Agenda | Seoul 2026
MAIN STAGE
Day 1
September 22
8:00 AM: Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:30 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Speaker: Modar Alaoui, General Partner at ALM Ventures and Founder & Chair at Humanoids Summit.
8:40 AM: Event Overview
Speaker: MC at Humanoids Summit Seoul.
8:45 AM: Opening Keynote
”Embodied AI for Industry: Safe, Skilled, and Scalable”.
Speaker: Nic Radford, Co-Founder and CEO, Persona AI.
9:15 AM: Presentation
“Humanoids: A View on the Market Potential”.
Speaker: Tom Anderson, Principal Analyst & Co-founder, STIQ.
9:35 AM: Presentation
”Solving Five-Finger Dexterity: RLDX’s Approach to Industry-Level Manipulation”.
Speaker: Junghee Ryu, Founder and CEO at RLWRLD.
9:55 AM: Presentation
”Physical Superintelligence: When Everything Becomes a Robot”.
Speaker: Ivan Poupyrev, Founder and CEO at Archetype AI.
10:15 AM: Networking Break
10:30 AM: Fireside Chat
”The Humanoid Economy: Designing the Next Industrial Revolution”.
Moderator: Tech Reporter, KBS.
Speaker: Modar Alaoui, General Partner, ALM Ventures and Founder & Chair, Humanoids Summit
10:50 AM: Presentation
“Accelerating Humanoids with Simulation-Centric Data Engine”.
Speaker: Steve Xie, Founder and CEO at Lightwheel.
11:10 AM: Presentation
“General-Purpose Robot Brains: A New Era of Industrial AI”.
Speaker: Ali Agha, Founder and CEO at FieldAI.
11:30 AM: Presentation
“Building the Global Physical AI Ecosystem: From Silicon Valley to South Korea”.
Speaker: Terence Bennett, Executive Director, Bay Area Robotics Association (BARA).
12:00 PM: Lunch Break
1:00 PM: Afternoon Keynote
“South Korea’s National Vision for Physical AI and Humanoid Robotics”.
Speaker: Senior South Korean Government Official (TBD).
1:20 PM: Presentation
“Advanced Bionic Hands for Humans and Robots”.
Speaker: Aadeel Akhtar, Founder and CEO at Psyonic.
1:40 PM: Presentation
“LimX Dynamics: Cross the Limits”.
Speaker: Xiaowei Liu, Head of International Business at LimX Dynamics.
2:00 PM: Presentation
“The Future of Physical AI is Built on Chips”.
Speaker: Dirk Geiger, Senior Director for Humanoid Robotics at Infineon Technologies AG.
2:20 PM: Presentation
”Out of the Cage: Advanced Functional Safety for Humanoids”.
Speaker: Chencheng Tang, CTO at Synapticon”.
2:40 PM: Presentation
“Uniting Developers to Drive Productivity Evolution”.
Speaker: Chaoyi Li, Head of Globalization at Booster Robotics.
3:00 PM: Networking Break
3:15 PM: Presentation
”Safety as a Competitive Advantage: 100 Years of Lessons for the Humanoid Boom”.
Speakers: Ryan Vann, Partner at Cooley LLP.
3:35 PM: Startup Presentations
5-minute presentations, fast-paced and focused, featuring 10 startups from across the humanoid and physical AI ecosystem presenting exciting new technologies and key insights.
4:35 PM: Panel Discussion
“The Next Wave of Investment in Physical AI and Humanoids”.
Moderator: Bogdan Cristei, Co-Founder and Partner, SHACK15 Ventures.
Speakers: TBD.
5:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Speaker: MC at Humanoids Summit Seoul.
6:00 - 8:30 PM: VIP Reception
For VIP ticket holders. An exclusive gathering with live music, chef-prepared hors d’oeuvres, and roaming humanoids.
Location: COEX Convention Center, Lobby floor.
Day 2
September 23
8:00 AM: Breakfast and Networking
8:30 AM: Opening Keynote
”The Next Space Race: Humanoid Robotics"
Speaker: Jeff Cardenas, Co-Founder and CEO at Apptronik.
9:00 AM: Presentation
”Toward a National Robotics Strategy: How Government Can Drive the Success of the Humanoid Industry”.
Speaker: Brendan Schulman, Vice President of Policy at Boston Dynamics.
9:20 AM: Presentation
“Beyond Automation: Humanoid as a Business Transformation Partner”.
Speaker: Jochen Rudat, Chief Growth & Revenue Officer at Humanoid.
9:40 AM: Presentation
”Unitree Robotics: Scaling Agile and Intelligent Robots”.
Speaker: Xiaoli Chen, Director APEC at Unitree Robotics.
10:00 AM: Presentation
“Beyond Automation: Humanoid as a Business Transformation Partner”.
Speaker: Felipe Cortes, Co-Founder and CEO at robot.com”.
10:20 AM: Networking Break
10:35 AM: Fireside Chat
”Humanoid Robots: Safety Considerations from Design to Deployment”.
Moderator: Tech Reporter.
Speaker: Elliot Kaye, Partner at Cooley LLP & Former Chairman of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.
11:00 AM: Presentation
“Closing the Gap Between Research and Deployment”.
Speaker: TBD.
11:20 PM: Presentation
”Robotics’ Next Bottleneck Isn’t AI — It’s Sensors”.
Speaker: Leopold Beer, Vice President of Sensors at Renesas.
11:40 PM: Presentation
“Beyond Degrees of Freedom: Rethinking Dexterous Hands for Real-World Deployment and UMI”.
Speaker: Letian Wang, VP of Product at ROBOTERA.
12:00 PM: Lunch Break
1:00 PM: Afternoon Keynote
”The Future of General-Purpose Robotics: Intelligence, Dexterity, and Scale”.
Speaker: TBD.
1:20 PM: Presentation
“Designing the Human Side of Robotics”.
Speaker: Shakir Dzheyranov, Founder and CEO, Hello Robo.
1:40 PM: Presentation
"Democratizing Humanoids: Mini Pi Plus, an Affordable and Easy-to-Set-Up Full-Stack Ecosystem”.
Speaker: Hanya Huang, Operation Partner at High Torque Robotics.
1:45 PM: Presentation
“The Business Case for Humanoids: From Pilots to Enterprise Deployment”.
Speaker: TBD.
2:00 PM: Presentation
“Powering the Humanoid Revolution: Batteries, Energy, and Runtime“.
Speaker: TBD.
2:20 PM: Presentation
“Building the Humanoid Software Stack: Simulation, Foundation Models, and Autonomy”.
Speaker: TBD.
2:40 PM: Presentation
“The Global Humanoid Supply Chain: Scaling Manufacturing for the Next Decade”.
Speaker: TBD.
3:00 PM: Networking Break
3:15 PM: Panel Discussion
“Physical AI Beyond Perception: Spatial Intelligence and World Models”.
Moderator: Tech Reporter.
Speakers: Ali Agha, Founder and CEO at FieldAI; Ivan Poupyrev, Founder and CEO at Archetype AI; other panelists.
3:45 PM: Presentation
"The Factory of the Future: Deploying Humanoids at Industrial Scale”.
Speaker: TBD.
4:05 PM: Presentation
“Seizing the AI Advantage Through Physical Humanoid Robotics”.
Speaker: TBD.
4:25 PM: Presentation
”The Infrastructure Behind Humanoids: Actuators, Hands, Sensors, and Compute”.
Speaker: TBD.
4:45 PM: Presentation
“The Rise of General-Purpose Robotics: From Specialized Machines to Universal Workers”.
Speaker: TBD.
5:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Speaker: MC at Humanoids Summit Seoul.
This is a preliminary agenda as of July 2026. The schedule, speakers, and session topics are subject to change. Please check back for updates.