AM Dwell’s full agenda is now out there to discover with over 20 business professionals able to share their views on the largest challenges dealing with the automotive retail business.

The occasion, delivered to you by AM and the Nationwide Franchised Supplier Affiliation (NFDA), is being held on the NEC, close to Birmingham on November 9 and is free to attend for franchised and impartial vendor professionals. The present affords 4 devoted seminar theatres and an exhibition corridor full of the most recent improvements from the UK’s main automotive retail suppliers.

The seminar content material throughout the day can be break up between Digital, Gross sales, Aftersales and Technique, masking all the largest business matters together with the company retail mannequin, disruptor EV manufacturers coming into the UK market, used automobile information science, electrical automobile income and extra.

Main UK automotive retail specialists from Arnold Clark, Pendragon, CarShop, Carbase and Wilsons will all be sharing case research and their experience on the present.

Revolutionary digital transformation specialists from CitNOW Group, Keyloop, Advertising Supply, Phyron and Status will all provide their assist and recommendation on the most recent pondering on matters like omnichannel retailing, AI and automation, advertising and marketing and extra.

Not solely will the occasion provide a packaged schedule of seminar content material, there may also be over 50 modern suppliers underneath one roof for delegates to discover the most recent improvements and benchmark the very best options for his or her enterprise.

Key seminar session highlights at AM Dwell:

Cybercrime: Plan your digital defence

• Eddie Hawthorne, Arnold Clark chief govt
• Mark Rodbert, Idax Software program chief govt

AM100 vendor teams are being more and more focused by cybercriminals seeking to maintain their companies to ransom. Eddie Hawthorne, Arnold Clark chief govt, will share his expertise of the enterprise being attacked on the finish of 2022 and the way the corporate labored to get well and put together its defences for the longer term. Mark Rodbert, chief govt at Idax Software program may also present recommendation on reviewing an organization’s inner processes and methods to ensure they aren’t caught out.

The large company mannequin debate

This session will look at the need of many status and mainstream manufacturers to manage the brand new automobile gross sales course of and have nearer relationships with shoppers whereas shifting their retail companions onto agency-type agreements. Automotive retailers should fastidiously navigate the break up between franchised and company fashions throughout the subsequent 12 months. This session will look at the advantages of company, however may also immediate some wholesome debate on the challenges it creates for the sector too.

• Kristian Elvefors, Volvo Automobile UK managing director
• Steve Younger, ICDP managing director
• Miles Trowe, TLT accomplice & NFDA retained authorized advisor

Place your bets: Rising OEMs

Rising Chinese language manufacturers are coming into the UK en masse and looking for to be the brand new Kia and Hyundai for the 2020s and 2030s. Profitable franchised sellers can see by means of the allure offensive and guess on manufacturers with essentially the most potential. This session will discover all of the alternatives and disruption new entrants will carry to the UK market over the following 24 months.

• Tony Whitehorn, T Whitehorn Consultancy advisor
• Owen Edwards, Grant Thornton head of downstream automotive
• Mike Dean, Bloomberg Intelligence international head of automotive analysis

Causes to attend AM Dwell 2023

• Benchmark your online business and verify your technique and trajectory in opposition to others within the business by means of hearth chats with different automotive retail leaders
• Be a part of within the debate on the largest matters within the business just like the company mannequin, disruptor EV manufacturers, omnichannel retailing and extra
• Reaffirm and construct in your current information by seeing the most recent methods and expertise out there from the UK’s main motor retail suppliers
• Community with motor retail friends, producer and provider companions