Limited Tickets Are Left for Ride AI 2026
A day for bringing autonomous vehicles into mainstream adoption
I’ve been working on my opening keynote for Ride AI 2026 and I keep coming back to something that sounds preposterous at face value. People once didn’t trust refrigerators. Refrigerators!
A store owner in Paris literally smashed his refrigeration equipment in the street to calm customers who thought cold-stored food was dangerous. In 1930, only 8 percent of American homes had one. By 1950, refrigerators were in nearly every household in America.
The technology didn’t change. The story did. And the parallels to where autonomous vehicles sit today are uncomfortable, direct, and urgent.
I’ll be talking about what It’s Time to Market means and what this industry can do about it on April 15th. But first, let me highlight the industry leaders who the day really belongs to.
The speakers: 25+ leaders across panels, firesides, keynotes, and rapid fire demos, including:
Alex Kendall, CEO of Wayve on taking robotaxis global
Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora on autonomous trucking with CNBC’s Lora Kolodny
McKinsey presenting original research on the industrialization of autonomous mobility
Panels with leaders from Tensor, Mobileye, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Uber, Voltera and more
Pecha Kucha demos from Doordash’s New Robot, David Moss going 12,000 straight miles on FSD, Quadric & Robotaxi Tracker
Arrive in style with Waymo: Every single attendee gets a complimentary Waymo ride code — this year with freeway access and SFO airport pickup. Whether you’re flying in or just want to experience freeway-speed autonomy, you’re covered.
The vehicles. Outside the SFJAZZ Center, hands-on AV experiences you can’t get anywhere else:
Tesla offering FSD v14.x rides on-site
Exclusive first rides with Wayve’s latest tech
Autonomous vehicles from Toyota Research Institute, Mobileye, Tensor, and VW/MOIA
We only have a limited number of seats left and we hope to see you there.
See you in San Francisco on April 15th.
-James with Team Ride AI
