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Softway Partner Series

Who's Driving?

What the future of autonomy means for safety, our economy, and the way we live our lives. 

September 21, 2026
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6–8 PM
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Houston, TX

Self-driving vehicles have been
"the future" for decades.

Except now, they're here.

Autonomous trucks are already hauling freight across Texas with no one behind the wheel. Waymo and Tesla, Nuro and others—all vying to get you in their vehicles...but who's driving?

How does a 40-ton vehicle actually drive itself? How can a vehicle do what self-driving companies claim they do?  What do they see? How do they make decisions? What happens when something goes wrong? And perhaps most importantly — how do you prove a machine is ready to share the road with humans?

Join Softway for a special Partner Series conversation with Nat Beuse, Chief Safety Officer at Aurora, for an inside look at the technology, engineering, and thinking behind autonomous transportation from someone literally shaping it today. 

Autonomous truck on the road
Nat Beuse, Chief Safety Officer at Aurora

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Meet Nat Beuse

Chief Safety Officer, Aurora

Nat Beuse has spent his career trying to answer one enormously complicated question: how do we make our roads safer?

Before joining Aurora, he spent nearly two decades in leadership at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, working at the intersection of vehicle technology, safety, research, and regulation — then led safety at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group.

Today he's tackling something few people in history have had to figure out: what does it take to safely remove the human driver altogether? On September 21, he's going to show us.

What's in it for you

See how a vehicle sees.

An inside look at the sensors, systems, and software that let an autonomous vehicle understand the world around it.

Understand how autonomy actually works.

Move past headlines and sci-fi assumptions to what has to happen, second by second, for a vehicle to drive itself.

Ask the question everyone asks.

How do you know it's safe? Hear how engineers think about risk, redundancy, and edge cases.

See where this is headed.

Autonomous transport could reshape logistics, infrastructure, jobs, and how goods move around the world.

Direct access.

Your chance to ask someone building the autonomous future the questions you've always wanted answered.

No hype. No hand-waving.

Just a clear-eyed look at one of the most consequential technologies moving from experiment to reality.

Who should attend

Business Leaders
Technology & Innovation Leaders
Operations & Supply Chain
Engineers & Product Leaders
Transportation & Logistics
AI & Emerging Tech Leaders
Students & Lifelong Learners

"Okay… but how does that actually work — and when will I feel safe riding in one?"

The autonomous future isn't coming someday.
It's already on the road.

September 21
|
6–8 PM

Seating is limited.