1315 - 1400

Lunch Reception + Poster Session 1

1400 - 1405

Opening Remarks
Organizers

1405 - 1410

Audience Voting on OWN Research Directions + Navigation Failure Videos
Organizers

1410 - 1430

Industry Talk - Real World Learnings from the Earth Rovers Challenge
Michael Cho
FrodoBots

1430 - 1450

Keynote 1 - Long-Range Open-World Semantic Mapping
Omar Alama and Wenshan Wang
(on behalf of Sebastian Scherer)
CMU

1450 - 1500

Technical Presentation - Winners of Earth Rovers Challenge 2025
Wang Jiaming and team
NUS

1500 - 1520

Keynote 2 - Failure Handling for Navigation in Unstructured Environments
Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay
CSIRO

1520 - 1550

Coffee Break + Poster Session 2

1550 - 1610

Keynote 3 - Navigating Safely with Continuous and Differentiable Representations
Teresa Vidal-Calleja
UTS

1610 - 1630

Keynote 4 - Embodied Spatial Intelligence for Open-World Navigation
Chen Feng
NYU

1630 - 1650

Keynote 5 - Navigating the Open World:
Foundation models, floor plans, failure resilience, ...
David Hsu
NUS

1650 - 1730

Panel Discussion
Moderator - Dr. Nicky Zimmerman

1730 - 1750

Speed Debate
Audience + Panelists

1750 - 1800

Closing Remarks & Best Paper/Video Award
Organizers