About us
# Austin Physical AI Builders
Physical AI Builders, for Embodied AI, Robotics, Humanoid, Manufacturing
Welcome to Physical AI Builders, formerly known as the The Developer Network—one of the oldest developer groups. We're the go-to community for builders, innovators, and enthusiasts shaping the future of physical AI technologies, including robotics, embodied AI, hardware–software integration, and real-world AI applications.
Our community produces the Physical AI Newsletter, the Future 50 Physical AI Builders Program, and the F50 Physical AI Summit—held in Austin and Silicon Valley, Dallas —to spotlight breakthrough entrepreneurs and foster global collaboration.
We’re now building the leading ecosystem for Physical AI. Whether you're a seasoned engineer developing intelligent robots, a startup founder exploring embodied AI opportunities, a researcher diving into AI for physical systems, or a newcomer eager to learn, this is your hub for collaboration and growth.
All are welcome—experienced developers, aspiring creators, and idea generators alike. Join us to connect, innovate, and build the next generation of physical intelligence!
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Upcoming events
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TomorrowX Summit 2026: The AI, Tech & Capital Frontier
Moody Center, 2001 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712, USA, Austin, TX, USF50 Invites you to: TomorrowX Summit 2026
Dates: November 17–18, 2026
Location: Moody Center, Austin, TX
Official Registration: Register for TomorrowX Summit Here
About the Event
The biggest shifts in artificial intelligence, technology infrastructure, and venture capital do not happen in isolation. They happen when the founders building what’s next, the investors backing them, and the executives scaling market-defining platforms come together in one room.
This November, the TomorrowX Summit lands at Austin's premier venue, the Moody Center, for two days of high-signal discussions and networking. From AI compute bottlenecks, data center power demands, and inference economics to crypto infrastructure and global asset allocation, TomorrowX addresses what will define the next decade of technology and enterprise.### Featured Speakers & Co-Hosts
Hear directly from leading operators, innovators, and investors reshaping the modern business landscape:
- AI, Compute & Infrastructure Leaders
- Jensen Huang – President & CEO, NVIDIA
- Lisa Su – Chair & CEO, AMD
- Michael Dell – Chairman & CEO, Dell Technologies
- Rene Haas – CEO, Arm
- Lip-Bu Tan – CEO, Intel
- Andrew Feldman – Co-Founder & CEO, Cerebras Systems
- Dr. Scott DeBoer – President & Chief Technology and Products Officer, Micron Technology
- Brannin McBee – Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer, CoreWeave
- Jitendra Mohan – CEO, Astera Labs
- Chase Lochmiller – Co-Founder & CEO, Crusoe
AI Labs, Developer Platforms & Frontier Software
- Aravind Srinivas – CEO & Co-Founder, Perplexity
- Ali Ghodsi – Co-Founder & CEO, Databricks
- Dylan Field – CEO, Figma
- Guillermo Rauch – Founder & CEO, Vercel
- Scott Wu – CEO, Cognition AI
- Lin Qiao – CEO & Co-Founder, Fireworks AI
- Arvind Jain – CEO, Glean
- Jack Kokko – Founder & CEO, AlphaSense
- Keller Rinaudo Cliffton – Co-Founder & CEO, Zipline
Capital Allocators, Institutional Finance & Venture Capital
- Jon Gray – President & COO, Blackstone
- David Solomon – Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs
- Marc Rowan – CEO, Apollo Global Management
- Stanley Druckenmiller – CEO, Duquesne Family Office
- Brad Gerstner – Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital
- Joe Lonsdale – Founder & Managing Partner, 8VC
- David Sacks – Founder & Partner, Craft Ventures
- Eric Vishria – General Partner, Benchmark
- David George – General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
- Matt Witheiler – Head of Late-Stage Growth, Wellington Management
- Dom Rizzo – Portfolio Manager, Global Technology Equity, T. Rowe Price
- Jed Finn – Head of Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley
- Iliana Bouzali – Global Head of Derivatives, Morgan Stanley
Crypto, Fintech & Consumer Scale
- Brian Armstrong – Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase
- Tony Xu – Co-Founder & CEO, DoorDash
- Dina Powell McCormick – President & Vice Chairman, Meta
- Donald Wilson – Founder & CEO, DRW Holdings
- Howard Lindzon – Co-Founder & CEO, Stocktwits / General Partner, Social Leverage
- Matteo Franceschetti – Co-Founder & CEO, Eight Sleep
Summit Co-Hosts & Organizers
- Antonio Gracias – Founder, CEO & CIO, Valor Equity Partners
- Gavin Baker – Managing Partner & CIO, Atreides Management
- Ron Biscardi – Co-Founder & CEO, iConnections
### Who Should Attend
- Founders & Operators: Scale your roadmap, tackle AI infrastructure challenges, and connect with strategic partners.
- Venture & Private Equity Investors: Source emerging deals and gain market conviction on the direction of compute, fintech, and enterprise software.
- Technology Executives: Understand the macro economics, regulation, and technology shifts impacting your organization.
### How to Join & Register
RSVPing on this page does not guarantee venue admission. Secure your official summit badge directly through the F50 affiliation registration link below:
👉 Click Here to Register Now4 attendees
Physical AI Summit - Austin 2026
Commons Conference Center, 10100 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX, USF50 Physical AI Summit — Austin 2026
From Factory Floor to Autonomous Fleet📅 Thursday, December 3, 2026 · 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM CT
📍 Commons Conference Center, UT Austin (J.J. Pickle Research Campus), 10100 Burnet Rd, Building 137, Austin, TX 78758
🌐 physical.f50.ai/atx
Co-hosted by F50 · Physical AI Builders · AI Space Podcast
Supported by Austin–San Antonio Entrepreneurs · Austin Robotics & AI · North America Manufacturing Corridor- RSVP for Tech Talk ticket for free: https://luma.com/jed6dll8?coupon=PAB-TECH
- 30% for general ticket https://luma.com/jed6dll8?coupon=PAB-NETWORK
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THE ROOM WHERE AUTONOMY GETS FINANCED AND BUILT
On December 3, global investors, founders, OEMs, and industrial buyers converge at UT Austin for the flagship edition of the F50 Physical AI Summit.
We launched this movement in Austin in October 2025. Since then, the series has grown through Silicon Valley and Dallas, with each stop drawing 300+ curated leaders and real capital into the room. Austin 2026 is our largest chapter yet, and it’s coming home.
📊 BY THE NUMBERS
→ 500+ RSVP attendees
→ 100+ VIPs: Speakers investors, corporate buyers, and top-tier founders
→ 40% C-level · 25%+ active investors
→ 20 live demo booths in the Exhibition Hall
→ 2 stages · 7 program tracks · 50+ speakers
→ 1M+ projected online impressions***
SECTOR COVERAGE
Drones / UAV · Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV) · Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) · SpaceTech · Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Advanced Manufacturing · Supply Chain***
PROGRAM TRACKS
💰 Investment Forum: Where institutional and venture capital is flowing into robotics, autonomy, and industrial infrastructure
🚀 Growing-Stage Spotlight: Breakout companies turning embodied intelligence into deployed products
🏭 Corporate Innovation: How Fortune 500 operators buy, deploy, and scale Physical AI
🔗 Supply Chain Innovation: Building the American UxV supply chain across the Texas–Mexico manufacturing corridor
🌎 Ecosystems & Community: Academia, government, and community building the Physical AI stack
⚡ Startup Showcase: The most promising early-stage Physical AI startups, live on stage
🛠 Tech Talk (Second Stage): Engineers and architects going deep on the data, infrastructure, and safety layers powering autonomous systems***
SUMMIT AT A GLANCE
8:30 AM: Registration & Speaker Check-In
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Main Stage: Investment Forum & Growing-Stage Spotlight
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch + Exhibition Hall (Live Demos & Sponsors)
1:00 – 5:00 PM: Main Stage: Corporate Innovation · Supply Chain Innovation · Ecosystems & Community
1:00 – 5:00 PM: Second Stage (parallel): Tech Talks & Startup Showcase
5:00 – 7:00 PM: 🍸 AI Builder Mixer + 🥂 VIP Networking
Full agenda: physical.f50.ai/schedule***
SPEAKERS
💼 Investors- Betty Lee, Investor, Woven Capital (Toyota)
- Duncan Davison, Managing Partner, Bullpen Capital
- David Cao, Managing Partner, Long 100 | F50 | Physical AI Builders
- Jake Crowley, Managing Partner, Crowley Capital Ventures
- John Gowan, Managing Partner, Long 100 Capital
- Melissa Chalfant, General Partner, Inventures
- Rick Treleaven, Venture Partner, Long 100 Capital
- Thomas Michael Hogg, Managing Director, TMH Consulting and Investment Group
- Thomas Miranda, Partner, Topline Ventures
- Viktor Shpakovsky, Founding and Investment Partner, Beyond Earth Ventures
- Anupam Govil, Managing Partner, Avasant
🏢 Corporate & Industry Leaders
- Ayush Dwivedi, Senior Manager, Data Science, Walmart
- Jobinesh Purushothaman, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
- Joyjit Roy, Senior Member, IEEE
- Koundanya Rajan Kesani, Sr AI/ML Engineer, JPMorgan Chase
- Mohsen Sharifani, Hands-on AI Leader, Former Dell CTO Office
- Osman Kidwai, Sr Global Supply Manager, Matic Robots (ex-Tesla, Zoox, Meta)
- Raj Singh Rikhy, Senior Director, Product Management, AI Research & Autonomous Systems, Cisco
- Sandeep Kumar Bomthapalli, Senior Staff ASIC Design Engineer & Functional Safety Expert, GlobalFoundries
🚀 Founders & Builders
- Alex Torrey, Co-Founder & CEO, America’s Innovation Corporation (AIC)
- Ari Gorman, K3 IoT
- Sonia Dagan, CEO, Kytyra
- Tony Aghazarian, Founder & CEO, BuildQM
- Zachary Tschirhart, VP of Technology, Sustainment
🌎 Government, Defense & Ecosystem
- Humberto Hernández Haddad, Consul General of Mexico in Austin
- Jeffrey J. DeCoux, Chairman, Autonomy Institute
- Florin Matei, Organizer, Austin Robotics & AI
🎙 Hosts
- Sanjay Kalluvilayil, Host, AI Space Podcast (2× Telly Award winner)
More speakers announced weekly → physical.f50.ai/s
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🥂 VIP TICKETS: LIMITED TO 150
The most valuable hours of the summit happen off stage. VIP access includes:
✔ Curated VIP Networking with investors, corporate buyers, and featured speakers
✔ Priority seating on the Main Stage
✔ Access to the VIP lounge throughout the day
✔ Early access to the 2026 F50 Physical AI Industrial Insights Report
If you are raising, buying, or deploying capital in autonomy, VIP is the ticket.- RSVP for Tech Talk ticket for free: https://luma.com/jed6dll8?coupon=PAB-TECH
- 30% for general ticket https://luma.com/jed6dll8?coupon=PAB-NETWORK
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🤖 EXHIBITION HALL: 20 DEMO BOOTHS ONLY
Put your live system in front of 500+ decision-makers who are qualified to write checks or sign procurement contracts. This is a curated floor, not a convention hall: every attendee is a potential customer, partner, or investor.
Who should exhibit:
→ UxV OEMs: drones, ground robots, USV, UUV
→ Robotics and hardware companies with live systems
→ Supply chain, components, sensors, and semiconductor providers
→ Smart factory, automation, and digital twin platforms
Supplier Booth: $999. Includes a demo table, two VIP tickets, a directory listing, and buyer–supplier matching.
Booths are allocated first come, first served, with priority for live hardware demos.
👉 Reserve your booth: physical.f50.ai/expo***
🤝 SPONSORSHIP: PUT YOUR BRAND IN FRONT OF THE BUYERS WHO MATTER
Sponsors reach corporate and government buyers deploying 50M–2B budgets into factories, fleets, and autonomy programs, plus the institutional capital funding them.
🏆 Title Sponsor: Keynote stage time, premier branding on the main stage backdrop and all materials, top placement in the Industrial Insights Report, dedicated demo booth, VIP access, and first right of refusal for 2027
🥇 Gold Sponsor: Branded session or panel seat, featured report placement, premium demo booth, VIP access, and logo across signage and digital channels
🥈 Silver Sponsor: Track sponsorship (Investment Forum, Supply Chain Innovation, Tech Talk, and more), demo booth, logo placement, and a social media spotlight
Every sponsor receives:
✔ Featured placement in the 2026 F50 Physical AI Industrial Insights Report, distributed to 10,000+ investors and corporate leaders
✔ Reach across 150,000+ followers via F50, Physical AI Builders, AI Space Podcast, and partner channels
✔ Direct access to the Texas–Mexico manufacturing corridor
Title and Gold packages are limited. 📩 physical.f50.ai/sponsorship · 📧 sponsorship@f50.me***
BEYOND THE MAIN STAGE
🔗 Supply Chain as a Service: empowering UxV innovation → f50.ai/scas
📑 2026 Supply Chain Report: what’s happening in your future supply chain → f50.ai/r26-supplychain
🍸 AI Builder Mixer: open to all attendees, 5–7 PM
💬 Physical AI Builders community: continue the conversation after December 3 → 50builders.ai***
GET INVOLVED
🎟 Attend or upgrade to VIP: https://luma.com/jed6dll8
🤖 Reserve a demo booth: physical.f50.ai/expo
🤝 Sponsor: physical.f50.ai/sponsorship
🚀 Present (growing-stage startups raising $20M+): physical.f50.ai/present
📋 Speakers & partners: physical.f50.ai/s
🚗 Parking permits & directions: f50summit.com/tx-directions
📧 General inquiries: summit@f50.ai
Silicon Valley in April. Dallas in June. Austin in December. Texas is where Physical AI gets financed and built.13 attendees
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