TELUS Digital to Speak on World Models Panel at Ai4 2026 in Las Vegas

VANCOUVER, B.C. – July 24, 2026 – TELUS Digital, a global technology service provider of AI training, deployment and safety services, today announced that its Vice President of AI Growth & Solutions, Sce Pike, will participate as a panelist at Ai4 2026 — America's largest AI conference — taking place August 4–6, 2026, at The Venetian Las Vegas.

Pike will join a distinguished group of AI researchers and technology executives on the panel titled "The Role of World Models: Teaching AI to See, Move, and Plan" on Tuesday, August 4 from 4:15–5:00 pm. The session, moderated by Jared Perlo, AI Reporter at NBC News, will explore how spatial intelligence and world modeling are shaping the next generation of intelligent systems, including applications in robotics, augmented reality and autonomous vehicles. Attendees can also visit the TELUS Digital team at Booth #1365 on the Ai4 exhibition floor throughout the conference.

About the Session: The Role of World Models: Teaching AI to See, Move, and Plan

Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Time: 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Location: Hall BC (2nd floor of the Venetian Expo) in The Venetian Las Vegas

World models represent one of the most consequential frontiers in artificial intelligence today. Unlike conventional AI systems that respond to discrete inputs, world models enable machines to build, maintain, and continuously update internal representations of their environments — allowing them to plan ahead, adapt in real time and act with greater autonomy and precision.

This panel brings together leading voices in spatial AI, embodied intelligence, and autonomous systems to examine how world modeling is moving from research labs to real-world deployment, and what that shift means for enterprises, developers and society.

Panelists include:

• Jared Perlo (Moderator) – AI Reporter, NBC News
• Nataliya Kosmyna – Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
• Brian McClendon – CTO, Niantic Spatial
• Oliver Cameron – CEO, Odyssey
• Tim Bucher – CEO, Agtonomy
• Sce Pike – Vice President, AI Growth & Solutions, TELUS Digital

Topics will include dataset creation for world models, different approaches to world model building, the tradeoffs between simulation and real-world training environments and the computational constraints of deploying embodied AI at scale.

TELUS Digital's Perspective on World Models and Responsible AI

For TELUS Digital, the rise of world models is not an abstract research milestone — it is a direct signal of where AI applications in the real world are headed. As machines develop richer spatial awareness and planning capabilities, the way organizations design, deploy, and govern AI systems must evolve in parallel.

"World models are fundamentally changing what it means for robots and autonomous systems to understand their environment," said Sce Pike, Vice President of AI Growth & Solutions at TELUS Digital. "We are moving beyond AI that tries to predict the next token for the right text response to an AI that can understand how to react and reason about the world and predict the next state of the world; systems capable of building maps of reality, anticipating change, and making decisions that extend across time and space. At TELUS Digital, we believe that enterprises which understand this shift now will be the ones best positioned to deploy AI responsibly and at scale. That is the conversation I am looking forward to bringing to Ai4."

Physical AI, systems that perceive, reason about and act within the physical world, represents one of the most significant expressions of this shift. As world models become more sophisticated, they form the foundational layer that makes physical AI possible at scale.

TELUS Digital's approach to AI is grounded in its Humanity-in-the-Loop principles — a framework that ensures human judgment, oversight, and values remain central to every AI system the company builds or deploys. As embodied AI and spatial intelligence capabilities accelerate, this commitment to responsible development becomes more important, not less.

TELUS Digital operates the full AI value chain, from training, building, running and protecting AI and enabling AI labs and leading enterprises to take AI where it has never worked before, run it where the stakes are highest, and stand behind it when it matters most. This end-to-end capability is what TELUS Digital brings to Ai4: not a single product or point solution, but a partner that works across the entire arc of how AI gets built and sustained at scale.

Key Facts

• TELUS Digital will exhibit at Booth #1365 at Ai4 2026, taking place August 4–6, 2026, at The Venetian Las Vegas
• Sce Pike, Vice President of AI Growth & Solutions at TELUS Digital, will participate as a sponsor panelist at Ai4 2026 and will speak on the panel "The Role of World Models: Teaching AI to See, Move, and Plan" on Tuesday, August 4, from 4:15–5:00 PM, moderated by Jared Perlo of NBC News
• The panel will cover spatial intelligence, world modeling architectures, embodied AI in robotics and autonomous vehicles, dataset creation, and simulation vs. real-world training tradeoffs
• Ai4 2026 is America's largest AI conference, drawing 10,000+ attendees including executives, senior technologists, IT decision-makers, and digital experience professionals across industry
• TELUS Digital operates across 35+ countries with more than 80,000 team members serving over 600 global brands, applying AI across customer experience management, automation, data solutions, and trust and safety services
• TELUS Digital operates the full AI value chain — training, building, running and protecting AI — serving AI labs and enterprises across data and intelligence solutions, sovereign AI infrastructure, enterprise AI deployment, and AI red teaming and security
• TELUS Digital's Humanity-in-the-Loop principles guide the company's responsible approach to transformational AI technologies, including emerging embodied and spatial AI systems

What Are World Models? A Primer for Enterprise AI Leaders

World models are AI architectures that learn to build internal simulations of their environments. Rather than mapping inputs directly to outputs, a world model allows an AI system to predict future states, reason about hypothetical scenarios, and plan sequences of actions — capabilities that are foundational to robotics, autonomous vehicles, and advanced AR/VR systems.

Key capabilities enabled by world models include:

• Spatial reasoning — understanding the geometry and structure of physical environments
• Temporal planning — anticipating how environments change over time and sequencing actions accordingly
• Simulation-based learning — using synthetic environments to safely train agents before real-world deployment
• Adaptive decision-making — updating internal maps in real time as new sensory information arrives

For enterprises, world models represent the next evolution beyond today's generative AI tools. As these systems mature, they will power autonomous agents capable of navigating complex, dynamic environments, from warehouse logistics and field service operations to AI-assisted customer interactions that adapt in real time to conversational context.

Meet TELUS Digital at Ai4 2026

Whether you are building, running, or securing AI, TELUS Digital operates the full AI value chain with you. Visit the team at Booth #1365 to explore how TELUS Digital's AI products and services help enterprises train, build, run and protect AI.

• Training AI: TELUS Digital is trusted by frontier labs and researchers as an independent and neutral training data partner for physical AI, robotics and GenAI. From core machine learning to emerging multi-agent systems, from advanced language models to world models, TELUS Digital delivers the data collection, annotation and post-training needed to advance frontier AI.
• Building AI: Build, scale, and lead in the AI era with TELUS Digital's comprehensive data and AI services. TELUS Digital guides enterprise journeys from data strategy and governance to GenAI engineering and agentic automation — shortening time to value while managing risk at every stage.
• Running AI: The TELUS AI Factories provide international enterprises with immediate access to a secure, low-latency Canadian supercomputing environment engineered for high-intensity training and inference. Powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs, it combines elite performance and data integrity with 99% renewable hydroelectric power and transparent, fixed-rate pricing.
• Protecting AI: TELUS Digital doesn't just find your AI's vulnerabilities, it fixes them. Custom adversarial datasets, human and automated red teaming, and the engineering teams to remediate what they uncover.

Here is where attendees can find TELUS Digital at Ai4 2026:

Exhibition Booth: 1365 Expo Dates: August 4-6, 2026 Location: The Venetian, Las Vegas

Panel Session: The Role of World Models: Teaching AI to See, Move, and Plan

Date: August 4, 2026

Time: 4:15 - 5:00pm

Location: The Venetian Las Vegas

To schedule meetings with TELUS Digital AI experts at Ai4 in Las Vegas, visit TELUS Digital’s event page or contact [email protected].

About Ai4 2026

Ai4 is America's largest AI conference, established in 2018 and now recognized as the epicenter of the global AI community. Ai4 2026 takes place August 4–6 at The Venetian Las Vegas, bringing together 10,000+ attendees including C-suite executives, senior technologists, researchers, investors, and policy leaders. The event features more than 1,000 speakers across tracks spanning AI transformation, technical AI research, industry verticals, and job function specializations. The Vision, Spatial, & World Models track is among the featured technical sessions at Ai4 2026.

Learn more at ai4.io.