Robotics Summit & Expo 2020 | WTWH Media | 24 September 2020 | Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115, United States

The Robotics Summit & Expo emphasizes the design and development of commercially viable robotics and intelligent systems products – wholly new products and services that are to be used outside of laboratory environments and sold at a profit.

Dedicated tracks provide technical professionals with the information they need to develop the next generation of commercial class robotics and intelligent systems products and services.

Technologies, Tools and Platforms Track
The development of robots and robotic technology requires the mastery of multiple disciplines – primarily software development, mechanical and electrical engineering. Robotics development is made even more difficult as it is limited by embedded and real-time constraints. But real-time concerns are only the beginning, especially as robots and robotic technology become more prevalent in the home, the workplace, in public places and on the battlefield. The next generation of robots and robotic devices must also be integrated with other systems in their environment.

Solution providers have responded to these difficulties by providing a whole host of robotics design and development tools, as well as ready-made robotic ‘platforms’, that dramatically simplify the job of designing, developing, testing and manufacturing robots and robotic products. Although robotics technology in the various types of robotics systems can differ radically from each other, their areas of commonality greatly outnumber their differences. That is, enabling technologies suitable for one class of products are appropriate and applicable for other types of as well.

2020 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Lou Amadio
Principal Software Architect, Microsoft

Roger Barga
General Manager, AWS Robotics and Autonomous Services, Amazon Web Services

Henrik Christensen
Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair of Robot Systems, UC San Diego and Director, Institute for Contextual Robotics

Joshua Ness
Senior Manager, Verizon 5G Labs

Cyra Richardson
General Manager, Microsoft

Dev Singh
Director of Business Development, Qualcomm Technologies

Deepu Talla
VP and GM, Automous Machines, NVIDIA

Dawn Tilbury
Head of the Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation and Professor, University of Michigan

Kyle Vogt
Co-founder, President, and CTO, Cruise

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Roland Angst
Head of ASUS Robotics and AI Center, ASUS

David Askey
Co-Founder and CEO, Ascend Robotics

Hamid Badiozamani
Software Engineer, Brain Corporation

Parag Batavia
President, Neya Systems Division, Applied Research Associates

Matt Berlin
Co-Founder, IF Robots

Ryan Braman
Test Engineering Manager, TUV Rheinland

Christian Cerda
COO, iRobot

Sunghyuk Choi
Senior Director of Project Planning, Deegyeong Ropbot Enterprise Promotion Association

Maya Choksi
Counsel, iRobot

Rob Coneybeer
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

Brian Coyne
VP Mechatronics Engineering, HarmonicDrive

Steve Crowe
Editor, The Robot Report

Eugene Demaitre
Senior Editor Robotics, WTWH Media LLC

Charlie Duncheon
CEO and Cofounder, Celltrio, Inc.

Cyril Ebersweiler
General Partner, SOSV, Founder, HAX

Sana Fathima
Investment Manager, Lockheed Martin Ventures

Tyler Glieden
Product Manager, SICK

Jesse Gray
Cofounder, IF Robots

Raghave Gupta
COO, Humatics

Carsten Horn
Business Development Engineer, Maxon Precision Motors

Dan Kara
Vice President, Robotics, WTWH Media LLC

Justine Kasznica
Shareholder, Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir

James Klassen
CTO, Genesis Robotics

Will Knoght
Senior Editor, MIt Technology Review

Di Le
Robotics Product Designer, Brain Corpouration

Matt Liba
Senior Director of Programs, FLIR Unmanned Ground Systems

Dikai Liu
Distinguished Professor, Co-Director, Centre for Autonomous System, University of Technology Sydney

Marcio Macedo
Co-Founder and VP of Product and Marketing, Ava Robotics

Brian Mason
West Coast Business Development Manager, Elmo Motion Control

Andy McMillan
Chair of the Citronics Advisory Board, Citronics

Joost Nijhoff
Head of Investments, Odense Robotics

Dan Patt
CEO, Vecna Robotics

AJ Perez
Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

James Peverill
CEO, GreenSight Agronomics

Chris Quick
CEO, Realbotics

Harald Quintus-Bosz
CTO and Co-founder, Cooper Perkins

Jim Radford
Principal SLAM Engineer, Intel Corporation

Tim Rowland
CEO, Badger Technologies, A product Division of Jabil

Fady Saad
Co-founder and Partnerships Director, Mass Robotics

Youssef Saleh
Founder and CEO, Ava Robotics

Bradley Sauln
Technical Services Engineer, Onshape

Jack Schorsch
CEO, Innovative Mechatronic Systems

Scott Stropkay
Partner, Essential Design

Linda Thayer
Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner

Rusell Toris
Director of Robotics, Fetch Robotics

Dominick Vantheinen
VP Technology, Intermodalics

Massimiliano Versace
CEO, Neurala

Jason Walker
Co-Founder, CEO, Waypoint Robotics

Tom Wood
Frameless Motor Product Specialist, Kollmorgen

Greg Zancewicz
VP, Business Development, Motus Labs

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Joshua Ness
Senior Manager, Verizon 5G Labs

2020 Sponsors

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• massrobotics

FOUNDING SPONSOR:
• HARMONIC DRIVE

PLATINUM;
• CIRTRONICS
• FINNEGAN
• LOCUS

GOLD:
• ADVANCED MOTION CONTROLS
• Akribis Systems
• ALERT INNOVATION
• AlphaWire
• ATI INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
• AutoGuide Mobile Robots
• Benchmark
• BISHOP WISECARVER
• BODINE ELECTRIC COMPANY
• BSC INDUSTRIES
• Celera
• CGI
• COASTIPC
• copley controls
• EAST COAST AUTOMATION
• ElectroCraft
• Elmo
• GENERAL FOUNDRY
• HIWIN
• iDS
• ifm
• IKO
• LEMO
• maxon
• MICROMO
• NEW ENGLAND WIRE
• PB Pearse Bertram
• PERFORMANCE MOTION DEVICES
• PI
• Portescap
• RENISHAW
• SIGMATEK
• SMC
• THK
• Universal Robots
• WAYPOINT ROBOTICS
• WEINTEK
• WIBOTIC

HOSPITALITY SPONSORS:
• FINNEGAN
• Verrill
• WEINTEK

EXHIBITORS:
• ARM
• ASPINA
• CALEX
• Canon
• CFA
7 cpc
• GAM
• GIBSON ENGINEERING
• HARWiN
• KOLLMORGEN
• LIN ENGINEERING
• LUCRE
• MACRON DYNAMICS, Inc.
• MANTA
• Nidec
• OKI
• Oriental Motor
• PAce Associates LLC
• POSITAL FRABA
• Sabert Technologies
• SCHUNK
• SICK

ANALYST, ASSOCIATION and MEDIA SPONSORS:
• ABIresearch
• Design World
• EEworld ONLINE
• LIVE WORX20
• OMDIA
• Sensors
• SVR SILICON VALLEY ROBOTICS