RoboBusiness: RoboBusiness Leadership Summit Announces World Class Keynote and Session Speakers Advancing the Comm

Framingham, Mass. – Robotics Trends today announced the lineup of keynotes and session speakers for RoboBusiness 2011 Leadership Summit (formerly RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition). Now in its 7th year, RoboBusiness 2011 Leadership Summit is an international executive-level business development event for technology innovators, management and developers of robotics companies, investors, and specifiers and users of robotics products. The RoboBusiness Leadership Summit will take place November 2-3, 2011, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. For more information and to register visit www.robobusiness.com.

Keynotes

Colin Angle, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, iRobot
Paul Copioli, President, VEX Robotics
Dan Kara, Conference Chair, RoboBusiness Leadership Summit
James Overholt, Director, Joint Center for Robotics, U.S. Army TARDEC (Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center)
JohnReid, Director, Product Technology and Innovation, John Deere

Session Speakers

Samuel Bouchard, President and CEO, Robotiq
Rod Brooks, Founder, Chairman and CTO, Heartland Robotics
Ryan Calo, Director for Privacy and Robotics, Stanford University
John Dulchinos, CEO, Adept Technology
Michael Dunbar, Manager of Business Development, Velodyne LIDAR
Charles Grinnell, CEO, Harvest Automation
Joseph Jones, CTO, Harvest Automation
Rush Lashelle, Director, Global Sales & Marketing, Adept Technology
Karl Meier, Director of Marketing, ADVANCED Motion Controls
Mick Mountz, CEO and Founder, Kiva Systems
Erik Nieves, Director, Technology Advancement Team, Yaskawa America - Motoman Robotics Division
Steve Ohler, Senior Vice President - US Office, Jetta Company Limited
Lauro Ojeda, Chief Engineer, Microinfinity, CO. LTD.
Stathis Papaefstathiou, General Manager Robotics, Microsoft
Stan Reiss, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Dina Routhier, Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation
Patrick Rowe, VP of Research and Development, RE2, Inc.
Linda Thayer, Attorney At Law, IP Specialist, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Regis Vincent, Senior Computer Scientist, SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC)
Jason Zielke, President/COO, Precise Path Robotics

Sponsors of RoboBusiness Leadership Summit include: Founding Sponsor: iRobot; Platinum Sponsors: VEX Robotics, Inc., John Deere; Gold Sponsor: Finnegan; Silver Sponsor: Freescale Adept Technology; Standard Sponsors: Advanced Motion Controls, Elmo Motion Control, Infranor, Jetta Company Ltd., JETRO, Maxon Precision Motors, MICROMO, Microstrain, OLogic, SRI International, Yaskawa America, and Yost Engineering, Inc.

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Early bird discounts are available through 9/9/11. For more information and to register to attend visit www.robobusiness.com.

ABOUT ROBOTICS TRENDS

Robotics Trends, a division of EH Publishing Inc., is the world’s first integrated media company serving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics marketplace. Robotics Trends serves its audience through two major business divisions:

Robotics Trends Publishing, which produces Robotics Trends (www.roboticstrends.com), an online news and information site focused on technology trends for people who build, buy, and seek to understand the personal, service, mobile, and military robotics markets; and Robotics Business Review (www.roboticsbusinessreview.com), a subscription media product providing primary research, analysis, business news, and market observations for the robotics and intelligent systems industries; and RoboNexus (www.robonexus.com), an online information site for everyone who loves robots, bringing robot news in a fun, friendly and informative way.
Robotics Trends Events, which produces the RoboBusiness Leadership Summit (www.robobusiness.com), and the Robotics Trends Summit Virtual Conference Series (www.robovirtualevents.com).

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