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20-21 October 2026 | Fort Mason, San Francisco
For two days at Fort Mason, people building robots, autonomous vehicles and defense systems compared notes on what it takes to ship.
Day 1 was about robotics and embodied AI, Day 2 about autonomy.
30
sessions
60+
speakers
1000+
builders and leaders
Speakers from
The people setting the direction of Physical AI, in one place for two days.
Join the listHeads of AI & CTOs
Saw live demos of frontier robots and autonomous systems, run by the engineers who built them.
Heads of Autonomy & Perception
Heard the people leading Physical AI teams talk through their latest research and where they think the field is heading.
Founders & Research Leads
Met architects and builders working across robotics, embodied AI, defense and autonomy.
Infrastructure & Compute Leaders
Met the teams running compute and data infrastructure for Physical AI, including sponsors Anyscale, CoreWeave and LanceDB.
Who spoke at Long Horizon
Sebastian Thrun
Founder
Deepak Pathak
CEO
Alex Kendall
CEO
Qasar Younis
Founder, CEO
Quan Vuong
Co-founder
Rodney Brooks
CTO & Founder
Pim de Witte
CEO
Carolina Parada
VP and Head of Robotics
Vincent Vanhoucke
Distinguished Engineer
Ken Goldberg
Co-founder
Tye Brady
CTO
Nathan Michael
CTO
Sankaet Pathak
CEO
Alberto Rodriguez
Director, Robot Behavior
Brandon Jones
Chief Autonomous Systems & Applications Officer
DJ Sampath
SVP/GM, AI Software and Platform
Matt George
CEO
Joseph Putney
CTO
Adarsh Kulkarni
CEO
Dan Magy
CEO
Devesh Upadhyay
CTO
Grace Brown
CEO
Eric Chan
Co-founder & CTO
Jason Ma
Co-founder
Andy Lonsberry
CEO
Peter Schmidt
CEO
Xiaodi Hou
CEO
Suthen Thomas Paradatheth
CTO
Dragomir Anguelov
VP, Head of AI Foundations Team
Thomas Kollar
Head of AI
Apeksha Kumavat
Chief Engineer and Co-founder
Michael Wiesinger
COO
Ben Burchfiel
Co-founder & CTO
Evan Beard
CEO
Hyunggi Cho
CEO
Jaime Lien
Co-founder and Chief Scientist
Samir Menon
CEO
Ashish Kapoor
CEO
Yunzhu Li
Co-Founder
Masha Itkina
Research Manager
Aadeel Akhtar
CEO
Sviat Dulianinov
CEO
Abhinav Das
CEO
Kacper Nowicki
CEO
Luc Vincent
Chief R&D Officer
Arne Stoschek
Director of AI Products
Tilo Schwarz
VP of Engineering
Balajee Kannan
SVP of Autonomy Core Engineering
Jeremy Ma
SVP
Harrison Shih
Head of Product, Labs
Matthew Fornero
Senior Distinguished Engineer
Nitish Srivastava
Senior Director of Autonomy
Kalpana Seshadrinathan
Director of Deep Learning
Kaustubh Khanke
Senior Principal Product Manager
Sessions built around deployment
Speakers who own these problems covered fleet data flywheels, evals and the reliability bar, scaling from 10 to 10,000 units, and simulation that holds up in the real world.
Hardware on the floor
The breakouts and expo floor had humanoids, drones and autonomous vehicles you could get your hands on.
The conversations around it
Networking spaces across the venue, a happy hour at the St Francis Yacht Club, workshops and more.
Two days, two tracks.
This is what we covered.
Day 1
20 Oct 2026
08:00 - 09:00
Day 1 Opens
Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:25
Opening Keynote
- Deepak Pathak (CEO of Skild AI)
Day 2
21 Oct 2026
08:00 - 09:00
Day 2 Opens
Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:25
Opening Fireside: Autonomy Anywhere
- Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Google X and Waymo)
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Long Horizon is produced by Encord, the company building the data layer for physical AI. Encord works with the teams building perception and autonomy systems across robotics, AV, and defense. That's why we brought this group together.
Long Horizon is a summit built for the senior leaders who are setting the direction of Physical AI across robotics, autonomy, and infrastructure. We place less emphasis on academic research and product pitches. The focus is on giving decision-makers a platform to share technical progress and compare notes on where the field is headed.
Senior AI leaders, founders and practitioners working on robotics, autonomy and the infrastructure behind them.
Yes. Email summit.sponsorship@encord.com to talk about sponsoring or speaking at the next summit. We look for highly technical talks, not product demos or sales pitches.
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