Partners, Industry associations, &
Associates
DESN provides a platform for collaboration and cross-sector innovation, connecting leading companies across various industrial sectors. DESN's mission is to sustain and grow world-class UK chip design capability, driving an innovative agenda that shapes the future.
Alpinum Consulting deliver solutions to semiconductor clients to take designs from RTL to working Silicon/FPGA, covering IP, chip/SoC and chiplet-based systems.
Founded by Dr Mike Bartley, a leading Design Verification (DV) experience expert. Mike previously founded Test and Verification Solutions (TVS), which employed 400+ DV engineers to deploy DV services globally. TVS was acquired by Tessolve in 2020.

Robert Balm:
Associate – Product Strategy & AI Workflows
Robert joins the Silicon Insights team to help shape the future of AI-assisted semiconductor engineering.
His focus is on connecting engineering, product strategy and business analysis to develop practical agentic workflows that improve planning, verification and decision-making across silicon development.



