# Are you faster than a robot?

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**Date:** March 13, 2026 · 10:00 PM  
**Location:** Rivian Electric Roadhouse  
**Format:** Fireside Chat  
**Track:** Tech & AI track  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Mark Rober** — Founder & CEO
- **RJ Scaringe** — Founder/Ceo

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe and CrunchLabs Founder Mark Rober host the ultimate autonomous robot challenge. This interactive presentation pits audience members against the robot brainchild RJ and Mark teamed up to build, testing human reactions vs machine learning. Can people compete with computers? How is Rivian approaching autonomy? Are people really that slow?!?!?? We’ll find out.

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