Autonomous Cities Summit London | 18 March 2027

Programme

The running order

Plenary Green track · the urban layer Red track · the deployment layer

08:0045 min

Registration & networking breakfast
08:4515 min

Welcome: Moving People, Making Cities
Chair
The chair's framing: autonomy judged by what it does for the city, not the city judged by how well it accommodates autonomy.
09:0020 min

What a City Actually Wants from Autonomy
Keynote
The urban-systems case, made by someone who studies cities rather than sells vehicles — what autonomy has to earn its place in the network.
09:2040 min

Why Now: The Money, the Mandate, the Moment
Panel
The EU Automotive Action Plan, the capital going in, and the unit economics. Policy and money are aligning; the open question is whether the numbers actually close. Fleet owners, an operator, a policy voice and an investor.
10:0030 min

London in the Open
Fireside
What the supervised trials teach us, and what happens as permitting opens up. The developers on the road, the department writing the rules and the platform taking the bookings — in one conversation rather than three announcements.
10:3030 min

Networking break
11:0030 min

Made in Europe: Can the Continent Lead?
Fireside
Whether the UK and Europe build a vibrant AV ecosystem of their own — operators, technology, fleets and capital reinforcing each other — or host everyone else's. Leaders from a European operator and a European carmaker on partnership, not passengers.
11:3040 min

Are We There Yet? The Honest State of Driverless
Panel
An unsentimental read on technical readiness at scale, from people who build the stack rather than market it. This is where the ugly gets said out loud.
12:1020 min

Sponsor sessions
Sponsor
12:3090 min

Lunch & networking
14:0030 minParallel

Green
Do AVs Need New Roads?
Panel
What cities must change, physically and digitally — and, more usefully, what they don't.

Red
No Data, No Driverless
Panel
Mapping, training data, validation, and the data-sharing question nobody wants to answer: who owns it, and does the city ever see any of it?
14:3030 minParallel

Green
Bus, Shuttle, Pod: Autonomy Joins Public Transport
Panel
The European path, where autonomy strengthens the network instead of competing with it. The hard question: does it add capacity, or just skim the profitable routes and leave the rest to the public?

Red
The Profit Is in the Fleet
Panel
The hidden layer of profitability. The margin sits in orchestrating the fleet, not the vehicle or the ride — the linchpin of the value chain, and the part the coverage skips.
15:0030 minParallel

Green
Mayors at the Wheel: Designing the Autonomous City
Roundtable
A city-leaders' roundtable. The people who grant or withhold consent, on what they need before they give it — and what they fear if they get it wrong.

Red
From 50 to 5,000: What Breaks When You Scale
Panel
The honest account of what transfers from a pilot and what doesn't. Operators who have hit the wall, on exactly where it is.
15:3030 min

Networking break
16:0010 min

Sponsor session
Sponsor
16:1020 min

NEOM to Tallinn: Lessons from the Frontier
Panel
Cities that experimented with autonomy in every guise, on what actually held and what was theatre.
16:3030 min

The Autonomous City of 2030 – and How We Get There
Closing keynote
A forward-looking close. What has to happen in the next twelve months to move from national permits and pilots to paid, driverless service a city is glad to have — and to turn scattered trials into a UK and European ecosystem with the scale to lead. The room leaves with a short set of priorities: for operators, for cities, for financiers, and for the regulators who set the pace.
17:00—

Networking drinks

Built on experience

Why our summits work

Knowledge

As an independent series, every speaker, panel, and conversation is curated with one goal: putting the sector's most important questions in front of the people best placed to answer them. In London, that curation is led by Lukas Neckermann, author of four books on mobility, co-founder of PAVE Europe, and adviser to founders, investors, and operators across the autonomous ecosystem. Short keynotes, dynamic panels, moderators who push. This is where the sector's real thinking happens.

Networking

Curated mix. The 2026 edition drew 200 delegates from 27+ countries, the 2027 edition is capped at 250 and runs the same model: fewer invitations than most summits resulting in better business interactions.Coffee breaks designed for actual conversation, not corridor traffic. Post-summit drinks for everyone in the room. Optional evening dinner add-on (see below) for the most concentrated face-to-face evening of the year.

Influence

City and public transport authorities are open to autonomous vehicles but want deployment models that work for their own citizens rather than simply following the US or China. AV operators who engage early can help shape these decisions while gaining direct access to the decision-makers leading procurement, policy, and deployment. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of where regulation is moving fastest, where the economics work today, and a network of around 30 senior industry peers you didn't know on Monday.

Optional Add-on

Evening dinner

Limited to 50 senior delegates, speakers, partners and invited guests, the Evening Dinner is where the conversations become more candid. No stage. No presentations. Just a room full of the people shaping Europe's autonomous future.

While the summit day is designed for learning and structured networking, the dinner is designed for relationships. The format is intentionally small, allowing operators, policymakers, investors, OEMs, technology providers and public authorities to spend meaningful time together before the main programme begins.

£350

+ VAT

50 places only · first-come, first-served

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