Physical AI Summit: Austin 2026 - From Factory Floor to Autonomous Fleet
F50 Physical AI Summit — Austin 2026
From Factory Floor to Autonomous Fleet
📅 Thursday, December 3, 2026 · 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM CT
📍 Commons Conference Center, UT Austin (J.J. Pickle Research Campus), 10100 Burnet Rd, Building 137, Austin, TX 78758
🌐 physical.f50.ai/atx
Co-hosted by F50 · Physical AI Builders · AI Space Podcast
Supported by Austin–San Antonio Entrepreneurs · Austin Robotics & AI · North America Manufacturing Corridor
THE ROOM WHERE AUTONOMY GETS FINANCED AND BUILT
On December 3, global investors, founders, OEMs, and industrial buyers converge at UT Austin for the flagship edition of the F50 Physical AI Summit.
We launched this movement in Austin in October 2025. Since then, the series has grown through Silicon Valley and Dallas, with each stop drawing 300+ curated leaders and real capital into the room. Austin 2026 is our largest chapter yet, and it’s coming home.
📊 BY THE NUMBERS
→ 500+ RSVP attendees
→ 100+ VIPs: Speakers investors, corporate buyers, and top-tier founders
→ 40% C-level · 25%+ active investors
→ 20 live demo booths in the Exhibition Hall
→ 2 stages · 7 program tracks · 50+ speakers
→ 1M+ projected online impressions
SECTOR COVERAGE
Drones / UAV · Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV) · Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) · SpaceTech · Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Advanced Manufacturing · Supply Chain
PROGRAM TRACKS
💰 Investment Forum: Where institutional and venture capital is flowing into robotics, autonomy, and industrial infrastructure
🚀 Growing-Stage Spotlight: Breakout companies turning embodied intelligence into deployed products
🏭 Corporate Innovation: How Fortune 500 operators buy, deploy, and scale Physical AI
🔗 Supply Chain Innovation: Building the American UxV supply chain across the Texas–Mexico manufacturing corridor
🌎 Ecosystems & Community: Academia, government, and community building the Physical AI stack
⚡ Startup Showcase: The most promising early-stage Physical AI startups, live on stage
🛠 Tech Talk (Second Stage): Engineers and architects going deep on the data, infrastructure, and safety layers powering autonomous systems
SUMMIT AT A GLANCE
8:30 AM: Registration & Speaker Check-In
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Main Stage: Investment Forum & Growing-Stage Spotlight
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch + Exhibition Hall (Live Demos & Sponsors)
1:00 – 5:00 PM: Main Stage: Corporate Innovation · Supply Chain Innovation · Ecosystems & Community
1:00 – 5:00 PM: Second Stage (parallel): Tech Talks & Startup Showcase
5:00 – 7:00 PM: 🍸 AI Builder Mixer + 🥂 VIP Networking
Full agenda: physical.f50.ai/schedule
SPEAKERS
💼 Investors
Betty Lee, Investor, Woven Capital (Toyota)
Duncan Davison, Managing Partner, Bullpen Capital
David Cao, Managing Partner, Long 100 | F50 | Physical AI Builders
Jake Crowley, Managing Partner, Crowley Capital Ventures
John Gowan, Managing Partner, Long 100 Capital
Melissa Chalfant, General Partner, Inventures
Rick Treleaven, Venture Partner, Long 100 Capital
Thomas Michael Hogg, Managing Director, TMH Consulting and Investment Group
Thomas Miranda, Partner, Topline Ventures
Viktor Shpakovsky, Founding and Investment Partner, Beyond Earth Ventures
Anupam Govil, Managing Partner, Avasant
🏢 Corporate & Industry Leaders
Ayush Dwivedi, Senior Manager, Data Science, Walmart
Jobinesh Purushothaman, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
Joyjit Roy, Senior Member, IEEE
Koundanya Rajan Kesani, Sr AI/ML Engineer, JPMorgan Chase
Mohsen Sharifani, Hands-on AI Leader, Former Dell CTO Office
Osman Kidwai, Sr Global Supply Manager, Matic Robots (ex-Tesla, Zoox, Meta)
Raj Singh Rikhy, Senior Director, Product Management, AI Research & Autonomous Systems, Cisco
Sandeep Kumar Bomthapalli, Senior Staff ASIC Design Engineer & Functional Safety Expert, GlobalFoundries
🚀 Founders & Builders
Alex Torrey, Co-Founder & CEO, America’s Innovation Corporation (AIC)
Ari Gorman, K3 IoT
Sonia Dagan, CEO, Kytyra
Tony Aghazarian, Founder & CEO, BuildQM
Zachary Tschirhart, VP of Technology, Sustainment
🌎 Government, Defense & Ecosystem
Humberto Hernández Haddad, Consul General of Mexico in Austin
Jeffrey J. DeCoux, Chairman, Autonomy Institute
Florin Matei, Organizer, Austin Robotics & AI
🎙 Hosts
Sanjay Kalluvilayil, Host, AI Space Podcast (2× Telly Award winner)
More speakers announced weekly → physical.f50.ai/s
🥂 VIP TICKETS: LIMITED TO 150
The most valuable hours of the summit happen off stage. VIP access includes:
✔ Curated VIP Networking with investors, corporate buyers, and featured speakers
✔ Priority seating on the Main Stage
✔ Access to the VIP lounge throughout the day
✔ Early access to the 2026 F50 Physical AI Industrial Insights Report
If you are raising, buying, or deploying capital in autonomy, VIP is the ticket. 👉 https://luma.com/jed6dll8
🤖 EXHIBITION HALL: 20 DEMO BOOTHS ONLY
Put your live system in front of 500+ decision-makers who are qualified to write checks or sign procurement contracts. This is a curated floor, not a convention hall: every attendee is a potential customer, partner, or investor.
Who should exhibit:
→ UxV OEMs: drones, ground robots, USV, UUV
→ Robotics and hardware companies with live systems
→ Supply chain, components, sensors, and semiconductor providers
→ Smart factory, automation, and digital twin platforms
Supplier Booth: $999. Includes a demo table, two VIP tickets, a directory listing, and buyer–supplier matching.
Booths are allocated first come, first served, with priority for live hardware demos.
👉 Reserve your booth: physical.f50.ai/expo
🤝 SPONSORSHIP: PUT YOUR BRAND IN FRONT OF THE BUYERS WHO MATTER
🏆 Title Sponsor: Keynote stage time, premier branding on the main stage backdrop and all materials, top placement in the Industrial Insights Report, dedicated demo booth, VIP access,
🥇 Gold Sponsor: Branded session or panel seat, featured report placement, premium demo booth, VIP access, and logo across signage and digital channels
🥈 Silver Sponsor: Track sponsorship (Investment Forum, Supply Chain Innovation, Tech Talk, and more), demo booth, logo placement, and a social media spotlight
Sponsor receives:
✔ Featured placement in the 2026 F50 Physical AI Industrial Insights Report, distributed to 10,000+ investors and corporate leaders
✔ Reach across 100,000+ followers via F50, Physical AI Builders, AI Space Podcast, and partner channels
✔ Direct access to the Texas–Mexico manufacturing corridor
Title and Gold packages are limited. 📩 physical.f50.ai/sponsorship · 📧 sponsorship@f50.me
BEYOND THE MAIN STAGE
🔗 Supply Chain as a Service: empowering UxV innovation → f50.ai/scas
📑 2026 Supply Chain Report: what’s happening in your future supply chain → f50.ai/r26-supplychain
🍸 AI Builder Mixer: open to all attendees, 5–7 PM
💬 Physical AI Builders community: continue the conversation after December 3 → 50builders.ai
GET INVOLVED
🎟 Attend or upgrade to VIP: https://luma.com/jed6dll8
🤖 Reserve a demo booth: physical.f50.ai/expo
🤝 Sponsor: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship
🚀 Present (growing-stage startups raising $20M+): physical.f50.ai/present
📋 Speakers & partners: physical.f50.ai/s
🚗 Parking permits & directions: f50summit.com/tx-directions
📧 General inquiries: summit@f50.ai
Silicon Valley in April. Dallas in June. Austin in December. Texas is where Physical AI gets financed and built.