Chetan Khona is the Director of industrial, vision, healthcare and sciences markets at Xilinx, based in New York. Captivated by the creative potential of Xilinx devices to solve embedded design challenges in a fundamentally differentiated and efficient manner while a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Chetan has continuously been involved with Xilinx as either a customer, engineer, salesperson or marketer for over 25 years. These days, Chetan’s efforts are focused on driving Xilinx’s roadmap and strategies to address the rise of AI and other embedded processing technologies at the IIoT edge, supporting intelligent and adaptive factories, hospitals, and infrastructure applications. Chetan holds a Computer Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Rochester.