(TNS) — A second artificial intelligence summit is coming to Pittsburgh in September, highlighting the city and Pennsylvania as the “physical AI capital of the world.”

In a news release, AI Strike Team executive director Joanna Doven said AI Horizons 2025: AI Deployed will be held Sept. 11 and 12 in Pittsburgh’s AI Avenue district downtown.

Doven, in comments to the Pennsylvania Press Club, said that the summit will “shine a spotlight on Physical AI — intelligent systems that interact with the real world through robotics, autonomy, simulation and embedded AI — an emerging sector that Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania are uniquely positioned to lead,” according to a statement.

Like the AI and energy summit earlier this month, Gov. Josh Shapiro and U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick are expected to attend to discuss how “bipartisan leadership is driving AI competitiveness and job growth in Pennsylvania.”

Doven said the first AI Horizons Summit was held in October.

The AI Strike Team held a pre-AI Horizons event before McCormick’s summit on July 15, and Doven was an exhibitor at that summit on the Carnegie Mellon University campus.

She said McCormick has been “very supportive” of the Strike Team and that Shapiro was “an early believer” in the effort.

President Donald Trump attended McCormick’s summit, in which $90 billion in investments in AI and energy in Pennsylvania were announced.

September’s summit will kick-off with the Forge AI Pitch competition that will award more than $100,000 in prizes to “deployment-ready” AI start-ups focused on a real-world impact,” according to the release.

After that, “high-level programming” will come over the next two days, including main-stage discussions, live demos and closed-door policy roundtables meant to accelerate AI deployment in physical sectors.

It will also feature AI-powered public art installations from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Other summit offerings include discussions with AI CEOs from Gecko Robotics and Skild AI, panels with other leading AI companies and CEOs demonstrating how Pennsylvania companies “are deploying AI in nuclear, defense, energy, and heavy industry,” said the release.

The summit will also include Google’s first live AI Small Business Accelerator Workshops to help entrepreneurs, roundtables on venture capital, applying AI in defense and manufacturing, AI-ready power infrastructure and policies to support physical AI development.

More than 80% of venture capital funds invested in Pittsburgh are going to AI-related businesses, the release said.

“We don’t just research AI here — we build it, deploy it, and power it,” Doven said. “this is the next generation of industry, and just like we led with steel, we can lead again with AI.”

Tickets and a full list of speakers will be released on Aug. 4 at aihorizonspgh.com.