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
“South Korea’s National Vision for Physical AI and Humanoid Robotics”.
Speaker: Senior South Korean Government Official (TBD).
9:55 AM: Presentation
“General-Purpose Robot Brains: A New Era of Industrial AI”.
Speaker: Ali Agha, Founder and CEO at FieldAI.
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
”Open Humanoid Platform: Accelerating Humanoid Innovation Through Open Collaboration”.
Speaker: Byoungsoo Kim, Founder and CEO, ROBOTIS.
11:10 AM: Presentation
“Advanced Bionic Hands for Humans and Robots”.
Speaker: Aadeel Akhtar, Founder and CEO at Psyonic.
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
”Solving Five-Finger Dexterity: RLDX’s Approach to Industry-Level Manipulation”.
Speaker: Junghee Ryu, Founder and CEO at RLWRLD.
1:20 PM: Presentation
“Building Generative AI for the Physical World”
Speaker: Sujeong Cha, AI Architect at AWS.
1:40 PM: Presentation
“LimX Dynamics: Cross the Limits”.
Speaker: Xiaowei Liu, Head of International Business at LimX Dynamics.
2:00 PM: Presentation
“Unlocking Growth with Physical AI at the Edge”.
Speaker: Kevin Cho, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Qualcomm.
2:20 PM: Presentation
”Robots training and tuning for real world applications”.
Speaker: Kimate Richards, Founder and CEO at 10 Things.
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”.
Speaker: 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.
Speakers:
“Construction Humanoids - Multipurpose Workforce Enabler”.
Vassos Chrysostomou, Founder and CEO, IBE Humanoids.
”Relational Risk in Humanoid Robotics: The Missing Layer in Human-Robot Design”.
Sara Filipcic, Founder and Director at Institute for Humane Robotics.
“Robotics Should Belong to Everyone”.
Rafa Felix, Founder and CEO, runibiLABS.
“Accelerating Physical AI via Automated SimReady and VLA Data Infrastructure”.
Suntae Kim, Co-Founder and CTO, NdotLight.
“Decentralizing Embodied AI Data Pipelines via Agentic Refinement”.
Xiangyu Chen, Founder and CEO, IO-AI.
“What is the Foundation of Modern Digital Economic Security”.
Nikita Bondarenko, CEO & Chief Engineer at CETHERA.
4:35 PM: Panel Discussion
“The Next Wave of Investment in Physical AI and Humanoids”.
Moderator: Tech Reporter.
Speakers: Dong-Su Kim, CEO, LG Technology Ventures; Jay Chong, Managing Partner, 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
”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
“From Prototype to Product: Building Humanoids for the Real World”.
Speaker: Sotirios Stasinopoulos, Chief Product 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
“From Simulation to Real World: Building the Infrastructure Embodied AI Needs to Work Anywhere”.
Speaker: Inhi Cho Suh, CEO, 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
“Accelerating Humanoids with Simulation-Centric Data Engine”.
Speaker: Steve Xie, Co-founder and CEO at Lightwheel.
1:30 PM: Presentation
“Next-gen Humanoids for General-Purpose Applications”.
Speaker: TBD.
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
"The Factory of the Future: Deploying Humanoids at Industrial Scale”.
Speaker: Brennand Pierce, Chief Robotics Officer, Bear Robotics.
2:50 PM: Presentation
“Physical Superintelligence: When Everything Becomes a Robot”.
Speaker: Ivan Poupyrev, Founder and CEO at Archetype AI.
3:10 PM: Networking Break
3:25 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.
4:00 PM: Presentation
"Building Robots That Survive the Real World”.
Speaker: Andy Diepen, CEO and Founder at Caladan Robotics
4:20 PM: Presentation
“Seizing the AI Advantage Through Physical Humanoid Robotics”.
Speaker: TBD.
4:40 PM: Presentation
”The Infrastructure Behind Humanoids: Actuators, Hands, Sensors, and Compute”.
Speaker: TBD.
5:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Speaker: MC at Humanoids Summit Seoul.
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