Speakers 2024

Robert Brooks is the founder and CEO of Forcen, a Toronto-based manufacturer of force/torque sensing solutions. Forcen has rebuilt force/torque sensing from the ground up with a patented technology stack to enable plug-and-play, maintenance-free sensing in unstructured, complex, and high-reliability […]

Brian Burke is a highly skilled Product Manager at Bishop-Wisecarver, where he has been a pivotal part of the team since 2003. With over two decades of experience in the automation industry, he specializes in linear and rotary guided motion […]

Max Cao is the CEO of Jacobi Robotics, a new artificial intelligence and robotics company that is democratizing access to robotic automation. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and completed his final year of […]

Matt is a 30-year veteran of early-stage startups with a background that spans marketing, sales, and product management. For the past 15 years he’s held senior management positions in emerging companies focused on energy efficiency and novel energy delivery technologies. […]

Lisa Chai, a General Parter at Interwoven Ventures, brings 20+ years of experience investing in disruptive technology companies in venture capital, private equity, and public equity markets. Prior to founding Interwoven, an early-stage venture fund investing in the field of […]

Ellen Chisa is a Partner at boldstart ventures, investing in inception-stage enterprise companies. Her areas of investment include robotics, software infrastructure, and application layer products. Prior to boldstart, she was the cofounder of Darklang, a programming language to abstract over […]

Dr. Dave Coleman is CEO of PickNik Robotics and an industry thought leader in unstructured robotics. PickNik has been successfully delivering robotic manipulation innovations on and off earth over the past 9 years to over 100 customers, based on its […]

Parker is Director of Product at Apptronik, a leading developer of humanoid robots. Conroy has worked in robotics for more than a decade, guiding product management teams to design and deploy thousands of industrial robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, drones, […]

Steve Crowe is Editor of The Robot Report. He joined WTWH Media in January 2018 after spending five years as Managing Editor of Robotics Trends and Robotics Business Review. He was co-chair of RoboBusiness and has produced robotics conferences for […]

Schuyler Cullen is Co-Founder and CEO of Summer Robotics, a software company that has developed a fundamental new approach to robotic visual intelligence, that is powering far more competent robots on the industrial manufacturing line and in all future contexts […]