| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Dong-Ki Kim, FieldAI | Don’t Run with Scissors: Making Pruned VLA Models Safe for Field Robots |
| 9:30 – 10:00 AM | Anton Netchayev, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | ERDC Robotics and Autonomous Systems |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM | Yan Wang, NVIDIA | Alpamayo 1: Advancing End-To-End Autonomous Driving With Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models |
| 11.00 - 11.30 AM | Varun Murali, TAMU | Towards open-world task and motion planning in unstructured environments |
| 11:30 - 12.15 PM | Panel: Autonomy | Participants: Varun Murali, Dong-Ki Kim, Anton Netchayev, Dylan Shell |
| 12:15 – 1:00 PM | Closed-door lunch / Feedback Session | With participants |
