3rd Digital IndiaRISC-V (DIR-V)Symposium

Kamakoti Veezhinathan Director, IIT Madras

“The Digital India RISC-V symposium began as an initiative to bring together strategic partners across government, industry, and academia. The idea was to engage with our fellow RISC-V practitioners in the RISC-V ecosystem to understand the challenges and opportunities for advancing the indigenous semiconductor movement.

From the very first edition, our intent was to sit with our fellow practitioners in the RISC-V ecosystem, listen carefully to the challenges on the ground, and collectively chart a course for advancing an indigenous semiconductor movement that is both credible and self-sustaining.

The first two editions gave us more than we anticipated. Seeing students, startups, and government organisations engage reaffirmed what many of us at IIT Madras have long believed. that India possesses the intellectual capital and institutional will to lead, not merely participate, in the global semiconductor story.

It is from that foundation of confidence, and with a sharpened sense of purpose, that we launch the third edition of the DIR-V Symposium. As India's Digital Transformation initiatives reach unprecedented scale, one reality becomes inescapable: none of it holds without security. Security is not a feature to be added later. It is the architecture itself. And when the silicon beneath our digital systems is designed and verified here, on Indian soil, with Indian hands, the question of who controls that security layer becomes not merely technical, but strategic.

This is why the theme of the third edition of the DIR-V Symposium is Security. We invite you, our partners, startups, students, and fellow researchers to join us in this symposium and share your thoughts, ideas on how RISC-V ecosystem can be a key component in imagining a safe and secure Digital Future for our country.

I invite you all to join us in what I believe will be our most consequential gathering yet.

Thank you,
Prof. V. Kamakoti
Director, IIT Madras”