Physical AI

Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks.

Physical AI is rapidly moving beyond research labs and controlled environments into enterprise operations. From manufacturing and logistics to healthcare, energy and critical infrastructure, organisations are beginning to deploy autonomous systems capable of understanding, reasoning and acting in the physical world. Explore the technological breakthroughs driving this transition, where investment is accelerating, and what business leaders should expect over the coming years.

Discussion points include:

• Why Physical AI has reached an enterprise tipping point.
• The industries seeing the fastest adoption.
• The technologies making large-scale deployment possible.
• The commercial opportunities and barriers ahead.

While many organisations have demonstrated promising pilots, few have successfully deployed Physical AI at enterprise scale. This panel explores the operational, organisational and technical challenges of moving from experimentation to production.

Key discussion points:

• Building the business case for Physical AI.
• Integrating autonomous systems into existing operations.
• Workforce readiness and organisational change.
• Measuring ROI and long-term value.

Agentic AI is beginning to transform scientific discovery by autonomously designing experiments, analysing results and accelerating innovation across pharmaceuticals, materials science and advanced manufacturing. Discover how organisations are combining foundation models with laboratory automation to reshape research and development.

Successful Physical AI systems depend on far more than increasingly powerful foundation models. Discover how organisations are using simulation, synthetic data and digital twins to train, validate and continuously improve autonomous systems before deployment.

Topics include:

• Digital twins.
• Synthetic data generation.
• Simulation environments.
• Model evaluation.
• Bridging the simulation-to-reality gap.

How are digital twins, modern methods of construction and emerging Physical AI technologies beginning to reshape the built environment?

This fireside explores the journey from digital representation to physical execution, where robotics and autonomous systems can deliver genuine value, and what needs to happen for these technologies to scale across real-world construction.

Remote Robotics Operations at Scale – Safety, Autonomy & Industrial Deployment

• How robotics, AI, and remote operations are transforming inspection and monitoring in energy infrastructure
• Building trusted autonomous systems that operate reliably in harsh, safety-critical environments