silsov2026@cug.ac.in • December 10–12, 2026
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Call for Papers & Posters

Silicon Sovereignty: Policy, Production, and the New Economic Order

December 10–12, 2026 · Central University of Gujarat, Kundhela, Vadodara

Conference Themes

  • Geopolitics of Supply Chains: Evaluating "friendshoring," trade agreements, and India's integration into global value chains.
  • Technology Diplomacy: Assessing the India–Taiwan partnership, technology transfer frameworks, and managing dependencies.
  • Taiwan's Semiconductor Model: Policy, ecosystem and global expansion.
  • Labour and Human Capital: Scaling workforce initiatives to bridge the gap between fabless chip design and ATMP manufacturing.
  • Bridging the Ecosystem: Evaluating the impact of ISM 2.0, the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) and other schemes on domestic innovation and start-ups.

Important Dates

Opening of website for receiving abstracts (papers & posters) November 05, 2026
Deadline for submission of abstracts (papers & posters) November 13, 2026 November 15, 2026
Rolling confirmation of acceptance for papers & abstracts Latest by November 16, 2026
Submission of final poster design & full papers December 05, 2026

Note: Selected papers, after a double-blind peer-review process, will be published in Special Issues of an international journal.

How to Submit

All submissions go through Microsoft CMT

Abstracts, posters and full papers for SILSOV 2026 are accepted only through the official Microsoft CMT conference track — not through this website. Please create a CMT account (if you don't already have one) and submit before the relevant deadline above.

Go to Microsoft CMT

For queries about submission, write to silsov2026@cug.ac.in.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Instructions for Authors

Length of Papers

5,000 to 8,000 words.

Reference Style

Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition) — Footnote style.

Plagiarism / Similarity

Papers found to be above 10% similarity via Turnitin will not be accepted.

Use of AI

Use of AI for authoring the paper is not acceptable; such papers will be summarily rejected. If an AI tool is used for literature collection, designing tables, figures, etc., this must be declared at the end of the paper.

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