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Semiconductor chips are powering everything from cars, industries, cities and even governments. This trend is on an exponential trajectory thanks to complementary advances in AI, Big Data and 5G (which are also dependent on amply supply of critical chips). Chip independence has become a hot topic not just for corporations, industry associations but also for governments which now consider it a matter for national security and sovereignty.

When the stake are high, so are the opportunities, especially for the young to rise up to the challenge and create next generation technologies to build multi-billion dollar startups.

Come join us for an uplifting discussion around how to get into the chip Industry no matter what your starting point is. You will learn how to join this global open source movement to make chip design and manufacturing accessible to everyone with an idea, desire and commitment.

Various experts will be available to guide you through coaching, mentoring and advising along the way with tons on online resources so you can do it all on your own at your own pace.

Agenda:

19:00-19:30  Ice break& Introduction

19:30-20:20  Sharing：

—    Why young people, what do they get;

—    Outline of the mentoring process ;

—    How anyone can build a startup with chips

20:20-21:00  Discussion& Networking

Speaker Profile:

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Dr. Sherwani

has over 30 years of experience in entrepreneurship, technical engineering and general management.

Dr. Sherwani currently serves as Chairman of Silicon Federation, which enables semiconductor companies develop global growth strategies. In addition to serving on multiple boards and advisor to several companies.

Prior to this role, he served as chairman, president and CEO of SiFive, a leader in RISC-V. He also serves as chairman of several companies, including StarFive and LeapFive. In addition, he serves as chair, RISC-V strategic alliances at RISC-V international.

Dr. Sherwani started his first company, when he was only 18 years old. He has founded and co-founded multiple companies.

Prior to joining SiFive, he founded PeerNova, a company focused on technology solutions Based on blockchain technology. Dr. Sherwani served as Chairman,  President and CEO of PeerNova.

Prior to PeerNova,  Dr. Sherwani co-founded Open-Silicon, a leading provider of ASIC solutions.  Under his leadership, Open-Silicon designed over 300 ASICs.

Prior to Open-Silicon, as the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services, he pioneered Open methodology for ASICs. He also founded Brite Semi, a leading ASIC solution provider in China/APAC.

He has served on the boards of various companies, including  Touchstone Semiconductor, and Integration associates (sold to Silicon Labs).

Dr. Sherwani worked at Intel for nearly a decade, where he co-architected the Intel microprocessor design methodology and design environment used in several microprocessors  and received the prestigious Intel achievement Award in 1997.

 Dr. Sherwani is a noted author having authored several books and over 100 articles on various aspects of VLSI Physical Design Automation and ASICs. Dr. Sherwani served as a Professor at Western Michigan University, where his research focused on ASICs, EDA, Combinatorics, graph algorithms and parallel computing.

He received his Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Vic Ahmed

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Serial entrepreneur, mentor and coach

The visionary behind many startup companies.

Built several startup companies from scratch and turned around distressed companies with a passion for taking visions and foresight and turning them into sizeable business opportunities. Ability to articulate concepts and plans to investors, employees, partners, and customers in both large corporations, small businesses and retail. Major specialty being in high-growth, high-tech business environments.

Reputation: Includes raising tens of millions of dollars through angel, venture, and private equity funding with world-class teams. Managed thousands of employees and demonstrated the ability to quickly adjust to market changes with a balancing between strategic planning and focused execution.

Humayun Rashid

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Dr. Hugh Rashid is a practitioner-scholar with over 25 years of experience working and consulting with global organizations in the US, Europe and Asia on product innovation and digital transformation of business processes. Currently he is incubating a startup that is using AI & Robotics to enable China’s vision of Virtual Nursing Homes and Internet+Social to address the growing aging population challenges of China. Over the last few years he has also taught MBA course on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at various Chinese universities including Peking University, Renmin University, Fudan University, Wuhan University and Chonging University.

He is founder and managing partner of a California based technology company, Xavor Corporation, which assists various global health and life science corporations in their digital solutions that power their cores business areas such as product lifecycle management (PLM), Customer engagement and Employee Collaboration.

Hugh spends over 50% of this time between Shanghai and Shenzhen and manages a GeronTechnology Incubator focused exclusively on predictive and preventive digital health technology solutions to enable safe and dignified aging-in-place (home care) and assisted living experiences.

He also the past-chair of technology & innovation committee for American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai which has been serving American businesses in China for over 100 years.

He has a BBA from University of Texas Austin, MBA from University of California at Irvine and Doctorate in Management from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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