ROSCon Global 2026 Registration Now Open! Workshop and exhibitor info now available!

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ROSCon Global 2026 Registration Now Open!

Workshop and exhibitor info now available


REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
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Hi Everyone,

I am happy to announce that registration for ROSCon Global in Toronto is now open! We highly encourage you to register as soon as possible as ROSCon often sells out and our most popular workshops fill up fast. Early bird ticket prices will be available until July 12th, 2026. Our early bird rates are quite generous and effectively make workshop registration free! Even if you don’t plan to attend a workshop, we recommend you join us for all three days of the event as there will be a number of other activities, like birds of a feather sessions, happening on the first day of ROSCon Global. Given what I’ve heard from other community members, there will likely be a number of other events happening immediately before and after the official ROSCon Global event (I might be cooking something up for the Friday after the conference :wink:).

If you are curious about what else there is to do in the Toronto area while visiting, our hosts have graciously put together a micro-site with dining, shopping, and tourist activities in Toronto.

ROSCon Workshops

Due to the incredible demand for ROSCon workshops last year we’ve expanded our workshop capacity for 2026! We’re excited to announce that this year we will be offering eight half-day workshops and two full-day workshops. ROSCon Global is now officially a three day event, and even if you choose not to attend workshops there will be Birds of a Feather sessions and other events during the first day of the event. We recommend that you plan to be in Toronto for the entire week as we have a couple other big announcements coming out in the next few weeks!

I’ve summarized our ROSCon Global workshops below, but a full list is available on the website.

  • [Half-day] From URDF to USD: A Complete Pipeline for High-Fidelity ROS 2 Simulation in NVIDIA Isaac Sim with Ji Yuan Feng and Ayush Ghosh. Build a complete robot simulation pipeline from raw URDF to ROS 2 integration using NVIDIA Isaac Sim.
  • [Half-day] Train and Deploy Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation Skills With Isaac Lab and Isaac ROS, with Raffaello Bonghi, Rishabh Chadha, Ashwin Varghese Kuruttukulam, and Ayusman Saha. Develop and deploy contact-rich manipulation policies for tasks like gear assembly using Isaac Lab and Isaac ROS.
  • [Half-day] Train, Simulate, Deploy: Agentic AI from Cloud to Robot with Ken O’Brien, Graham Schelle, Sarunas Kalade, Mehdi Saeedi, and Adam Dąbrowski, Explore practical pathways for training and deploying embodied AI models across cloud environments and on-device NPUs.
  • [Half-day] Scaling ros2_control: From Async Hardware Drivers to RL Inference Engines with Sai Kishor Kothakota, Bence Magyar, Christoph Fröhlich, and Denis Štogl, Architect asynchronous hardware interfaces to prevent I/O bottlenecks and deploy reinforcement learning models efficiently.
  • [Full-day] Advanced Aerial Robotics with PX4 and ROS 2: Custom Flight Modes and Beyond with Ramon Hernan Roche Quintana, Beniamino Pozzan, and Patrik Dominik Pordi, Build custom flight modes and sequence complex autonomous behaviors for aerial robots entirely in ROS 2.
  • [Half-day] Motion Planning Fundamentals with Moveit with Yara Shahin and Timotej Gaspar, Learn the core concepts of path planning and collision avoidance by configuring MoveIt 2 for a real robot from scratch.
  • [Half-day] Introduction to ROS and Building Robots with Open-Source Software with Geoff Biggs and Katherine Scott, Master the fundamentals of building robots using open-source software.
  • [Half-day] Declarative ROS workspaces with Pixi and RoboStack: A hands-on workshop for reproducible ROS development with Ruben Arts, Wolf Vollprecht, and Bas Zalmstra. Use Pixi and RoboStack to declare your entire ROS environment in a single file to guarantee completely reproducible development setups.
  • [Half-day] Mastering the Jazzy RMW: A Performance-Driven Framework for ROS 2 Middleware Selection and Tuning with Nathan Van Heyst, Tony Baltovski, Luis Camero, and Jose Mastrangelo, Optimize ROS 2 middleware performance through systematic tuning, benchmarking, and high-scale stress testing.
  • [Full-day] Navigation University with David Lu and Binit Shah, Configure a simulated mobile robot step-by-step to successfully navigate its environment using maps, localization, and planning.

ROSCon Global Sponsors

ROSCon Global wouldn’t be possible without our wonderful sponsors. Below you will find a list of the initial batch of ROSCon Global Sponsors. Make sure to check them out at our ROSCon Global Expo Hall. Many of our sponsors will be holding exclusive demonstrations during ROSCon Global that you’ll want to check out.

:1st_place_medal: Gold Sponsors

:2nd_place_medal: Silver Sponsors

:3rd_place_medal: Bronze Sponsors

:seedling: Startup Alley Sponsors

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