Edge AI and Real-Time Intelligence

Day 2 | Gold Track

Edge AI and Real-Time Intelligence


09:45 - 10:00

Chairperson's Opening Remarks

Chairpersons welcome and opening remarks

Lucy Barnard

Editor

IoT Insider


10:00 - 10:30

Presentation: The intersection of Edge AI, Physical AI and Robotics

As organisations confront the limits of cloud-centric architectures, leading enterprises are redesigning systems to bring intelligence closer to where data is generated. This session explores how deploying AI inference at the edge unlocks ultra-low latency decision-making, reduces operational costs, and ensures continuity in bandwidth-constrained or disconnected environments. Expect practical lessons on infrastructure redesign, model optimisation, and measurable business impact.

Dirk Geiger

Senior Director & Team Lead - Humanoid Robotics

Infineon Technologies


10:35 - 10:55

The AI Works. Can You Operate It? Scaling Physical AI Across the Edge

AI is moving out of the browser and into the physical world. A new generation of systems, like autonomous vehicles, warehouse robots, machine vision on the production line, and smart factories, now perceives its surroundings, reasons about them, and acts in real time. This is Physical AI. And unlike a chatbot, its mistakes have consequences in the physical world. That changes everything about where and how the intelligence has to run.

This session makes the case that for Physical AI, the edge is not an optimization but a prerequisite. Latency, intermittent connectivity, bandwidth limits, and data sovereignty all push inference out to where the sensors and machines actually live. But the real challenge starts after the models work: with operations. How do you deploy, secure, update, and monitor hundreds or thousands of GPU-equipped edge systems as a single fleet rather than as individually managed devices?

Drawing on real production deployments, we’ll explore why cloud-only architectures fall short, what an edge platform actually does, and how container orchestration brings cloud-native operational disciplines to distributed Physical AI devices. Attendees will leave with a practical litmus test for whether their organization can not just build Physical AI, but operate it reliably in the real world.

Stefan Vallin

Product Lead

Avassa


11:00 - 11:20

Edge-Native by Design: Building AI Systems for a Distributed, Autonomous Future

Driven by the need for speed, resilience, and autonomy, organisations are rapidly shifting toward edge-native system design. This panel examines the shift toward edge-native architectures, where intelligence is embedded closer to data sources, enabling faster, more resilient, and autonomous operations. Panellists will explore how to redesign data flows, integrate AI seamlessly across devices and networks, and navigate the complexities of interoperability in increasingly fragmented ecosystems. The discussion will also address how to future-proof infrastructure investments as edge computing, AI, and connectivity converge to form the backbone of next-generation digital operations.

Nitin Mindhe

Lead Process Automation Systems Engineer

Emerson


11:25 - 11:45

Edge Computing in Transition: How the Stack, Market and Architecture Are Changing

Edge computing is moving into a new phase as more compute, software, and intelligence shift closer to where data is created and acted on. At the same time, the market is expanding unevenly across different parts of the edge stack. Some technologies are becoming more strategic while others are maturing or changing role. This session will look at how these shifts are shaping the edge, where the strongest growth is emerging, and how architectures are developing as the technology stack becomes more distributed.

Raghav Kadian

Market Analyst

IoT Analytics


11:45 - 12:15

Networking Break


12:40- 13:00

Presentation: Edge AI and the challenges of managing distributed workloads

The impact of AI is being felt throughout the technology world, and beyond. One critical theme, implicit in the emergence of ‘AIoT’ and ‘Physical AI’, is the expanding requirement for distributed AI running on edge devices such as cameras, robots and industrial machinery.

In this session, Matt will explore the growing demand for edge AI for use cases such as predictive maintenance, anomaly detection and video analytics, and the significant implications for orchestration of AI across the cloud, device, and intervening edge locations. It will particularly focus on the increasing need for capabilities to manage the newly distributed AI inferencing, including optimising models for edge devices, mechanism for updating distributed models in the field, feedback loops, optimisation of connectivity, compliance and other key issues.

Matt Hatton

Founding Partner

Transforma Insights


12:50 - 13:10

Presentation: Orchestrating Intelligence: Managing AI Models Across Distributed Edge Fleets

As edge deployments grow into the thousands of devices, orchestrating AI models across distributed fleets becomes critical. This session explores strategies for centralized deployment, automated updates, and continuous monitoring to maintain peak model performance. Attendees will learn how orchestration platforms ensure consistency, reliability, and agility in complex edge environments, enabling organizations to scale AI without introducing operational risk.


13:10 - 14:10

Networking Lunch


14:10 - 14:55

Panel: 6G, Edge and Beyond: The Architecture of an Always-Intelligent World

5G solved coverage. 6G will solve cognition. As the first commercial 6G deployments move from standardisation bodies into vendor roadmaps, the question is no longer how fast connectivity will be – it is where intelligence should live. This session brings together network architects, chip designers, and IoT platform leads to map the emerging stack: sub-terahertz radios, in-network computing, ambient AI inference, and the edge-cloud continuum that will underpin the next decade of connected devices. Expect hard numbers,and a frank debate about which of the promises will actually ship.

Rob van Kranenburg

Senior Policy and Communication Expert

Martel Innovate

Elena Pasquali

CEO & Co-Founder

EcoSteer

Yann Lebrun

Systems Engineer

Qualcomm


15:05 - 15:15

Presentation: Edge Observability: Monitoring, Debugging, and Trusting AI in the Field

Deploying AI models is only half the battle; maintaining reliability and trust in the field is equally critical. This presentation will cover approaches to edge observability, including monitoring, debugging, and performance auditing for real-time AI systems. Attendees will gain insights into building trustworthy AI systems that are transparent, maintainable, and resilient, ensuring operational continuity and regulatory compliance.


15:20 - 15:40

Presentation: Keeping it Ethical: Avoiding Bias and Ensuring Privacy in Intelligent Systems

As intelligent systems gain influence, ethics must remain at the forefront. This talk explores how enterprises can design AIoT solutions that minimize bias, preserve privacy, and maintain trust. Through practical frameworks and examples, the speaker will show how to build systems that are not only powerful, but responsible too.

Dr. Vera Kovaleva

Founder & Architect

RAI Robotics Advanced Intelligence


15:40 - 15:50

Chairperson's Closing Remarks