Speakers 2022

Joel Reed is a robotics business expert with deep connections to one of the world’s top robotics ecosystems in Pittsburgh. He has 25 years strategy, business development, and startup experience having transformed innovations to create new solution categories. Reed introduced […]

Peter is an entrepreneur and mentor. He has founded, built, and sold companies, served on acquisition teams for venture firms and been an angel investor. As a current board member for Scale for ClimateTech, and as Director of Growth and […]

Maryanna Saenko is co-founder and partner at Future Ventures, a VC firm focused on solving the world’s problems through emerging technologies. In that capacity, she is on the lookout for trailblazing, purpose-driven early-stage investments that have the potential to reinvent […]

A tech evangelist, Parna Sarkar-Basu serves as a strategic advisor to transformational leaders and tech pioneers and helps them launch and reinvent companies. A brand architect, she also designs powerful programs to spotlight entrepreneurs and innovators and elevates startup founders […]

Anita Sengupta is the Founder and CEO of Hydroplane, an aviation technology company which is developing hydrogen fuel cell power plant technology for carbon emission free aviation. She is also a Professor of Astronautical Engineering at the University of Southern […]

Brual Shah is a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for GrayMatter Robotics, where he leads a team currently of 12 engineers for developing AI-based robotic systems for surface treatment applications like sanding, polishing, buffing, and spraying. Previously, he was a Research […]

Joyce Sidopoulos is Co-Founder and Chief of Operations at MassRobotics, an innovation hub, collaborative workspace and laboratory for robotics startups whose mission is to enable and grow the next generation of robotics companies. In her role, she works on initiatives […]

John is an accomplished Operations and Product leader with extensive experience deploying and managing technology at scale. After spending 20 years supporting mission-critical distributed technology solutions at IBM, Toshiba, and Bossa Nova Robotics, John is now applying the lessons he […]

Jason Smith is currently the Principal Engineer for Robots and Control Systems at UL Solutions, based in Northbrook, IL USA. Jason has been at UL for 17 years, during which time he previously served as UL’s Principal Engineer for Functional […]

Jordan Sun is the Vice President of Product, Design and Engineering at SoftBank Robotics America. He brings deep, cross-sector global experience in technology, government, venture capital and startups. Prior to joining SBRA, Jordan served as the Chief Innovation Officer for […]