The Hertz Foundation Board of Directors and Fellowship and Programs Council invite you to join them at The Ace Hotel in Brooklyn, NY, on Friday, March 27, 2026, for a special community dinner celebrating connection and conversation.
Moderated by Daniel Theobald and featuring panelists Floris Van Breugel, Laura Herlant, and Soy Choi, our Hertz Fellow speakers bring a wealth of experience for a forward-looking exchange of robotics developments in agriculture, autonomous mobile robots, deep reinforcement learning algorithms, and bio-robotics.
This event is open to Hertz Community members, with the option to bring one guest. Please register below.
For questions, please contact Emily Vitas, Event Producer, at evitas@hertzfoundation.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration
speakers
Soyoun (Soy) Choi
Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering
Wendy Connors
President, Hertz Foundation
Stephen Fantone
Chair of the Board of Directors, Hertz Foundation; President & Chief Executive Officer, Optikos Corporation
Laura Herlant
Research Director, Robotics and AI Institute
Christopher Loose
Chair of the Fellowship and Programs Council, Hertz Foundation; Co-founder and CEO, Progentos Therapeutics
Daniel Theobald
Founder and CEO, Vecna Robotics
Floris van Breugel
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
