April 21: Physical AI & Robotics Dallas Live/In-Person Event
This Angelbeat Dallas April 21 event focuses on Robotics and Physical AI. Here are compelling reasons to attend:
Hear dynamic presentations from AWS, Amazon and other globally renown, subject matter experts. Scroll down for the agenda. Click on the speaker’s name to view their Linkedin profile, plus their session title for more information. CPE credit hours are provided.
Integrate Digital/Agentic and Physical/Robotic AI platforms, applications, solutions. Design human oversight protocols when digital agents oversee physical robots, plus guarantee safe operations of autonomous robots, functioning without Internet access.
Anticipate how Physical AI will impact HR/Talent/Labor retention, training, staffing. There are unique/different implications with blue-collar employees.
See, feel, touch the latest robotic hardware. You can’t get the same experience from a webinar.
Understand the tech, business, financial issues applicable to all industries/use cases. Recognize how visual/spatial data processing speeds impact autonomous robot decisions. Grasp the common features and shared design considerations across all robotic form factors, from micro-surgical to humanoid to warehousing, plus drones and self-driving vehicles.
Learn about Amazon’s internal usage of Robotics and Physical AI. Get invited to an exclusive “insiders” tour of its state-of-the-art DFW warehouse
Schedule one-on-one afternoon meetings with expert speakers. Develop customized robotics deployment strategies for your organization, on-the-spot
Interact and Exchange Ideas with Peers, in a highly personalized, comfortable and local setting. Key individuals have already signed up from Honeywell, Stryker, LSG Group and many more leading employers in the area.
Enjoy delicious hot lunch
The event takes place at the conveniently located Hotel Indigo Las Colinas, 455 E John W Carpenter Fwy, Irving, TX 75063, with free parking and WiFi. Registration is $75 (largely to cover food costs), if you signup in March, with the fee increasing to $115 in April.
Space is limited. Act quickly by clicking the GREEN signup button, to login (or create) your secure, online Angelbeat account, then complete the registration form.
Morning sessions are strategic and high-level technical presentations. Afternoon talks are focused on real-life deployments and case studies. You’ll quickly grasp the similarities and common best practices across multiple industries, providing valuable insights as you develop your own Robotic/Physical AI plans.
If your company is interested in speaking/exhibiting - there are just a few spots still available - click here to email Angelbeat CEO Ron Gerber.
Click to learn about the prestigious Angelbeat Robotics Advisory Council (ARAC) DFW, a group of highly respected industry, technology and DFW community leaders. ARAC members provided strategic guidance to CEO Ron Gerber on the agenda and topics, plus will select two award winners for the best presentation and exhibit/demonstration at the event.
8:30 - 9:20: Attendee Registration, Coffee & Continental Breakfast, Exhibit Area Open
9:20 Ron Gerber, CEO Angelbeat
Event Overview. Click the image to learn how Star Trek inspired Gerber to launch these events.
9:30 David Randle, Worldwide Head of GTM - Physical AI, AWS
The Autonomous Economy: Integration of Physical AI with Cloud Infrastructure, GenAI, Agentic AI
The world is moving towards an Autonomous Economy which represents a transformative economic model where AI, edge computing, robotics, spatial intelligence, and simulation technologies work together to enable systems to operate autonomously with minimal human intervention. Physical AI represents the convergence of these technologies enabling computers to sense, understand, predict, and act with the physical world, creating unprecedented opportunities for customers to embrace the transition towards this Autonomous Economy.
Physical AI underpins the paradigm shift to autonomous operations and advances traditional AI systems that operate purely in digital environments to intelligent systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world. This technology set is transforming everything from transportation (self-driving cars) to manufacturing (lights-out manufacturing facilities) to energy (minimal humans on-site and automated inspections of hazardous areas) to healthcare (minimally invasive robotic surgeries) and much more. In a prior blog, AWS proposed a 4-level Physical AI capability spectrum which describes WHAT levels of autonomy Physical AI can enable. Now we will provide guidance on HOW to achieve these levels of autonomy. An example can be found in the following blog featuring Diligent Robotics for healthcare.
In this session, we describe a holistic Physical AI framework as a blueprint to chart your course towards automation. The framework breaks down Physical AI from an abstract concept into practical concrete capabilities that can be developed and integrated into your technical development roadmap. It addresses use-cases today and prepares you to solve challenges tomorrow. It describes a continuous learning loop that connects the physical world (atoms) to the digital world (bits) that accelerates development of autonomy in physical operations. Lastly, we clarify the difference between Physical AI model training in the virtual world and real-time autonomous operations in the physical world and explain how the two are connected in cloud to edge hybrid deployment.
10:10 Tara Jones, Principal Advisor, AI and Modern Data Strategy, Business Innovation, AWS/Amazon
Amazon Warehousing Automation, Optimization, Physical AI and Robotic Strategies
Learn how Amazon is integrating Robotics, Physical AI, Automation, Agentic AI and Data Analytics, to build the world’s foremost logistical, warehousing and delivery system. Get an “insider” perspective on what goes on within an Amazon warehouse, plus learn best practices and technology strategies that you can deploy within your organization.
Modern warehouse operations face unprecedented challenges in meeting the demands of e-commerce growth, labor constraints, and customer expectations for rapid delivery. Drawing from Amazon's extensive experience in operating over 150 million square feet of fulfillment center space globally, Tara will discuss how the Amazon Global Engineering team has developed proven approaches for warehouse automation and optimization. These insights, combined with AWS Cloud capabilities, form the foundation of the warehouse automation and optimization (WAO) offering from AWS Professional Services, providing customers with battle-tested solutions for their warehouse operations.
All attendees receive a special invitation to visit and tour a state-of-the-art Amazon warehouse in Grapevine.
10:50 Dave Grant CEO & Steve Hagenlock Account Executive, PickNik
Robotics is entering a new era where automation is no longer limited to rigid, pre-programmed environments. This talk explores how advanced robotics, designed to operate in dynamic, changing conditions, is laying the groundwork for truly scalable automation. Drawing on real deployments, we’ll show how physical labor across logistics, manufacturing, and field operations can now be automated in practical, business-ready ways. Powered by modern AI, affordable computing, and plug-and-play hardware, these capabilities are rapidly democratizing robotics. Platforms like PickNik's MoveIt Pro make it possible to deliver measurable business outcomes on timelines that matter.
11:20 - 1:00: Exhibit and Product Demonstration Area Open, Lunch is Served/Provided
All speakers will set up their own exhibit tables.
Fanuc Robotics and Universal Robots, two of the world’s leading manufacturers of robotic hardware, will also set up exhibit tables and conduct product demonstrations.
1:00 Kathleen Keely Boyle, M.D., Orthopaedic Division Chief, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Robots in the OR: The Benefits of Robotic-Powered Hip and Knee Replacement Surgeries
UT Southwestern Medical Center is widely recognized as one of the nation’s top hospitals for orthopedic care.
Dr. Boyle will discuss how using robotics in the Operating Room enables her patients to have the best possible medical outcome, accelerating their recovery process and restoring functionality to the knee or hip joint.
1:20 Garrett Cheney, Commercial Manager, Mobile Robotics, Oceaneering
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) for Trailer Loading: Learn about Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) and Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) precision for safer, consistent dock operations. See how you can solve operational challenges and overcome labor shortages with innovative mobile robotic solutions based on autonomous technology. The MaxMover offers a true replacement for conventional counterbalance forklifts, and is specifically designed for use across warehouse logistics, manufacturing operations, distribution centers, and assembly lines
Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) for Oil & Gas: Oceaneering operates the world's premier fleet of ROVs and is the leading provider of ROVs to the oil and gas industry. You will learn about its ROV fleet, which includes deepwater work class systems and ultra-deepwater search and rescue systems.
Autonomous Transit/Transport Systems: Oceaneering offers a revolution in group transit technology, providing self-guided, driverless transit vehicles, each capable of transporting up to 22 passengers, on a dedicated right-of-way. By using pre-programmed routes, our system is able to connect multiple origins with multiple destinations, providing maximum flexibility in service. Governed by a master supervisory system, each vehicle in the fleet is fully integrated into the environment and under continuous control by operations.
1:40 Francis X. Govers III, Director of Engineering, Airbus US Space & Defense
Francis will discuss his leadership role in designing the U.S. Marine Corps’ Aerial Logistics Connector, which is an unmanned Helicopter (consider it a large flying robots designed to autonomously transport thousands of pounds of cargo into hazardous conditions.
Francis will address how this technology can be applied to many other Physical AI and Robotics applications, across multiple industries.
Francis X. Govers III is an award-winning AI and robotics engineer, aerospace visionary, and author whose career spans decades at the leading edge of autonomy, aviation, simulation , and artificial intelligence. With a background that includes work for NASA, the Department of Defense, and major aerospace firms, Francis has designed everything from swarming UAVs to self-driving cars, space stations, and planetary rovers. He is currently leading advanced work in sensor fusion, autonomous navigation, and decision-making frameworks for VTOL systems and intelligent robotics. A commercial multi-engine pilot, author, artist, traveler, musician, and public speaker, Francis brings a rare combination of scientific rigor, artistic imagination, and big-picture thinking. He’s spoken internationally on topics ranging from sensor fusion and autonomy to the ethics of AI.
2:00 - 3:00: Demonstration Area Remains Open: Time for Peer Networking and One-on-One Meetings with Speakers