Minds in Motion @ MIT

MassRobotics, Massport, and Mass Mobility Hub are convening airport operators, airlines, robotics startups, investors, and academic researchers to examine how robotics can address airport logistics and operations. Topics include food and beverage services, safety and security, luggage handling, parking garages, facility maintenance, customer service, and operational efficiency. The agenda includes a Massachusetts Airports Panel with directors from Boston Logan International, Worcester Regional, and Hanscom Field; Airport Challenges in Each Sector - Round Robin Opportunities, focused on safety, security, ground operations, facilities, and customer service; a Startup Innovation Showcase; and Massport Next, a program connecting startups with pilot opportunities related to sustainability, resilience, customer experience, safety and security, operational performance, aviation, maritime operations, the blue economy, and real estate. The event is private and attendance requires host approval.

A four-day industrial automation and digital transformation event at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center. The program combines keynotes, an expo with demonstrations, and general-access sessions featuring customer voices, industry viewpoints, partner solutions, and product introductions. Featured tracks cover executive insights; AI and edge-to-cloud operational data; process control; production logistics; OT security; and the future of industrial automation. Industry tracks include automotive and tire, food and beverage, life sciences, mining and metals, energy, OEMs and machine builders, and water and wastewater. Topics include rare-earth processing automation, critical metals and industrial energy systems, grid decarbonization through hydro and bioenergy, and data-driven oil and gas operations. Five curated summits address process automation and PlantPAx DCS; secure digital operations, industrial data, AI, MES, digital thread, and OT cybersecurity; OEM machine building, digital twins, and secure design; production logistics, autonomous material movement, robotics, and orchestration; and industrial safety. The safety program covers functional-safety and cybersecurity standards including IEC 61508, IEC 61511, ISO 13849, and IEC 62443, as well as robotics, AI, and autonomous operations. Process-summit sessions include copper-mine control systems, PlantPAx modernization, predictive control, and EtherNet/IP. Keynotes address leading through change and complexity, the future of industrial operations, and innovation through experimentation.

The program centers on “Trusted Sustainable Silicon Intelligence from Edge to Cloud,” with plenary papers and parallel technical presentations. Technical areas include analog circuits, data converters, digital circuits and architectures, image sensors and displays, medical circuits, memory, power management, RF and wireless systems, security, technology directions, and wireline. Tutorial topics include circuit design for autonomous vehicles, switched-capacitor power converters, adaptive clocking, time-domain ADCs, machine-learning accelerators, energy-harvesting sensors, mm-wave local-oscillator techniques, analog design automation, radar and sensing, and die-to-die interfaces. Six Advanced-Circuit-Design Forums address AI and HPC co-design; high-speed wireline data converters; electrical and optical connectivity; AI-optimized sensing; circuits for 6G communication, sensing, and edge AI; and silicon systems for quantum sensing and computing. Other program elements include “The Analog Renaissance: Can Unconventional Physical Computing and Optical Interconnects Define the Next Strategic Leap?”, a Student Research Preview with work-in-progress presentations and posters, an invited industry track on commercial chips and systems for AI training and inference, and demonstration sessions. The short course covers hardware security, including cryptographic architectures, hardware attacks and chip-level countermeasures, and hardware roots of trust. Plenary speakers include Marco Pieters, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at ASML, and Matt Murphy, Chairman and CEO of Marvell.

The conference program covers policy, governance, and global strategy for integrating autonomy across air, ground, and maritime domains, including counter-UAS authorities, AI governance, regulatory harmonization, spectrum allocation, and infrastructure readiness. Strategic Resilience addresses cybersecurity, geopolitical disruption, constrained access to critical components, NDAA and FCC covered-list procurement requirements, export controls, battery supply chains, and critical materials. Technology in Motion focuses on AI-driven perception, advanced propulsion, sensor fusion, collaborative autonomy, swarm coordination, counter-UAS systems, AI/ML certification, and verification and validation. Enterprise Operations & Ecosystem Integration examines domestic production, manufacturing readiness, MRO, reshoring, contract and additive manufacturing, vertiport integration, maritime logistics, digital twins, and production scaling. Autonomy in Action covers procurement, BVLOS and Part 108 operations, grants, venture capital, public-private partnerships, and commercial deployments. AUVSI Defense programming addresses maritime autonomy, national security and warfighter requirements, counter-UxS, appropriations, and fielding trusted systems at scale.

The first program day examines the move from automated processes toward intelligent, connected systems capable of decision-making, optimization, and adaptive control. Sessions cover programmable cloud laboratory nodes for AI materials and manufacturing, Sandia’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation, the Alabama Materials Institute, and an autonomous robotic metallurgist materials innovation platform. The program also connects self-driving and autonomous laboratory efforts associated with the Genesis Mission and Programmable Cloud Laboratories agendas to real-world applications, collaboration, and the future of autonomous manufacturing systems. An industry technology exhibition and demonstrations are included. The second program day explores Internet of Things for Manufacturing (IoTfM) use cases, implementation lessons, standards for connectivity and interoperability, and the future direction of IoTfM. Sessions address OPC UA, digital technologies and digital twins, factory-floor digital transformation, automation and additive manufacturing, manufacturing data, practical industrial IoT, and technologies shaping future factories. The program also includes advanced manufacturing pilot facility tour stations and demonstrations.

Under the theme “Chemical Engineering Reimagined,” the meeting covers chemical-engineering research, technologies, and emerging growth areas. Program guides highlight AI and machine learning, climate change, industrial careers, and early-career faculty. The AI and machine-learning program includes sessions on process development; polymer simulation, informatics, and data analytics; data-driven pharmaceutical process controls; AI-enabled process design, scale-up, and workforce readiness; nuclear chemical engineering; manufacturing-system modeling; computational catalysis; digital twins in energy systems; biomass utilization; and data-driven medicine. Featured discussions consider digital transformation, evolving industrial ecosystems, sustainability pressures, and changing workforce expectations, as well as ways to incorporate data science into chemical-engineering curricula, degree programs, certificates, and teaching of statistics and programming. Featured lectures address chemical engineers’ roles amid advances in AI, sustainable energy, and an interconnected global economy, and the use of catalysis to convert biomass, CO2, and end-of-life polymers into fuels, chemicals, and materials. Other lecture themes include carbon circularity, process intensification, renewable hydrogen, and pathways toward net-negative carbon manufacturing.

The summit gathers Air Force and Space Force modeling, simulation, and analytics experts to learn about new initiatives and techniques and consider how modeling and simulation can move more training from the real world to digital. It provides a forum for shared information and connection across military services, the Department of War, industry, academia, and international partners. Focus areas include AI, machine learning and cloud; augmented, mixed, extended and virtual reality; analytics; digital engineering; healthcare simulations; joint coalition; multi-domain environments; and test evaluation and experimentation. Panel themes include senior leadership, Digital Space Range, NCO, Resilient, Ready & Responsive Airmen and Guardians, and Partner to Win. The summit also includes an industry exhibition and classified briefings.

The workshop covers advancements, challenges, and gaps in flexible hybrid electronics, hybrid electronics, and bio-signal sensing for real-time cognitive and physical state monitoring and augmentation, and includes AI for Metrology (AI4MT) sessions. Day 1, the Innovation Forum, features technical presentations on advances from FlexTech and NBMC. Day 2, Technical Gap Analysis, uses collaborative breakout sessions to examine technology gaps and roadmaps, shape FlexTech and NBMC research priorities, and inform future Request for Proposal directions. Day 3, the AI for Metrology Workshop, explores connecting metrology, failure-analysis, and test data across the semiconductor supply chain. Topics include AI-assisted defect localization and root-cause analysis, non-destructive modalities, targeted physical characterization, chiplets, heterogeneous integration, and advanced packaging. Industry tours at SkyWater Technology and NeoCity Academy are also listed.

The program pairs morning plenary sessions with concurrent Technology and Education & Workforce Development tracks. Topics include AI in manufacturing, manufacturers’ problems and needs, building ARM Institute-funded project teams, funding opportunities, and enrollment in manufacturing training programs. Interactive activities cover moving ARM-funded projects from development to factory-floor deployment; communicating technology needs, risks, and value in proposals; developing education and workforce grant proposals; and creating immersive learning experiences for manufacturing careers. Other program elements include project updates, five-minute member pitches on organizational capabilities, problems seeking collaborators, and products or services, and an introduction to the revamped ARM Member Community. Attendance is limited to ARM Institute members.