agenda
Hahn Auditorium
December 11
8:00 AM: Registration & Networking Breakfast
9:00 AM: Opening Remarks
Speaker: Modar Alaoui, Founder, ALM Ventures, Humanoids Summit.
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM: Live Humanoid Demonstrations (Grand Hall).
9:15 AM: Opening Keynote: Building the Robot Foundation Model.
Speakers: Sergey Levine, Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence; Chelsea Finn, Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence.
9:45 AM: Panel Discussion: Human-Humanoid Dynamics in Space and Beyond.
Panelists: Luis Sentis, Professor, The University of Texas; Shaun Azimi, Robotics Technical Discipline Lead, NASA Johnson Space Center; Allison Thackston, Senior Manager, Robotics, Blue River Technology.
Moderator: Gerrit De Vynck, Tech Reporter, The Washington Post.
10:15 AM: Keynote: Step One, Humanoids in Homes.
Speaker: Bernt Øivind Børnich, Founder and CEO, 1X.
10:45 AM: Networking Break
11:15 AM: Keynote: Rob Knight, Founder and CEO, The Robot Studio.
11:45 AM: Panel Discussion: Humanoid Robots in Action: From Entertainment to Companionship.
Panelists: Leo Chen, Director of US Operations, Engineered Arts; Jerome Monceaux, Co-Founder and CEO, Enchanted Tools; Ben Bolte, Founder and CEO, K-Scale Labs; Ross Mead, Founder and CEO, Semio.
Moderator: Danny Fortson, West Coast Correspondent , The Sunday Times.
12:15 PM: Lunch Break
1:15 PM: Afternoon Keynote: Sri Viswanath, General Partner, Coatue Management.
1:45 PM: Startup Fire Pitches
Startups: Christoph Kohstall, Founder, Kind Humanoid; Lingkang Zhang, Founder, Red Rabbit Robotics; Lisa Winter, Co-Founder, Sensible Robotics; Ritika Shrivastava, Founder, Ember Robotics, Igor Kulakov, Founder, SimpleAutomation.
VC Judge Panel: Ashmeet Sidana, Founder and Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital; Michael Yan, Managing Director, Scrum Capital; Ted Persson, Partner, EQT Ventures; Modar Alaoui, Founder, ALM Ventures.
2:45 PM: Networking Break
3:15 PM: Fireside Chat: Bimanual Musculoskeletal Humanoids with Artificial Muscles: Redefining Human-Like Dexterity.
Speaker: Dhanush Radhakrishnan, Co-Founder and CEO, Clone Robotics.
Moderator: Modar Alaoui, Founder, ALM Ventures and Humanoids Summit
3:45 PM: Presentation: Remi Cadene, Research Scientist, Hugging Face.
4:15 PM: Panel Discussion: Fueling the Future: Investment Strategies for Scaling Humanoid Robotics.
Panelists: Ashmeet Sidana, Founder and Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital; Michael Yan, Managing Director, Scrum Capital; Paulina Szyzdek, Investment Principal, Bosch Ventures; Zaib Husain, Co-Founder and General Partner, Global Venture Bridge.
Moderator: Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics.
4:45 PM: Day 1 Closing Remarks - Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics.
5:00 PM: Networking Reception and Private Access to the Chatbot Exhibit (Recently opened on Nov 20th) at the Computer History Museum.
7:00 PM: VIP Reception at Shashi Hotel, hosted by Michelin-starred chef Jarad Gallagher.
December 12
8:00 AM: Breakfast and Networking
9:00 AM: Opening Keynote: Humanoid Robots and the path to real-world skills.
Speaker: Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder and Chief Robot Officer, Agility Robotics.
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Live Humanoid Demonstrations (Grand Hall).
9:30 AM: Panel Discussion: Humanoid Robotics Foundation Models
Panelists: Ryan Julian, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind; Remi Cadene, Research Scientist, Hugging Face; Alexander Kernbaum, Founder, Geometric Horizons.
Moderator: Evan Ackerman, Senior Editor, IEEE Spectrum.
10:00 AM: Keynote: Enchanting Tomorrow: Embodying AI
Speaker: Jerome Monceaux, Co-Founder and CEO, Enchanted Tools.
10:30 AM: Panel Discussion: Standardizing the Future: Developing Frameworks for Safe and Ethical Humanoid Robot Integration.
Panelists: Aaron Prather, Director of Robotics and Autonomous Systems Programs, ASTM International; Steve Cousins, Executive Director of the Stanford Robotics Center, Stanford University; Kamel Saidi, Program Manager and Group Leader, NIST; Kat Scott, Developer Relations Engineer, Intrinsic.
Moderator: Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics.
11:00 AM: Networking Break
11:30 AM: Presentation: Dancing with the Robots.
Speakers: Ken Goldberg, Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley; Catie Cuan, Robot Choreographer and Postdoctoral Scientist, Stanford.
11:50 AM: Fireside Chat: Humanoid Weaponization, Geopolitics, and Other Taboo Topics in Embodied AI.
Speaker: Rishi Kumar, U.S. Congressional Candidate, Tech Executive, and Author.
Moderators: Modar Alaoui, Founder, ALM Ventures, Humanoids Summit; Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics.
12:10 PM: Presentation: Matt Ondler, President, Axiom Space.
12:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM: Afternoon Keynote: Jeff Cardenas, Co-Founder and CEO, Apptronik.
1:50 PM: Presentation: Beyond Rockets and Rovers: How Mobile Dexterous Robots can Revolutionize Space Exploration
Speaker: Shaun Azimi, Robotics Technical Discipline Lead, NASA Johnson Space Center.
2:10 PM: Panel Discussion: Empowering Humanoid Robotics with Gen AI: From Training to Semantic Reasoning.
Panelists: Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI; Pras Velagapudi, CTO, Agility Robotics; Kimate Richards, Sr. Strategic Architect, Amazon AWS; Russell Nickerson, Founder, Collabots.
Moderator: Andra Keay, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics.
2:40 PM: Networking Break
3:10 PM: Keynote: Commercializing Humanoid AI: Strategies for Market Integration.
Speaker: James Wells, Interim CEO & Chief Commercial Officer, Sanctuary AI.
3:30 PM: Presentation: 4 Weeks at Home with a Humanoid — The Things We Learnt No Lab Can Show You.
Speaker: Rafael Hostettler, Founder and CEO, Devanthro.
3:50 PM: Keynote: Why Digital Twins And Spatial AI Will Catalyze The Adoption Of Humanoid Robots.
Speaker: Burkhard Boeckem, CTO, Hexagon AB.
4:10 PM: Presentation: Functional Safety in the Age of AI and Humanoid Robots.
Speaker: Nikolai Ensslen, CEO, Synapticon.
4:30 PM: Presentation: David Hanson, Founder and CEO, Hanson Robotics.
5:00 PM: Closing Remarks - Modar Alaoui, Founder, ALM Ventures, Humanoids Summit.
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Boole Breakout Room
Exclusive Insights, Close-Up. Located next to the Hahn Auditorium, the Boole Breakout Room hosts individual presentations in a more focused setting, running parallel to the main-stage sessions. This dedicated space provides attendees with an opportunity to explore specialized topics and gain insights directly from experts in the field of humanoid robotics. With a lineup of engaging talks and exclusive presentations, the Boole Breakout Room offers a closer look at pioneering research, innovations, and applications in a more intimate environment.