IZON is proud to announce that we have partnered with MACHINA Summit, one of Europe’s largest physical AI events, which is taking place in Paris on 7-8 July 2027.
More than 3,500 attendees and 200 speakers will descend on the French capital at a new location next year – the Palais des Congrès de Paris.
Across two days, MACHINA Summit will bring together the founders, scientists, operators and investors taking physical AI from prototype to production.
IZON is able to offer our readers an exclusive 20% discount on tickets using the code MEDIZON20.
The first edition was held on 7 July 2026 at Station F, Paris, and had senior leaders from some of the largest physical AI companies globally, including Jim Fan (NVIDIA), David Reger (Neura Robotics), Bernt Børnich (1X), Marc Raibert (RAI Institute) and Carolina Parada (Google DeepMind). Representatives from Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Skild AI and others also attended.
“Physical AI is the next frontier, and the people building it should not have to fly to San Francisco or Shenzhen to meet each other,” said David Amar, Co-founder of MACHINA.
“MACHINA 2027 will set the direction for embodied intelligence over the next 12 months.”
Confirmed 2027 speakers
Today, IZON can reveal the first five speakers confirmed for the 2027 edition:
- Abhinav Gupta, President and Co-founder, Skild AI
- Albert Pescheck, CEO, Bosch Digital Twin Industries
- Matthieu Masselin, CEO, Wandercraft
- Jonathan Hurst, Co-founder and Chief Robot Officer, Agility
- Evan Beard, CEO, Co-founder and Chief Engineer at Standard Bots
What’s the theme?
The 2027 event will be structured around four key themes: Embodiment, Training, Deployment and Infrastructure.
Embodiment is the hardware taking AI into the physical world. Expect sessions on humanoids, quadrupeds, autonomous vehicles, dexterous hands and specialised robots.
Training is how physical AI learns. This track covers simulation, synthetic data, foundation models and reinforcement learning, the techniques closing the gap between what robots can do in the lab and what they can do on the factory floor.
Deployment is where physical AI goes to work. Speakers will explore real-world rollouts across manufacturing, warehousing, factories, logistics, energy, infrastructure and space.
Infrastructure is the foundations underneath it all. From semiconductors and compute to cloud infrastructure and hardware manufacturing, this theme examines the technology stack that makes physical AI possible.
MACHINA Week
Alongside the main summit, MACHINA Week will run a series of additional events across Paris:
- MACHINA Gala at the Château de Versailles: An exclusive evening event for 500 attendees from across AI and physical AI, which the organisers describe as “the kind of access the industry rarely gets.”
- MACHINA CxO Summit: An invitation-only forum for senior executives deploying robotics at scale, with arranged one-to-one meetings between buyers, builders and investors.
- MACHINA Factory: A showcase where engineers present physical AI products to investors and enterprises that may fund or deploy them.
- Curated side event gatherings: Private dinners and salons held at venues across the city.
On the partnership, David Amar commented: “IZON, with its goal to globally cover Physical AI as a sector made them a great fit for MACHINA. We are delighted to have them as an official media partner.”
Ben Hubbard, Executive Editor at IZON, said: “Germany’s KUKA built one of the first electromechanical industrial robots in 1973, and ABB followed a year later with one of the first microprocessor-controlled robots. Somewhere along the way, though, Europe’s edge was lost. MACHINA Summit is putting European robotics back in the spotlight. The 2026 edition drew some of the biggest names in the industry, and we’re looking forward to covering who takes the stage in 2027.”
