The International Semiconductor Industry Group will use its first Executive Summit in New Delhi to connect investors and chipmakers with Indian partners, while spotlighting co-packaged optics and quantum technologies.
ISIG plans to use its first Executive Summit India, opening in New Delhi on 3 November, to court investors, equipment makers and venture capital funds for the country’s semiconductor sector, with advanced packaging and co-packaged optics among the main areas of interest.
Salah Nasri, co-founder and chief executive of the International Semiconductor Industry Group, told PTI that India had arrived late to the chip race but that the India Semiconductor Mission had already altered the outlook for the market. He said the group wanted to help connect overseas firms with Indian partners and to move discussions beyond general interest towards transactions and investment commitments.
Nasri highlighted silicon photonics and co-packaged optics as technologies where India could still establish a foothold before large-scale production begins later in the decade. He said these systems matter because data centres are under growing pressure from heat and power consumption, and that co-packaged optics could ease both constraints. Industry material from GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics describes similar technologies as a way to improve bandwidth density, energy efficiency and thermal performance in advanced computing systems.
The summit also reflects a wider policy push in India. NITI Aayog has argued that advanced packaging, assembly and test capacity, research and workforce development are central to building a stronger domestic semiconductor base, while government releases on the Semicon India Programme and the National Quantum Mission point to formal support for manufacturing, packaging, chip design and quantum technologies. In that context, Nasri said one of ISIG’s ambitions is to bring quantum computing discussions to India as part of a broader effort to attract next-generation investment.
Nasri said the group has more than 100 venture capital funds linked to it and wants to back start-ups directly during the summit in a format he compared to “Shark Tank”. He also said the organisation plans to hold smaller closed-door meetings alongside the main event so that decision-makers can explore specific deals, rather than limiting the gathering to broad networking.
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