VERONA – The Automotive Dealer Days 2023 are opening in Verona. It is the twenty-one appointment of the three-day event (May 16-17-18) linked to the automotive world organized by Quintegia, the study and research center that deals with of innovation and networking. The main theme of the event? “Mobility leaders”. During the meetings, conferences, events, the protagonists of the sector will try to outline the scenarios of the future, anticipating the transformation of the business in a sustainable key. More than 20 sessions of the content program, more than 60 speakers and over 90 realities present in the business area.
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The exhibition will be opened by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini who will participate in the inaugural session “Car Associations in the Challenge of New Mobility” with Anfia, Federauto, Motus-E and Unrae. The issues addressed? Euro 7, incentives and possible interventions to be implemented, car taxation and the situation linked to the development of infrastructures in a country that is behind the rest of Europe. Marco Stella, Anfia vice president, Plinio Vanini, Federauto vice president, Massimo Nordio, Motus-E president, Michele Crisci, president of Unrae.
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In the afternoon at 17 the “changes” session will be attended by Carlo Carraro, vice president and member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations organization that deals with climate change. An opportunity to highlight the close connection between climate change and sustainable mobility and to understand how much a path that puts the environment at the center weighs on the future. The first ESG mapping of dealers in Italy will also be presented on this topic.
There is no shortage of international guests, such as Mariarosaria Taddeo, professor at the University of Oxford, one of the leading experts in Artificial Intelligence, Elisa Weltert, general manager of Maserati’s South Europe, and representatives of foreign dealer associations such as Geoffrey Pohanka, Chairman of the American Nada, and Gerardo Pérez Giménez, president of the Spanish Faconauto and of the European acronym Aecdr.
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During the three days at FieraVerona, where the Italian and European commercial networks of various groups and car manufacturers will meet, some trends will be analyzed which must be evaluated if we want to have a modern picture of mobility. Such as, for example, the complementarity and criticality between personal mobility flows, micro-mobility and public transport: a way to provide operators in the automotive sector with a broader vision. One of the voices who will deepen these areas will be Lidia Signor, head of combined mobility at the UITP – Union Internationale des Transports Publics. Automotive Dealer Day will also be an opportunity to take stock of the electrification of mobility, with the contribution of industry experts, such as Silvia Bodoardo of the Turin Polytechnic, president of the Electrochemistry Group, and with the presentation of the Bev – Italy index progress index, quarterly analysis by Quintegia on the level of Italian electrification.
We will take stock of the change in the sales network, verifying the impacts of the application of the agency contract. Central will be the presentation of Dealerstat, the study that collects the satisfaction of Italian dealership owners in their relationship with manufacturers, and the new release of dealer network study, a periodic analysis of the structure and size of the car and commercial vehicle sales and service networks . Focus also on the study of consumer attitudes and behaviors thanks to the 2023 edition of Automotive Customer Study. At the center of the discussion was also the importance of innovating business models and logics by integrating topics such as artificial intelligence, with an ethical analysis approach, and the use of digital channels and new technologies. Contamination with sectors outside the car is essential, as Alessandro Pacetti, Global direct-to-consumer director of Vibram Group, will explain.