Schematic Ventures

Industrial AI Summit

Join us on March 31, 2026 for Schematic's inaugural Industrial AI Summit in SF!

This invite-only event will feature discussions with leading industry executives and founders, networking and curated breakout sessions, and more.

Space is limited, so at this time we're only accepting registrations from startups and industry executives.

Featured Speakers & Panels

9am - 12pm

Lunch

12pm - 1pm

Breakout Discussions

1pm - 3pm

Happy Hour

3pm - 5pm

Featuring 100+ founders and technical leaders, including:

Amir Kashani

Director AI
Stanley Black & Decker

Andy Fine

Founder & CEO
Fine Physics

Behrad Toghi

Head of AI Robotics / Engineering
General Motors

Bruce Lawler

Managing Director
MIT Machine Intelligence

Chacha Chachchaval

Inception Partner Manager - Robotics & Physical AI
NVIDIA

Chris Paulson

Sr. Dev Relationship Manager - Robotics
NVIDIA

Chris Paxton

AI Innovation Lead
Agility Robotics

Chris Pickett

Chief Commercial Officer
Flock Freight

Gaurav Saxena

Director of Engineering
Ford Motor Company

Henrik Ohlsson

VP & Chief Data Scientist
C3 AI

Hiroto Takeuchi

Sr. Manager Silicon Valley Branch
Mitsubishi Corporation

Jay Pathak

Senior Director R&D
Synopsys

Jonathan Drouin

VP Product Strategy & Design
WWEX Group

Kai Backman

Founder & CEO
Vibe Robotics

Koutheir Cherni

Founder & CEO
Guepard

Matt Berggren

Founder & CEO
Neurocad

Michael Bogomolny

Founder & CEO
InfinitForm

Michael Kennaugh

CIO
Reyes Coca-Cola

Olivia Hu

Head of Autonomous Trucking
Uber Freight

Paul Eremenko

Founder & CEO
P-1 AI

Peter Swartz

Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Altana

Raghu Dhara

Director of Applied Science
Motive

Rahul Deshpande

Managing Director
PACCAR

Reyaz Mohamed

VP Product Management
Blue Yonder

Richard Zhang

Founder & CEO
CVector

Ryan Julian

Research Scientist
NVIDIA

Shaun Edwards

Co-Founder & CTO
Plus One Robotics

Shivi Shankaran

Chief Operating Officer
Saks OFF 5th

Sunny Han

Founder & CEO
Fulcrum

Vivian Sun

Head of Automated Driving
Amazon

Summit agenda details:

Time

Session

Speakers

9:30am

Welcome / Opening Keynote

To Be Announced

10:00am

Current Survey of Model Architectures for Robot Control

To Be Announced

10:30am

The Convergence of World Models and Physics Engines

To Be Announced

11:00am

AI Governance: Data Controls, Regulation, and Policy Considerations

To Be Announced

11:30am

AI Adoption: Infrastructure, Integration, and Data Considerations

To Be Announced

Our venue in the Presidio to be announced soon:

Past events hosted by Schematic Ventures:

Big Bash at ProMat 2023
Big Bash at Modex 2024
Big Bash at Modex 2024
Big Bash at Modex 2024
DevBots - Robotics Hackathon
SF Tech Week - Physical AI Showcase