Join Me at the Ride AI Summit in LA Next Week 🤖🚘

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Next week, I’ll be speaking at The Ride AI Summit in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 2nd. So I wanted to share some more details about the event and why I’m excited to be participating.

Autonomous vehicles have had their coming out party over the past year, and the industry is clearly experiencing a ton of momentum and growth. It has inspired me to start this very newsletter, and every week, it seems like there is no shortage of announcements, new developments, and partnerships to cover.

What I like about this AV cycle though is that it’s not all hype. Waymo is actually scaling paid driverless rides and other companies like Zoox and May Mobility in the United States are not far behind. Abroad, Chinese companies like Apollo Go have done over a million paid driverless trips (they’re one company I’m excited to hear from at the event) and there are dozens more up and coming.

Ride AI is the first conference focused on AVs that will be taking place since that inflection point and it reminds me of the micromobility wave that happened a few years ago. Coincidentally, the team behind Ride AI also founded the Micromobility conference so you can be sure that it will be a great venue, high quality programming and lots of great networking.

This year’s summit will be taking place at NeueHouse Hollywood, which looks like an awesome location. And of course, you know I’ll be there for the rooftop after party to close out the night.

I’ll be moderating a panel at 3 pm titled “Hailing The Future: Where Robotaxis and Ridehailing Go from Here”. And will be joined by Michael White, CPO at Zoox; Stephen Hayes, VP of Autonomous, Fleets, and Driver Operations at Lyft; and Sascha Meyer, CEO at MOIA.

I’ve never met any of my panelists in person but I’m excited for this conversation as I think they each bring a unique point of view to the table. Zoox appears to be on the cusp of launching paid driverless rides in SF and challenging Waymo. Lyft has been slower out of the gate on the AV side but they have been making a lot of noise lately and they are the only ridehail company with actual experience managing, owning and operating a fleet of vehicles (via Flexdrive). And MOIA has been taking on AVs over in Europe, where there’s extreme weather, stronger support for labor and a culture more open to shared rides/sustainability. So it should be an electric panel and discussion.

You can find the full agenda here and if you’re interested in attending, please use my link to get discounted tickets ($100 off) and I will receive a small commission (they don’t call me the referral king for nothing!).

Excited to see everyone there and feel free to come up and say hi at the event.

-Harry

PS - I’ll also send out a preview for our Curbivore conference on 4/11, also in Los Angeles (it’s the place to be! ☀️🌴), next week. AVs, Automation and AI are the big themes of this year’s event and I’ll be moderating a keynote on Uber’s vision for the future of autonomous mobility and delivery.