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Executive Circle | Webinar | Physical AI: What Industrials Need to Prepare For Now

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Physical AI: What Industrials Need to Prepare For Now

From deterministic automation to adaptive robotics and industrial scale

Physical AI is moving robotics beyond fixed, pre-programmed automation toward machines that can perceive, learn, and adapt.

For industrial leaders, the question is no longer whether robotics will advance. It is where Physical AI creates real economic value, what companies must change to deploy it at scale, and where the hype still runs ahead of reality.

This closed CVC | Open Innovation Summit Executive Circle brings together industrial users, robotics builders, investors, and leading researchers to explore:

Where Physical AI can outperform traditional automation, and where it cannot
What it takes for an industrial company to become deployment-ready
The role of hardware, materials, sensing, data, and embodied intelligence
How to move from pilot to scaled deployment with a credible ROI
How CVC, innovation, and business units should engage robotics companies
What industrial leaders should do now, and what they should not do yet

Confirmed Lineup

Host
Philipp Willigmann | Chairman, CVC | Open Innovation Summit | Industrial robotics investor & advisor

Moderator
Steve Schmith | Co-Host, Inside CVC

This is not a pitch session. It is a curated, non-commercial working discussion for senior corporate leaders across strategy, CVC, innovation, manufacturing, operations, automation, and transformation.

Participation is limited and registrations are reviewed.

Part of the CVC | Open Innovation Summit

This Executive Circle is part of the conversation leading into the CVC | Open Innovation Summit Europe 2026 in Berlin, built around our mission to empower industry leaders to unite capital, innovation, and strategy to shape the future of business and society.

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