Advancing the Craft of Building Intelligent Machines

The global center for advancing the craft of building intelligent machines through standards development, industry collaboration, education, and global community building.

01 Our Mission

To advance intelligent machines from isolated innovations into trusted, interoperable systems through shared standards, collective learning, and global collaboration.

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02 How We Do It

01 Standards Development

Define and promote open
interoperability standards that
enable intelligent machines to work together safely, reliably, and at scale.

02 Knowledge Sharing

Curate and disseminate best

practices, methodologies, and real-world learnings across robotics, IoT, AI, and intelligent systems.

03 Community Building

Connect founders, engineers,
investors, researchers, and industry leaders in a trusted, practitioner-driven network.

03 Global Collaboration

Operate regional chapters aligned by a shared global vision, ensuring local relevance with worldwide cohesion.

03 Industry Partnership

Bridge startups, VCs, established enterprises, and end-users to accelerate adoption, deployment, and impact.

03 Ecosystem Impact

01 Standards Development

• 1,000+ founders globally
• HQ in Silicon Valley
• Active chapters & initiatives in North America, Europe, Asia
and Latin America
• 30+ curated founder events in 2025
• 1500+ total participants engaged across events and roundtables

02 Founder Support Infrastructure

• 15 global legal partners supporting founders
• 10 global marketing & PR partners
• 12 accounting & operations partners

• 7 mental health & founder-wellbeing partners

03 Capital, Corporates & Market Access

• 50+ VCs & corporate investors engaged
• $26B+ in combined portfolio valuation represented across the
ecosystem

• 25+ accelerator & incubator partners globally
• Direct access to 50+ Fortune 500, Big Tech, and Industry Leaders

04 Knowledge, Standards & Thought Leadership

• 100+ domain experts, operators & advisors contributing content,
talks, and mentorship
• Standards & interoperability initiatives spanning robotics, AI
systems, and intelligent machines
• 25+ Founder-led roundtables, hackathons & challenge programs connecting startups with real industry problems

Proof of Momentum

01 Early Traction & Global Engagement

250+ industry participants engaged in IMG’s inaugural interoperability roundtable (November 2025), including 50 in person, 100 live online, and 100+ international registrants, demonstrating immediate global demand for open standards in multi-vendor robotics and autonomous systems.

02 Industry Credibility & Market Influence

$500M+ in robotics capital represented by participating companies, spanning robot manufacturers, Fortune 500 end-users, and integrators—collectively deploying thousands of autonomous systems worldwide, positioning IMG as a credible, industry-led standards body from day one.

03 Execution Velocity Toward Standards

4 cross-industry working groups launched within IMG’s first roundtable, directly addressing a $10B+ robotics integration problem, with the first open interoperability standards targeted for Q1 2026, moving from discussion to delivery in under 6 months.