Reinventing Autonomy With Reasoning AI

Autonomous driving is entering its “ChatGPT moment,” shifting from dedicated perception-prediction-planning components to end-to-end reasoning-driven intelligence. At CVPR, the Alpamayo Summit brings together researchers and industry leaders to explore how open datasets, reasoning models, simulation, and safety frameworks are accelerating the path to scalable, trustworthy Level 4 autonomy—and what the ecosystem can build next.

Marco Pavone
Sr. Director of AV Research, NVIDIA

Agenda

Thursday, June 4, 2026
3:30 PM
Networking and Light Snacks
 
4:00 PM
The ChatGPT Moment for Autonomous Driving
Marco Pavone, Sr. Director of AV Research, NVIDIA
4:20 PM
Training at Scale: The Physical AI Dataset
Ed Schmerling, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
4:50 PM
Autonomous Driving With Reasoning Models
Yurong You, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
5:20 PM
Closing the Development Loop: Simulation and Training With AlpaSim + AlpaGym
Maximilian Igl, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
6:10 PM
Deploying With Confidence: Physical AI Safety With Halos
Riccardo Mariani, Vice President of Industry Safety, NVIDIA
Apoorva Sharma, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
6:30 PM
Inside the Alpamayo Ecosystem: Partners, Open Research, and What to Build Next
Matt Cragun, Director of Autonomous Vehicle Products, NVIDIA
7:10 PM
Closing Remarks and Mixer
Boris Ivanovic, Sr. Research Scientist and Manager, NVIDIA

Venue

 

Le Méridien Denver Downtown, Grove Ballroom 
1475 California St., Denver, CO 80202