World’s First · ExCeL London · Q3 2027

THE
WORLD’S
FIRST
PHYSICAL
AI EXPO.

Where the capital, the founders, and the enterprise buyers of embodied intelligence finally meet: six thousand strong, forty live autonomous systems, one defining conference and summit.

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6,000+
Senior Delegates
40+
Live Robot Demos
£38B
Category Valuation
Figure AI F.02 humanoid robot
Figure AI F.02 — Electric Humanoid
Figure AI · $675M Raised Project Prometheus · $38B Valuation Goldman Sachs · $38B Humanoid Market 2035 Jensen Huang · Physical AI Is The Next Wave Morgan Stanley · $6T Value Creation Physical Intelligence · $400M Raised Agility Robotics · Amazon Warehouse Deployment ExCeL London · Q3 2027 · World First Figure AI · $675M Raised Project Prometheus · $38B Valuation Goldman Sachs · $38B Humanoid Market 2035 Jensen Huang · Physical AI Is The Next Wave Morgan Stanley · $6T Value Creation Physical Intelligence · $400M Raised Agility Robotics · Amazon Warehouse Deployment ExCeL London · Q3 2027 · World First
Programme

Six Tracks.
One Conversation.

Track 01
Deployment Reality
From pilot to production. The reliability gap. Buyer-only forums. The ROI question nobody can answer yet.
1. From Pilot to Production: Why Most Physical AI Never Scales 2. The Reliability Gap: What 99% Uptime Actually Costs You 3. Automation vs Autonomy: Drawing the Line Buyers Actually Draw 4. The Industrial Buyer Forum (closed-door, buyer-only) 5. Construction’s Physical AI Reckoning: Robotics on Live Sites 6. The ROI Question Nobody Can Answer Yet 7. Scaling Physical AI 8. Buyer to Buyer: What I Wish I’d Known Before My First Deployment 9. The Integrator’s Pitch: How Integrators Are Selling Physical AI Transformation 10. Old Guard, New Stack: How Incumbents Are Integrating Physical AI 11. Securing the Physical World: Industrial Cybersecurity for a Robotic Enterprise
Enterprise Track
Track 02
The Physical AI Frontier: Humanoids, Drones & Autonomous Systems
Humanoids in the wild. Beyond humanoids. Drones at scale. The autonomous vehicles reliability test.
1. Humanoids in the Wild: Separating Demo from Deployment 2. Beyond Humanoids: Cobots, Quadrupeds & the Industrial Robotics Boom 3. Drones at Scale: Inspection, Logistics & the Airspace Problem 4. Autonomous Vehicles: Physical AI’s Original Reliability Test 5. Defence and Dual-Use: Where Industrial and Military Robotics Blur 6. Agriculture’s Physical AI Moment: Harsh Environments, No Wi-Fi, No Room for Error 7. The Live Demo Reckoning: What Breaks When the Robot Leaves the Stage 8. China and the Global Humanoid Race 9. Teleoperation Today, Autonomy Tomorrow 10. Commercial Timelines: When Does Any of This Actually Pay Back?
Technology Track
Track 03
Capital & the Physical AI Stack
Where value accrues. Mega-rounds. Valuation frameworks. The path to liquidity.
1. Where Does Value Accrue? The Industry’s Biggest Open Question 2. CVC Conviction or FOMO? 3. Mega-Rounds and Valuation Frameworks in an Unproven Category 4. Hedging the Stack: How VCs Are Actually Allocating 5. The Path to Liquidity 6. Are We in a Physical AI Bubble? 7. What Founders Should Expect From Investors 8. Physical AI Due Diligence: Judging Technology You Can’t Fully Understand
Investor Track
Track 04
Building the Stack
Data bottlenecks. Simulation and digital twins. Edge vs cloud. The Physical AI value chain.
1. Why Physical AI Has a Data Bottleneck 2. Simulation, Digital Twins and the Sim-to-Real Gap 3. Who Owns the Physical AI Supply Chain? 4. Spatial Intelligence: Indexing the Physical World 5. GPU Access and the Infrastructure Squeeze 6. Beyond Vision: New Sensing Modalities for Physical AI 7. Building the Deployment Layer: Who Controls the Data 8. Edge vs Cloud: Why Physical AI Can’t Wait for a Round Trip to the Data Centre 9. The Latency Problem: What Happens When the Server Isn’t in the Room 10. In-Memory and Near-Memory Compute: The Edge AI Investment Thesis 11. Mapping the Physical AI Value Chain: Who Actually Sells to Whom
Technical Track
Track 05
Frontier Research
World models. Foundation models for robotics. European research pipeline. The next leap in embodied intelligence.
1. World Models and the Next Leap in Embodied Intelligence 2. From Lab to Field: What Academia Knows That Industry Hasn’t Caught Up To 3. Foundation Models for Robotics: One Model to Power Every Robot? 4. The Technical Reality Behind the Hype 5. European Robotics Research and Talent Pipeline
Research Track
Track 06
Supply Chains, Sovereignty & the Physical World
China vs Europe. Labour economics. Safety regulation. Data sovereignty. Routes to market.
1. China Builds, Europe Integrates: Mapping the New Supply Chain 2. The New Collar Workforce: Labour Economics of Automation 3. Routes to Market: Distribution as the Real Bottleneck 4. Safety Regulation for Autonomous Mobile Machinery 5. Data Sovereignty: Why European Buyers Won’t Touch Chinese Intelligence Layers
Policy & Markets
VC Advisory Board

VC Advisory
Board.

Our VC Advisory Board is currently being formed. Members will be announced shortly.

Eltonjohn D’Souza
VC Advisory Board · Confirmed
Eltonjohn D’Souza
Deeptech Investor
Redstone Capital
Yariv Adan
VC Advisory Board · Confirmed
Yariv Adan
General Partner
Ellipsis
Minjoo Kim
VC Advisory Board · Confirmed
Minjoo Kim
Partner
Storm Ventures
Michaël Thomas
VC Advisory Board · Confirmed
Michaël Thomas
Managing Director — Tech Growth Equity
Supernova Invest
James Baker
VC Advisory Board · Confirmed
James Baker
Principal
Amadeus Capital Partners
Alessa Sänger
VC Advisory Board · Confirmed
Alessa Sänger
Investor and Investment Manager
Future Energy Ventures & Sabanci Climate Ventures
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VC Advisory Board
Seat Reserved
Invitation only
Announcing Soon
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VC Advisory Board
Seat Reserved
Invitation only
Announcing Soon
Advisory board membership is by invitation — further members announcing soon
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Enterprise Automation Buyers Advisory Board

Enterprise Advisory
Board.

Our Enterprise Automation Buyer Advisory Board represents the heads of automation, operations, and innovation at the largest industrial, logistics, and manufacturing organisations globally. They shape the Enterprise Deployment track and ensure the Physical AI Expo delivers the frameworks enterprise leaders need to evaluate and deploy autonomous systems at scale.

Philip Reid — Head of Innovation and Transformation, Vinci Construction
Enterprise Advisory Board · Confirmed
Philip Reid
Head of Innovation & Transformation
Vinci Construction
Yogesh Patel — Quality, Improvement and Innovation Director, Vinci Construction
Enterprise Advisory Board · Confirmed
Yogesh Patel
Quality, Improvement & Innovation Director
Vinci Construction
Grzegorz Ombach
Enterprise Advisory Board · Confirmed
Grzegorz Ombach
Senior Vice President, Group Head of Disruptive Research, Technology & Innovation
Airbus
Tim Tetzlaff
Enterprise Advisory Board · Confirmed
Tim Tetzlaff
Global Head of Digital Transformation
DHL Supply Chain
Isabella Panella
Enterprise Advisory Board · Confirmed
Isabella Panella
Head of Robotics Industrial Operations
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)
Andrew Dewdney
Enterprise Advisory Board · Confirmed
Andrew Dewdney
Head of Modern Methods of Construction
Kier Construction
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Enterprise Advisory Board
Seat Reserved
Invitation only
Announcing Soon
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Enterprise Advisory Board
Seat Reserved
Invitation only
Announcing Soon
Advisory board membership is by invitation — further members announcing soon
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Speakers

Early Confirmed
Speakers.

Zeo Nam
Confirmed Speaker · Investment Track
Zeo Nam
Deep Tech Venture Investor
Stealth Venture Fund
Abderrahmane Kheddar
Confirmed Speaker · Research Track
Abderrahmane Kheddar
Director of Research
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Ryan Gariepy
Confirmed Speaker · Enterprise Track
Ryan Gariepy
VP Robotics
Rockwell Automation
MA
Confirmed Speaker · Enterprise Track
Malul Avishay
Field Technology Lead
Siemens Energy
Promise Akwaowo
Confirmed Speaker · Enterprise Track
Promise Akwaowo
Automation Practitioner
Royal Mail
Simon Schmidt
Confirmed Speaker · Enterprise Track
Simon Schmidt
Senior Manager, Business Unit Automated Intralogistic, Manufacturing & Assembly Systems
Fraunhofer IPA
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Speaker Slot
Seat Reserved
Invitation only
Announcing Soon
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Speaker Slot
Seat Reserved
Invitation only
Announcing Soon
Further speakers will be announced Q3 2026 — 150+ across all six programme tracks.
Knowledge Partners

Knowledge
Partners.

Data, research, and market intelligence partners shaping the insight behind the Physical AI Expo.

Knowledge Partner
Humanoid Analytics
The Live Demo Floor

The Machines
Are The Event.

The demo floor is not an exhibition hall. It is a curated showcase of working autonomous systems operating in real time — the only place in the world where you can walk between 40+ live robots in a single afternoon.

Humanoid Systems
Figure AI, Agility Robotics, 1X Technologies, Boston Dynamics, Apptronik, and Unitree on an open floor.
Industrial & Warehouse
Robotic arms, AMRs, picking systems and conveyor AI from ABB, Fanuc, KUKA, Siemens, Amazon Robotics.
Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving platforms, last-mile delivery robots, drone systems from Waymo, Zipline, Skydio.
Surgical & Medical
Robotic surgery, AI-guided diagnostics, rehabilitation robotics. Intuitive Surgical, CMR Surgical, Moon Surgical.
AI Infrastructure
Edge AI chips, robotics processors, simulation platforms. NVIDIA Jetson & Thor, Qualcomm, ARM, Hailo.
Sensors & Perception
LiDAR, vision systems, tactile sensors, depth cameras, sensor fusion. Velodyne, Ouster, Luminar.
Agricultural Robotics
Autonomous harvesting robots, crop inspection drones, AI-guided irrigation. John Deere, Syngenta.
Digital Twin & Simulation
Robot training simulation, synthetic data, real-time digital twin environments. NVIDIA Omniverse.
Drones & UAV Systems
Industrial inspection, logistics delivery, airspace management and autonomous aerial systems. Zipline, Skydio, Percepto.
Defence & Dual-Use
Autonomous systems where industrial and military robotics converge. Ground robots, surveillance, contested-environment autonomy.
The Moment

Why Now.

Six forces have converged simultaneously. Physical AI is not a future category — it is a present deployment challenge for every major enterprise on earth.

01
Capital Has Arrived
$16.2B into Prometheus. $675M into Figure AI. The largest funds in the world are writing their largest cheques into Physical AI.
02
Hardware Is Ready
Humanoids, cobots, drones and autonomous vehicles have crossed the reliability threshold for commercial deployment in controlled environments.
03
Models Can Act
Vision-language-action (VLA) models now allow AI to see, understand and act in the physical world — not just process text and images.
04
Enterprise Is Buying
The procurement conversation has shifted from "should we?" to "how do we scale?" Logistics, manufacturing and construction are deploying now.
05
Talent Is Concentrating
London, Oxford and Cambridge have become Europe’s defining Physical AI talent corridor. Wayve, DeepMind, Prometheus — all here.
06
No Ecosystem Platform Exists
No event brings together the capital, founders and enterprise buyers of Physical AI in one room. That is the gap the Physical AI Expo fills.
Location

Why London.

McKinsey identifies three European deep-tech hubs: Paris, the Alpine region (Zurich–Munich), and the London–Oxford–Cambridge triangle. London is the bridge point of that triangle — and the capital of Physical AI.

Project Prometheus
Kings Cross HQ. $38B valuation. Jeff Bezos chose London for one of three global headquarters of the most valuable Physical AI company in the world.
DeepMind & OpenAI
Both global AI leaders have established major London operations. The city has become the default European base for frontier AI research and deployment.
Oxford & Cambridge
Europe’s deepest robotics and AI talent pipeline. The London–Oxford–Cambridge triangle is McKinsey’s designated European deep-tech corridor.
Wayve
London-born autonomous driving company backed by SoftBank and Microsoft. One of the most advanced embodied AI companies operating on public roads today.
Ocado & Amazon Robotics
Both operating live Physical AI deployments at scale in the UK right now. Not pilots — production. The enterprise case is already proven here.
ExCeL London
The only UK venue with sufficient floor space to host 40+ live autonomous systems alongside a full conference programme in one building.
Who Attends

The Buy-Side
In One Room.

The enterprise-buyer gap is Physical AI’s defining whitespace. No existing platform brings together capital, founders and the enterprise buyers who will actually deploy these systems — until now.

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VC & Deep Tech Investors
a16z · Khosla · Eclipse · Toyota Ventures · Samsung Next
25%
Founders & Start-Ups
Series A through pre-IPO Physical AI companies across all categories
25%
Enterprise Buyers
Logistics · Manufacturing · Healthcare · Automotive · Construction
32%
Corporate M&A & Innovation
Siemens · ABB · BMW · Amazon · Honeywell Corp Dev
12%
Private Equity & Family Offices
PE platforms, growth equity, and family office CIOs in Physical AI
6%
Terminology

What Is Physical AI.

Physical AI is what happens when artificial intelligence leaves the screen and enters the physical world. Instead of only processing text, images or data, physical AI systems perceive their surroundings, reason about them in real time, and act — while adapting their behaviour as conditions change, rather than following a fixed, pre-programmed script.

That’s a progression from language models to vision-language models to vision-language-action (VLA) models: AI that can now see, understand and act. These systems train in simulation, cycling data between digital twins and the real world, before that intelligence is deployed to physical hardware — including humanoids, autonomous mobile robots, drones, quadrupeds, manipulator arms and autonomous vehicles.

Language Models
→
Vision-Language Models
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA)
ExCeL London · Q3 2027 · Inaugural Edition
The Physical AI
Era Starts Here.

Register your interest for delegate places, demo floor slots, or general enquiries about the inaugural Physical AI Expo, Conference & Summit.

For Investors
Attend The Expo
VCs, CVCs, family offices and growth equity. Priority access for early registrations.
For Enterprise Buyers
Attend The Expo
Heads of Innovation, Digital Transformation, Robotics or AI. CTOs and COOs evaluating Physical AI deployment.
For Companies
Partner With Us
Reach 6,000 senior investors, buyers, and founders. Media, community and commercial partnerships available.
Partnership Enquiry →
For Robotics Companies
Demo Your Tech
Demonstrate a working system to 6,000 senior buyers and investors. 40+ demo floor slots available.
Apply For A Demo Slot →
For Advisory Board
Join The Board
Shape the event. Contribute to the VC Advisory Board or the Enterprise Automation Buyer Advisory Board.
Advisory Board Enquiry →
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