Creating the safe, sustainable, automated vehicles of tomorrow requires mutual understanding and collaboration between today’s automakers and policymakers. This annual meeting provides a much-needed forum for the open dialogue that drives that understanding, by bringing key players from the government, policy, and automotive worlds together to discuss the effect of regulation, technology, and customer acceptance on future vehicle design — and effect of R&D on current and future regulation. No other industry event offers this kind of two-way street for the exchanging of information between the people building and regulating mobility’s next phase.