Physical AI Expo North America will be held May 18–19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, according to event organizer TechEx. The conference will focus on robotics, autonomous systems, AI infrastructure and enterprise deployment.
The event arrives as AI moves beyond software applications into industrial automation, logistics, automotive and defense use cases. TechEx says the conference is designed to examine how organizations are taking Physical AI from experimentation into production.
Two days focused on deployment
The agenda is split into two tracks. Day one will cover AI strategy, infrastructure, data and enterprise transformation. Day two will focus on robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment.
Planned topics include:
- Physical AI and robotics at enterprise scale
- Autonomous systems and industrial automation
- AI infrastructure, data platforms and compute
- Enterprise AI deployment and ROI
- Human-AI collaboration
- AI reliability, transparency and safety
- From prototype to production
- AI developer tools and workflows
Speakers from NVIDIA, Airbus, Qualcomm and others
TechEx says the program includes speakers from several large technology and industrial organizations, including Leslie Karpas, Inception Global Head of Physical AI at NVIDIA; Arne Stoschek, VP AI and Autonomous at Airbus Acubed; Jose Alvarez, Director of Research at NVIDIA; Dr Vinesh Sukumar, Vice President of AI at Qualcomm; Simon Ninan, SVP & Global Head of Strategy at Hitachi; Sungho Kim, CEO of Hyundai Global Software Center; Naresh Dulam, Senior VP of Software Engineering at JPMorgan; and Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Chief Data Scientist at CEPS and co-founder of General Robotics.
Michael Hughes, Head of Conference Production, said in a statement that Physical AI is moving from concept to deployment and that the focus is no longer only on models, but also on infrastructure, robotics and autonomous systems that can operate reliably in the real world at scale.
Physical AI Expo North America is positioning itself as a conference for engineers, enterprise technologists, innovators and developers working on intelligent systems that interact with the physical world. The event is scheduled to take place in San Jose later this month.