Director of Silicon Valley Robotics & Author of "Robots and Startups"
Andra Keay Biography
Andra Keay is the Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, the largest robotics cluster in the world with more than 60 research facilities and over 600 robotics companies. She is also the Robotics Fellow at Singularity University, and advises deep tech investors and accelerators all over the world.
Keay has delivered keynotes at major tech conferences around the world. She speaks about robots and startups, the commercialization and promise of robotics, the potential impact of robotics on society, career journeys in the emerging deep tech sector, human-robot interaction and ethics, and on creating intentional innovation communities to maximize our potential.
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Andra Keay Speaking Topics
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The State of Robotics
Robotics is no longer a niche — it's a transformative economic driver reshaping labor, logistics, manufacturing, and care industries worldwide.
This talk equips investors, policymakers, and founders with a data-informed overview of how global capital, labor shortages, and supply chain pressures are accelerating the commercialization of robotics across geographies.
Audience Takeaways:
- A clear map of emerging global robotics hubs
- Where capital is flowing and why
- Which sectors will experience the fastest disruption
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Robotics 2.0 – How It Differs from the Past and What the Future Will Bring
We're entering a second wave of robotics—one driven not by hardware alone, but by scalable intelligence, cloud integration, and real-world adaptability.
This session reframes expectations about robotics by drawing distinctions between the overpromises of the past and today’s rapid convergence of AI, simulation, and real-world deployment.
Audience Takeaways:
- The three defining features of Robotics 2.0
- How LLMs and vision-language models change everything
- Practical predictions for the next 5–10 years of real-world deployment
Andra Keay Videos
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Andra Keay is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The State of Robotics, Robotics 2.0 – How It Differs from the Past and What the Future Will Bring, The Real Laws of Robotics, Creating Robot Startups and Good / Ethical Robot Design. The estimated speaking fee range to book Andra Keay for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Andra Keay generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Carla Diana, Dr. Catherine Ball, Gemma Milne, Joy Buolamwini and Ayanna Howard. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Andra Keay for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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