The Automate Conference 2022 | A3 Automate | 6 June 2022 | TBA, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Whether you’re new to automation or looking for more technical training, the Automate conference welcomes all levels. This highly valuable experience lets you learn firsthand from accomplished industry professionals. Get practical training that you can put into practice right away. And ignite your forward momentum with just a single class or four full days of sessions.

Why attend?
Automate is produced by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) and is the largest solutions-based showcase of automation, robotics, vision, motion control and more in North America. Since our start in 1977 as the International Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show, we have stayed true to our mission of paving the way forward for businesses everywhere. Today, we feature a full spectrum of automation technologies and solutions, from tried-and-true to cutting-edge.

2022 Speakers

Rachele Focardi
Future of Work Strategist Leading Expert on Generational Diversity, Multigenerational Workforce Effectiveness & Employer Branding

Daymond John
Founder CEO of Fubu, Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Marc Raibert
Founder and Chairperson, Boston Dynamics

Douglas Stanguini
Executive Director, Vehicle Systems

Prasad Akella
Field Marketing Manager, Drishti

Bryan Albrecht
President, Gateway Technical College

Juan Aparicio
VP Product, Ready Robotics

Jorge Arinez
Technical Fellow and Lab Group Manager for Manufacturing Systems and Controls, Gm R&D General Motors Research and Development

Scott Barnett
Director, Application Engineering

William A Beistline
EVP, Metals Manufacturing and Procurement

Bryan Bird
Regional President, US Canada Universal Robots

Nathan Bivans
CTO, Fort Robotics

Andreas Boedenauer
CEO, Agilox North America Inc.

Omar Alejandro Aquino Bolaños
Sales Director, Mobile Industrial Robots

Christine Boles
VP, IOTG

Robert Bollinger
Owner, Dynamic Horizons Automation Solutions

Rogerio Bonatti
Senior Researcher, Microsoft

Chuck Brandt
Vice President, Technical Initiatives Arm Institute

Todd Brewster
Director of Electromagnetic Engineering, Kollmorgen

Branson Brockschmidt
Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute

Alonza Brown
Head of Pulsed Laser Applications, Trumpf

Gregory Brown
VP of the Advanced Technology Group, Ups

David Bruce
Engineering Manager, Fanuc America Corporation

Gregory D. Buell
Senior Engineer, Fanuc America Corporation

Timothy Burns
Senior Application Engineer, ATI Industrial Automation

Benjamin Cabe
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Chris Caldwell
Product Manager, Yaskawa America Inc

Michael A. Chichester Jr.
Shareholder, Littler Mendelson P.C

Jeff Christensen
Vice President of Product, Seegrid

Mike Cicco
President and CEO, Fanuc America Corporation

Brandon Coats
Director of Systems Integration, Mujin

Bethany Colbry
Product Manager, Heavy Duty Tool Changers ATI Industrial Automation

Rick Conneely
Director, Product Management Eaton Tripp Lite

David L. Dechow
Vice President of Outreach and Vision Technology, Landing Ai

Nicolas De Keijser
Director of Sales, Boston Dynamics

Jeremy Dodson
Ciso, Nextlink Labs

Leah Dodson
Principle Programmatic Advisor, Nextlink Labs

Pat Duda
Senior Engineer, Kuka Robotics Corp

Mandy Dwight
VP of Business Development, Rios Corporation

Denise Ebenhoech
Regional Head of Advanced Robotic Applications, Kuka Robotics

Lior Elazary
CEO & Founder, Invia Robotics

Martin H. Ettenberg
President & CEO, Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc.

Sheldon Fernandez
CEO, Darwinai

Lou Finazzo
Vice President, Fanuc America

Dieter Fox
Senior Director of Robotics Research Professor, Nvidia

Brian Gaunt
Noram Accelerated Digitalization Sr. Director, DHL Supply Chain

Adam Gluck
Founder & CEO, Copia Automation

Amit Goel
Director, Product Management Nvidia

Jason Goerges
Gm North America and VP of Marketing, ACS Motion Control

Ed Goffin
Manager, Marketing Pleora Technologies

Todd Graves
Chief Technology Officer, Seegrid

Kelleher R. Guerin
Chief Innovation Officer, Ready Robotics

Rajat Gupta
Sr. Director, Business Development Microsoft

Satyandra K Gupta
Smith International Professor, University of Southern California

Michael Haas
Vice President , Ferrobotics

Will Healy Iii
Marketing Manager Americas, Balluff Worldwide

Mark Holcomb
Applications Engineering Manager, Motors and Mechatronics Novanta

Ben Hope
Product Manager, Supertrak Conveyance

Jeff Huerta
Senior Vice President of Advanced Amr Solutions, Vecna Robotics

Kristian Hulgard
General Manager, Americas Onrobot US Inc.

Donald Hutchison
Dean, Engineering and Advanced Technology Macomb Community College

Jan Jaeger
Regional Sales & Engineering Manager, East Coast Sales

Mattias Johannesson
Senior Expert 3D Vision, Sick

Mike Johnson
President & Chief Operating Officer, Locus Robotics

Ashok Kaliyamoorthy
Program Manager, Robotics & Automation Wipro

Dave Kelly
Director of Business Development, Perceptron

Steven King
Product Manager, Omron

Alexander Koepsel
Technical Sales Manager, Zivid

Jay Korpi
Principle Cybersecurity Advisor, Nextlink Labs

Fouad Khalil
Senior Director, Compliance Locus Robotics

Tom Knauer
Global Industry Manager Factory Automation, Balluff

Walter Laplante
Vision & Controls Interface Engineer, Ford Motor Company

Nicolas Lauzier
Senior Product Manager, Robotiq

Jim Lawton
VP-Gm of Zebra Robotics Automation, Zebra Technologies Corporation

Yj Lim
Sr. Technical Robotics Product Manager, Mathworks

Chris Liu
Edge Product Marketing Manager, Siemens

Joseph Lui
Managing Director, Global Robotics Practice Lead

Vikram Mankar
Principal Product Manager, Ge Digital

Mathieu Marmion
Senior Application Specialist Specim, Spectral Imaging

Scott Marsic
Group Product Manager, Epson Robots

Daryl L. Martin
Technical Sales and Product Specialist, Advanced Illumination

Sara Masoud
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Principal

Jesse Masters
Senior Field Application Engineer, Zivid

Kevin Mccabe
Senior Application Engineer Ids Imaging Development Systems, Inc.

Terry Meister
Controls Manager, AMT

Davide Migliore
Director of Sales North America, Prophesee

Pablo Minjares
Director of Robotics Mexico, Staubli

Tom Munger
Director of Sales, North America
Realtime Robotics

Pablo Molina
Director of Marketing, Avidbots

Erik Nieves
Founder and CEO, Plus One Robotics

Rob Nicholl
Director, Business Development Moog Inc

Soren E. Nielsen
President Mobile Industrial Robots, Mobile Industrial Robots

Jeffrey Noruk
President, Servo Robot Corp

Marcus Pelletier
Global Systems R&D Manager 3m Company, Abrasives Systems Division

Florian Pestoni
CEO, Co-founder Inorbit

Sumer Petrous
Business Development Manager, Universal Robots

Christina Pierce
Sales Operations Manager, Panasonic Iiot Solutions

Dean Priebe
Sr Director Robotics Center of Excellence, Dematic

Patrick Pylypuik
VP of Sales, Symbio Robotics

Cory Raizor
Business Development Manager, Cobots and Automated Machine

Tom Reek
VP Automation, Schunk

Matthew Rendall
CEO, Otto Motors

Silas Robertson
SVP Sales and Marketing, Olympus Controls

Matthew M. Robinson
Ros-industrial Consortium Americas Program, Manager

Bob Rochelle
Account Manager, Gudel Inc

Ruben Rodriguez
Sales Manager Mexico, ATI Automatizacion Industrial

Ted Rozier
Director of Engineering, Festo

Corey Ryan
Director of Medical Robotics, Kuka Robotics

Thomas Ryden
Executive Director, Massrobotics

John G. Salls
Owner Engineer Vision ICS, Incorporated

Craig Salvalaggio
Chief Operating Officer, Applied Manufacturing Technologies

Etienne Samson
Robotics Application Director, Robotiq

Paul Santi
General Manager, Automation Systems Group Fanuc America Corporation

Glenn Saunders
Senior Research Engineer, Rensselaer Mic

Roberta Nelson Shea
Global Technical Compliance Officer, Universal Robots

Stu Shepherd
Vertical Development Director, Universal Robots

Stuart W Singer
CEO, Schneider Optics Inc.

Nick Sischka
Director, Imaging Product Development, Edmund Optics

Michael Skocik
Program Manager, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute

Eugen Solowjow
Head of Research Group, Siemens

Chris Soranno
Safety Standards & Competence Manager, Sick Product & Competence Center of the Americas

Liz Stortstrom
Application Engineer, HP 3d Printing

Yaqing Sun
Corporate Industry Development Manager, Logistics

Michael Suppa
CEO, Roboception Gmbh

Deepu Talla
VP, Embedded and Edge Computing Nvidia Corporation

Todd Taylor
VP Applications Engineering, Fictiv

Daniel Theobald
Founds & Chief Innovation Office, Vecna Robotics

Tara K Thimmanaik
Systems Architect, Intel Corporation

Pol Velasco
Managing Director North America, Autis

Luca Verre
CEO and Co-founder, Prophesee

Max Versace
CEO and Co-founder, Neurala

Houssaine Waled
Senior Staff Engineer, Kuka Robotics

Steve Walsh
Vice President of Sales, Neurala

Keven Wang
CEO, Unitx

Perry C. West
President, Automated Vision Sytems Inc

Chris Wiegandt
General Manager , Visual Components

Matthew Wicks
Director of Robotics, Celestica

Melonee Wise
VP Robotics Automation, Zebra Technologies

Jim Witherspoon
Product Manager, Machine Vision and Fixed Industrial Scanning

Aaron Woytcke
Market Product Manager Industrial Safety Sick, Inc.

Xiyang Yeh
CTO, Flexiv Robotics Inc