Sensors Converge 2025

The Autotech Council invites you to join our meeting where we feature presentations from high-quality innovators, startups, and scale-ups that are developing cutting-edge LiDAR solutions, from improving its accuracy, resolution, speed, and range to reducing its cost and size. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn, connect and explore potential partnerships.

LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, has emerged as a critical perception technology with applications across the automotive sector from vehicle safety and self-driving to robotics and industrial automation. Innovation in LiDAR has been strong and steady over the past 5 years, with almost 30 LiDAR companies having presented their technologies to the Autotech Council over that time. There is still a lot of new technology to discover, and new companies, putting LiDar to work across mobility and transportation.

LiDAR offers precise sensing and perception. Compared to cameras, which rely on interpretive image processing to estimate depth, LiDAR directly measures thousands of distances by emitting laser pulses in various directions and timing the reflected light. This results in a more accurate and reliable 3D point-cloud representation of the surroundings, crucial for applications like autonomous navigation and robotics.

This agenda highlights the innovation in LiDAR sensors, from improvement in accuracy, resolution, speed, and range to reductions in cost and size, and a host of interesting LiDAR applications, including:

One of the key trends we’ll discuss is the increasing affordability of LiDAR sensors. As production scales and technology matures, LiDAR sensors are becoming more accessible for various applications. This is particularly important for many proposed use cases, where cost has been a significant barrier to widespread adoption. But as that barrier shrinks, expect to see increased use. There’s a version of Moore’s Law for LiDARs, where performance is increasing as cost is decreasing.

Another important trend on our RADAR (so to speak) is the growing emphasis on sensor diversity in autonomous systems. By combining LiDAR with other sensors like cameras and RADAR, developers can create a more robust and reliable perception system. Using different RF emissions, the sensor suite gets more diverse, and is less likely to be foiled by atmospheric conditions (direct sun, rain, ice) or hacks. This is crucial for redundancy that increases the safety and reliability of autonomous machines operating in complex and dynamic environments.

Join Autotech Council members, carmakers, Tier 1 vendors, mobility investors and cutting edge startups for a deep dive into what’s new in the world of LiDAR.