Kairos Innovation Consulting
Innovation Consulting

We activate the potential of organizations.

A boutique consultancy focused on results: we create systemic change through innovation.

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Consulting

How do we transform?

We're a small consultancy focused on results: the bridge between public and private for organizations seeking systemic change, not diagnostics that gather dust in a drawer.

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Innovation

We explore the edges of innovation to install systemic change: culture, processes and capabilities that generate real value.

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Agile Strategy

We teach you to move with the market's agility, activating the networks, ecosystems and public and private funding that get you to the customer faster.

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Venture Studio

We build the business alongside you, from validated idea to launch, with a demonstrable methodology, not intuition.

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Research

Applied research.

Our own research projects, sorted by pillar and topic, from mobility to health. We track the signals before the market does and design your strategy with data, not intuition.

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AV Tracker

Tracking the global rollout of autonomous vehicles.

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More research projects on the way, classified by Mobility, Health and other topics.

Events

On the ground, where innovation happens.

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Summit · Madrid

27-28

October 2026

MAMS2026: Madrid Autonomous Mobility Summit

2026 is the year autonomous mobility stops being a pilot project and starts being a market. Madrid is one of the clearest examples. EMT's SAE Level 4 autonomous bus has been running since September 2025, with an 8.4/10 user rating. The Villaverde Mobility Sandbox gives operators 20 km² of real urban environment to test in, the largest regulatory sandbox in Europe.

Regulation is also catching up with the technology: the UNECE global framework for automated driving systems, the EU's Automotive Industrial Action Plan and new developments from Spain's Dirección General de Tráfico are all taking shape this year.

Over two days we'll cover the international race for AV adoption, lessons from Europe's live pilots, the regulatory path from the EU framework to Spanish law, Madrid's own roadmap, and the future of autonomous mobility in both passenger transport and logistics.

Organisation
Promoted by Ayuntamiento de Madrid and organised by FACTUAL, with the support of Impulso Mobility, Kairos Innovation Consulting and Connected Mobility HUB.
Partners
Gold: Waymo · Silver: PAVE Europe and Freenow
Publications

Ideas in motion.

A newsletter on innovation, mobility and the cities of the future. Analysis that goes past the headline, every issue.

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MobilityNewsletter · Aug 2026

Thirteen of Fifteen Vanished: The Family Tree of the Self-Driving Car

Almost every autonomous-vehicle company on earth descends from two university teams and a handful of engineers who met in a desert. The lesson is about talent, not budget.

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InnovationNewsletter · Aug 2026

What a 1714 Clock Prize Teaches Europe About Funding Innovation

The 1714 Longitude Prize and DARPA's 2004 desert challenge: why outcome-based prizes, not grants, are what actually fund breakthrough innovation.

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IndustryNewsletter · Aug 2026

Almussafes Was the Good News. Sagunt Is the Surrender

The difference between ceding assembly and surrendering the cell, and what Northvolt's collapse teaches us.

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IndustryNewsletter · Jul 2026

Ford Sells Almusafes to Geely: The Good News That Opens More Questions Than It Closes

How much public money sits behind the plant, and who sets the price of letting a Chinese partner in.

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LeadershipNewsletter · Jul 2026

Are We Coming Back in September?

The management playbook for leading a European carmaker through crisis: six decisions and the frameworks behind them.

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MobilityNewsletter

Who Is Driving Whom?

The balance of power in the new automotive and mobility industry.

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InnovationNewsletter · Jul 2026

Elon Laughed at BYD in 2011. Volkswagen Just Paid the Bill

A €1.5bn charge, two forgotten theories, and the benchmarking trap that quietly kills market leaders.

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PolicyNewsletter · Jul 2026

The Missing Green Light: Why Approving Assisted Driving Isn't the Same as Making It Safe

Europe just approved Tesla's FSD and Ford's BlueCruise. The hard part, auditing the data, hasn't started yet.

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Daniel Serra
About us

Daniel Serra

Managing Director of Kairos Innovation Consulting. 20+ years leading open innovation, impact investment and public-private partnerships in urban mobility and cities.

Previously led investment and ecosystems at EIT Urban Mobility (1,000+ organizations, 35 countries) and coordinated 60+ R&D projects at CARNET (SEAT-VW-UPC). Board member at GaiaX.

That's where Kairos's methodology comes from: go beyond diagnosis and activate change through the networks and funding that already exist but that almost no one knows how to unlock.

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