India
Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) - the premier industry body
for the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry in the
country, is conducting its flagship event Vision Summit 2020, virtually for
the first time, considering the convenience and safety of participants across
the globe. This is the 15th edition & the current
years’ theme is ‘Intelligent Electronics: Driving self-reliant digital economy:
Transforming 1.3 Billion lives.’
The IESA
Vision-Summit-2020 is focused to drive initiatives and policies for the
Intelligent Electronics & Semiconductor products and solutions that will
propel the Government of India’s vision of a self-reliant or an
#AtmaNirbharBharat. India’s next decade with us being ‘Atmanirbhar’ in
Technology will be with Agri-Tech, Transformative
Education, Med-Tech, Automotive, Strategic
Security towards the ATMAS (Soul) of Self-Reliant India.
Intelligent Electronics is the train, powered by Semiconductors taking ATMAS towards
the destination of $1Tn Digital Economy goal for India.
Inaugurating
the Vision Summit 2020 Dr. Ashwath Narayan, Deputy Chief Minister &
Minister of IT & BT, Govt of Karnataka said, “India’s digital
economy generates about USD 200 billion of economic value annually. The country
can create over USD 1 trillion of economic value from the digital economy in
2025. According to a recently released IESA report, Electronics Production Market
(TAM) alone is expected to contribute USD 300 Bn (30%) to Digital economy in
2025. Karnataka has an estimated GSDP of $220 billion and contributes 64% to
India’s ESDM exports and 10% to India’s electronic industrial output. Our State
is India’s largest chip design hub, with 85+ chip design companies and 70% of
India’s chip designers based here. As stated in the KESDM policy 2017-2022, we
aim to stimulate the growth of 2000 ESDM startups during the policy period and
create 20 lakh (2 million) new jobs by 2025 via Skill Development, Quality
Infrastructure, Ecosystem Support, Encouragement to Start-ups, and Ease of
Doing Business”.
The
inaugural day featured a powerful line-up of speakers including Dr.
Ashwath Narayan, Deputy Chief Minister & Minister of IT & BT, Govt
of Karnataka; Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MeitY Govt of India; Vinod
Dham, Founder and Executive Managing Partner at Indo-US Venture
Partners; Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India VP Data Centre
Group, Intel Corp.; Deepak Bagla, MD & CEO, Invest India; Dr Manish
Gupta, Director, Google Research; John Neuffer, President &
CEO, SIA; Padma Bhushan Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor
(research) of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University
and many more industry expert took part in panel discussions.
The
second day of the event started with a keynote from Dr. Omkar Rai,
Director General, STPI; Mark Papermaster, CTO & EVP,
Technology & Engineering, AMD; Dr. Siva Sivaram, President,
Western Digital; Dr. Rob Atkins, Fellow & Director of Technology,
ARM; Dr. Nagasubramaniyan Chandrasekaran, SVP,
Process R&D & Ops, Micron; Samir Patel, Chief
Strategy Officer - Semiconductor Business, HCL Technologies; Anku
Jain, MD, MediaTek, India; Gary Smith, President & CEO,
Ciena. The event also witnessed vision talks, fireside chats, theme sessions
with prominent people like Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Aarin
Capital & Manipal Global Education; Sh. Tejasvi Surya, Member
of Parliament, Bangalore South; Dr. EV Ramana Reddy, IAS, ACS,
Electronics, IT, BT, Sc & Tech, Karnataka; Sh. Jayesh Ranjan,
IAS, Principal Secretary, Industry, Commerce & IT, Telangana; Sh. Manoj
Mishra, IAS, Secretary of Electronics & IT, Odisha; Meena
Nagaraj, MD, KITS; Ruchir Dixit, Country Manager, Mentor -
A Siemens Business; Raja Subramaniam, Country Director,
Synopsys India.
This
Vision Summit also highlighted the Cohesive thought from all the Visionaries
from the world that India should set up ‘National Electronics
Commission’ reporting directly to the Prime Minister of the Nation as a
long-term strategy to make India a Global powerhouse in Electronics &
Semiconductors.
The third
day will see industry experts and visionaries like, Sh. Sanjay
Dhotre, Hon Union Minister of State, Education, Communication And
Electronics & IT; Soma Pandey, General Manager, Reliance
Jio; Prof. Dave Patterson, Prof. Emeritus, U.C. Berkeley; Manu
Gulati, Founder & SVP, Nuvia; Dr. Vamsi Boppana, SVP,
Xilinx; Dinesh Ramanathan, CEO & Co-Founder, NextGen Power (GaN
Fab); and theme sessions, vision talks, product showcase.
For more
information about the Vision Summit 2020, please visit https://www.iesavisionsummit.
India, August 21, 2020