The sold-out 7th IoTSF Bangalore meetup, sponsored by NXP India, brought together experts across silicon design, embedded systems, secure firmware, connectivity, and cloud-native security.

Over 100 IoT, embedded, and cybersecurity professionals were in attendance at Manyata Tech Park for a deep dive into secure-by-design engineering.

Secure by Design: A Chip-to-Cloud Approach

The meetup delivered enriching, technically grounded discussions, reinforcing a core message: Security must be engineered in from the earliest design stages and sustained across the entire product lifecycle.

The technical talks offered strong, practitioner-led perspectives on: EDA tools as the first line of defence, addressing design-time vulnerabilities and third-party IP threats while embedding security intent early in silicon and system design, firmware supply chain security, focusing on integrity, provenance, resilience across development, manufacturing, update pipelines, secure-by-design architectures from chip to cloud, aligning hardware roots of trust (RoT), secure firmware, connectivity, cloud-scale governance, testing, validation, certification, providing assurance, confidence, and readiness for upcoming regulatory expectations.

This was complemented by an engaging and insightful panel discussion that brought together stakeholders from across the entire semiconductor and IoT value chain—spanning EDA, semiconductor organisations, product engineering services, test and verification, and cloud engineering.

The panel deliberated on real-world challenges, best practices, and the evolving future landscape of secure connected systems at scale.

Our sincere thanks to all the speakers and panellists for sharing their expertise and driving such meaningful conversations:

A special thank you to NXP India, Hitesh Garg, Varun Bansal, Sudhindra Ramdas, and Rajeev Kumar Srivastava for sponsoring and hosting the meetup, and to the community members whose active participation made this session truly impactful.

A big shout-out to our volunteers Disha Rajkumar, Amrrith M Gowda, and Akash Saksena for their support.

As connected systems continue to expand across industries, forums like these play a vital role in aligning the ecosystem toward a holistic, secure-by-design, chip-to-cloud future.

We look forward to continuing this journey soon.