TC Periods: Mobility is again, and this yr we’re bringing collectively the very best and brightest founders, traders, engineers and consultants on the way forward for transportation for a two-day, in-person occasion Might 18 and Might 19 in San Mateo, California.
A web-based day will observe on Might 20 to present our viewers, together with those that have been unable to attend, an opportunity to tune in on-line and catch highlights from the reside occasion, community and watch the total classes. We’re excited to announce Herbert Diess, Group CEO of the Volkswagen Group, will talk about his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for mobility throughout this online-only portion of the occasion.
TC Periods: Mobility will characteristic audio system on the primary stage, a bevy of startup displays, demos, networking and a reside pitch-off with a fairly candy prize. We’re excited to present a primary look of among the people — and autos — who can be on our most important stage and what we plan to speak about.
Who can be on our stage? We’re glad you’re requested. Let’s begin with two autos that haven’t had an in-person public debut but: an electrical car that Arrival is constructing for Uber and the custom-built Zoox robotaxi.
Different subjects on our record for this yr embody exploring the alternatives and challenges for city air corporations and cities, the twin paths corporations are taking to commercialize autonomous car know-how, cybersecurity, micromobility, self-driving vehicles and autonomous supply.
Our friends embody Aurora co-founder and chief product officer Sterling Anderson, Motional CTO Laura Main, Nuro co-founder and CEO Jiajun Zhu and Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov. Then there’s Bonny Simi, who heads up air operations and folks at Joby Aviation, and Rebecca Yeung, company vice chairman at FedEx, who’s answerable for the corporate’s robotics and autonomous car initiatives, in addition to cybersecurity phenoms Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek with Cruise.
Purchase your normal admission or early-stage startup demo package deal right now earlier than costs enhance. We’ve additionally lately added two new methods to attend the occasion; Expo Solely and On-line Solely passes ($75 and $45, respectively).
Might 18
Tips on how to Land Early-Stage Funding
with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator)
Spoiler alert: Uber for X is now not a differentiator. Mobility isn’t a nascent vertical, and sector startups searching for funding ought to contemplate that benefit. Traders don’t want to clarify the venture-sized alternative within the transportation business; as a substitute they wish to see contrarian progress — whether or not that’s a special approach on an outdated know-how, or profitability. Avisionews is bringing collectively three enterprise capitalists — Yoon Choi from Muirwoods Ventures, Mar Hershenson from Pear VC and Gabriel Scheer from Elemental — to speak about their funding methods, what’s sizzling and what’s not.
Turning an AV Innovation right into a Product
with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Main (Motional)
Autonomous car know-how has advanced from the confines of educational analysis to dwelling labs — aka testing on closed tracks and public roads. Now, a handful of corporations, together with Cruise and Motional, try to show their improvements right into a product that not solely has the technical functionality to navigate metropolis streets, however is approachable and simple for individuals to make use of. Cruise VP of product and former Voyage co-founder Oliver Cameron and Motional CTO Laura Main will cowl the technical and deployment challenges to making a product individuals can and can wish to use.
Automobile Highlight: Zoox
with Jesse Levinson (Zoox)
Zoox first debuted its custom-built robotaxi car in December 2020 in a digital occasion. That car has been largely below wraps ever since, with testing occurring in areas away from the general public. Now, the Zoox car is prepared for an up-close and private debut at TC Periods: Mobility. Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson will talk about the car, the corporate’s progress and the place we would see Zoox subsequent.
Tips on how to Unlock Earnings in Micromobility
with Alex Nesic (Drover AI), Janelle Wang (Acton) and speaker to be introduced
Regardless of the huge sums of enterprise capital that has gone into shared micromobility, the business has but to achieve unit economics favorable sufficient to show a revenue. But it surely’s getting shut. We’ll sit down with Drover AI’s Alex Nesic, Acton’s Janelle Wang and one different panelist to speak in regards to the new strategies, and the brand new tech, that’s being deployed to assist micromobility corporations unlock earnings.
The World In line with Waymo
with Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving arm, has reached important milestones lately, from launching a robotaxi service in San Francisco to securing partnerships with legacy logistics corporations that may assist it commercialize autonomous freight. Nevertheless, challenges stay on all sides — political, technological, industrial and social. Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, was there from the start. As one of many founders of Google’s self-driving automobile mission, which started in 2009 and have become Waymo in 2016, he’ll discuss us by way of how far autonomy has come, and the way far it nonetheless has to go.
Avisionews Mobility Pitch-off
The business’s brightest entrepreneurs will take the stage in entrance of a reside viewers and a panel of business consultants, pitching revolutionary applied sciences. Founders — apply right here.
How City Air Suits in Cities
with Gary Gysin (Wisk Aero), Cyrus Sigari (UP.Companions) and Bonny Simi (Joby Aviation)
What’s going to it take to execute city air mobility operations in cities? Avisionews Mobility will sit down with Gary Gysin, president and CEO of Wisk Aero, Cyrus Sigari, co-founder and managing companion at UP.Companions, and Bonny Simi, head of air operations and folks at Joby Aviation, to debate each the challenges and alternatives within the city air mobility house and what it’ll take to not simply launch in cities, however to really be of worth to residents.
The Path to Commercializing Autonomous Vehicles
with Sterling Anderson (Aurora Innovation) and Rebecca Yeung (FedEx)
Aurora has been working a pilot program with FedEx to haul items between Dallas and Houston through self-driving Paccar vehicles since September 2021. As with most different autonomous freight pilots, human security operators are current within the autos, however Aurora’s purpose is to function its vehicles absolutely autonomously by the tip of subsequent yr. We’ll test in with Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson and FedEx’s head of robotics and autonomous car know-how Rebecca Yeung, and talk about the pilot’s progress and implications for the way forward for autonomous trucking.
Might 19
How Your Startup Ought to Assume About Collaboration, Not Simply Capital
with John Du (GM Ventures), Taylor Ogan (Snow Bull Capital) and Trina Van Pelt (Intel Capital)
The capital markets have a manner of distracting even essentially the most scrappy founders. Nevertheless, as we’re beginning to see, a well-priced funding spherical isn’t a alternative for a well-oiled operation. And startups ought to suppose extra about strategic alternatives, and collaborations, when giving up these coveted cap desk spots. We’re bringing collectively GM Ventures’ John Du, Snow Bull Capital’s Taylor Ogan and Intel Capital’s Trina Van Pelt to speak about partnerships within the mobility world – particularly those that you simply’re in all probability not fascinated by.
A Contrarian View on Deploying Autonomy at Scale
with Austin Russell (Luminar)
Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell has a unique view of deploy autonomy at scale from different AV builders within the business, in addition to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Lidar sits on the heart of Russell’s imaginative and prescient, however maybe not in the best way one may suppose. We’ll dig into Russell’s perspective and his technique of convey autonomous car to the lots at scale — with out pulling the human out of the driving force’s seat.
The New Passenger Economic system
with Nils Wollny (Holoride)
In anticipation of a future the place autonomy is the norm and passengers will search stimulating leisure to interrupt up the monotony of a commute, Holoride is providing an in-car VR system that turns each car right into a transferring theme park. Solely the Audi-spinoff isn’t ready for full autonomy to commercialize its product and convey us into the brand new passenger economic system. Holoride’s VR tech is coming to Audi vehicles as early as this summer time. We’ll sit down with Nils Wollny, co-founder and CEO of Holoride, to speak about what place VR, blockchain, NFTs and crypto forex have within the automotive house.NEED TITLE
Securing Right this moment’s Vehicles and Tomorrow’s Robotaxis
with Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek (Cruise)
A brand new period in linked vehicles is right here, and with that comes new safety dangers. After which there are robotaxis and different autonomous autos. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, undisputed leaders within the cybersecurity business, who each maintain prime safety roles at GM’s self-driving car subsidiary Cruise, will be part of us to debate the dynamic and quickly altering realm of automotive cybersecurity.
Automobile Highlight: Arrival
with Avinash Rugoobur (Arrival)
Arrival introduced final yr plans to design and construct an inexpensive, purpose-built electrical car for ride-hailing in partnership with Uber. Earlier than the car enters manufacturing in Q3 2023, Arrival will present it off right here at TC Periods: Mobility. Arrival President Avinash Rugoobur will discuss in regards to the technique of designing and hopefully producing the car, what the EV firm can be engaged on and what could also be proper across the nook.
Avisionews Mobility Pitch-off
The business’s brightest entrepreneurs will take the stage in entrance of a reside viewers and a panel of business consultants, pitching revolutionary applied sciences. Founders – apply right here.
The place is My Autonomous Automobile?
with Yanbing Li (Aurora), Saswat Panigrahi (Waymo) and Sarah Tariq (NVIDIA)
Relating to transferring individuals through autonomous autos, two paths are starting to emerge: Robotaxi companies and personal autos with autonomous capabilities. Corporations are transferring towards commercializing robotaxis by aiming straight for full autonomy. Automakers, alternatively, are rolling out private autos which have decrease ranges of autonomy through superior driver help programs right now, with the tip purpose of slowly bettering till they’ll supply private autos with greater ranges of autonomous performance. We’ll sit down with the AV consultants to debate the obstacles to every strategy and which could ship first at a mass scale.
