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.

Registration & Check-In

9:00am - 9:30am

Featured Speakers & Panels

9:30am - 12:30pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Breakout Discussions

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Happy Hour

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Hosted by:

Featuring 100+ founders and technical leaders, including:

Amir Kashani

Director AI
Stanley Black & Decker

Andy Fine

Founder & CEO
Fine Physics

Anupam Singh

Sr. Investment Director
Prosperity7 (Aramco)

Bob Holmberg

Robotics Architect
Dexterity

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

Chris Rubio

Global Head of Customs Brokerage
UPS

Coline Devin

Member of Technical Staff
GeneralistAI

Dhruv Raturi

Sr. Robotics Software Engineer
Intrinsic

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

John Harris

Founder & CEO
Harbinger Motors

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 Matthews

Director of Software Engineering
Electric Hydrogen

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

Ryan Rusnak

Founder & CTO
Airspace

Shaun Edwards

Co-Founder & CTO
Plus One Robotics

Shivi Shankaran

Chief Operating Officer
Saks OFF 5th

Sunny Han

Founder & CEO
Fulcrum

Ted Xiao

Founding Member of Technical Staff
Project Prometheus

Tolga Kart

CEO
Third Dimension AI

Vinoth Govindarajan

Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI

Vivian Sun

Head of Automated Driving
Amazon

Summit agenda details:

Time

Session

Speakers

9:30am

Welcome / Opening Keynote

Julian Counihan
Schematic Ventures

9:40am

Current Survey of Model Architectures for Robot Control

Ryan Julian
NVIDIA
Coline Devin
GeneralistAI
Ted Xiao
Project Prometheus
Shaun Edwards
Plus One Robotics

10:20am

The Convergence of World Models and Physics Engines

Andy Fine
Fine Physics
Michael Bogomolny
InfinitForm
Tolga Kart
Third Dimension AI

11:00am

Break

11:20am

AI Governance: Data Controls, Regulation, and Policy Considerations

Peter Swartz
Altana
Chris Rubio
UPS

12:00pm

AI Adoption: Infrastructure, Integration, and Data Considerations

Koutheir Cherni
Guepard
Ryan Rusnak
Airspace
Vinoth Govindarajan
OpenAI

Located at in the Presidio

See the location details here on our registration page

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