Robo Business 2019 | Robo Business | 1 October 2019 | Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

Who attends RoboBusiness?
• Robotic technology developers
• Robotic design engineers
• Software and mechanical engineers
• System Integrators
• Investors
• Technology evaluators and government agencies
• Senior executives, project managers, and business analysts
• Start-up companies

What to expect at Robobusiness this year.
• Innovative Keynotes
• Educational Breakouts
• Schmooze, Booze, & Tech

2019 Speakers

KEYNOTE PRESENTERS:

Dr. Robin Murphy
Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University

Doug Olson
President & CEO, Harmonic Drive LLC

Georg Stieler
Managing Director, Stieler Enterprise Management Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

John McElligott
Founder & CEO, York Exponential

James Kuffner
Chief Executive Officer, Toyota Research Institute

Howie Choset
Professor, Carnegie School of Computer Science

Adam Cantor
Director of Engineering/Senior Engineer, RSE/iRobot

SPEAKERS:

Adam Cantor
Director of Engineering/Senior Engineer, RSE/iRobot

Ajay Raghavan
Strategic Executive Director, PARC, A Xerox Company

Animesh Garg
Senior Research Scientist/Pstdoctoral Researcher, NVIDIA/Stanford University

Ash Sharma
Research Director, Interact Analysis

Asuman Suenbuel
Senior Director, SAP

Bala Balachander
Consultant, Manex Consulting

Bernardo Mendez-Arista
Senior Product Manager, Yaskawa Innovation

Brian Carlisle
CEO & Founder, Precise Automation

Brian Mason
West Coast Development Manager, Elmo Motion Control

Buck Ward
CEO, Cyberclean Systems

Byron Clayton
CEO, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM)

Carl P. Evans III
Founder, Tercero Technologies

Chris Morgan
Chief Information Officer; Managing Director, Bastian Solutions (A Toyota Advanced Logistics Company; Bastian Laboratories

Christina Jones
Industrial Hygienist, U.S. Department of Labor, OSAH

Christopher Chu
Managing Director, Accenture

Corey Cook
Senior Program Manager and Solutions Architect, Enterprise Sustainment Solutions

Craig Salvalaggio
Vice President, Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)

Cyril Ebersweiler
General Partner, Founder, SOSV/HAX

Daniel Theobald
Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Vecna Robotics

Dawn Castillo
Director, Division of Safety Research, NIOSH

Dev Singh
Director of Business Development, Robotics, Drones and Intelligent Machines, Qualcomm

Doug Fulop
Sr. Product Manager, AWS Robotics and Autonomous Services, Amazon

Doug Olson
President & CEO, Harmonic Drive LLC

Dr. Robin Murphy
Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University

Eric Daimler
Partner, SpinGlass Ventures

Erik Nieves
Founder, Plus One Robotics

Evan Ackerman
Contributing Editor, IEEE Spectrum

Florian Pestoni
CEO, InOrbit, Inc

Georg Stieler
Managing Director, Stieler Enterprise Management Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

Grace Erickson
General Manager, OCHO Candy, Inc

Gray Bright
CEO, Cloud Transportation Technologies

Howie Choset
Professor, Carnegie School of Computer Science

James Kuffner
Chief Executive Officer, Toyota Research Institute

Jason Walker
CEO and Co-Founder, Waypoint Robotics

Jean-Baptiste Passot
Vice President, Platform and AI, Brain Corp

Jeff Baird
Vice President of Engineering, Celltrio, Inc.

Jeff Burnstein
President, Robotic Industries Association

Jeremie Capron
Director of Research, ROBO Global

Jeremy Marvel
Computer Scientist, NIST

Jitendra Kavathekar
Board Member; Former Managing Director; Investor & Advisor, Silicon Valley Forum; Accenture; Horizon 3 Ventures

JoAnne Pransky
Associate Editor, Industrial Robot Journal

Joe Barkai
Principal, JBMC

John McElligott
Founder & CEO, York Exponential

John Santagate
Research Director, IDC

Josh Lessing
Co-Founder and CEO, Root AI

Juan L. Aparicio
Head of Advanced Manufacturing Automation, Siemens Corporate Technology

Julian Counihan
Partner, Schematic Ventures

Karen Leavitt
CMO, Locus Robotics

Kate Whitcomb
Partner, HAX/SOSV

Keith Shaw
Editor-in- Chief, RBR

Kevin Vliet
Vice President, Supply Chain Engineering, Target

Kim Kaluba
Senior Product Marketing Manager, SAS, Institute

Kristen Stone
Senior Operations Engineering, Raytheon

Mario Munich
SVP Technology, iRobot

Markus Larsson
Vice President, Global Business Development, PARC, A Xerox Company

Matt Wicks
VP of Product Development, Honey Well Inteilligrated

Matthias Anlauff
Partner Technology Manager, Google

Max Versace
CEO and Co-Founder, Neurala

Mollie Anderson
Manager, Principal Consultant, BSI Services & Solutions

Nicholas Akiona
Robotics Researcher, Accenture

Paul Willard
Investor, Storm Ventures

Peter Howard
CEO, Realtime Robotics

Rahul Chipalkatty
CEO & Founder, Southie Autonomy

Raminder Sandhu
Automation Practice Lead,, California Manufacturing Technology Consulting® (CMTC

Rene Ymzon
Marketing Manager, Advanced Motion Controls

Robert Kramarz
Intelliversity, Executive Director

Robert Steward
President;President & CEO, End to End Solutions; Integra Advanced Technology Services

Robert Bollinger, PE
Global Robotics Technology Network Applied Innovation Leader, Proctor & Gamble

Robin Murphy
Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering/Director, Texas A&M University/Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue

Roger Counihan
Vice President, Fortna, Inc.

Russell Toris
Director of Robotics, Fetch Robotics

Sam Hoff
CEO, Patti Engineering

Sandy Agnos
Senior Director,Global Business Development., Brain Corporation

Satyandra K. (Goes by SK) Gutpa
Professor, University of Southern California

Stacy Swider
Director, SBIR Center of Excellence, UMass Lowell Research Institute

Thomas Ryden
Executive Director, MassRobotics

Tom Wood
Frameless/Robotics Product Specialist, Kollmorgen

Warren Katz
Managing Director, TechStars

Xavier Alcaraz
Principal, BSI

2019 Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• HARMONIC DRIVE

GOLD SPONSORS:
• ABB
• ADVANCED MOTION CONTROLS
• BOGEN
• LOCUS
• NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION
• SCHUNK
• WAYPOINT ROBOTICS

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS:
• acorn
• Akribis Systems
• Autonomous
• brain corp
• COASTIPC
• Cone Drive
• ElectroCraft
• Elmo Motion Control
• epc
• fetch robotics
• Formant
• GEM
• GENERAL FOUNDRY SERVICE
• HOKUYO
• INGENIA
• JackRabbot
• KOLLMORGEN
• Netzer
• PEPPERL+FUCHS
• PRECISE AUTOMATION
• QUARTUS ENGINEERING
• RENISHAW
• ROBOTIQ
• SICK Sensor Intelligence
• SMC
• SRI Robotics
• THALES
• Trutech
• UNIVERSAL ROBOTS
• VECNA robotics
• WIBOTICS
• ADVANCED MOTION CONTROLS

OPENING RECEPTION SPONSOR:
• HARMONIC DRIVE

ATTENDEE BAG SPONSOR:
• MICROMO

ROBOBUSINESS APP SPONSOR:
• Honeywell Intelligrated

CLOSING RECEPTION SPONSOR:
• Honeywell Inteliigrated

EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE:
• ALEGION
• ARM
• BASICMICRO
• IDS
• inorbit
• OUSTER
• POSITAL FRABA
• VIAVI Solutions

ASSOCIATION PARTNER:
• ARM
• AMBayArea
• Association for Advancing Automation
• AUVSI
• MASSTLC
• massrobotics
• MHI
• Tractica
• AgriTech Tomorrow
• CIO APPLICATIONS
• CIO Review
• MANUFACTURING TOMORROW
• ROBOTICS TOMORROW
• SESSIONS ROBOTICS+AI