Keynotes 2023

Ken Goldberg is William S. Floyd Jr Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley with appointments in IEOR, EECS, and Art Practice. He is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics. He co-founded the Berkeley AI Research […]

Amit Goel is Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA, where he leads the product development of NVIDIA Jetson, the most advanced platform for AI computing at the edge. Amit has more than 15 years of experience in […]

Jonathan Hurst is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Agility Robotics, and Professor and co-founder of the Oregon State University Robotics Institute. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in robotics, all from Carnegie Mellon […]

Jeff Linnell is the Founder and CEO of Formant, a robot data and operations platform. Before founding Formant, Linnell served as Head of Robotics at Google X. He previously founded Autofuss, a design/production company, and Bot & Dolly, an engineering […]

Nicholas Paine is the co-founder and CTO of Apptronik. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. His graduate work focused on the development of the UT Series […]

Geordie Rose co-founded Sanctuary in 2018 and is the CEO. Prior to Sanctuary, Geordie founded D­-Wave, the world’s first quantum computing company, and was the CEO of Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production […]

Sarah Schinckel is the director of emerging technologies in the Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) at John Deere. Her team focuses on researching, developing, and supporting the deployment of Deere’s next-generation technologies to improve customer profitability and sustainability. Sarah has 20 […]