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Date

30 Mar 2022

Chair: Don Porter

Agenda

•  Antitrust
•  Review and Approval of Minutes
•  CONNEX
•  Presenters
•  Next meeting

Minutes

• The Antitrust statement was read and the meeting minutes were accepted.

• CONNEX Agenda Topic Planning Chart: Paul created a chart for business and technology topics for the conference. It is divided into three categories: CIECA internal, collision industry and general industry. The goal is to have a balanced agenda that provides meaningful content for business and technical attendees and represents CIECA, the collision industry and the broader Industry.CONNEX Presenters

  • Susanna Gotsch, CCC: We’ve reached out to Susanna to speak Reached out twice but haven’t heard back from her yet. Will reach out again.

  • Greg Horn, Parts Trader: Paul suggested Greg Horn as a potential speaker. Don E. said he is an excellent speaker and highly recommends him. PartsTrader: Kim and Don were very supportive of inviting Greg to speak.

  • Ryan Mandall, Mitchell International: Potential speaker who is familiar with the industry and worked in multiple segments.

  • Eric Schultz, ALLDATA: Eric is unavailable to speak this year at the conference.

  • Pete Tagliapietra, DataTouch: Paul and Stacey talked to Pete and he offered to speak about the state of data security in the collision industry.

  • Lidar: Ginny offered to share names of contacts.

  • 3D Printing: Don P. will share name of contact from Stratus.

  • EV Panel: We discussed having Lucid Motors and Rivian both present.

  • EV Battery: Don, Ginny and Sandy had suggested having someone talk about the challenges associated with recycling EV batteries. Don P. will talk to Jennifer re: contact; Ginny will reach out to Redwood Materials re: Ford pilot; Don E. will share contact. The PR firm for Ray Hatch from Quest Resource Management Group reached out to Stacey about possibly sharing information in this area.

  • PAVE: Ginny will share contact.

  • Ranken Technical College: We talked about the possibility of John Helterbrand and/or someone from Enterprise sharing information. Don P. said it is a relevant topic to talk about the skills needed for ADAS/calibration. One possibility is to having someone from Hunter Engineering present as well since their equipment is at the college. Don E. will also share contact information for Doug Irish who works at a technical college to potentially speak.

  • Tom Julius from Car-Part.com suggested having someone speak about ADAS/Calibrations safety system validations. Paul Barry and Tim Ronak suggested CIECA member Greg Peeters from CAR ADAS.

  • Don E. suggested having Ryan Taylor from AMP Bureau and BodyShop Booster present.

  • Tom Julius recommended having someone present about AI-who, what and where is AI being used today? What’s next? What is happening beyond the familiar collision AI companies? We discussed having an update from the co-chairs of the CIECA Emerging Technologies Committee—Frank Terlep and Gene Lopez—at the conference and including information about AI. We can also ask Jonathan Pyle from Dents.co about his interest in presenting.

  • Jimmy Spears from Tractable offered to present on the standards needed for AI/machine learning/computer vision.

  • Tom Julius recommended having a presentation on supply chain industry trends. The committee felt that although it is a timely topic, it might not fit with the theme of the conference this year.

  • Frank Terlep from Auto Techcelerators offered to present on vehicle data: where and how does it "play" in the collision, claims and insurance world? The committee felt this would differ from Pete’s presentation. Overall, the committee felt that Frank is an excellent presenter and is knowledgeable about multiple industry issues as well as CIECA.

  • This led into a discussion about having new speakers at the conference as well as new CIECA members if possible.

  • Tim Ronak shared contact information for Glenn Sanders at Wards Intelligence who has spoken on autonomous vehicles. Ginny has read Glenn’s articles and felt his knowledge base might not be in-depth enough for CIECA conference attendees.

  • Tom Julius suggested setting up an area for conference attendees to view/experience new technologies. A new sponsorship category has been created this year that includes an option to purchase a table at the conference to showcase a company’s product/service.

  • Don P. suggested a presentation focused on insurance carriers coming into a digital world. Stacey will reach out to CIECA member Lemonade.Ryan is able to speak on the Wednesday of the conference since he will be speaking at the Mitchell conference on Tuesday. Kim preferred Ryan talk about the impact of electrification (his 2021 proposed topic) rather than his 2022 proposed topic of inflation. Don mentioned that Susanna will likely address inflation if she is able to participate.

  • EV Battery panel: Don mentioned that a speaker from the Energy Security Agency will be speaking at the URG conference and he will let us know if he thinks it would be a good fit for CIECA. Sandy will share a list of contacts associated with battery recycling. Sandy said the recycling segment of the industry is very cognizant of this issue. ARA is currently working on a pilot program with Redwood Materials as well as a pilot program with another company. She will share the contact information if we would like.

  • PAVE: We will set up a meeting to learn more about the organization shared by Ginny.

  • Ranken Technical College: Kim will talk to Mary Mahoney at Enterprise about sharing information about Ranken program and/or another topic. Mary might be attending the Mitchell conference that week.

  • ADAS/Calibrations: We’ve reached out to Greg Peeters from CAR ADAS but haven’t heard back yet. Will follow up.

  • AI: Jonathan Pyle, Dents.co, is very interested in speaking and would prefer to speak on a panel. Paul mentioned it would be great to have additional member companies provide different perspectives on AI.

  • Ryan Taylor, AMP Bureau, BodyShop Booster: Ryan is able to participate at the conference. We will talk to him about possible topic ideas.

  • Digitizing of Insurance:

    • We reached out to Nikki at Lemonade but haven’t heard back yet. Will follow up.

    • Jim Fowler, EVP & CTO of Nationwide, will be speaking about this topic during a Reuters conference in June. Paul mentioned we might want him to talk about the type of information that is being shared/quality of photography.

  • 3M: Stacey talked to 3M about presenting about the connected body shop. The company asked if we prefer to have an executive or application engineer. Don and the committee felt an engineer would be preferable if possible.

  • Managing Customer Expectations in a Digital World: James Palmer from Innovation Group, a CIECA member, offered to present and the committee was in agreement.

  • Three individuals/companies from outside the industry submitted ideas about soft skills. Ginny recommended we ask one of the three to present if he/she can tie in the presentation to innovative technology. Briseida Bethancourt, an attorney, proposed to present on speaking outside of the box. Stacey will reach out to find out if she charges a fee and if she has an understanding of the collision industry.

  • Daniel Hall, Toyota: Daniel, the global chief UX designer at Toyota, participated in a Wards Intelligence webinar about the software-defined vehicle. Ginny was asked if she heard him speak and she has. Ginny mentioned that this topic would be of interest to attendees.

  • Ginny proposed sharing information during the conference about the huge changes taking place with parts and materials procurement and the impact to repairers.

Great meeting. Thank you everyone for your input!

Up Next

• Antitrust Statement Agreement & minutes approval

• CIECAST Webinars 2022

Action items

Decisions