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# Building AI for the Physical World


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 11:00–11:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

AI is moving out of the datacenter and into devices, vehicles, and machines. Building for the physical world is different from building for the cloud: compute and power are constrained, connectivity is not guaranteed, and shipping an update means reaching hardware in the field. What matters when building, deploying, and running AI under these conditions.

## Speakers

### [Alex Spinelli](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@alex-spinelli)

SVP, AI and Developer Platforms at Arm
### [Eystein Stenberg](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@eystein-stenberg)

CTO of NorthernTech
### [Gerardo Pardo-Castellote](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@gerardo-pardo-castellote)

CTO of RTI


## Related talks at this congress

- [Physical AI: 5 Things You Can Build That Aren't Another Chatbot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1815-physical-ai-5-things) — Vini Senger
- [Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1805-edge-ai-running) — Nitin Eusebius
- [From Simulation to Reality: Overcoming the Data Scarcity Crisis in Physical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1787-from-simulation-to) — Mitesh Patel
- [For Physical AI, data is the problem, but data is not the solution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1674-for-physical-ai-data) — Ashutosh Saxena

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