​Every factory wants a robot. But what about integrating one?

​Amazon now runs more than a million robots in its warehouses. BMW has put humanoids on the line in South Carolina and Leipzig. GXO is paying for Agility’s Digit humanoids by the hour—robots-as-a-service, if you will.

​Meanwhile, most factories are still trying to get the conveyor from 2009 to talk to the MES from 2014 🐌

​That’s the decision manufacturing and logistics leaders are facing now. Do you adopt off-the-shelf robotics, wait for the technology (and the price) to settle, or build in-house?

​Humanoids make the choice harder. They promise to drop into spaces built for people without retooling, but outside a few closely watched pilots, the case for deploying them at scale isn’t proven yet.

​MistyWest is teaming up with Robot Sales Club for a Vancouver HardTech Forum discussion moderated by Leigh Christie, Cofounder of MistyWest, of where automation investment is really going, what humanoid deployment looks like today, and what it actually takes to get manufacturers to adopt.

​Agenda

​Doors at 5pm
Panel Discussion at 6pm
Networking at 7pm

​Panelists

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​Max Joseph, Founder & CEO at Robot Sales Club

​Max Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Robot Sales Club, a robotics-focused go-to-market and business development firm acquired by Vessel Investment Group. RSC partners with emerging and established robotics companies to accelerate commercialization, develop scalable GTM strategies, and build enterprise sales pipelines across manufacturing, logistics, and industrial automation. Through its deep industry relationships, strategic outreach, and hands-on sales execution, RSC helps robotics innovators connect with leading manufacturers and logistics operators, secure enterprise opportunities, and accelerate revenue growth.

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​Donato Montanari, CTO at Novarc

​Donato brings extensive, hands-on experience in AI, Machine Vision, and Industrial Automation. Before joining Novarc, he held executive roles in a wide range of imaging-based companies, from large, publicly traded corporations to startups. Donato holds a Master of Engineering in electrical engineering from K.U.L in Belgium and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Universita' of Pavia, Italy.

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​Loki Jörgenson, CTO of Circle Innovation

​Loki Jörgenson leads Circle Innovation's Automation and Robotics Mobilization (ARM for BC) initiative. ARM supports BC manufacturers and other SMEs through the decision to adopt robotics and automation. Its addresses workforce and readiness barriers alongside technology ones, where adoption often stalls. Loki began as a computational physicist and spent more than 20 years as a founder and CTO of startups in BC and the Bay Area. He has delivered products in machine learning and predictive systems for IT, fintech and medtech.

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Will Zell, Founder & Managing Partner at Vessel Investment Group, Chairman at AssetWatch

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​​Location

​Floor 29 (Sky Lounge)
733 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 0S6

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​About MistyWest

​MistyWest is a product development firm accelerating the world’s transition to a sustainable future with technology. We help our clients develop market-ready solutions for mining, smart infrastructure, and logistics in half the time compared to ramping up an equivalent internal team.

​About Robot Sales Club

​Robot Sales Club is an outsourced business development partner for robotics and physical AI companies. We help teams build qualified pipelines, open doors with manufacturers and logistics companies, and create real sales opportunities.

​​Sponsors

​This HardTech Forum is made possible thanks to our co-host Robot Sales Club, our gold sponsors Intent and Doane Grant Thornton, and silver sponsors Nordic Semiconductor and Boast. Their contributions enable us to continue offer events to our community for years to come.