The Automate Conference 2024 | A3 Automate | 6 May 2024 | McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616, USA

Explore the Highlights
The events puts you side-by-side with automation experts who know how to implement, optimize and expand automation—giving you insights to put into practice right away.
• Conference Topics
• Education & Networking
• Free Show Entry
• Vision Certification
• Motion Control Certification

Why Attend:
If you work in automation, are considering capitalizing on it in the future, or simply want to know what’s coming next, Automate is the place to be. And it’s completely free to attend.

2024 Speakers

Stuart Singer
CEO, Schneider Optics, Inc.

Sina Afrooze
CEO & Co-Founder, Apera AI

David Bader
VP of Business Development, Eurotech

Matthew Robinson
ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas Program Manager, Southwest Research Institute

Michael DeGrace
UR+ Ecosystem Manager, Universal Robots

Daniel Zindl
Chief Product Officer, Agilox North America

Lacey Brugier
Key Account Sales Manager, Agilox

David Dechow
Industrial Factory Solutions Architect, Motion AI

Billy Beane
Former Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics

Paul DeWys
Sales Engineer, Forerunner 3D Printing

Rebecca Charboneau
Optical Engineer, Edmund Optics

Bob Rochelle
Account Manager, Güdel Inc.

Jason Smith
Principal Engineer - Commercial Robotics, UL Solutions

Michael Jensen
Product Manager - Industrial Machinery & Automation, UL Solutions

Sreten Zakula
Staff Engineer - Robotics/Automation Applications and Execution, General Motors

Will Keller
Senior Manufacturing Engineer, General Motors

Robb Colbrunn
Director, BioRobotics Lab, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic

Farukh Naqvi
Manufacturing Business Partner, Boston Beer Company

Roberta Nelson Shea
Global Technical Compliance Officer, Universal Robots

Tucker Sweet
Automation Application Engineer, SCHUNK

Etienne Lacroix
CEO, Vention

German Suvorov
AI Solutions Architect - Business Development, AI Ecosystem, Siemens

Steffen Klawitter
Digital Enterprise Lead Architect, Siemens

Steven King
Product Manager, Omron

Nicholas Sischka
Director, Imaging, Edmund Optics

James Davidson
Chief Architect, MiR

Jeremy Rockman
Product Marketing Manager, Mobile Industrial Robots

Eric Danziger
CEO & Co-Founder, Invisible AI

David Galati
Chief Scientist, TITAN Robotics Inc

Eric Kumar
Head of Customer Success, Corsha, Inc.

Michael Skocik
Senior Programs Manager, ARM Institute

Rishi Ranjan
CEO, GridRaster

Drew Cunningham
Business Development Manager, AutoStore

Jerry Perez
Executive Director - Global Accounts, FANUC America Corporation

Boris Duché
Product Manager, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH

Mark Holcomb
Genesis Motion Solutions

Patrick Varley
Product Marketing Manager (Robot), Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc

Florian Pestoni
CEO & Co-founder, InOrbit

Hope Dollarhide
Project Engineer, FANUC America

Kevin Jones
VP of Sales, OnLogic

Michael Kleiner
VP Edge AI Solutions, OnLogic

Jacob Cipriano
Business Development, Manufacturing Automation Systems LLC

Jerry Perez
Executive Director - Global Accounts, FANUC America Corporation

Larry Sweet
Director, Engineering, ARM Institute

Paul Evans
Executive Director R&D, Southwest Research Institute

Roger Christian
Divisional Leader, New Business Development, Yaskawa America Inc., Motoman Robotics Div.

Steve Kinney
Director of Training, Smart Vision Lights

Adam Crandall
Chief Revenue Officer, Addtronics

Adam Gluck
Founder & CEO, Copia Automation

Michelle Frumkin
Senior Global Robotics Portfolio Manager, 3M Company

Tyler Naatz
Senior Application Engineer, 3M

Stephen Se
Senior Engineering Manager, Depth Sensing, Teledyne FLIR - Machine Vision

Mukesh Ranjan
Vice President of Product, Dexterity

James Anderson
Digital Business Consultant - Vision and Quality Control, SICK

Holger Kenn
Director of Business Strategy, AI, Data and Emerging Technology, Microsoft Corp.

Lindsey Sullivan
Technical Marketing Manager, CCS America

Neil Farrow
Machine Vision Applications Engineer, Datasensing

Christopher Hoemeke
Global Account Manager, Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Kence Anderson
CEO & Co-Founder, Composabl, Inc.

Gianpiero Negri
Senior Risk Manager - Robotics Safety, Amazon

Jenny Tuertscher
Vice President Technical Safety, Fortress Safety

Allyson Wyatt
Sr. Applications Engineer, Allied Motion

Del Costy
President and Managing Director, Siemens Digital Industries

Chris Knorr
Vice President, Business Development North America, Eclipse Automation, Part of Accenture

David Dechow
Industrial Factory Solutions Architect, Motion AI

Robert Bollinger
Owner, Dynamic Horizons Automation Solutions LLC

Anatoli Gorchet
CTO, Neurala

Massimiliano Versace
CEO and Co-Founder, Neurala

Eric Hershberger
Principal Application Engineer, Cognex

Andrew Long
CEO, Cyth Systems

Keith Knight
Director of Business Development, Invio Automation

Brian Coyne
VP of Engineering, Harmonic Drive LLC

Tom Knauer
Global Strategy Manager - Robotics & Automation, Balluff GmbH

Josh Cloer
Director of Sales, Mujin

Carole Franklin
Director of Standards Development, Robotics, Association for Advancing Automation

Maren Roush
Manager of Standards Development, Robotics, Association for Advancing Automation (A3)

Arye Barnehama
CEO, Elementary

Ed Goffin
Vice President, Product Marketing, Pleora Technologies

Eric Hershberger
Principal Application Engineer, Cognex

Gareth Powell
Product Director, Prophesee

Rajesh Iyengar
Co-Founder and CEO, Lincode Labs Inc.

Dale Deering
Senior Director, Business Development, Teledyne

Jeff Fryman
Principal Consultant, Association for Advancing Automation

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

Melonee Wise
CTO, Agility Robotics

Søren Peters
CEO, HowToRobot

Daniel Lau
Professor, University of Kentucky

Mark Holcomb
Owner, Dynamic Systems Engineering

Philip Freidin
Applications Engineer, IDS Imaging Development Systems

Scott Marsic
Group Product Manager, Epson Robots

Jacob Dison
Technical Specialist II, Mayo Clinic

Wen Jiang
Boeing Designated Expert(BDE) in Factory Automation, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Alex Koepsel
Sr Product Marketing Manager, Formic

Jim Wiley
Product Manager, Parker Hannifin

Gina Chung
Vice President, Corporate Development, Locus Robotics

Nolan Shelton
Cobot Sales Specialist, ABB Inc.

Perry C. West
President, Automated Vision Systems, Inc.

Michael Haas
Vice President, FerRobotics

Georgy Das
Director of Systems & Training, Midwest Optical Systems

Colm Gavin
Portfolio Development Manager, Siemens

Suresh Rama
Portfolio Development Executive, Siemens

Bob McCurrach
Director of Standards Development, Association For Advancing Automation

Suprateek Banerjee
Head of Standardization, Robotics and Automation, VDMA e.V.

David Bruce
Engineering Manager, FANUC America

Rushiraj Patwardhan
Safety Engineer, Pilz Automation Safety L.P

Michael Sharpe
Executive Director - Materials Joining Sales, FANUC America Corporation

Kence Anderson
CEO & Co-Founder, Composabl, Inc.

Jeff Cardenas
Co-founder and CEO, Apptronik

Heiko Eisele
President, MVTec USA

Gretchen Alper
Business Director, AT - Automation Technology, Inc.

Ronnie Belcher
Product Training Engineer, Yaskawa America

Daniela Rus
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Robert Luchars
EVP, ECM PCB Stator Tech

Satyandra K. Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, GrayMatter Robotics

Daniel Theobald
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Vecna Robotics

Thomas Ryden
Executive Director, MassRobotics

Collin Bristow
Territory Manager, LMI Technologies

Martin Naumann
CEO, drag and bot GmbH (part of KEBA group)

David Dechow
Industrial Factory Solutions Architect, Motion AI

Perry C. West
President, Automated Vision Systems, Inc.

Jason Okerman
Staff Product Manager, OTTO Motors

Matthew Jones
VP of US Sales and Operations, Micropsi Industries USA, Inc.

Utku Buyuksahin
President & CTO, Sensobright Industries LLC

Paul Ryznar
Founder & CEO, LightGuide

Romik Chatterjee
VP Business Development, Graftek Imaging

Justin Crump
Application Engineer, Large Accounts, Universal Robots

Robert Bollinger
Owner, Dynamic Horizons Automation Solutions LLC

Bill Boucher
Partner, WIPFLI

Jessica Barnas
Partner, Wipfli LLP

Frantisek Takac
Strategic Partners Manager, Photoneo s. r. o.

Michael Nagle
Machine Vision Specialist, Baumer

Denise Stafford
Business Development Manager, KUKA Robotics

Bernhard Lichtenauer
Head of Marketing and Product Management Automation Technology II, Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH

Alan Minney
Global Lead Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise & Emerging Business, Ericsson

Sudhanshu Gaur
Vice President of R&D, Hitachi America and Chief Architect, Hitachi Astemo Americas

Vish Kolur
Senior Director, Manufacturing Solutions, Ericsson

Matt Berch
Sr. Account Manager, Gudel Inc.

Blake Hall
Systems Engineering Project Manager, SCHUNK

Marc Trusio
Business Development Director, Americas for Senseye Predictive Maintenance, Siemens

Will Healy III
Global Industry Segment Leader, Welding, Universal Robots

Nick Orf
3M Abrasive Systems Division - Application Engineering Manager, 3M

Satyandra K. Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, GrayMatter Robotics

Simone Gianotti
Application Engineer Manager, Elmo Motion Control Inc.

Chan Lee
CEO, Floatic

Beatrice Danese
Product Manager, Opto Engineering

Juan Luis Aparicio Ojea
CEO, Reshape Automation

Thomas Kuckhoff
Product Manager – Controllers and Industrial PC’s, Omron Automation America

Evan Gonnerman
Product Portfolio Manager, Concept Systems, Inc.

Steve Strong
CEO, Concept Systems, Inc.

Ken Crawford
Senior Director of Automation Sales Network, Weidmuller

Frank Jakubec
Product Marketing Manager, Balluff Inc.

Daniel Loucks
Sr. Imaging and Measurement Systems Engineer, Corning Inc.

Wendy Tan White
CEO of Intrinsic, an Alphabet company

Ashutosh Prasad
Founder & CEO, KoiReader Technologies, Inc.

Luis Narvaez
Product Manager/Automation Specialist, Siemens

Suresh Rama
Portfolio Development Executive, Siemens

Robert Brodecki
Application Portfolio Manager, KUKA Robotics Corp

Hongsuk Lee
CEO, Neurocle Inc.

Greg Buell
Staff Engineer - General Industry and Automotive Segment, FANUC America Corporation

Evaldo de Oliveira
VP of Business Development, FairCom

Ryan Marti
Product Manager – Industrial Cameras & Smart Cameras, Omron Automation America

John Wen
Professor and Head, Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

David Zerkler
Senior Manager - Machine Vision Learning, Zebra

David Dechow
Industrial Factory Solutions Architect, Motion AI

Robert Tait
Partner, Optical Metrology Solutions

2024 Sponsors

SHOW SPONSORS:
• Universal Robots
• Yaskawa
• ABB
• Ericsson
• Fanuc
• Harmonic Drive
• Jama Software
• Kuka
• Schneider Electric
• Siemens
• Teradyne
• United Robotics Group