Vice President of Business Strategy, Analog Mixed Signal at Renesas
Bio
Karthi Gopalan is a semiconductor executive and the VP of Business Strategy for Analog Mixed Signal at Renesas Electronics. She is known for shaping the narrative around “Physical AI.” Her work focuses on how semiconductor technologies become the nervous system enabling autonomous machines & advanced robotics for smart cities, industrial and automotive markets. She sits at the intersection of semiconductor excellence and AI evolution. She has a proven track record of managing high-stakes Power & Analog business units, providing the essential infrastructure that fuels modern computing. At AI Day, she explores how strategic semiconductor growth and hardware-level breakthroughs are the true catalysts for the next generation of AI—successfully bridging intelligent models into the real world.