“Made in India” Deep-Tech key to becoming a global tech creator

In an exclusive interview with Marksmen Daily, Deepak Samaga, Vice President of Business Development at Vayavya Labs, discusses India’s strategic transition from a technology consumer to a global creator.

He outlines how indigenous deep-tech solutions are crucial for achieving supply chain resilience and unlocking the true potential of India’s talent pool. Samaga also shares insights into how Vayavya Labs’ virtual platforms and focus on the hardware-software interface are accelerating product innovation in consumer electronics, ensuring smarter and more reliable devices. Finally, he explains how his personal hobbies influence his leadership style in a demanding industry.

Why are “Made in India” deep-tech solutions essential for the country’s transition from a technology consumer to a creator on the global stage?

India won’t truly move from “tech consumer” to “tech creator” unless we ship indigenous, export-grade deep-tech stacks, chips, cloud software, tools, and IP—born here, scaled here, and trusted abroad. That’s precisely where “Made in India” deep-tech matters.

“Made in India” deep-tech is essential because:

• Gives strategic supply chain resilience – Recent geopolitics has split the global tech supply chain. Countries that control foundational tech will set the rules and capture value; others will have to just follow, source and rent. India is being seen as trusted alternative in the global “China+1” strategy.        
• Enables Indigenous IP – Though of late there are several Govt driven initiatives, incentives and schemes around local design / manufacturing, incentives, without real competitive products, incentives alone do not convert to outcomes, and this where “Made in India” deep tech will fill the gap.
• Provides Export Competitiveness – While local assembling will accrue initial value, true high margin value can be derived only when you move to creator status
• Unlocks True potential of Talent – Anchoring the surge of talent to “Made in India” deep tech creation will unlock true durable value than mere staffing pipelines.

With the rapid pace of innovation in consumer electronics, how does Vayavya Labs’ focus on virtual testing and simulation tools accelerate the development cycle and ensure smarter product upgrades for manufacturers?

Vayavya Labs has specialized knowledge in constructing virtual platforms, which offers consumer-electronics companies the ability to develop, confirm, and enhance products through software well before the physical hardware is available. Through the creation of precise digital replicas and simulated device settings, Vayavya empowers engineering teams to simultaneously evaluate firmware, connectivity, power management, and user-experience attributes—significantly minimizing the need for numerous prototype adjustments and expediting the product launch process.

Virtual platforms facilitate easier continuous product improvement by allowing manufacturers to conduct simulated OTA updates, regression and compatibility tests, and performance evaluations on various hardware variants. This enables a “shift-left” development approach where bugs and integration issues are identified early on, upgrades are validated more quickly, and new features can be safely implemented after launch.

Fundamentally, Vayavya’s proficiency in silicon-to-systems enables the application of rigorous virtual validation processes to the rapidly evolving consumer-electronics realm. This aids brands in efficiently releasing intelligent, dependable, and environmentally-friendly product updates at a digital pace.

How does Vayavya Labs’ work at the hardware-software interface, particularly with AI-enabled electronics, address the evolving demands and expectations of today’s consumers?

At Vayavya Labs, we specialize in the essential hardware–software interface layer, where intelligence, performance, and user experience converge. As consumer devices continue to incorporate AI capabilities—such as adapting to user behaviour, optimizing power usage, and seamlessly integrating with other systems—the quality of the hardware-software interface ultimately determines the level of “smartness” perceived in a product.

Vayavya’s tools and frameworks simplify and streamline the interface by automating and virtualizing various components. This includes modeling chip behavior, firmware, drivers, and application software together, enabling OEMs to enhance AI workloads, reduce latency, and improve energy efficiency during the design stage. Ultimately, this guarantees reliable and secure performance of edge AI features with limited resources.

Through the combination of system modeling, virtualization, and embedded AI validation, Vayavya empowers companies to provide products that possess context-awareness. This results in faster updates and longer lifespan, ultimately translating into tangible benefits for consumers. In other words, Vayavya brings the potential of edge AI to fruition by delivering enhanced responsiveness, reliability, and continuous evolution.

Your pursuits outside of work, such as music, art, and Tai Chi, reflect a commitment to balance and continuous growth. How do these creative and disciplined practices influence your strategic thinking and leadership in a highly technical and demanding industry?

Engaging in activities such as music, art, and Tai Chi has a profound impact on my leadership style and mindset. Music hones the ear for harmonizing amidst intricate situations, much like overseeing cross-functional engineering teams. Art enhances my ability to observe and think abstractly, enabling me to identify patterns and potentialities where others may only see disorder. In contrast, Tai Chi instils crucial qualities of equilibrium, fluidity, and purpose – all important skills for navigating the rapid and often tumultuous pace of deep-tech innovation.

Together, these fields promote qualities such as patience, accuracy, and empathy. They emphasize the importance of pausing, contemplating, and taking decisive action. This serves as a reminder that being a leader in the technology world involves more than just efficiency and size; it also involves finding a balance between innovation and stability, individuals and procedures, immediate results and future goals. This mindset has proven to be helpful in facilitating the growth of both the team and the technology.