Agenda
Autonomous Driving Summit Americas
Welcome and programme framing
Deploying Autonomy at Scale: What Commercial Trucking Programmes Reveal About Validation and Safety Evidence
Perception System Architecture Decisions at Waymo Scale: How 500,000 Weekly Rides Changes What You Optimise For
Data Integrity Across Annotation, Training, and Validation Pipeline Stages: Where Failures Propagate Into Safety Evidence
Lidar Integration Economics: Where the Cost Case Stands for Series Production and Robotaxi Programmes
Full-Stack or Modular: Who Owns the Safety Case When the Architecture Decision Goes Wrong?
Sensor Calibration and Alignment as Dependencies of Simulation Fidelity and Safety Case Validity
The Annotation Supply Chain After Scale AI: How Programmes Are Rebuilding Ground Truth Pipelines
Fleet Data at Operational Scale: The Pipeline Architecture Decisions That Determine Safety Evidence Quality
OEM Procurement of AV System Components: How to Structure Contracts with Tier 1s and Stack Vendors for L4 Programmes
Day 1 synthesis and Day 2 preview