CEO-Keynote: Alex Kendall (Wayve) | IAA MOBILITY 2025

Wayve CEO and Co-Founder Alex Kendall takes the stage at the IAA MOBILITY Conference 2025 in Munich to reveal how Embodied AI is disrupting the automotive industry. In this keynote, Alex explains why the "AV 1.0" era of high-definition maps and hand-coded rules is over, and how Wayve’s end-to-end deep learning approach (AV 2.0) is enabling vehicles to drive anywhere in the world—even in cities they've never seen before.

Key Highlights:

• Mapless Autonomy: Why intelligence, not infrastructure, is the key to global scale.
• LINGO & GAIA: Discover how Wayve uses Vision-Language-Action models (LINGO) to explain driving decisions and generative world models (GAIA) to simulate millions of edge cases.
• Zero-Shot Generalization: See how Wayve’s AI learned to drive in Japan in just months after being trained in the UK and North America.
• The Future of Safety: How predictive AI anticipates hazards, like a person falling, before they happen.

About Wayve:
Wayve is the leader in Embodied AI for autonomous driving. By partnering with global OEMs like Nissan and Uber, Wayve is building the "autonomy layer" that will power any vehicle, anywhere.