Speakers 2018

James English is President and Chief Technical Officer of Energid Technologies. He leads project teams in the development of complex robotic, machine vision, and simulation systems. James’ specialty is automatic remote robotics. Prior to founding Energid, his background was in […]

Sana Fathima is an investment manager at Lockheed Martin Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Her areas of focus are advanced software companies, including in autonomy / AI, and nextGen materials and manufacturing. She previously worked […]

Tom Frost, President of Endeavor Robotics, a company devoted to providing capable and rugged unmanned ground vehicles to militaries, police units and industrial organizations worldwide, has been deeply involved with the robotics industry for 18+ years. Previously, he served as […]

Lee Ginter is the Sales Engineering Manager, Central Region, for Harmonic Drive LLC. Lee Ginter has been an active member of the motion control industry for more than 25 years. He has worked with industry-leading companies on every side of […]

Peter Howard is CEO of Realtime Robotics. He has a particular passion and interest in business formation and the process of creating order and value out of formative chaos. His roles have included entrepreneur-CEO, investor, and board director. As CEO, […]

Leif Jentoft is a co-founder at RightHand Robotics, a company creating accurate, scalable order-picking robots. The technology spun out of a DARPA program at the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, and their products are used in over 15 countries in a variety […]

As Vice President, Robotics at WTWH Media, Dan Kara is charted with driving the company’s robotics and intelligent systems initiatives. Prior to joining WTWH, he was Practice Director, Robotics at ABI Research and Chief Research Officer for Myria RAS, both […]

Aditya Kaul is a research director at Tractica, with a primary focus on artificial intelligence and robotics. He also covers blockchain and wearables as part of his research. Kaul has more than 12 years of experience in technology market research […]

Jin Joo Lee is a Character AI Engineer at Jibo Inc., creator of the world’s first social robot for the home. She graduated with a PhD from the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots Group with Cynthia Breazeal (2017). […]

Andy McMillan is an experienced executive with a history of strategic innovation in products, technologies and business models. He has founded several companies, holds a dozen patents, has been an invited speaker on automation and open systems around the world. […]