William J. Cariss President & CEO Holman Strategic Ventures Ensuring Relevancy Through Leveraging Core Assets and Capabilities Bill Cariss will discuss the evolution of Holman Strategic Ventures and how future investment opportunities and partnerships are evaluated for their potential impact across all Holman business segments.  A special emphasis [...]

Lindsay Duffield Past President - Jaguar Land Rover Canada Past President, CEO - BMW Group Canada Presentation details coming soon About Lindsay Duffield With 30+ years of sales, marketing, operations, and general management experience in Canada and the U.S. gained at IBM, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and [...]

Mark Ortiz National Interactive Marketing Director American Honda Motor Co. Big Data 2.0: Marketers want Quality Not Quantity Everyone wants data, but what do you do with it? When looking at ‘Big Data’, OEM’s and auto dealers need to utilize the data they have instead of looking to [...]

Brian Allan Group Director Business Development Galpin Motors Panel: Disruptive Retail Innovation About Brian Allan Brian started his automotive retail career in 1980 in Beverly Hills, California selling Lincoln, Mercury, Peugeot, and Lotus vehicles while attending Cal State University Northridge.  In 1985, Brian joined what became [...]

Ahmed Hasan Global Head of Customer Engagement Marketing Spark44 Leveraging Technology to Deliver Awards & Efficiency Siloed data sources are increasingly becoming a barrier for many car manufacturers to effectively market. With the rising consumer expectation for digital content, car manufacturers must be able to adapt and transform [...]

Stephen J. Surhigh VP & GM, Automotive Cloud Services Harman International How In-Vehicle User Experience Changes with Autonomous Vehicles Autonomous vehicles create new opportunities for automakers to reshape the in-vehicle experience. As vehicles move closer to full autonomy, drivers have more opportunities to redirect attention to other productivity [...]

Jason Jewert Director, Client Advocacy CDK Global When Consumers and Dealers are Aligned, Everyone Wins It’s a popular assumption there is a big disconnect between today’s consumer and dealers when it comes to purchasing a vehicle … consumers want to do it all online, dealers want consumers in [...]

Frank Goldberg Senior Director, Automotive North America IgnitionOne The Future of Automotive: Accelerating the Customer Experience Automotive retail is shifting gears from a product-driven to a customer-centric approach. Marketers must become customer obsessed by: recognizing and engaging customers in all stages of their brand experience; creating a unique [...]

Jeremy Anspach Chairman & Founder PureCars Using Attribution to Master The Current Multi-Touch Environment Years ago the buying journey was simple. A lead came into the CRM, it was tracked and if a sale resulted from that lead the vendor got credit for the sale. In today’s complex [...]

Jesse Turner Lead Presales Engineer censhare Driving Down the Digital Supply Chain: How the Auto Industry is Well-positioned to Take Advantage of Digitizing Content Production Content begins and ends with data, but what happens in-between content inception and dissemination needs to be as harmonized as the data that [...]