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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
Evaluating Markets and Use Cases: Founder and Investor Views
Go-to-Market Strategies: Overcoming the Robotics Double Chasm
Product Scoping and Development: Design, BoM Cost, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing
Navigating Current Financing and Regulatory Headwinds in Robotics
Secrets to Scaling the Team: From Seed to Series B and Beyond
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
Evaluating Markets and Use Cases: Founder and Investor Views
Go-to-Market Strategies: Overcoming the Robotics Double Chasm
Product Scoping and Development: Design, BoM Cost, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing
Navigating Current Financing and Regulatory Headwinds in Robotics
Secrets to Scaling the Team: From Seed to Series B and Beyond
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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