Sara Filipcic

Sara Filipcic is the Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Humane Robotics - the organization setting global standards for psychosocial safety in human-robot interaction. With a background spanning social work, cross-cultural research, and entrepreneurship, she brings a perspective the field rarely has: one rooted in human behavior, not just hardware. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, NYU, and UC Berkeley. Her organization leads development of IEEE P7027, the first standard for trust and safety in domestic, family, and child-facing robotic environments. Recognized as a Women in AI Leader of the Year, Sara works from Tokyo - at the sharpest edge of the Japan - US robotics corridor, where the future of human-robot life is already being lived.