🦾 Self-evolving in the Real World: the Physical AI Edition

🦾About This Event

🧑‍🔬Who's in the Room
This gathering is designed for leaders across the full Physical AI ecosystem:
Researchers from leading robotics, foundation model, and AI infrastructure labs
Faculty from top academic institutions
Founders & Executives from frontier robotics, simulation, and AI compute companies
Investors backing the next generation of robotics and Physical AI companies
This is intentionally a curated, high-signal gathering focused on meaningful discussion, relationship building, and the exchange of ideas among those actively building, scaling, and investing in the future of Physical AI.
📋 Agenda
🚪 Registration & Networking | 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
🎤 Opening Keynote | 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM
🔬 Panel I: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap | ~1:40 PM – 2:20 PMHow can Physical AI systems reliably transition from simulation to real-world deployment?
🗣️ Moderator: Kanu Gulati (Partner, Khosla Ventures)
🗣️ Speakers:Ding Zhao (Director, Safe AI Lab, Carnegie Mellon University)
Leo Ma (CEO, Roboforce)
Jun Qian (VP, Oracle)
🧠 Panel II: World Models and the Foundations of Physical AI | ~2:20 PM – 3:00 PMWhat role will world models, scaling compute, data, and infrastructure play in the next generation of robot learning?
🗣️ Moderator: TBD
🗣️ Speakers:Wei Zhan (Chief Scientist, Applied Intuition)
Andrew Dai (Elorian, Co-Founder)
☕ Coffee Break & Networking | 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
📈 Panel III: The Road to Self-Evolving Physical AI | ~3:45 PM – 4:30 PMWhat will it take to build robotic systems that continuously learn, adapt, and improve after deployment?
🗣️ Moderator: Fei Wang (Co-founder, Alchedata.AI)
🗣️ Speakers:Sky Yin (Founding Scientist, Genesis)
Dr. Ali Agha (CEO, Field AI)
Tushar Gupta (Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures)
Tom Gong (Principal Tech Product Manager, Nvidia GEAR)
🤝 Networking Reception | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
🤝 Hosted by:
500 Global is a venture capital firm with $2.7B in assets under management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth.
Sixty Degree Capital is a premier venture capital firm specializing in deep tech, enterprise software, health, and other high-impact sectors. With a global perspective and network, we align capital and insight to help extraordinary founders scale their pioneering ventures from early stage to growth.
Alumni Ventures is one of the world's most active venture capital platforms, with $1.4B+ in assets raised and investments in 1,300+ companies. Our network of 850,000+ members and 40+ dedicated investors connects accredited individuals to high-quality venture deals — typically reserved for institutions.
Alchedata.ai is building the next-generation data infrastructure to power advanced AI, with a core focus on Physical AI, Agentic AI, and multimodal intelligent systems. By integrating data generation, evaluation, post-training, and reinforcement learning (RL) into a closed-loop platform, Alchedata provides the essential engine for continuous model iteration and self-evolving capabilities. Today, Alchedata’s global network spans key markets across the US, Japan, South Korea, and Europe, serving pioneering builders in robotics, Physical AI, academic research, and Agentic AI.
Nebius is the AI cloud company delivering a unified platform that spans the complete AI journey — from data and model training and tuning to production runtime and deployment. Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq (NBIS), Nebius delivers a full-stack platform built on proprietary, high-performance GPU infrastructure designed specifically for AI developers and builders worldwide.
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