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: Ministry of Science and ICT Congratulatory Remarks
Speaker: Ryu Je-myung, Second Vice Minister at Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).
9:00 AM: Opening Keynote
”The Once and For All Definitive Answer to the Most Annoying Question in Robotics: Why a Humanoid?”
Speaker: Nic Radford, Co-Founder and CEO at Persona AI.
9:30 AM: Presentation
“Humanoids: A View on the Market Potential”.
Speaker: Tom Andersson, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at STIQ.
9:50 AM: Presentation
“General-Purpose Robot Brains: A New Era of Industrial AI”.
Speaker: Ali Agha, Founder and CEO at FieldAI.
10:10 AM: Networking Break
10:25 AM: Fireside Chat
”The Humanoid Economy: Designing the Next Industrial Revolution”.
Moderator: Tech Reporter, KBS.
Speaker: Modar Alaoui, General Partner at ALM Ventures and Founder & Chair at Humanoids Summit.
11:00 AM: Presentation
“Advanced Bionic Hands for Humans and Robots”.
Speaker: Aadeel Akhtar, Founder and CEO at Psyonic.
11:20 AM: Presentation
“Physical AI Policy in Korea” (“대한민국 피지컬 AI 정책방향”).
Speaker: Changjong Song, Director of the Device AX Innovation Team at the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).
11:40 AM: Presentation
”Open Humanoid Platform: Accelerating Humanoid Innovation Through Open Collaboration”.
Speaker: Byoungsoo Kim, Founder and CEO at ROBOTIS.
12:00 PM: Lunch Break
12:00 PM: NVIDIA × ROBOTIS Sponsored Lunch Workshop
Building the Humanoid Stack - Live Demos (AI Sapiens & AI Worker)
ROBOTIS: Building the Humanoid Skills with the NVIDIA Software Stack from Whole-Body Motion to Manipulation.
NVIDIA: Deep-Dive Technical Session on NVIDIA Isaac™ GR00T Architecture.
Speakers: Sungho-Woo, Humanoid Software Lead at ROBOTIS; Qi Wang, Principal Product Manager at NVIDIA.
200 boxed lunches provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
1:00 PM: Afternoon Keynote
”Solving Five-Finger Dexterity: RLDX’s Approach to Industry-Level Manipulation”.
Speaker: Junghee Ryu, Founder and CEO at RLWRLD.
1:30 PM: Presentation
“Building Generative AI for the Physical World”
Speaker: Sujeong Cha, AI Architect at AWS.
1:50 PM: Presentation
“Robots Training and Tuning for Real World Applications”.
Speaker: Kimate Richards, Founder and CEO at 10 Things.
2:10 PM: Presentation
“Unlocking Growth with Physical AI at the Edge”.
Speaker: Kevin Cho, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Qualcomm.
2:30 PM: Presentation
“Unitree Robotics: Scaling Agile and Intelligent Robots”.
Speaker: Xiaoli Chen, Director, APAC at Unitree Robotics.
2:50 PM: Presentation
"The Physical AI Stack: Training, Simulation & Deployment”.
Speaker: Physical AI Senior Staff at NVIDIA.
3:10 PM: Networking Break
3:25 PM: Presentation
”Safety as a Competitive Advantage: 100 Years of Lessons for the Humanoid Boom”.
Speaker: Ryan Vann, Partner at Cooley LLP.
3:45 PM: Startup Presentations
5-minute presentations, fast-paced and focused, featuring startups from across the humanoid and physical AI ecosystem presenting exciting new technologies and key insights.
Speakers:
“Robotics Should Belong to Everyone”.
Rafa Felix, Founder and CEO at runibiLABS.
“Accelerating Physical AI via Automated SimReady and VLA Data Infrastructure”.
Suntae Kim, Co-Founder and CTO at NdotLight.
“Decentralizing Embodied AI Data Pipelines via Agentic Refinement”.
Xiangyu Chen, Founder and CEO at IO-AI.
“What is the Foundation of Modern Digital Economic Security”.
Nikita Bondarenko, CEO & Chief Engineer at CETHERA.
“Solid‑State 3D Perception Gateway – Enabling Robots to Perceive, Understand, and Navigate the Physical World”.
Yongkui Xu, CTO at MRDVS Technology.
“State of Game Engine in Robotics”.
Ena So, Founder and CEO at Ziva.
4:25 PM: Panel Discussion
“The Next Wave of Investment in Physical AI and Humanoids”.
Moderator: Tech Reporter.
Speakers: Dong-Su Kim, CEO at LG Technology Ventures; Jay Chong, Managing Partner at Millennium New Horizons; others.
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
“Accelerating Humanoids with Simulation-Centric Data Engine”.
Speaker: Steve Xie, Co-Founder and CEO at Lightwheel.
9:00 AM: Presentation
“From Prototype to Product: Building Humanoids for the Real World”.
Speaker: Sotirios Stasinopoulos, Chief Product Officer at Humanoid.
9:20 AM: Presentation
”Commercializing Humanoids: From Demo to Factory Deployment”.
Speaker: Kiyoung Song, Founder & CEO at Holiday Robotics
9:40 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.
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
“From Simulation to Real World: Building the Infrastructure Embodied AI Needs to Work Anywhere”.
Speaker: Inhi Cho Suh, CEO at Niantic Spatial.
11:20 AM: Presentation
”Safety, Motion, Touch: Driving the Next Generation of Physical AI”.
Speaker: Brad Rex, Head of Physical AI at Renesas.
11:40 AM: 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 Factory of the Future: Deploying Humanoids at Industrial Scale”.
Speaker: Brennand Pierce, Chief Robotics Officer at Bear Robotics.
1:30 PM: Presentation
“Designing the World’s Most Interactive Humanoid”.
Speaker: Do Park, Head of Design at Lightberry.
1:50 PM: Presentation
"Ultrasound Tactile Intelligence: Closing the Dexterity Gap in Humanoid Robots”.
Speaker: Mo Maghsoudnia, Founder and CEO at UltraSense Systems.
2:10 PM: Presentation
“Building the Robotics Infrastructure for Real-World Deployment”.
Speaker: Edward Liu, Chief of Staff and VP of Sales at RealMan Robotics.
2:30 PM: Presentation
“Building Robots That Survive the Real World”.
Speaker: Andy Diepen, Founder and CEO at Caladan Robotics.
2:50 PM: Presentation
”Relational Risk in Humanoid Robotics: The Missing Layer in Human-Robot Design”.
Sara Filipcic, Founder and Executive Director, and Roshni Lulla, Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at Institute for Humane Robotics.
3:10 PM: Networking Break
3:25 PM: Panel Discussion
“Physical AI Beyond Perception: Spatial Intelligence and World Models”.
Moderator: Harnish Jani, Physical AI Advisor and Former Managing Director & Partner at BCG X (Boston Consulting Group).
Speakers: Ali Agha, Founder and CEO at FieldAI; Ivan Poupyrev, Founder and CEO at Archetype AI; other panelists.
4:00 PM: Presentation
“Physical Superintelligence: When Everything Becomes a Robot”.
Speaker: Ivan Poupyrev, Founder and CEO at Archetype AI.
4:20 PM: Presentation
”Scaling Human Motion Capture Beyond the Studio”.
Speaker: Byeoli Choi, Co-Founder and CEO at MOVIN3D.
4:40 PM: Presentation
"Dexterity Has a Data Problem: What Cameras Can Not See in Real-World Manipulation”.
Speaker: Donghyun Sim, Co-Founder and CEO at WHATs LAB.
5:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Speaker: MC at Humanoids Summit Seoul.
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