The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced the speaker lineup and agenda for its Advanced Vision & AI Conference, a two-day Vision and AI event set for September 23–24, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. Registration is open at https://www.automate.org/events/advanced-vision-and-ai-conference.
The conference will bring together experts from Waymo, NVIDIA, Tesla, Intrinsic, GE Vernova, Intel, FANUC, Cognex, Siemens Digital Industries and others to focus on deployment of vision and AI technologies across manufacturing and industrial environments.
Demand for advanced vision technologies is rising: North American machine vision transactions reached $789 million in the first quarter of 2026, up 6.8% year over year, according to A3 Market Intelligence.
“Companies are moving quickly to figure out where vision and AI can improve quality, flexibility, and productivity,” said Jeff Burnstein, president of A3. “This conference brings together people who are actively building and deploying these systems so attendees can learn from real applications, technical challenges, and results.”
Vision and AI tracks and featured sessions
The conference includes business and technical tracks covering AI strategy and ROI, machine vision deployment, AI-enabled inspection, edge AI and security, robotics perception, foundation models, governance and autonomy.
Featured sessions listed by A3 include:
– Waymo: Vincent Vanhoucke, Distinguished Engineer, on multimodal perception and generative sensor simulation for safe autonomy.
– NVIDIA: Alvin Clark, Global Developer Relations Manager for Industrial and Manufacturing, on using synthetic data to accelerate AI quality models.
– Intrinsic: Torsten Kroeger, Chief Science Officer, on generalized and specialized AI models for robotics and automation.
– Tesla: Sparsh Gautam, Computer Vision Engineer, on sensor calibration and physical drift in real-world vision systems.
– GE Vernova: Jaron Kuppers, Technology Manager for Robotics & Computer Vision, on intelligent industrial inspection and physical AI.
Additional sessions from Intel, FANUC, Cognex, Teledyne, Omron Automation Americas, MathWorks, 3M and others will examine applications ranging from self-learning inspection and vision-guided robotics to edge AI security and scalable factory automation.
Attendees can expect practical strategies and technical detail from organizations actively building and deploying machine vision and industrial AI systems.
