Palo Alto/ Bhubaneswar: The delegation from Odisha government on Thursday held discussions with senior leaders of semiconductor companies and venture capital firms and interacted with youths of the Silicon Valley.
In the first discussion of the day, the delegation held a meeting with Yin Chang, Senior Vice-President of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). ASE is one of the largest Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) providers globally and a primary architect of Heterogeneous Integration (HI). The HI technology integrates separately manufactured components into a higher-level assembly. The company has presence across East and Southeast Asia, including Taiwan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, and Singapore.
The delegation provided details of Odisha’s industrial ecosystem to the company’s team and highlighted the generous incentives that are on offer under different policies of the government. The company stated that it would submit a detailed proposal and send a team to Odisha for evaluation.
The delegation also attended a deep-tech roundtable where over 40 leading CEOs and Chief Experience Officers (CXOs) from various fields including IT, Venture Capital, electronics and semiconductors, robotics, and AI/ML were present. They included top executives from Meta, Google, Dell, Intel, Sony, Amazon AWS, Falcon X, and pioneering Silicon Valley startups.
During back-to-back meetings, the delegation met Huma Abidi, General manager and Senior Director of AI Software Products & Engineering, Intel; Dr Rado Danilak, CEO and Cofounder, Tachyum; Babu Mandava, CEO, 3D Glass Solutions; BV Jagadeesh, Managing Partner, KAAJ Ventures; Dr Shailesh Mehta, Co-founder, Granite Hill Capital Partners and Jack Gudej, President and CEO, Numem.
At the end of the meetings, the delegation engaged with the youths of the Silicon Valley in an interactive session titled “The Metamorphic Odyssey of Odisha”. The attendees, with many having Indian and Odia roots, were greatly enthused after hearing Odisha’s progress and growth.
