Deploying the Autonomous Future
Wednesday, November 11–Thursday, November 12, 2026
Santa Monica Proper Hotel
Santa Monica, CA
EON is an exclusive, invite-only event for the visionaries and leaders at the forefront of researching, building, and deploying physical AI to solve practical business problems across industries.
Now in its fifth year, EON attracts innovators, founders, engineers, executives, academics, and investors for unscripted conversation, networking, and thought-provoking panels
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“The quality of the attendees was exceptional, as well as the structure of enough time for conversation.”
“The social conversations that ensued throughout… wouldn’t have happened without the unscripted industry-led conversations.”
“The quality of the attendees was exceptional, as well as the structure of enough time for conversation.” “The social conversations that ensued throughout… wouldn’t have happened without the unscripted industry-led conversations.”
“Deep expertise. Rich conversations. High curiosity index.”
“Great talks about the future of open source and the scaling of AI.”
“The conversations are still going on weeks after.”
“Deep expertise. Rich conversations. High curiosity index.” “Great talks about the future of open source and the scaling of AI.” “The conversations are still going on weeks after.”
PAST ATTENDEES
2026 SPEAKERS
We’re finalizing an exciting slate of speakers and look forward to sharing details soon.
PAST SPEAKERS AT EON INCLUDE:
Rodney Brooks, MIT, Stanford, and iRobot
Henrik Christensen, University of California, San Diego
Adrien Gaidon, Toyota Research Institute
Jonathan Hurst, PhD, Agility Robotics
Ariyan Kabir, GrayMatter Robotics
Hiroaki Kitano, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate Schoo and Sony
Dr. Kevin Knight, DiDi, USC
Zornitsa Kozareva, PhD, Facebook AI, Google, Amazon
Geert-Jan Kruijff, Amazon Music
Brad Porter, Cobot
Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Stone, The University of Texas, Austin and SonyAI
Dr. Manuela Veloso, JPMorganChase
Raffaello D'Andrea, Verity
David Yang, ABBYY, Newo.ai, and Morfeus.ai
2026 EON Advisory Board Members
Les Karpas
Head of Physical AI at NVIDIA
Paolo Pirjanian
Vice President, Delivery Automation,
Last Mile at Amazon
Doug Fidaleo
Director, Disney Research Imagineering
at The Walt Disney Company
Tim Dykstra
Co-Founder at Nascent Scale
Scott Komar
Senior Vice President of Global R&D at Driscoll’s
Carl Showalter
Ex-COO, Fetch Robotics, Robotics Consultant
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