An important brief for Founding Partners, Sponsors & Potential Exhibitors.
The Ambition
We’re not building a regional trade show. We’re building the event this industry gathers around every year, the one that puts Austin on the map internationally for robotics, automation, and applied AI. 120,000 square feet of column-free indoor halls plus a covered outdoor proving ground where machines demonstrate at full scale, not just sit on display.
What We’re Building
The Austin Robotics, Automation, Engineering & Applied AI Expo. Two days, July 10 and 11, 2027, at the Palmer Events Center in downtown Austin.
Austin sits at a convergence no other US metro can claim. Robotics research, capital, silicon manufacturing, and physical manufacturing, all within roughly forty miles of each other. This city has never had a home event built for this industry. We’re building it.
Austin Robotics Expo will be a B2B and B2C event open to the public and accessible to all ages.
The Venue
Palmer Events Center. Downtown Austin, on Lady Bird Lake, minutes from the airport. Built to hold a serious industry event and to let people actually move through it.
The venue is contracted and paid for, and we are excited!
Six Industry Categories
01 – Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Industrial, collaborative, autonomous, service, and humanoid robots.
03 – Engineering the Future
Embedded systems, controls, sensors, and systems integration.
05 – Startups, Scale, and Commercialization
Founders, investors, and teams scaling breakthrough technologies.
02 – Automation and Smart Operations
Automation transforming factories, logistics, and enterprise operations.
04 – Applied AI & Real-World Implementation
Machine intelligence deployed in robotics, manufacturing, and mobility.
06 – Research, Talent, and the Texas Ecosystem
Universities, labs, and talent shaping Texas as a hub for advanced technology.
Join Us!
We’re assembling a limited number of founding partners and category sponsors- organizations that want an active role in shaping the Expo’s programming, categories, and direction, not just a booth.
- Three non-competing Founding Partner positions
- Category Sponsorships across all six themes, spanning Bronze, Silver, and Top-Tier Gold Sponsors
- Program sponsorships for the main stage and outdoor proving ground showcase arena
This is an early conversation, not a pitch. We want to build this with people who see Austin becoming a leader in the Robotics, Automation, and Applied AI Industry.
Let’s Talk
Who We Are
Dreamspace is an international experience agency, established in 2006, with teams in New York, Austin, Istanbul, and Mumbai. We build brands, digital products, and live experiences for organizations that need real scale and real craft.
For three consecutive years, 2022 through 2024, Dreamspace and our sister company, Capital Events, ranked among the top 5 exhibitors at CES, according to Exhibitor Magazine, out of more than 7,000 companies on the floor. That track record includes Togg’s CES 2023 Digital Mobility Garden, an 18,000-square-foot experience built in nine days, and Togg’s CES 2024 activation, which won Best of CES and placed 5th. We’ve also produced our own original event, the Digital Podium Festival, bringing over 20,000 people to Austin across three days during MotoGP weekend.
Alongside Dreamspace, GRAFX brings twenty years of production and post-production experience, with clients including Netflix, Amazon, and many other global enterprise clients.
We know how to build experiences at scale. Now we’re building one from the ground up, for Austin, for the Robotics, Automation, & Applied AI industry.