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F50 PHYSICAL AI SUMMIT — DALLAS 2026
Financing and Building the Next Trillion-Dollar Wave of Physical AI
📅 June 11, 2026 📍 Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center, UT Dallas 🌐 physical.f50.ai
Co-hosted by F50 · Physical AI Builders · UT Dallas School of Management · AI Space Podcast

THE SUMMIT
On June 11, 2026, global investors, founders, and industrial leaders converge at UT Dallas for the F50 Physical AI Summit — Dallas 2026.
This is the room where the next trillion dollars in North American manufacturing, robotics, and AI-driven infrastructure get financed, built, and scaled.
300+ curated in-person attendees. 40% C-level. 25%+ active investors. Corporate buyers deploying $50M–$2B budgets. This is not a networking mixer — it is a capital formation event.

WHO'S IN THE ROOM
✔ Institutional and venture investors from Silicon Valley, New York, and Texas ✔ Corporate executives from Microsoft, HPE, Fujitsu, Bluebeam, and many more ✔ Frontier founders in robotics, autonomy, smart manufacturing, and embodied AI ✔ Industrial players from the Texas–Mexico manufacturing corridor

AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS
8:30 AM — Check-in & Registration
Welcome from UT Dallas Gaurav Shekhar, Associate Dean, UT Dallas School of Management
AI Needs the Human Interface Nithin Mohan, AI & Supercomputing Leader, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Fireside Chat: Capital Formation in the Physical World Jaleh Daie, Managing Partner, Aurora Capital Where patient capital is actually flowing in robotics, manufacturing, and industrial infrastructure.
Investor Panel Jasper Cannon, Venture Partner, MedStartr Ventures Anu Sharma, Head of Venture Capital & Private Capital Strategy, William Blair
Growing-Stage Spotlights
→ TorqueAGI — Ashutosh Saxena, Founder & CEO Embodied intelligence and the path from foundation models to robotic action.
→ BrainSpace — Caitlin Morse, CEO & Co-founder Next-generation neural interfaces for embodied AI.
→ Valhallan Esports / XP League — Morris Jackson, Founder & CEO Building the AI infrastructure for youth competitive gaming.
→ AI Monkeys Ltd. — Kuldeep Singh, Founder & CEO Applied AI agents for the industrial workflow.
→ Circu Launch — Alex Dantas, CEO
10:44 AM — Super Innovator Panel: What Breakthrough Actually Means in Physical AI Moderator: Sanjay Kalluvilayil, AI Space Podcast Panelists: TorqueAGI · BrainSpace · AI Monkeys What separates a defensible business from a compelling demo.
1PM — Enterprise Session
Inside a Fortune 500 Retailer's AI: How One of the World's Largest Companies Deploys Intelligence at Scale Ayush Dwivedi, Senior Manager, Data Science, Walmart Global Tech
Multi-Cloud AI Data Architectures: How Centralized Storage and Identity Enable Training Humanoids at the Edge Sunil Sabat, Principal Manager, Microsoft
Physical AI: From Innovation to Production Qi Diaz, Executive Director, Hacker Dojo
How Responsible AI, Secure Cloud Infrastructure, and Enterprise Architecture Enable the Next Generation of Intelligent Healthcare Platforms Tirumala Ashish Kumar Manne, Principal Cloud Architect, Optum – UnitedHealth Group
Physical AI Ecosystem Partners Panel Gaurav Shekhar, Associate Dean, UT Dallas School of Management Qi Diaz, Executive Director, Hacker Dojo Sanjay Kalluvilayil, Host, AI Space Podcast Building the Physical AI stack across academia, community, media, and standards.
How a $13T Industry Escapes AI Pilot Purgatory Usman Shuja, CEO, Bluebeam
Role of AI in Digital Supply Chain Transformation Abhijit Joshi, Manager, Deloitte LLP
Physical AI Startup Showcase Sonia Dagan, CEO, Kytyra Tobey Wood, Co-Founder, EFD Corporation Nitin Patel, Founder & VP Strategy and Technology, Acunext Inc. And more.

1:00 PM — Tech Talk Stage (Parallel Track)
Tech Stage Kickoff — Florin Matei, Austin Robotics & AI
Building the Data & Infrastructure Layer for Physical AI Ravi Kiran Pagidi, Senior AI Data Engineer, Navy Federal Credit Union Krishna Kishor Tirupati, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Architecting Trust in Autonomous Agent Pipelines: Deterministic Safety Patterns for Intelligent Machine Orchestration Sriramprabhu Rajendran, Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Capital One
Friction-Free Agents: How AI Is Transforming Provider Workflows Bhaskar Reddy Kollu, Enterprise Solution Architect, UnitedHealth (Optum)
AI at Scale: An Amazon Perspective Maulik Bhatt, Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
AI Governance & Intelligent Agents Sameena Begam Savukath Ali, Principal Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual
Full schedule: physical.f50.ai/schedule

🤝 BECOME A SPONSOR
Dallas 2026 is one of the highest-signal sponsorship opportunities in the Physical AI ecosystem.
Your brand in front of corporate and government buyers actively deploying $50M–$2B budgets into factories, warehouses, and automation programs — people shopping for partners and solutions, not browsing a trade show.
What sponsors receive:
✔ Featured placement in the 2026 F50 Physical AI Industrial Insights Report, distributed to 10,000+ investors and corporate leaders globally ✔ Reach across 100,000+ followers via F50, AI Space Podcast, and partner channels ✔ On-stage presence, branded sessions, and curated VIP experiences ✔ Tiered packages available — speaking slots, logo placement, and more
📩 Request the sponsorship prospectus: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship
📧 Direct inquiries: [sponsorship@f50.me](mailto:sponsorship@f50.me)

🤖 GET A DEMO TABLE
Show your live system — humanoid robots, manipulators, autonomous platforms, smart factory tools, digital twins — in front of an audience qualified to write checks or sign procurement contracts.
The Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center includes dedicated exhibition space. Demo slots are limited and filling fast.
Who should exhibit: → Robotics and hardware companies with live systems to demonstrate → Software and infrastructure companies with Physical AI applications → Sensor, semiconductor, and industrial equipment providers → Smart factory and automation solution providers
Demo tables put your technology directly in front of 300+ decision-makers in a single day. No booths buried in a convention hall — this is an intimate, curated floor where every attendee is a potential customer, partner, or investor.
📩 Reserve your demo table: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship 📧 Questions: [sponsorship@f50.me](mailto:sponsorship@f50.me)

🚀 GROWING-STAGE STARTUPS: APPLY TO PRESENT
8 minutes on the main stage and super innovator panel
Apply: physical.f50.ai/present Nominate a founder: 50builders.ai

🎟 GET YOUR TICKET
Apply to attend: luma.com/7szmkhza
Space is limited and curated. This is an invitation-preferred event.

PRESENTED BY
F50 · Physical AI Builders (PAB) · UT Dallas School of Management · AI Space Podcast
General inquiries: [summit@f50.io](mailto:summit@f50.io) Full speaker list & partners: physical.f50.ai/speakers-partners

Dallas in June. Austin in October. Texas is where Physical AI gets financed and built.
physical.f50.ai/speakers-partners
Get Involved

• Apply to attend: luma.com/7szmkhza
• Apply to present (growing-stage startups raising $15M+): physical.f50.ai/present
• Sponsor or exhibit: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship
• Full speaker list and partners: physical.f50.ai/speakers-partners
• Schedule: physical.f50.ai/schedule
• Newsletter and PAB community: 50builders.ai
• General inquiries: [summit@f50.io](mailto:summit@f50.io)