Semiconductors are at the heart of all electronic products and constitute a significant share in the Bill of Material (BOM). The National Policy on Electronics 2019 aims to position India as a global hub for Electronics System Design and Manufacturing and envisions creation of a vibrant semiconductor chip design ecosystem in the country. With an exceptional talent pool of 20% of world's semiconductor design engineers and thousands of chips designed by them every year in the country, India is poised for growth to achieve self- reliance & technology leadership in semiconductor design sector.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced the SemiconIndia futureDESIGN Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme to offset the disabilities in the domestic industry involved in semiconductor design in order to not only move up in value- chain but also strengthen the semiconductor chip design ecosystem in the country; with CDAC as Nodal Agency for implementation of the DLI Scheme. The details of DLI Scheme are at https://chips-dli.gov.in/DLI
About the SemiconIndia futureDESIGN Roadshows under the DLI Scheme
A series of roadshows are being organized by MeitY across the country aiming to - Stimulate the next-gen Semiconductor Designers, Promote the culture of Co-development and joint ownership of IPs with active industry participation and Indigenously Develop Semiconductor Chips for Automobile, Mobility, Communication & Computing. The details are at https://futuredesign.semiconindia.org/
Earlier, 01st Roadshow was organized at Karnavati University, Gandhinagar on 18th October 2022 and 02nd Roadshow at IISc Bangalore on 24th February 2023.
03rd Roadshow is being organized at IIT Delhi on 12th May 2023 with Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Hon'ble Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India as Chief Guest and participation from futureDESIGN Start-ups, Global Semiconductors Majors, Deep-tech VCs etc.
Speakers

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India

Hidetoshi Shibata
President & CEO, Renesas Electronics

Shri Bhuvnesh Kumar
Additional Secretary, MeitY

Sailesh Chittipeddi
EVP & GM - IOT & Infrastructure, Renesas Electronics

Dr Vivek Lall
Chief Executive, General Atomics Global Corporation
.png)
Hariprasad Gangadharan
India Country Head, EdgeQ

Krishna Rangasayee
CEO, SiMa.ai

Rajen Vagadia
VP & President, Qualcomm

Hitesh Garg
India Country Manager, NXP Semiconductors

Anandamoy Roychowdhary
Surge Partner, Sequoia Southeast Asia

Ganapathy Subramaniam
Partner, Celesta Capital

Suryaprakash Konanuru
CTO, Ideaspring Capital

Vishesh Rajaram
Managing Partner, Speciale Invest

Sudipto Sannigrahi
Principal, Matrix Partners

Deepak Shapeti
CEO, Morphing Machines

Jyothis Indirabhai
CEO, Netrasemi

Vinayak Dalmiya
CEO, 3rdiTech
Event Schedule
Here is our event schedule
Time | Session Description | Dignitaries | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Registration | Participants | ||||||
09:20 AM - 09:30 AM | Lamp Lighting |
|
||||||
09:30 AM - 9:40 AM | Welcome Address | Professor Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi | ||||||
09:40 AM - 09:45AM | Movies on SemiconIndia futureDESIGN and ChipIN Centre | |||||||
09:45AM - 10:00 AM | Keynote on the Opportunities for futureDESIGN Start-ups in Automotive, Mobility and Compute sectors | Hidetoshi Shibata, President & CEO, Renesas Electronics | ||||||
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM | Keynote on the Opportunities for futureDESIGN Start-ups in Space and Defence sectors | Dr Vivek Lall, Chief Executive, General Atomics Global Corporation | ||||||
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM | Special Address: Catalyzing India’s NextGeneration Semiconductor Design Startups; Followed by Q&A | Rajeev Chandrasekhar Hon'ble Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India |
||||||
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Announcement/ Unveiling on the following | |||||||
1. futureDESIGN Start-ups under the DLI Scheme | Dr Ranjani Narayan, CTO, Morphing Machines Jyothis Indrabhai, CEO, Netrasemi |
|||||||
2. Sequoia Capital on Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) Start-ups | Mohit Bhatnagar, MD & Partner, Sequoia Capital India | |||||||
3. MoU of ANSYS with ChipIN Centre at C-DAC | Rafiq Somani, AVP, Ansys India & Dr. S.D. Sudarshan, ED, C-DAC Bangalore | |||||||
4. End-2-end Smart-meter/ IoT by Renesas Electronics for Indian Market | Sailesh Chittipedi, EVP & GM - IOT & Infrastructure, Renesas Electronics | |||||||
5. C-DAC’s RISC-V Developer kits | Krishnakumar Rao, Sr. Director, C-DAC | |||||||
11:35 AM - 11:45 AM | Success Stories of Global Entrepreneurs: Design in India; Make for the World. | Hariprasad Gangadharan, India Country Head,EdgeQ | ||||||
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Success Stories of Global Entrepreneurs: Design in India; Make for the World. | Krishna Rangasayee, CEO, SiMa.ai | ||||||
12:05 PM - 12:50 PM | Panel discussion on Vertically Integrating FutureDesign DLI Start-ups in Indian Ecosystem |
Hitesh Garg, India Country Manager, NXP Semiconductors with Rajen Vagadia VP & President, Qualcomm with futureDESIGN DLI Start-ups- Deepak Shapeti, CEO, Morphing Machines and Jyothis Indirabhai, CEO, Netrasemi |
||||||
12:55 PM - 01:45 PM | Panel discussion on Attracting investment from VC industry for semiconductor start-ups |
|
||||||
01:45 PM - 02:00 PM | Press Meet | |||||||
01:45PM onwards | Networking Lunch | Semi Majors with futureDESIGN Start-ups |
Steering committee

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India

Puneet Mishra
Vice-Chair IEEE India

Prof Abhay Karandikar
Director, IIT Kanpur
Prof Shreepad Karmalkar
Director, IIT Bhubaneswar

Prof TG Sitharam
AICTE, Chairman

Neelkanth Mishra
MD, Credit Suisse

Amitesh Kumar Sinha
JS (Electronics), MeitY

Sunita Verma
GC(R&D in E&IT), MeitY

Jeet Vijayvargiya
CEO, MeitY Startup Hub

Rituparna Mandal
GM, Mediatek

Jim Keller
CTO Tenstorrent

Nivruti Rai
Country Head, Intel

Prasad Gadkari
ED & CSO, NIIF
Advisory Committee

Puneet Kumar
CEO, RIVOS

Jaya Jagadish
Country Head, AMD

Parag Naik
CEO, Saankhya Labs

Nivruti Rai
Country Head, Intel India

Rajesh Nair
VP, Global Foundries

Parag Naik
CEO, Saankhya Labs

Tushar Sharma
Sr. Staff Engineer, Renesas Electronics

Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Hon'ble Minister of State for Electronics and IT and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship