Deploying the Autonomous Future
Wednesday, November 11–Thursday, November 12, 2026
Santa Monica Proper Hotel
Santa Monica, CA
Keynote Speaker
Russ Tedrake is Co-Founder & CEO of Walden Robotics and a Professor at MIT. Previously SVP of Large Behavior Models at Toyota Research Institute, Russ is a pioneer in robotic learning and dexterous manipulation, now building the physical AI putting general-purpose humanoids to work on real factory floors.
Speaker
Saman Farid is the Founder & CEO of Formic, a robotics-as-a-service company helping U.S. manufacturers deploy automation at scale. By removing the financial and operational barriers to adoption, he’s enabling enterprises to achieve the throughput, quality, and safety they need to grow. Previously, Saman ran Baidu Ventures’ $600M global investment fund and founded Comet Labs, an AI-focused fund and incubator. He now serves as an investor or board member for 25+ robotics, technology, and AI companies.
ADDITIONAL 2026 SPEAKERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON
We’re finalizing an exciting slate of speakers and look forward to sharing details soon.
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
PAST SPEAKERS AT EON INCLUDE:
Rodney Brooks, MIT, Stanford, and iRobot
Henrik Christensen, University of California, San Diego
Raffaello D'Andrea, Verity
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
Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon University
Brad Porter, Cobot
Peter Stone, The University of Texas, Austin and SonyAI
Dr. Manuela Veloso, JPMorganChase
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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