This week, our CEO Shelly Henry will take the stage at the Global Business Summit in New Delhi, joining tech luminaries and state leaders to discuss global financial and societal innovation. Speakers include Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and HM Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan. The Global Business Summit is one of India’s premier international forums, bringing together global leaders from business, government, and technology to address the most pressing economic and technical challenges of our time.
Shelly’s keynote, The New Silicon Era: How AI Is Redefining Who Gets to Build Chips, explores how AI is becoming an engineering force multiplier all stages of hardware engineering. Not as a shiny add-on, but as a practical way to scale the work, tighten feedback loops, and reduce friction without lowering the bar on rigor. Engineers still set the intent and make the calls. AI helps carry the load.
For a long time, advanced chip design has been slow, expensive, and heavily dependent on a small pool of specialized expertise. That model has limited who gets to build advanced silicon and who has to wait for it.
When the cost of building chips comes down, entire new categories of products become more realistic. Industries that have been limited by silicon timelines and budgets can start to move differently, building purpose-designed hardware instead of waiting for general platforms to catch up.
That’s why New Delhi matters. The conversation around silicon is no longer confined to chip companies. It is showing up in national strategy, infrastructure planning, and the next wave of products being imagined across every sector. For countries like India, this shift opens a real opportunity over the next twenty years, not just to participate, but to lead in advanced computing, custom silicon, and digital infrastructure.
The keynote’s takeaway is simple, and it’s the line Shelly comes back to often because it captures the stakes clearly. AI doesn’t just disrupt markets. It resets who gets to innovate.
We’re looking forward to the conversations this sparks and to being part of a broader global dialogue on what comes next as silicon begins to move more like software.
