Semicon, India Mobile Congress, electronics summit together? ISM CEO pitches mega gathering
The proposal is to bring the events together in the same city and around the same location, while allowing each to retain its own identity.
India could bring some of its biggest semiconductor, electronics manufacturing and telecom events under one umbrella, India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) CEO Amitesh Kumar Sinha said at Semicon India 2026.
Sinha pitched bringing Semicon India, Bharat Electronics Manufacturing and Export Summit, and India Mobile Congress together in the same city and around the same location.
The events would retain their individual identities, but participants could move between them, meet potential partners and better understand how semiconductors, electronics manufacturing and telecom connect.
“We should have one massive function so people can see through different connections between these things,” Sinha said during a panel discussion.
He said bringing the events together could also make participation easier for companies and help different parts of the industry work more closely together.
Timing would be important, particularly for global participants.
“We have to be also careful about that, that the dates are such that the global and Indian participants can participate wholeheartedly,” Sinha said.
“If it is in the same city, around the same location, there is a lot of synergy in that because there are a lot of things which are in common.”
“We should have one massive function so people can see through different connections between these things,” Amitesh Kumar Sinha, CEO, ISM, said during a panel discussion at SEMICON India 2026.
Push for greater coordination
The proposal drew broad support from industry association leaders on the panel, which included representatives from SEMI, ICEA, ELCINA and MAIT.
The discussion was part of a wider push for a “whole of industry” approach as India looks to connect Semiconductor manufacturing more closely with electronics, components, telecom and exports.
For now, Sinha’s idea remains a proposal rather than a formally announced plan.