Smart Mobility Summit

12:00 - 13:00 Powering Intelligent Connected Vehicles Growth: New Model for Win-Win Global Collaboration

The global automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by electrification and intelligent connectivity, creating both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges across the entire intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) ecosystem.

China is at the forefront of this shift, leading with unmatched market scale, rapid feature innovation, highly competitive supply chains, and accelerated time to market. At the same time, its global strategy is evolving from product export to bringing full ecosystem capabilities to international markets.

The session explores how AI, advanced connectivity, and software defined architectures are accelerating the transition from connected cars to intelligent, autonomous mobility. It will also highlight key breakthroughs in perception models, vehicle decision making, C-V2X enabled coordination, and vehicle road cloud network integration, alongside the ecosystem collaboration required to deploy intelligent vehicles at scale.

With rapid progress across China and global markets, the session will showcase real world innovations shaping the future of smart mobility and examine how new win-win global partnerships can unlock long term growth and opportunity in the ICV landscape.

13:00 – 14:00 Commercialising the low altitude economy: AI, connectivity, and the rise of autonomous flight

China’s drone market is entering a phase of explosive growth, projected to reach USD 31.5 billion by 2030, with a strong CAGR of 15.11% from 2025 to 2030*. The low altitude economy is rapidly emerging as a national priority, backed by robust government support, with nearly 30 provincial regions already embedding it into their strategic development plans.

Globally, momentum is accelerating. Expanding operations, evolving regulatory frameworks, and cross industry collaboration are shaping a new era of aerial innovation.

At MWC26 Shanghai, the Smart Mobility Summit will explore what comes next for this fast-rising sector, focusing on one of its most critical frontiers, scalable commercialisation models for low altitude services and operations.

The session will spotlight how AI, advanced connectivity, and next generation aviation technologies are powering this transformation. From diverse drone applications to the rise of eVTOL, the summit will showcase breakthroughs in autonomous flight control, situational awareness, air ground integration, and advanced traffic management.

Bringing together global perspectives and real-world initiatives, the summit will highlight the innovations and ecosystem collaboration enabling safer, smarter, and more scalable low altitude operations.

Join industry leaders and expert speakers as they share insights into how the commercialisation of the low altitude economy is evolving and what it means for the future of mobility, logistics, and urban airspace.

*China Drone Market