2024-5-15-Education/Marketing Meeting notes

Date

15 May 2024

Chair: Don Porter

Agenda

Antitrust Statement

• This meeting is subject to the terms of our anti-trust statement shown above. In addition, this meeting will be recorded. 

• Review and approval of minutes

• CIECA Webinars

• CONNEX:

  • Current Presenters

  • Potential Speakers/Panels

  • Sponsors

  • Marketing

    • Communications Plan

    • Things to do in area

    • 30th anniversary

Meeting Minutes

• The antitrust was read and the minutes were approved.

• CIECA Webinars:

  • May 30: AI Fundamentals - Rav Mendiratta, Propel and Socio Squares

  • June: Data Privacy & Security - Pete Tagliapietra, DataTouch

  • July 25: Data Usage - Arif Rafiq

  • August: Autonomous Vehicles - Curiosity Lab, Peachtree Corners, GA

  • September: We typically don’t have a webinar.

  • October: We’ll plan a technical webinar.

  • November 21: Technology and Privacy Issues - Adonne Washington, Future of Privacy Forum

• CONNEX:

  • Current Presenters-waiting for bio/photo

    • Emil Nusbaum, ARA

    • Richard Mueller, DTE Energy

    • Mario Dimovski & Harold Sears, 3D Printing Taskforce

  • Potential Speakers/Panels

    • Digital Claims Panel

      • Duck Creek

      • Paul Riffel, GAINSCO

    • Technology

      • Pat Blech, OEC

    • Standards Integrations

      • 2-3 newer members

    • OEM Panel

      • Ford, KIA and Tesla

    • Onstar

      • Josh Thompson, GM Insurance

  • Sponsors

  • Marketing

    • Communications Plan

    • Things to do in area

    • 30th anniversary

  • Potential Speakers/Panels

    • OEMs: We’ve reached out to Ford, Stellantis, KIA, Tesla, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW

    • Digital Claims Panel: We shared information earlier

    • Information providers/technology: We shared information earlier

    • Pat Blech, OEC was interested in possibly presenting during a webinar or CONNEX

    • Joshua Thomsen, GM Financial, we’ve talked to for a couple of years and is checking to see if he can present

    • Jeff Wildman from BASF suggested speaker talk about AR/VR. He also suggested a speaker focused on EV battery materials and color selection

    • Ken Eagleson suggested Gary Hallgren from Arity talk about identifying driving behavior in post-COVID

    • EV battery materials: Linda Gaines, Argonne National Labs, and Jeff Wildman’s BASF contact

    • We met with Adonne Washington from the Future of Privacy Forum about speaking but she is presenting in CA the day before our conference. Her family is in Michigan so she might be able to present.

    • Stacey met with Mike Muller from SEMA Garage Detroit. He and his colleague are not available but they have another colleague, Gigi, who might be able to present but they weren’t sure of the topic.

    • Don said that Ford reported that it lost $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year. He also mentioned used car values for EVs and wondered if a full EV will make it in the future of if there will be more of focus on hybrids. Stacey said we might be able to include that information in the OEM panel. Petra said it can be a tricky subject. Don suggested having someone talk about EV trends and where the market is going. Maybe Greg Horn can address EV trends and the used car market.

    • Looking at the overall agenda, we discussed whether we have enough representation on the insurance side.

    • Petra asked if we have a presentation on AI. We do have Jeff Lauman from Enterprise talking about the fundamentals of AI, which was a recommendation from Kim. Don said that Tractable and GEICO are working together and maybe someone from GEICO can share information.

    • Ashley Denison, CIECA’s chair, had recommended a representative from Microsoft/Porsche and she was going to reach out.

    • We received a submission from Elie Lloyd at Trueclaim AI from Quebec to talk about how AI disrupts the collision industry. He is a new CIECA member and maybe he can talk about technology and integrations.

    • Petra said she likes the shortness of the presentations

    • Rav said he had suggested a speaker from Autozone who leads the ecommerce side of the business and wanted to know if he should follow up. he said the speaker has a lot of case studies using AI from a parts standpoint. Petra said it sounded interesting from a consumer perspective. Rav said it sounds like we have a lot of prospects and we will wait for now.

    • Paul said we only have a few empty slots and we want to make sure we don’t overload the agenda and have to cram people in like the last few years. He suggested moving cautiously.

  • Sponsors

    • We have two platinum sponsors, two gold and two silver. Sandy said that ARA will sponsor this year.

  • We want to compile a list of things to do in area and post on website.

  • For the next meeting, we want to discuss marketing initiatives and CIECA’s 30th anniversary this year.

?? Great meeting everyone. Thank you for your participation. Have a great week!

Up Next

• Antitrust Agreement and Meeting minutes acceptance

Action items

Decisions