2026 Agenda

Agenda is Subject to change and alterations 

Tuesday, July 7, 2026
9:10 AM
- 9:20 AM
Welcome Address
9:10 AM - 9:20 AM
9:20 AM
- 9:40 AM
Fireside Chat with Amanda McMaster, Interim CEO of Boston Dynamics | Beyond the Hype: What It Takes to Deploy Real World Robots
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
9:40 AM
- 10:00 AM
Fireside Chat with Jeff Cardenas, Co-Founder & CEO of Apptronik | Robots for Humans: Building the Future We Want
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- 10:20 AM
Fireside Chat with David Kehr, President of Humanoid Robotics at Schaeffler | From Components to Coworkers: How Schaeffler is Driving the Future of Humanoid Robotics
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM
- 10:40 AM
Fireside Chat with Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data | The machine processes the world. It has never once been in it
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
- 11:00 AM
Keynote by Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer of Agility Robotics | Humanoid Robotics Today: From Ambition to Real-World Impact
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- 11:20 AM
Fireside Chat: Scaling Physical AI: From Prototype to Production
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM
- 11:40 AM
Keynote by Carolina Parada, VP and Head of Robotics of Google DeepMind | From Language to Motion: How Gemini Powers the Next Generation of Robots
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM
- 12:00 PM
Keynote | Robotics: The End Game
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
12:20 PM
- 12:40 PM
Keynote by Remi Cadene, CEO of UMA
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
12:40 PM
- 1:00 PM
Keynote by David Reger, Founder & CEO of Neura Robotics | From Europe, for the World: Building the Ecosystem for Physical AI
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- 1:20 PM
Keynote by Bruno Retailleau, President of Les Républicains & Senator of Vendée
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
1:20 PM
- 1:40 PM
Fireside Chat: Building the Hardware Layer: How AI Is Redesigning the Design Process
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM
- 2:00 PM
Keynote by Abhinav Gupta, President of Skild AI | Any Robot, Any Task, One Brain
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 2:20 PM
Keynote: Unlocking Abundance: The NEO Platform and the Future of Physical AI
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM
- 2:40 PM
Fireside Chat with Evan Helda, Head of Physical AI, Nebius | From simulation to deployment: enabling closed-loop learning for Physical AI
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM
- 3:00 PM
Keynote by Steve Xie, Founder & CEO of Lightwheel | Building the Continuous Learning Systems for Physical AI.
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- 3:20 PM
Fireside Chat with Vasudevan Sundarababu, Chief AI & Data Officer at Centific and Professor Jiajun Wu, Stanford AI Lab | Physical AI at the Edge of Reality: Benchmarks, Data Gaps & the Road to Embodied Intelligence
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 | Crossing the Physical AI Deployment Gap
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
- 4:00 PM
Fireside Chat with Marc Raibert, Executive Director of RAI Institute, Founder of Boston Dynamics | Dynamic Robots
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- 4:20 PM
Keynote: Intelligence for All
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
- 4:40 PM
Fireside Chat: From Code to Action: Where Foundation Models Meet Robotics
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM
- 5:00 PM
Fireside Chat: Training the Machine: From Collecting Data Points to Real-World Intelligence across AVs and Humanoids
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- 5:20 PM
Keynote by Jesse Liu, CFO LimX Dynamics | Building General-Purpose Humanoid Robots: From Motion to Intelligence
5:00 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
- 5:40 PM
Keynote by Yuli Zhao, Chief Strategy Officer at Galbot | Building Generalist Robots for the Real World
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
5:40 PM
- 6:00 PM
Keynote: HUMANOIDS AT WORK | Building the Machines That Build the World
5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
9:20 AM
- 9:40 AM
Keynote by Professor Abderrahmane Kheddar, Director of Research at CNRS | Are Humanoid Robots ready for the job?
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
9:40 AM
- 10:15 AM
Who's Funding the Robot Revolution?
9:40 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- 10:50 AM
Can Europe Lead in Physical AI?
10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM
- 11:10 AM
Keynote by Benedek Tasi, Founder and CEO of Allonic | Building the manufacturing foundation for the next generation of robotics.
10:50 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 by Andrew Wooten, Co-founder and CPO at Rhoda AI | Redefining Robotic Intelligence: How World Action Models Bring Robots Into the Real World
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
12:40 PM
- 1:00 PM
Fireside Chat: From Research to Revenue: The Humanoid Inflection
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- 1:20 PM
Keynote by Ali Agha, CEO of FieldAI | Deployment Over Demos: Building Risk-Aware Foundation Models for Safety-Critical Environments
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
1:20 PM
- 1:40 PM
Fireside Chat with Sophocles Zoullas, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Zenith Shipping and Nicolaus Radford, CEO of Persona AI | The Next Industrial Supercycle: How Physical AI Will Transform the Global Industrial Complex
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM
- 2:20 PM
Lunch Break
1:40 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM
- 2:55 PM
From Touch to Scale: The Next Frontier of Embodied AI
2:20 PM - 2:55 PM
2:55 PM
- 3:25 PM
Building a Robotics Business
2:55 PM - 3:25 PM
3:25 PM
- 4:00 PM
Creating Social Robots (and Making People Accept Them)
3:25 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- 4:35 PM
World Models vs Task-Specific Perception: What Does a Robot Actually Need to See?
4:00 PM - 4:35 PM
4:35 PM
- 5:05 PM
The Factory Deployment Gap
4:35 PM - 5:05 PM
5:05 PM
- 5:35 PM
Securing the Machine: Cyber, Safety and the New Threat Landscape
5:05 PM - 5:35 PM
5:35 PM
- 5:55 PM
Relational Risk in Robotics: The Missing Layer in Human-Robot Design
5:35 PM - 5:55 PM