Malta International Conference
Annual joint conference with Malta Government and EU Chips Act
November 10-11, 2025, Malta
September 9-11, 2025
Santa Clara Convention Center
September 9-11, 2025
Santa Clara Convention Center
September 9-11, 2025
Santa Clara Convention Center
Friday, June 27, 2025 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM GMT+1
Monday, June 23, 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
An exclusive afternoon with silicon startup leaders, venture funds, incubators, and EDA ecosystem experts to discuss access to funding, tools, and infrastructure.
June 17, 2025, 8am – 9am PT
A Zoom Webinar
December 5, 2023 - The first of its kind, Semiconductor startup forum on IC design & manufacturing services, hosted by GSME, to support innovative start-ups, small to mid-size private companies to evaluate, collaborate and discuss the ecosystem. Highlighted by a prominent keynote speaker and industry experts panel, the forum offered an engaging platform to connect, exchange ideas, gain knowledge, and build relationships at the vendor pavilion.
“Humanity is at a turning point with AI”
So said Geoffrey Hinton, widely considered the godfather of AI, speaking in a recent episode of 60 Minutes. While our industry is focused on developing and delivering AI innovations to transform our lives and businesses, Hinton and others fear the “darkside” of AI.
Thanks to the author Lewis Carroll, the phrase “wonderland” has been defined as a place that elicits admiration and wonder, to create a place of magical charm. But as we’ve seen and experienced in 2023, in the context of AI, it takes on a more relevant meaning as a place of great opportunity and potentially serious concerns - that generative AI might pose a “civilizational risk”, as recently reported to have been stated in US Congressional hearings by a well known high-tech executive.
The latest McKinsey research shows that the metaverse has the potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030. It's an opportunity too big to ignore. [source]
The Metaverse may be the next “Big Thing” of the information age. It has sparked controversies and a bucketload of questions, amongst them: what exactly is the Metaverse; what are its components; how do Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality play into it; what are the potential applications; who will drive its adoption and how will it impact business and social lives?