MArch 19, 2026
LONDON,UK
European AV
Summit 2026
County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, UK
Join us at the 5th edition of the European AV Summit, where leaders in Autonomous Mobility and AI unite to innovate, collaborate, and inspire new possibilities.
Our Sponsors
Our event is proudly sponsored by leading AV tech companies committed to supporting the autonomous mobility community.
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About the SUMMIT
Where Global Leaders Unite and Shape The Future of Autonomous Mobility
Welcome to the European AV Summit 2026, the epicenter of autonomous vehicle innovation in Europe. With trailblasing developments such as Waymo’s and Wayve’s large-scale AV deployments launching in the city, London stands at the forefront of real-world autonomous mobility adoption, setting new standards for safety, sustainability, and accessibility
RESERVE MY SPOTSchedule
Thursday March, 19
08:00 - 08:45AM
Arrival
Arrival and Networking Breakfast
08:45 - 09:00AM
Chairperson's Welcome
Market Value of autonomous. Hurdles and enablers. Safety and Sustainability of AVs
09:00 - 09:10AM
Keynote
UK Leadership in AVs: Planning for London and the UK
09:10 - 09:50Am
Fireside Chat
Case Study: A European Partnership for Autonomous Ridehailing (Powered by Bolt)
09:50 - 10:20Am
Panel
Managing scaling: Deployment learnings in fleet and operations
10:20 - 10:30Am
Sponsor's Session
Odysse Presents: Autonomy for London
10:30 - 11:00Am
Break
11:10 - 11:30Am
Keynote
Roadkill: A Critical View of Autonomy
11:30 - 12:00Pm
Panel
Regulation and Support: Developing Autonomous Policy for Cities and Users
12:00 - 12:10Pm
Sponsor's Session
Imagry Presents
12:10 - 13:30Pm
Lunch
Networking Lunch
13:30 - 14:00Pm
Use Cases in AV
Panel
End-to-end, from L3 to L4
14:00 - 14:30Pm
Use Cases in AV
Panel
Autonomous Buses across Europe
14:30 - 15:00Pm
Use Cases in AV
Panel
Autonomous Logistics and Goods Transport
13:30 - 14:00Pm
Enablement Stream
Panel
Insurance for AVs
14:00 - 14:30Pm
Enablement Stream
Fireside Chat
Investing into Autonomous
14:30 - 15:00Pm
Enablement Stream
Fireside Chat
Developing AV for Accessibility
15:00 - 15:30Pm
Break
Networking Lunch
15:30 - 15:40Pm
Sponsor's Session
Rocsys Presents: Charging autonomously
15:40 - 16:15Pm
Panel
Trust, Safety and the AV Black Box: Creating Transparency for Public Acceptance
16:15 - 16:50Pm
Fireside Chat
The European Path to Autonomous: AVs within Public Transport (by PAVE Europe)
16:50 - 17:10Pm
Closing
Program Closing: Partnering to Success in Europe
17:10 - 20:00Pm
Networking
After-Party
Beer and Pretzels: Sponsored by Bayern Innovativ
Our Speakers
Renowned speakers from top AV companies and innovative startups will share insights into the future of autonomus mobility.
For over a decade, Lukas has helped founders, leaders, and investors navigate the #mobilityrevolution. He is a globally recognized strategist, advisor, researcher, and keynote speaker on Smart Cities and Smart Mobility.
Lukas Neckermann
Managing Director at Neckermann Strategic Advisors
Aurrigo International plc is a global leader in first and last mile self-driving transport, backed by 30+ years of automotive expertise and fully in-house AV development.
Miles Garner
Chief Commercial Officer at Aurrigo
As the Managing Director of PAVE Europe, my aim is to educate the general public and the policy makers on the potential benefits of autonomous technology.
Guido Di Pasquale
Managing Director at PAVE Europe
Sustainable Ventures operates as Europe’s largest climate tech cluster focused on commercial innovation for climate solutions.
Joseph Seal-Driver
Commercial Director at Sustainable Ventures
Internationally proven sales professional with a technical background, strong communicator at all levels, and a results-driven team player focused on growth.
Daan Nap
Director of European Markets at Rocsys
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Anant moved from corporate energy to investment banking before launching his own startup, which has grown rapidly with revenues up more than 500% last year.
Anant Prakash
CEO at Odysse
Experienced Research Analyst and Project Manager, working with clients to implement strategies and investments related to global themes.
Martyn Briggs
Global Thematic Investment Strategist at Bank of America in London
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A technology and innovation policy specialist focused on advancing the UK's leadership in connected and automated mobility (CAM).
Michael Talbot
Head of CAM Industrial Policy, Automotive Unit at Department for Business and Trade
Chris leads the ibott team at Apollo, advancing embedded insurance for markets shaped by autonomous vehicles and connected ecosystems.
Chris Moore
President at Apollo ibott
Dr Matthias Kempf is Managing Partner at Leap4, a Munich-based VC backing early-stage deeptech and industrial transformation startups in mobility and logistics.
Dr. Matthias Kempf
Managing Partner at Leap4
Martin Kahl has 25 years of automotive and mobility intelligence experience across consulting, analysis, publishing, and events.
Martin Kahl
CTO at FISITA
Meera Naran is lobbying for legislation to mandate life-saving technologies such as autonomous emergency braking, proposed as Dev’s Law.
Meera Naran
Independent road safety campaigner
A broad-based leader with large corporate and small company board experience. I am interested in using innovation to build better companies and better lives.
Paul Campion
CEO at TRL
Experienced International Sales, Marketing, After Sales Executive Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry.
Deniz Cetin
Chief Commercial Officer at Karsan
Andrea Kollmorgen
CEO at Simulytic
Leading MOIA’s business development strategy to scale autonomous mobility as a sustainable alternative to private car ownership.
Rainer Becker
Director Business Development at MOIA
Tobias Brzoskowski
Managing Director at New Mobility Solutions Hamburg
Leading autonomous driving initiatives in public transport, focusing on real-world deployment rather than experimentation. Shaped Switzerland’s autonomous mobility framework with industry, research, and public authorities.
Martin Neubauer
Head of Autonomous Mobility at Post Auto
Laura Herzig
Partner at Beta Mobility
Ali İhsan
CCO at ADASTEC Corp
A strategic leader specializing in autonomous vehicles, drones, and mobility, with deep expertise in international relations, Nordic cooperation, and large scale project management.
Hans Fridberg
Head of Nordic Markets at Holo
Nicolas Morael
Autonomous Mobility Director at Transdev
Maite Bezerra specializes in the automotive shift to software-defined vehicles, with deep expertise in E/E architectures, HPC, vehicle OS, and cloud-native systems.
Maite Bezerra
Senior Principal Analyst, Software-Defined Vehicles at Omdia
I co-founded LOXO in April 2021, where we introduced the LOXO Digital Driver (LDD), software that enables commercial vehicles to operate autonomously.
Lara Amini
Co-Founder LOXO
Arthur works as an advisor, supporting some incredible organisations building solutions for sustainable cities.
Arthur Kay
Board Member Transport for London and Author, Roadkill
Pierre Pomper drives global strategy and adoption of autonomous, electric, and sustainable transport, blending technical expertise with commercial leadership.
Pierre Pomper
Head of Commercial & Operations at Einride
CEO and co-founder of Motor Ai. Motor Ai has invented a system that enables artificial intelligence to independently scale itself and make explainable, safe decisions.
Roy Uhlmann
Co-Founder and CEO at Motor AI
Mika Rytkönen is an international business executive with experience at Nokia, HERE, and startups (Remoted, MaaS Global). He chairs Remoted and Noeton, sits on PayiQ and EIT Urban Mobility boards, and holds MSc (Oulu), MBA (Helsinki), and MSc (LSE) degrees.
Mika Rytkönen
Chairman at REMOTED
Fraser Lyall leads the ABI's Motor Insurance Policy work, and has spearheaded the insurance industry's government engagement and response to the development of Autonomous Vehicles Regulations.
Fraser Lyall
Policy Advisor at The ABI
Behavioural psychologist in human-centred mobility, leading research on transport accessibility and advising on policy. Experienced speaker internationally.
Rebecca Posner
Director of Research at Research Institute for Disabled Consumers
Patrick thinks ahead, challenges convention and delivers creative, strategic solutions that turn disruption into real business growth.
Patrick Ayad
Partner at Hogan Lovells
Seasoned leader driving innovation in autonomous mobility, with global BD, L4 AV strategy, commercialization, and strong intercultural judgment.
Yong Gessner
Head of region Europe, Baidu Apollo
Sales and engineering leader with global marketing and business development experience across automotive and telecoms, leading international teams and tech partnerships.
Loan My Descourvieres
Strategic partnerships & disruptive businesses Group Vice President at Valeo
Marek has been developing and establishing autonomous mobility in the Czech Republic for nearly a decade, from initial research-based pilots to the current deployments focused on benefiting society.
Marek Vanzura
Chief Innovation Officer at autinno
Richard is focused on shared transport such as car clubs, shared bikes, shared e-scooters as head of the UK's collective body for this sector.
Richard Dilks
Chief Executive at CoMoUK
Charlotte is a scale up CEO and CCO, known for commercializing complex mobility technologies and scaling global AV, energy, and tech businesses.
Charlotte Eisner
Head of Commercialization and Corporate Partnerships at Bolt
AV leader with a decade at Volvo and CEVT, focused on human–machine intelligence and partnerships to accelerate safer, more valuable autonomous mobility.
Vivetha Natterjee
Senior Director Product and GTM Strategy at Bolt Autonomous Driving
JK is President of Bolt, leading urban mobility across Europe and Africa, building people-first cities and backing high-impact tech founders as an active investor.
Jevgeni Kabanov (JK)
President at Bolt
Saffiya Haddad
Senior Vice President - Commercial Transactions at BENTELER Mobility
Sam Pooke leads public affairs for FREENOW by Lyft UK & Ireland, overseeing policy and government relations and driving plans to launch autonomous vehicles in London.
Sam Pooke
Senior Public Affairs Manager at Freenow by Lyft
Founder of Reed Mobility, chartered scientist and former Head of Mobility R&D, advising governments and industry on CAV, autonomy, safety and future mobility.
Nick Reed
Founder at Reed Mobility
Partner at Hogan Lovells, specialising in global product liability, safety and compliance, advising automotive and mobility clients on market launch and crisis response.
Dr. Sebastian Polly
Partner (Product Liability, Product Safety and Product Compliance) at Hogan Lovells
Entrepreneurial senior executive with 20+ years’ global experience, driving growth and go-to-market strategy for cloud and technology businesses across industries.
Eran Ofir
CEO at Imagry
Testimonials
The event was very targeted and applicable to our business development efforts. The networking dinner was an excellent ice-breaker.
The speakers fit perfectly, the “creme de la creme“ of the autonomous mobility network.
Everyone who attended was extremely relevant and interesting. I totally loved it.
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Your questions answered
When is the summit?
The dinner takes place on March 18th and the summit is held on March 19th.
Where is the venue?
County Hall, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London. Footsteps away from the heart of London, and directly opposite Westminster and the Houses of Parliament.
Are meals included?
Yes, lunch and dinner are included with Premium and Special tickets.
How to become a speaker?
Submit your proposal on our website before December 15th.
How to become a sponsor?
Email pieter@autonomy.paris to discuss sponsorships.
What industries do the buyers at the summit come from?
Buyers come from logistics, airports, public transport, and defence sectors.
Which partners will be at the summit
The entire ecosystem, from investors, to tech providers, OEMs, fleet management, leasing, ridehailing, and public transport.
What is the focus of the European AV Summit 2026?
Uniting global leaders to explore AV tech and cross-sector collaboration.
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What's included:
- Full access to all keynotes, panels, and sessions
- Entry to networking breaks and the executive reception
- Access to session recordings post-event
- A discounted early bird rate available for a limited time
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European AV Summit 2026 - Early Bird - £450.00 - 25% off
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