AI Infra Summit 2026

The next generation of AI won’t live on screens – it will operate robots, autonomous systems, factories, vehicles, medical devices, and critical infrastructure. To succeed, these Physical AI systems must safely perceive, reason, and act in an unpredictable world. Traditional prototype-and-test approaches simply can’t keep pace with the speed, complexity, or scale required.

A simulation-first engineering stack changes the equation.

By combining AI-ready digital twins, high-fidelity multiphysics simulation, silicon-to-systems engineering, and physics-grounded synthetic data, organizations can generate trusted training data, expose edge cases before they become failures, and continuously validate AI models long before deployment.

This session explores how Synopsys and Ansys, now part of Synopsys, are bringing together trusted physics, electronics, embedded software, sensors, controls, and AI into a unified engineering platform that enables teams to design, train, validate, certify, and deploy Physical AI with unprecedented speed and confidence. 

Join chip design startup founders, VCs and leaders from the semiconductor ecosystem for an engaging discussion on whatit takes to build a chip design startup from the ground up. From idea incubation to securing seed funding, hiring the rightteam, identifying the best customer and market fit, to setting up a design environment, the panel will share their experiencesand insights on growing their companies from initial idea to first tapeout and beyond. Learn what it takes for a silicon startupto make it to unicorn status in the fastest growing industry of our era.​