Foxglove announces speaker lineup for Actuate 26 annual robotics developer conference

Robotics development software provider Foxglove announced the speaker lineup and programming for Actuate 26, its annual robotics developer conference for engineers, software developers, AI/ML practitioners, founders and technical leaders building production robots and physical AI systems.

The company said that Actuate 26 will take place August 18-19 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Foxglove said that Actuate 26 is expected to draw more than 1,000 attendees from companies deploying robots in the real world across autonomous vehicles, drones, humanoids, defense systems, construction, logistics, industrial automation, maritime autonomy, agriculture and general-purpose robotics.

Actuate 26 speaker details

Foxglove said that Actuate 26 is a technical robotics conference focused on the real engineering work behind scaling robots from demos to production. Over the past two years, the company said that Actuate has become a premier destination to discuss training and deploying physical AI, with sold-out conferences since launching in 2024.

The two-day event will cover autonomy, robot foundation models, robot data infrastructure, simulation, fleet operations, debugging, evaluation, deployment and the data workflows that help robotics teams improve production-grade reliability.

“Physical AI has graduated from the lab to the real world, but scaling it is now the defining challenge for the industry,” said Adrian Macneil, co-founder and CEO of Foxglove. “Making data actionable is how robotics companies scale from one robot to fleets, from simple automation to complex tasks, and from demos to production-grade reliability. Actuate brings together the people shipping robots into production to share how they operationalize robot data to improve autonomy and accelerate scaling.”

Foxglove announced that the following leaders from across the robotics and physical AI ecosystem are scheduled to speak at Actuate:

• Alex Kendall, Co-Founder & CEO, Wayve
• Chris Urmson, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Aurora
• Chelsea Finn, Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence
• Keenan Wyrobek, Co-Founder & CTO, Zipline
• Nathan Michael, CTO & Head of Hivemind, Shield AI
• Carolina Parada, VP of Robotics, Google DeepMind
• Sanja Fidler, VP of AI Research, NVIDIA
• Engin Anil, VP of Software, Autonomy, and Foundation Models AI, Cobot
• Fred Parietti, Co-Founder & CEO, Multiply Labs
• Goutham Subramanian, VP of Software, Saronic
• Kevin Peterson, Co-Founder & CTO, Bedrock Robotics
• Jason Ma, Co-Founder, Dyna Robotics
• Cheng Chi, Co-Founder & CTO, Sunday
• Grace Brown, Founder & CEO, Andromeda
• Pulkit Agrawal, Co-Founder, Eka Robotics
• Pete Florence, Co-Founder & CEO, Generalist
• Theophile Gervet, Co-Founder, Genesis AI
• Meghna Gummadi, Robotics Tech Lead and Founding Member of Technical Staff, Foundry Robotics
• Vibhor Sood, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Burro
• Guillaume Doisy, VP of Autonomous Systems, Dexory
• Abhinav Das, Co-Founder & CEO, Orangewood Labs

Foxglove said that it will announce additional speakers in the weeks ahead.

Interested attendees can view the agenda, featuring keynotes, fireside conversations and technical sessions, along with registering for the conference, here.