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| With Rishabh Aggarwal (CTO, Raise Robotics), Andreas Bihlmaier (Director of Delivery, Intrinsic), Saurabh Chandra (Founder & CEO, Ati Robotics), Cristian Ionescu-Catrina (Ecosystem and Partnerships, Bosch), Anthony Jules (Chief Innovation Officer, Robust.AI), Jeff Mahler (CTO, Ambi Robotics), Oliver Mitchell (Partner, ff Venture Capital), Betsy Mul (Principal, F-Prime), Aaron Nathan (Founder & CEO, Point One Navigation), Touraj Parang (President & COO, Serve Robotics), Florian Pestoni (Founder, ROG), Arshan Poursohi (Founder & CEO, Third Wave Automation), Joe Wieciek (Founder, ROG). |
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Oct 22 (Thu) @ 08:00 AM
$250
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RobOpsCon 2026
The premier conference on scaling robot operations.
A day of keynotes, panels, lightning talks, & a hands-on workshop on the hardest problems in physical AI operations.
Now in its third edition, RobOpsCon brings together practitioners to share the lessons learned & network with top industry operators.
Program Themes
Orchestrating Heterogeneous Fleets
Coordinating AMRs, humanoids, cobots, & fixed automation in the same space or across the world. Real-time spatial conflict resolution, task allocation across robots with different capabilities & APIs, & fleet behavior during partial failures in mixed-vendor environments.
Scaling Data Pipelines for Physical AI
Large deployments are becoming the most productive data-generation infrastructure available. Capturing, labeling, & routing high-fidelity telemetry at fleet scale to feed embodied model training & close the sim-to-real gap.
Decentralized Intelligence for Large Fleets
The shift from centralized, deterministic control to on-robot decision-making. Coordination protocols without a single point of failure, safety guarantees, & observability when intelligence is distributed across hundreds of nodes.
Speaker Lineup
Rishabh Aggarwal
CTO, Raise Robotics
Rishabh Aggarwal is CTO of Raise Robotics, which builds multi-purpose autonomous robots for dangerous work in heavy industries like construction, manufacturing & shipbuilding. Before Raise he was a founding engineer at Tortuga AgTech, where he scaled autonomous harvesting from a single prototype to 150 robots, among the largest commercial fleets of its kind. His work has been recognized in TIME's Best Inventions.
Andreas Bihlmaier
Director of Delivery, Intrinsic
Andreas Bihlmaier is the Director of Delivery at Intrinsic, an AI robotics group at Google, where he scales advanced AI robotics from the lab to real-world deployment. He is the former Chief Software Architect at ABB Robotics & the founder of robodev. He was recognized by MIT Technology Review as "Innovator Under 35." He holds a PhD in Robotics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Saurabh Chandra
Founder & CEO, Ati Robotics
Saurabh Chandra is founder & CEO of Ati Robotics, which builds full-stack autonomous industrial vehicles for factories & warehouses. Ati's Sherpa robots run in demanding real-world environments across sites worldwide, on the way to a million autonomous missions a year. He works on the hard operational problems of deploying & scaling robot fleets in production.
Cristian Ionescu-Catrina
Ecosystem & Partnerships, Bosch
Cristian Ionescu-Catrina is a technology leader focused on Robotics, sensing & ecosystem development. With 25+ years in the semiconductors industry, he works across technology partners, ecosystem & system integrators to advance sensing solutions & their integration into safer robotics systems. Cristian is actively involved in robotics safety standards as a member of U.S. TAG to ISO/TC299 robotics standards
Anthony Jules
Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Robust.AI
Anthony Jules is co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Robust.AI, where he pioneers collaborative mobility in robotics. A 30-year technology veteran, Anthony brings deep expertise in robotics, AI, & machine learning, grounded in his belief that complex problems require human-centered, multidisciplinary solutions. He previously led product teams at Google Robotics & X, including on the Everyday Robot project, having joined through its acquisition of Redwood Robotics.
Jeff Mahler
Co-founder & CTO, Ambi Robotics
Jeff Mahler is co-founder & CTO of Ambi Robotics, which builds AI-powered robots for parcel sortation along with AmbiOS, an operating system for robotic sortation. His work grew out of the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) at UC Berkeley, where he earned his PhD with Ken Goldberg on teaching robots to grasp items they have never seen before. He leads the technology behind Ambi's sortation fleets deployed across logistics & e-commerce operations.
Oliver Mitchell
Partner, ff Venture Capital
Oliver Mitchell is a venture investor, operator, & advisor with nearly 20 years of experience investing in robotics, Physical AI, & emerging technologies. He is a Partner at Arkenstone Venture Partners & ff Venture Capital, focused on early-stage deep tech startups. Over his investment career, Oliver has led investments & diligence across numerous companies, with 10 liquidity events, including four IPOs & a $1.4 billion private equity exit. He is also active at the board & advisory level with companies including CivRobotics, Cambrian Robotics, Plus One Robotics, Burro, Haply, Persona AI, & Viam, where he is building a robotics startup incubator. Oliver is an Adjunct Professor at Sy Syms School of Business & the author of A Startup Field Guide in the Age of Robots & AI.
Betsy Mul
Principal, F-Prime
Betsy Mul is a Principal at F-Prime, where she focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise technology & robotics. Prior to joining F-Prime, she was a strategy consultant at Mars & Co., where she advised Fortune 500 companies across the US, LatAm & Europe. Betsy is a graduate of MIT, where she majored in Chemical-Biological Engineering.
Aaron Nathan
Founder & CEO, Point One Navigation
Aaron Nathan, CEO & Founder of Point One Navigation, is an entrepreneur & technical leader with over a decade of experience in cutting-edge robotics & critical software/hardware development. He has led multi-disciplinary teams building complex systems in financial, defense, & enterprise markets & has founded two venture-backed startups. He has deep domain experience in sensor fusion, computer vision, navigation, & embedded systems, specifically in the context of self-driving vehicles & other robotic applications.
Touraj Parang
President & COO, Serve Robotics
Touraj Parang is President & COO of Serve Robotics, a leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company. He helped spin the company out of Uber & take it public on Nasdaq. He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, & author working at the forefront of physical AI & autonomous robotics. Touraj brings a rare operator's perspective on what it takes to move breakthrough technology from the lab into the real world-and how robotics will reshape commerce, cities, work, & everyday life.
Florian Pestoni
Co-founder, ROG; Founder & CEO, InOrbit (Moderator)
Florian Pestoni is founder & CEO of InOrbit.AI, the management layer for Physical AI, & co-founder of the Robot Operations Group. He helped define RobOps as a discipline & pushes for open, interoperable operations, contributing to the ISO 21423 standard & releasing OpenRobOps, the open-source robot operations software. He speaks & writes frequently on scaling robot operations.
Arshan Poursohi
Co-Founder & CEO, Third Wave Automation
Arshan Poursohi is co-founder & CEO of Third Wave Automation, which builds autonomous forklifts for warehouses using a shared-autonomy approach that pairs on-vehicle AI with remote human support. Before Third Wave he was Director of Engineering at Toyota Research Institute & led robotics work at Google, with earlier work on wireless sensor networks at Sun Microsystems. He founded Third Wave in 2018 to bring material-handling automation into real-world logistics operations.
Joe Wieciek
Co-founder, ROG; Agtonomy (Moderator)
Joe Wieciek is co-founder of the Robot Operations Group & a robotics operations leader who has spent his career turning prototypes into production fleets, setting up the systems to scale deployments to over 50,000 robots. He currently works on autonomy for agriculture at Agtonomy. At ROG he helps build the practitioner community defining how robots are operated at scale.
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