June 9 Houston Physical AI & Robotics Event
Click on video and watch CEO Ron Gerber describe the highly-praised Angelbeat event experience.
Opening keynotes offer strategic and high-level technical insights, followed by real-life deployments and case studies.
The event ends with an interactive Q&A workshop, where expert speakers answer your company-specific questions.
The event is at the Houston Sheraton Brookhollow, 3000 North Loop W, on the 610 Loop, with free parking and WiFi.
You’ll leave with the knowledge, contacts and confidence to design, implement and expand your own Robotic/Physical AI initiatives. There is a nominal registration fee of $50, to cover the costs of a full hot lunch/food and Amazon fulfillment center/state-of-the-art warehouse tour.
Scroll down for the agenda. Click on the speaker’s name to view their Linkedin profile, plus their session title for more information. 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.Here are compelling reasons to attend:
Hear dynamic presentations from AWS, Amazon and other globally renown, subject matter experts
Get invited to an “insiders” tour of an Amazon warehouse/fulfillment center, and see how they deploy robots
Integrate Digital/Agentic and Physical/Robotic AI platforms
Design Autonomous Robot Operations with Appropriate Human Oversight, Controls, Governance
Plan for HR/Talent impact of Robotics/Physical AI on White and Blue Collar workforce
See, feel, touch the latest robotic hardware, including exoskeletons that greatly enhance human strength/endurance
Learn about Successful Robotics/Physical AI Deployments in Warehousing, Manufacturing, Autonomous-Driving, Delivery, OR/Healthcare and more applications, plus understand common issues such as visual/spatial data processing speed and autonomous decision-making protocols, relevant for all industries
Enjoy delicious hot lunch, plus receive 6 CPE credit hours
If your company is interested in speaking/exhibiting - there is one spot still available - click here to email Angelbeat CEO Ron Gerber.
Click here to request to join the prestigious Angelbeat Robotics Advisory Council (ARAC), a group of highly respected industry, technology and 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 CT: Attendee Registration, Coffee & Continental Breakfast, Exhibit Area Open
9:20 Ron Gerber, CEO Angelbeat
Strategic Deployment Framework (SDF) on Robotics/Physical AI (RPAI) for C-Suite/Board
C-Suite Leadership and Corporate Boards hire Angelbeat CEO Gerber to create a SDF for RPAI, covering these topics:
RPAI Integration with rapidly evolving Agentic/Digital AI applications and existing IT, OT, IoT, Automation software platforms
RPAI form factor (humanoid, AMR, arm) usage across all departments: manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, office space, facility, outside grounds
Human oversight/governance/control over Autonomous RPAI decision-making
RPAI (re)training, hiring, retention impact on White and Blue Collar employees.
Data guardrails/security for confidentiality & ransomware protection, plus keeping inference/training knowlege private and not available publicly
9:40 Javier Figueras, Senior WW Specialist, Physical AI, Technology Business Development, 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.
10:20 Tara Jones, Principal Advisor, AI and Modern Data Strategy, Business Innovation, AWS/Amazon
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 tour a state-of-the-art Amazon fulfillment center/warehouse where you can see how Amazon deploys Robotics and integrates Physical and Agentic AI in its world-class logistics and supply chain operations
11:00 Vamshi Damera, Sr. Solution Architect, Softweb Solutions, & Kranti Kambhampati, Technical Solutions Engineer, Avnet
From Edge to Physical AI: Accelerating Real-World Innovation
As AI moves beyond the cloud and beyond the edge, Physical AI is emerging as the next frontier — where intelligent systems perceive, reason, and act in the real world. This session explores Avnet's role in accelerating Physical AI from concept to production, through a broad ecosystem of hardware partners and AWS-integrated software tools. Attendees will gain practical insight into the advantages of local inference — real-time responsiveness, enhanced data privacy, and meaningful reductions in bandwidth and cloud-compute cost — and how these capabilities form the foundation for truly autonomous, embodied systems.
At the center is the Edge AI lifecycle — Provision → Infer → Capture → Retrain → Deploy → Observe — and how Avnet's /IOTCONNECT platform orchestrates the underlying AWS services (IoT Core, S3, SageMaker, KVS, and more) to close the loop: models that are securely provisioned, run on-device, capture their own hard cases, retrain in the cloud, and redeploy via signed OTA — automatically, at the scale of one device or ten thousand.
The session brings this to life with four live demos spanning the silicon ecosystem — a vision-guided robotic arm (Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490), a worker's safety monitoring system (NXP i.MX 93), a secure AI MCU with hardware root of trust (Infineon PSOC™ Edge), and real-time people analytics (AMD Ryzen™ 7 AI on a TRIA/Advantech SOM) — showing how modular hardware and Generative Edge AI enable intelligent applications like autonomous navigation, real-time vision, and localized AI agents that operate at the point of action, not just the point of data.
11:30 Exhibit and Product Demonstration Area Open, Hot Lunch is Served/Provided
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 Stryker 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.
1:30 Jess Hess, Manager Texas Operations, Aurora
Superhuman Freight: Scaling Autonomous Trucking with the Aurora Driver
This session explores how Aurora is addressing critical trucking industry challenges by deploying the "Aurora Driver," an integrated self-driving system designed for superhuman perception and 24/7 operational stamina. We will examine the technical architecture of our long-range FirstLight lidar and fail-safe hardware, alongside the strategic OEM partnerships and "Aurora Services" infrastructure required to launch and scale driverless commercial freight safely.
1:50 Hao Liu, North America Sales Manager, Hypershell
ExeSkeleton Technology to Complement Human Strength and Endurance
Wearable assistive technology is designed to support human movement by reducing physical strain during activity. Consumer exoskeletons use intelligent sensors and AI-powered motion analysis to understand how a person moves, then provide responsive assistance while walking, climbing, or carrying weight.
Modern exoskeletons are designed for mobility and comfort in everyday environments. Lightweight construction and adaptive support allow users to stay active without feeling restricted by bulky equipment.
The New Hypershell X Series expands on that experience with upgraded responsiveness and more refined motion support. The system continuously adapts to movement patterns in real time, helping users maintain a smoother rhythm across changing terrain and longer activities.
That adaptability becomes especially valuable during physically demanding routines where endurance and energy management matter most.
Hypershell is a high-tech company that develops portable exoskeleton robots, using AI and bionic technology to provide lightweight power assistance and physical enhancement for outdoor adventurers and industry professionals.
Conclusion of Formal Presentations
2:00 Interactive Q&A Discussion and Roundtable, with AWS & Amazon
This interactive Q&A discussion and roundtable allows attendees to ask questions directly to the AWS and Amazon expert speakers.
Undoubtedly the earlier presentations will generate questions, that can be addressed during this session.
Click here to submit a question in advance, to guarantee an on-site response.