AI at the Edge|Entrepreneurship in Asia’s Rapid Growth High-tech Industries

Entrepreneur Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Founder and CEO of EdgeCortix, will explore how AI is moving to the edge—processing data closer to where it’s created—and what that means for technology development, markets, and society. A leading venture investor, Shri Dodani , Founder and Managing Partner at Global Hands-On VC, will then share perspectives on the business opportunities and funding trends driving this transformation.

Panelists:

Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta is the Founder & CEO of EdgeCortix, a Tokyo-headquartered fabless semiconductor company pioneering energy-efficient AI processors for edge and dual-use applications. Under his leadership, EdgeCortix has raised nearly $100M in funding, achieved rapid business growth across commercial and aerospace/space sectors, and became the first semiconductor company to win a contract with the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).

With over a decade of experience translating cutting-edge AI research into scalable products, Dr. Dasgupta has held leadership roles at Microsoft, IBM Research Japan, and national labs such as RIKEN (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute (Germany). Prior to founding EdgeCortix in 2019, he also helped build technology divisions at startups in Japan and Singapore across semiconductors, robotics, autonomous systems, and FinTech.

At EdgeCortix, he pioneered a software-first co-design methodology for building AI-specific reconfigurable processors, disrupting the AI semiconductor industry across defense, security, aerospace, smart cities, Industry 4.0, and robotics.

Dr. Dasgupta holds a Ph.D. in Physics of Complex Systems from the Max Planck Institute (Germany), an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (U.K.), and a B.Eng. in Computer Science. He also completed entrepreneurship studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an inventor on 25+ patents and has authored research cited over 1,000 times worldwide.

Shri Dodani is a veteran executive of the high tech and communications industries. Shri has specialized in engineering, sales and marketing, at major systems and software companies.

Prior to founding Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC), he was involved in various start-ups from incubation to high growth, successful companies. Shri was the president & CEO at StrataLight (now part of Lumentum), VxTel, a Silicon Valley Voice-over-IP silicon and software start-up (acquired by Intel). Before VxTel, Shri was the vice president of Engineering and Operations, at Carrier Access Corp. (IPO: CACS and now part of Dell), with responsibility for engineering, product development, manufacturing and market introduction activities. He also served as an executive with major companies such as Nortel and Alcatel/Nokia. Shri is an active strategic advisor to start-ups in diverse fields, such as: Virident (acquired by WD), Swift Navigation and Revvo, Inc. Shri also serves as CEO of Vera.

The aggregate corporate value of those start-up companies he managed exceeds $3 billion. He has a B.S. in Physics and Math, M.S. in Computer Science and MS in Business Administration.

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Agenda:

• 4:30 – 5:50 pm Discussion and Audience Q&A
• 5:50 – 6:30 pm Networking over light refreshments

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This program is part of our series on "Topics in International Technology Management: Innovations in AI from Asia".

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