30th International Conference on VLSID in Hyderabad next year

The 30th International Conference on VLSID (Very Large Scale Integration Design) will be held here from January 7 to 11 next year.
The upcoming conference theme 'Technologies for a Secure and Connected World' will highlight Cloud Computing and IoE (Internet of Things), VLSID General Chair Dasaradha Gude told reporters here today.
Over 2,000 experts from around the world including policy makers, influencers from the government, private and the academic sector will converge in Hyderabad for the five-day conference to debate, deliver key notes, present tutorials and papers to shape the future of VLSI Design industry in India, he said.
The conference will also host a session for over 5,000 students, he said.

"We believe Cloud Computing and IoT as the next big thing and that's our spotlight for the conference," Gude said.
Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister G Satheesh Reddy said, "I am glad the focus of VLSID 2017 is on design. The outlook of VLSI Design in India will have tremendous change if fabless foundries also establish their presence to manufacture chips in Hyderabad which has a strong infrastructure and talent pool of chip designers."

Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said this is an opportunity to propel rapid growth of electronic market in the region like electronic products, electronic manufacturing services, and semiconductor design, electronic components (defence and strategic electronics, LED and mobile manufacturing).

The demand of electronic goods in the Indian market was to the tune of USD 100 billion in 2015-2016 and is expected to rise to USD 400 billion by the end of 2020.
The VLSID 2017 conference will help students graduating from local universities. Also, it will help to attract semiconductor and embedded software companies to setup their R&D operations here, Gude added.