Session: Getting to the First Million Speakers: Dov Moran (Moderator) – Managing Partner, Grove Ventures Lockie Andrews – CEO and Founder, Catalyzes AI Leesa Eichberger – Fractional CMO Larry Li – Managing Partner, Amino Capital Barry O'Neill – Partner, Value Create Ventures Summary: This panel outlines critical pathways for early-stage startups to secure their first $100,000 and scale to $1 million, emphasizing that a company’s foundation relies heavily on finding complement

Session: Success Factor of Innovation Ecosystem: Best Practices from Festo Speaker: Frank Notz (CSO, Festo SE & Co. KG) Summary: True innovation must solve concrete customer challenges—boosting productivity, cost efficiency, or machine availability—to build a viable business case rather than just a technical feature. Festo retains its core competencies in-house while actively co-innovating within ecosystems, partnering with startups like Z Alpha for AI-driven engineering and

Session: From pilot to production: How industrial leaders are scaling AI across global manufacturing. Speakers: CK Kumar — Director, Edge Marketing, Dell Technologies (Moderator) Jason Nassar — Vertical Enablement Leader, Product Management, Dell Technologies Ralf Schulze — VP Physical AI, HCLTech Jessica Bethune — Vice President Industrial Automation DACH, Schneider Electric Sean Young — Director, Enterprise Marketing, NVIDIA Headquarters Summary: This panel addresses the ma