2024-3-27-Education Meeting notes

   CIECA 500 Westover Dr  #11617; Sanford,  NC  27330 

Date

Mar 27, 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

• Recognition of Ginny Whelan

• CIECA Webinars

• CONNEX:

  • Agenda, number of speakers before and after lunch

  • Sponsors

  • Speakers

Meeting Minutes

• The antitrust was read and the minutes were approved.

• The committee started the meeting by recognizing Ginny Whelan for her support of CIECA on behalf of ARA since 2008.

• CIECA Webinars:

  • April: Architecture Committee will be giving an update on CAPIS.

  • Nick Dominato from I-CAR agreed to present.

  • Arif Rafiq is based in Canada and reached out about presenting about data standards during CONNEX. He typically charges a fee so we invited him to present during a webinar instead. He shared some suggestions and we followed up to set up a meeting.

  • Greg Horn: speaking during CONNEX

  • 3D printing project with IBIS: speaking during CONNEX

• CONNEX Overview

  • Theme: Intersection of Data & Mobility

  • Date: September 24 & 25

  • Hotel: MGM Grand Detroit in Detroit, MI

  • Tour: American Center of Mobility

  • Emcee: Bill Garroutte

• CONNEX Communication

  • 2/13: Save the Date Announcement/call for speakers/sponsors

  • 3/6: Early-Bird Registration Open/call for speakers/sponsors

  • 3/14 (members) & 3/21 (industry): Sponsorships, new type this year

  • Mid-April (past sponsors): Sponsorships

  • May?: Agenda announced

• CONNEX Agenda

  • We discussed the number of speakers we should have during the conference. Don asked how many minutes we are planning for presentations and Paul said it’s typically 40-45 minutes. Don suggested reducing the speaking time and having 30-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon and maybe an hour and a half at lunch. Jeff agreed and said it gives time to get something to drink or go to the restroom and still have time for networking. Kim thought we had time for networking with the schedule last year.

• CONNEX Sponsors

  • With the new sponsorship model this year, we have two platinum sponsors, OEC and IAA, and one gold sponsor, Car-Part.com.

• CONNEX Speakers

  • Confirmed speakers include:

    • Greg Horn, PartsTrader, will provide an industry update

    • American Center for Mobility will provide one or two speakers

    • Emil Nussbaum, Vice President of Strategy, Government and Regulatory Affairs at ARA will discuss EVs, hybrids and battery

    • Richard Mueller, DTE Energy, will talk about the how EVs will impact the grid

    • Michael Anderson, Guidewire, will participate in a panel discussion focused on Digital Claims. We asked committee if anyone had a contact at Duck Creek. Kim will provide one. Jeff recently saw CCC and Apple present at the BMW conference on what they are doing with Apple Glass and suggested we might want to have someone present on augmented reality.

    • Paul Barry will present on The Anatomy of an API

    • Harold Sears and Mario Dimovski will talk about the 3D Printing Auto Repair Task Force and 3D printing initiatives taking place in automotive. Don asked what materials were being used and wanted to know if it was metal printing. He thought that a broad presentation would be good about what is projected to happen in the future. Jeff mentioned that BASF’s 3D printing group is based in Michigan and focuses on metal 3D printing.

  • Potential speakers:

    • We had several submissions from paid speakers focusing on leadership, including Jay Perry. At this time, we don’t have a budget for speakers.

    • Tara at the Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) believes she has a prior commitment but confirm.

    • OEMs

      • Chris Wallace, Ford

      • Ronald Trozzo, Tesla

    • Ohio Transportation Research Center representative

    • We’ve reached out to Michael Lastuka fro State Farm and Michael Giarrizzo at DCR Systems about speaking.

    • Erick Bickett, Nuventory, reached out about presenting on the automation of the procurement of paint material and related supplies in the collision industry between manufacturers, distributors and collision shops. Erick changed his schedule to be able to attend the conference this year. There is also an opportunity for him to present as part of CIECA’s 30th anniversary and ask some of the other founders and individual people from CIECA over the years to speak. After hearing about the other types of presentation, Erick felt that this topic wasn’t a fit for CONNEX.

    • Jeff suggested having one of their color designers, Liz, talk about automotive color trends and how they might impact radar and Lidar issues. She is based in Michigan.

    • LexisNexis has been contacted again about presenting.

    • AI: Rav looked into possible AI presenters and his contacts were outside of the collision space, including a contact at AutoZone. He researched some companies in the collision industry, including Marcel Horstmann from Tractable and Summit Chauhan from Cerebrum X who spoke during a CIECA Webinar. We invited Rav to set up a meeting to discuss his background in AI. Kim suggested a speaker who can provide an overview of AI and will reach out. Paul would like us to share information about how AI works rather than the implementation of it.

    • Paul said one of the goals of the conference is to try and bridge the gap between business and technical people. He said it would be good to have a couple of sessions tackling a technical subject in layman’s terms.

    • Jeff said he has a BASF contact who might be able to discuss EV battery materials in Detroit.

  • Possible topics:

    • AI

    • EVs and hybrids/batteries

    • OEM insurance/telematics

    • OEM panel

    • Data privacy

    • A contact from Duck Creek

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

Up Next

• Antitrust Agreement and Meeting minutes acceptance

Action items

Decisions

Participants

• @Stacey Phillips - Facilitator

• @Paul Barry

• @Paulette Reed

• Erick Bickett

• Don Porter

• Ginny Whelan

• Kim DeVallance Caron

• Petra Schroeder

• Rav Mendiratta

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