From Prototype to Certified: Building Safety Into Robots Before It’s Expensive

Who this is for: robotics and physical AI founders, hardware and systems engineers, and anyone whose product will one day need to pass a safety assessment.

About the speaker: Akshay Chalana is co-founder and CEO of Saphira AI (YC S24), which builds AI for robotics and complex physical systems, turning engineering context into failure analysis, requirements and validation evidence for teams whose products have to pass a safety assessment. Before Saphira he worked at Apple, Meta, Tesla and Citadel. Saphira is a member of the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab.

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FAQ:​Q: Is there on-site parking?Yes, secure garage parking is available $10 parking pass is available from the front desk at SURF Incubator on Floor 7.