Physical AI + Higher Education Executive Summit
The future is
physical.
A private working offsite summit for University Presidents and their teams shaping what comes next for higher education and Physical Ai.
SAVE MY SPOTA private working offsite summit for University Presidents and their teams shaping what comes next for higher education and Physical Ai.
SAVE MY SPOTFewer than 100 leaders from approximately 25 institutions. A small room, real demonstrations, and time to turn new thinking into the beginning of an institutional roadmap.
Get close to Physical AI through live demonstrations and practical campus applications.
Explore the strategic questions with your peers across academics, technology, and operations.
Work with your own team to identify a path that fits your institution.
Follow the implications from the workforce to the classroom to the campus itself.
How should universities prepare students and the workforce for an economy shaped by robotics and autonomous systems?
How might Physical AI transform teaching and learning across disciplines?
How can institutions responsibly integrate autonomous systems into campus operations?
Leaders in robotics, applied AI, and higher education operations. Additional speakers and the full agenda will follow.
Dr. Giby Raphael is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of REVOBOTS, bringing a career at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and commercialization. A former Intel robotics and IoT executive, Giby has spent his career translating advanced technologies into systems that can operate at real-world scale. He holds a Ph.D. in Robotics, three master’s degrees spanning engineering and computer science disciplines, an M.A. in Leadership, and an MBA from Cornell University. At REVOBOTS, Giby leads the company’s technical vision and commercialization strategy, bringing together robotics, intelligent systems, human-in-the-loop thinking, and practical deployment. His perspective is especially relevant to higher education as institutions consider how Physical AI can move beyond the laboratory to become part of campus life, applied research, workforce preparation, and the next generation of innovation.
Dr. Ranjy Thomas is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of REVOBOTS, an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and strategic growth leader whose career has centered on building organizations, partnerships, and ideas with the potential to scale. His early work included helping launch the venture that became Nextel Communications, and he later played a strategic role in the Nextel/Sprint combination. He has advised executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and organizations across periods of growth, transformation, and market change; in 2024, Indiana Wesleyan University awarded him an honorary doctorate and inducted him into its Society of World Changers. At REVOBOTS, Ranjy brings that strategic and relationship-driven perspective to institutional growth, partnerships, and market development—connecting Physical AI with the leaders, organizations, and ecosystems capable of accelerating its adoption and broader impact.
Dr. Rahul Khanna is Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of REVOBOTS, combining deep academic research with decades of experience building intelligent systems in the real world. A former Intel Principal Applied AI Researcher and systems architect, Rahul’s work spans artificial intelligence, distributed computing, embedded systems, telemetry, autonomous systems, hardware optimization, and predictive technologies, with 85 patents to his credit. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and also serves as Courtesy Faculty at Oregon State. An author of influential technical works including Efficient Learning Machines, Rahul leads the intelligence architecture behind REVOBOTS’ Physical AI platform—bridging advanced research with the autonomy, adaptability, and human oversight required to make intelligent robotic systems useful in complex environments.
Andre Christian is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of REVOBOTS, with more than 25 years of experience across technology, automation, commercialization, product strategy, brand development, business development, and go-to-market execution. A former director at Toshiba and founder of Techquity Advisors, Andre has built his career around helping organizations understand, position, and adopt complex technologies in ways that create tangible market value. At REVOBOTS, he works across strategy, operations, brand, investor communications, partnerships, and commercialization—helping connect the company’s technical capabilities to the organizations and people they are designed to serve. He brings to the Physical AI conversation a practical understanding of adoption: how transformative technologies move from compelling ideas to products, partnerships, experiences, and new opportunities that people can actually see, understand, and use.
Mike Phillips is Co-Founder and Chief Manufacturing & Design Officer of REVOBOTS, bringing the hands-on engineering, robotics design, and manufacturing expertise that turns ambitious ideas into machines that can actually go to work. His background includes Haddington Dynamics and Ocado, with extensive experience across robotic systems, rapid prototyping, advanced fabrication, mechanical design, and field-ready hardware. At REVOBOTS, Mike leads the physical design and build execution behind TASKBOTS®, translating concepts into functional systems that can be tested, refined, deployed, maintained, and improved in real operating environments. For higher education, that practical perspective is especially powerful: it connects engineering and experimentation with the experience of actually building, deploying, and learning from Physical AI—giving campuses and students a direct line from an idea on the drawing board to a working system in the world.
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Join a select group of higher education leaders exploring what comes next for Physical AI, autonomous systems, and the future of campus operations.