The ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific 2025 will host its annual summit in conjunction with ROSCon 2025 and SWITCHvin SIngapore.
The annual summit is an opportunity to come together with the community and engage in conversations to bring robotics through the next stage through the community. This year, it is a special year as we would be co-located with two major robotics event
- ROSCon 2025 - a flagship event by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. Details of the event: https://roscon.ros.org/2025/
- Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH)- a 20,000 crowd of innovators, enterpreneurs and people who just love technology https://www.switchsg.org/
RIC-AP Annual Summit 2025 will be co-located at the Beyond Stage @ SWITCH - more details to come
When: Oct 30, 2025 (The day after ROSCon 2025 and Day 2 of SWITCH)
Location: Beyond Stage
Registration: Registration for the ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Annual Summit @ SWITCH Beyond is now Open!
Kindly note that the registration is subjected to a confirmation email, and that this is a paid event for non ROS-I members.
We look forward to having everyone in Sunny Singapore!
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 0900 -0915 | Welcome & Opening Remarks | Tung Meng Fai (Executive Director - National Robotics Programme) |
| 0920 - 0940 | Keynote Presentation | Vanessa Yamzon Orzi (Chief Executive Officer - Open Robotics) |
| 0945 - 1030 | Global Pulse of ROS-Industrial: Innovations, Insights & Future Directions |
Maria Vergo (Head, Technology Portfolio Management, Tech-Biz Development - A*STAR,ARTC Consortium Manager, ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific, ARTC) Matt Robinson (Consortium Manager, ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas, SwRI) Vishnu Prachandabhanu (Consortium Manager, ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe, Fraunhofer IPA) |
| 1035 - 1135 | Embodied AI Panel Sharing | |
| 1140 - 1220 | Women in Robotics Panel Sharing | Suchitra Narayan [Moderator] (Director, Automation & Energy - SGInnovate) Chan Min Ling (Vice President, Head of Technology Innovation - HMGICS) Vanessa Yamzon Orzi (Chief Executive Officer - Open Robotics) Samantha Su (Director, Digital Transformation - IMDA) Assistant Prof. Malika Meghjani (Assistant Professor - SUTD) |
| 1225 - 1245 | Future of Humanoids: Innovations & Impacts | Prof. Han Boon Siew (Manager, Innovation Sub-Cluster Humanoid & Senior Director (SHARE @NTU) - Schaeffler) |
| 1250 - 1310 | Realizing Autonomous Robots Interoperability Using Robotics Middleware Framework (RMIF) |
Duyhinh Nguyen (General Manager - Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd) |
| 1315 - 1335 | Developing a World-Class ROS Talent Pipeline | Priscilla Looi (Assistant Director, People (Learning and Alumni Engagement - SGInnovate) Sheila Suppiah (Assistant Manager, Tech-Biz Development - A*STAR, ARTC) |
| 1335 - 1400 | Beyond Lunch | |
| 1400 - 1800 | Site Visits |
