2026 Agenda

Agenda is Subject to change and alterations 

Tuesday, July 7, 2026
9:00 AM
- 9:20 AM
Opening Keynote
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
9:20 AM
- 9:40 AM
Fireside Chat with Amanda Mcmaster, CEO of Boston Dynamics
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
9:40 AM
- 10:00 AM
Keynote by Jeff Cardenas, Co-Founder & CEO of Apptronik
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- 10:20 AM
Keynote
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM
- 10:40 AM
Fireside Chat with Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
- 11:00 AM
Keynote by Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer of Agility Robotics
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- 11:20 AM
Fireside Chat with Andrew Lonsberry, Chief Executive Officer of Path Robotics
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM
- 11:40 AM
Keynote by Carolina Parada, Senior Director & Head of Robotics of Google DeepMind
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM
- 12:00 PM
Keynote by Jim Fan, Director and Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- 12:20 PM
Keynote by Eric Landau, CEO of Encord
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
1:20 PM
- 1:40 PM
Keynote by Priyanka Mathikshara, CEO & Co-Founder of Voltai
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM
- 2:00 PM
Keynote
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 2:20 PM
Keynote by Bernt Børnich, Founder, CEO at 1X
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM
- 2:40 PM
Fireside Chat with Evan Helda, Head of Physical AI, Nebius
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM
- 3:00 PM
Keynote
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- 3:20 PM
Keynote by Abhinav Gupta, President of Skild AI
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM
- 3:40 PM
Fireside Chat with Meagen Eisenberg, Chief Marketing Officer of Samsara & Yves Pétin, CEO of Fraikin
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
- 4:00 PM
Keynote
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- 4:20 PM
Keynote by Ramin Hasani, CEO & Co-Founder of Liquid AI
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
- 4:40 PM
Fireside Chat
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM
- 5:00 PM
Keynote
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- 5:20 PM
Keynote
5:00 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
- 5:40 PM
Keynote
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
5:40 PM
- 6:00 PM
Keynote by Nicolaus Radford, CEO of Persona AI
5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
9:20 AM
- 9:40 AM
Opening Keynote
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
9:40 AM
- 10:10 AM
Who's Funding the Robot Revolution?
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM
- 11:10 AM
Hackaton Prize Awards
10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM
- 11:45 AM
Robots at Work: The Industrial Frontier
11:10 AM - 11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- 12:20 PM
Hardware is Becoming a Commodity. So Where Does the Value Actually Live?
11:45 AM - 12:20 PM
12:20 PM
- 12:40 PM
Keynote
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
12:40 PM
- 1:00 PM
Keynote
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 2:45 PM
Google DeepMind
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
2:35 PM
- 3:05 PM
Creating Social Robots (and Making People Accept Them)
2:35 PM - 3:05 PM
3:05 PM
- 3:40 PM
Building a Robotics Business
3:05 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
- 4:15 PM
World Models vs Task-Specific Perception: What Does a Robot Actually Need to See?
3:40 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- 4:50 PM
The Factory Deployment Gap
4:15 PM - 4:50 PM
4:50 PM
- 5:20 PM
Ethics: The Future of Physical AI
4:50 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
- 5:50 PM
Securing the Machine: Cyber, Safety and the New Threat Landscape
5:20 PM - 5:50 PM