Time Event / Talk Title
08:30 - 08:40 Introduction
08:40 - 09:10 1st Keynote - Sherry Yang: "From Pretraining World Models to Post-Training Physical Agents"
09:10 - 10:00 1st Panel - What is a World Model for Robotics? (Includes breakout discussion)
10:00 - 10:20 1st Lightning Talks (Neural)
10:20 - 10:30 1st Spotlight Talk (Neural)
10:30 - 11:00 1st Poster Session & Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 2nd Keynote - Yilun Du: "Planning with Video Based World Models"
11:30 - 12:00 3rd Keynote - Tom Silver: "Learning Neuro-Symbolic World Models for Task and Motion Planning"
12:00 - 12:30 4th Keynote - Emre Ugur: "Emergence of Action and Object Symbols and Symbolic Rules in Robotics"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 5th Keynote - Siddharth Srivastava: "Learning Relational World Models for Robot Planning"
14:00 - 14:30 6th Keynote - Sungjin Ahn: "Towards World Theory Models"
14:30 - 14:50 2nd Lightning Talks (Symbolic)
14:50 - 15:00 2nd Spotlight Talk (Symbolic)
15:00 - 15:30 2nd Panel - Integrating Neural and Symbolic Architectures (Includes Q&A)
15:30 - 16:00 2nd Poster Session & Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20 3rd Lightning Talks (Neuro-Symbolic)
16:20 - 16:30 3rd Spotlight Talk (Neuro-Symbolic)
16:30 - 17:00 3rd Poster Session
17:00 - 17:30 7th Keynote - Jiajun Wu: "Structured Representations in Actions, Objects, and Tasks for Robotics"