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Day one

JUNE 10, 2025 | Tuesday

8:30 AM — 9:00 AM

CHECK-IN AND BREAKFAST


9:00 AM — 9:30 AM

ROBOTICS Invest 2025 Opening remarks


9:30 AM — 10:00 AM

Opening Session: The Evolution of Robotics — and What It Means for the Builders of Today

David Mindell

Founder & Professor

Unless & MIT

Jeff Burnstein

President

Association for Advancing Automation

Host

Fady Saad

Founder & General Partner

Cybernetix Ventures


10:00 aM — 10:45 aM

Keynote: why investing in robotics is different from saas and deep tech

Kristina Nilsson

Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, Co-Head of AI

J.P. Morgan


10:45 aM — 11:30 aM

NETWORKING BREAK


11:30 AM — 12:30 PM

Panel: the 5 w’s of investing in robotics (including humanoids)

Dina Routhier

Managing Director

Teradyne Robotics Ventures

Haomiao Huang

Founding Partner

Matter Venture Partners

Samir Menon

Founder & CEO

Dexterity

Moderator

Fady Saad

Founder & General Partner

Cybernetix Ventures


12:30 PM — 1:30 PM

Networking lunch


1:30 PM — 2:30 PM

Panel: how robotics is reshaping life sciences

Carla Reimold

EVP, Scientific Innovation and Strategic Investments

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

Ira Hofmann

CEO

HighRes Biosolutions

Rajit Kamal

VP & GM

Medtronic Surgical Robotics

Moderator

Brian Gormley

Special Writer

The Wall Street Journal

Dave Johnson

Founder & CEO

Dash Bio


2:30 PM — 2:45 PM

Short break


2:45 PM — 3:30 PM

Keynote: a robotics success story

Matt Rendall

Founder & CEO

Clearpath Robotics & OTTO Motors

[Acquired by Rockwell Automation]

Moderator

Stella Yoo

Managing Director

Evercore


3:30 PM — 4:00 PM

NETWORKING BREAK


4:00 PM — 5:00 PM

panel: how robotics is disrupting traditional industries: Agriculture, construction and manufacturing

Mark DeSantis

Former CEO

Bloomfield

Mile Arnone

CEO

Re:Build Manufacturing

Jit Kee Chin

CTO, Managing Partner

Suffolk Construction, Suffolk Technologies

Moderator

Mark Martin

Co-Founder & General Partner

Cybernetix Ventures


5:00 PM — 7:00 PM

NETWORKING RECEPTION


Day Two

JUNE 11, 2025 | Wednesday

8:30 AM — 9:00 AM

check-in and Breakfast


9:00 AM — 9:50 AM

Fireside Chat: From Data to Intelligence – How Physical AI will Drive the Next Decade of Robotics

AJ Meyer

Founder & CEO

Pickle Robot Company

Sabrina Mansur

Director, Massachusetts AI Hub

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative

Shayegan Omidshafiei

Chief Scientific Officer

Field AI

Moderator

Joanna Lichter

Associate Director, Venture Capital

Emerson Collective


9:50 AM — 10:00 AM

Special Guest: Robotics in Massachusetts

Ashley Stolba

Interim Secretary

Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development


10:00 AM — 11:00 AM

DEEP-DIVE ROUNDTABLES: SESSION 1

  1. Evaluating Markets and Use Cases: Founder and Investor Views

  2. Go-to-Market Strategies: Overcoming the Robotics Double Chasm

  3. Product Scoping and Development: Design, BoM Cost, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing

  4. Navigating Current Financing and Regulatory Headwinds in Robotics

  5. Secrets to Scaling the Team: From Seed to Series B and Beyond

  6. Demystifying the Office of the CFO: The Critical Role of Finance in Robotics Companies


11:00 AM — 11:30 AM

NETWORKING BREAK


11:30 AM — 12:30 pM

DEEP-DIVE ROUNDTABLES: SESSION 2

  1. Evaluating Markets and Use Cases: Founder and Investor Views

  2. Go-to-Market Strategies: Overcoming the Robotics Double Chasm

  3. Product Scoping and Development: Design, BoM Cost, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing

  4. Navigating Current Financing and Regulatory Headwinds in Robotics

  5. Secrets to Scaling the Team: From Seed to Series B and Beyond

  6. Demystifying the Office of the CFO: The Critical Role of Finance in Robotics Companies


12:30 PM — 1:30 PM

NETWORKING LUNCH


1:30 PM — 3:00 PM

1:1 CURATED MEETINGs


3:00 PM

event concludes

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