Keynote 2026

Keynote Speaker: Sridhar Seshadri, Senior Vice President, Hardware-Assisted Verification, Synopsys

Sridhar Seshadri is Senior Vice President for HAV at Synopsys. He is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) veteran specializing in Functional Verification with 30+ years of experience. He lead product teams in Verification like VCS, Spyglass, Formal and Hardware – ZeBu and HAPs. Sridhar has impacted Verification industry by enabling SystemVerilog, VMM/UVM, Low Poer, Unified Compile, Unified Debug across Synopsys Verification products. Sridhar has built teams with a winning culture, business growth focus, building and enabling talented leaders and teams, defining product vision with establishing operating model and execution excellence and finally delivering disruptive products in marketplace. ​He is responsible for ZeBu emulation and HAPS prototyping products and a large global organization. He grew a multi-hundred-million-dollar business by multi-x in last few years while maintaining a strong market leadership.​