Agenda
Main stage sessions details for Actuate 26.
Full Access pass holders get access to the main stage auditorium and all presentations. Expo Only pass holders can watch select main stage sessions on the big screen at the Breakout Stage in the Exhibit Hall.
August 18
8:00am
Doors open
9:00am
Keynote
Co-Founder & CEO, Foxglove
The State of Physical AI
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
9:30am
Keynote
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Live Streamed to Expo Hall
10:00am
Presentation
Co-Founder & CTO, Sunday
ACT-2: The End of Starting Over
10:20am
Presentation
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Burro
From Vineyards to Rail Yards: A Million Hours of Outdoor Autonomy
10:40am
20-Minute Break
11:00am
Presentation
Co-Founder, Dyna Robotics
Dyna-2: A one million hour scaling law for world action models
11:20am
Presentation
Founding Member of Technical Staff, Foundry Robotics
A Hybrid Architecture for Flexible Assembly: Generalist Policies and Scan-and-Plan, Together
11:40am
Panel Discussion
Staff Research Scientist, NVIDIA
Co-Founder & CEO, XDOF
Head of Robot Data and VLA lead, Flexion Robotics
Member of Technical Staff, Physical Intelligence
Member of Technical Staff, Generalist AI
The Data Wars: Human Data vs UMI vs Teleop
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
12:30pm
Lunch & Exploration
Fireside Chat with Chris Urmson
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
2:40pm
Presentation
Co-Founder & CEO, Multiply Labs
Building the Robotic Stack for Fully Autonomous Biomanufacturing
3:00pm
Presentation
VP of Software, Saronic
Your Robot Passed the Eval. Now What? A Practical Path from Model Performance to Real-World Reliability
3:20pm
20-Minute Break
3:40pm
Presentation
VP of Robotics, Google DeepMind
From Language to Motion: How Gemini Powers the Next Generation of Helpful Robots
4:00pm
Presentation
Co-Founder & CEO, Orangewood Labs
Manufacturing Robots for America
4:20pm
Keynote
Co-Founder & CTO, Zipline
Breaking Robots Is Half the Job: How Zipline Tests Its Autonomous Fleet
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Networking
Hosted Bar & Entertainment
Full Hosted Bar by Foundry Robotics & Robot Fight Night by UFB
August 19
8:00am
Doors open
So You Want to Build a Semantic Search Pipeline for Physical AI
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
9:30am
Keynote
Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence
Bringing Physical Intelligence to the Real World
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
10:00am
Presentation
VP of Software, Autonomy, and Foundation Models AI, Cobot
Physical AI in Production: What It Takes to Deploy Robots That Work Alongside People
10:20am
Presentation
Co-Founder & CTO, Bedrock Robotics
Pixels to Payloads: Structuring Unstructured Sites for Autonomous Construction
10:40am
20-Minute Break
11:00am
Presentation
Co-Founder, Genesis AI
The Full-Stack Approach to General-Purpose Robots
11:20am
Presentation
Founder & CEO, Andromeda
Building the Social Intelligence Layer for Physical AI
11:40am
Panel Discussion
AI Innovation Lead, Agility Robotics
Co-Founder & CTO, Walden Robotics
Staff Software Engineer, Shield AI
Research Lead, NVIDIA
Head of AI, Bonsai Robotics
VLA vs WAM: Do Robots Need to Predict the World, or Just the Next Action?
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
12:30pm
Lunch & Exploration
Fireside Chat with Alex Kendall
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
2:40pm
Presentation
Co-Founder, Eka Robotics
Force Intelligence: A Path to General Dexterity
3:00pm
Presentation
VP of Autonomous Systems, Dexory
From Sensor to Cloud: A Unified Recording and Upload Strategy Across Navigation and Perception
3:20pm
20-Minute Break
3:40pm
Presentation
Co-Founder & CEO, Generalist
What Does the GPT-3 Moment for Robotics Look Like?
4:00pm
Presentation
VP of Engineering, 1X Technologies
Open Developer Ecosystems for Robotics
4:20pm
Keynote
VP of AI Research, University of Toronto
Advancing Physical AI with World Models
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
4:50pm
Closing remarks
Co-Founder & CEO, Foxglove
Thank You for Attending Actuate 26!
Live Streamed to Expo Hall
