Ecosystem |
Mr. Pratik Bhatt, Business Head Global Hightech, Exolabs Mr. Vidya Dhanawade, Project Leader, TFL Dr. Indumathy Nambli, IIT-M |
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| 11:45AM - 12:00PM | 15 min | Display | SID Summary | Mr. Harith Doshi, SID/Omniply Technologies | |
| 12:00PM - 12:10PM | 10 min | Topic - Context Setting on Industry Academic Partnerships and Talent Pipeline | Prof. (Dr.) Manoj Choudhary, VC, Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) | ||
| 12:10PM - 1:00PM | 50 min | Future Workforce | Workforce Development; Industry & Academic Partnerships; Semiconductor Talent Pipeline; |
Mr. Shari Lal, SEMI, (Mod) Prof. Vasu, IISc Mr. Udayan Ganguly, IIT/B Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra, KLA Dr. M M Tripathi, DIC, MeitY |
Amaltas |
| 01:00PM - 02:00PM | 60 min | Networking Lunch | |||
| 02:10PM - 02:20PM | 10 min | Startup Connect | From Research Question to a Procurement Question | Dr. Neel Gala, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), InCore Semiconductors | Amaltas |
| 02:20PM - 02:30PM | 10 min | - | - | ||
| 02:30PM - 03:15PM | 50 min | Semiconductors Are Hot, Hardware Is Hard: What Would It Take Indian VCs to Say Yes More Often? |
Mr. Akshay Aggarwal, Context Setting Mr. Dheemant Nagaraj, Agrani Mr. Abhishek Sud, Applied Materials Mr. Vibhore Sharma, IDTA Mr. Satish Andhra, Endiya Mr. Chinnu Senthil kumar, Exfinity |
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| 03:15PM - 04:00PM | 50 min | Fuelling India's Deep-Tech Startups |
Mr. Sundeep Gupta, Context Setting Mr. Pradeep Vajram, 7Rays (Mod) Mr. Chitranjan Singh, Anant Systems Mr. Rakesh Mallik, Vervesemi Mr. Sridharan Mani, Aheesa Mr. Sunil Kumar, CEO, BigEndian |
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| 04:00PM Onwards | 60 min | Spotlight & Closing | Hackathon Results; Startup Pitch results; Closing Plenary |
Shri Amitesh Kumar Sinha, CEO, India Semiconductor Mission & Shri Ajit Manocha, President & CEO, SEMI, IESA, Global CXOs & Shri. Ashok Chandak, President, SEMI India and IESA |
Amaltas |
