The Collision Industry Conference on Wednesday reiterated that it is April 21-22 meeting in Arizona would offer the option of attending personally or virtually over Zoom.
“Due to Arizona COVID restrictions, the in-person is restricted to active 2021 Gold Pin participants,” the CIC wrote in a news release. “Those unable to attend, or do not have a present Gold Pin can sign up to attend the virtual option.”
The gathering at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort in Phoenix, Ariz., will represent the very first physical meeting since January 2021’s Palm Springs, Calif., summit.
“CIC is happy to become back to the in-person format and looks toward obtaining a lot accomplished only at that meeting for the benefit of the whole industry,” the CIC wrote Wednesday.
Anyone having a connection to the collision market is thanks for visiting attend a CIC, which supplies stakeholders including body shops, insurers, OEMs, suppliers and software companies an easy method of discussing and researching issues affecting one or more of their sectors. The summits likewise incorporate a wide open mic period.
The CIC on Wednesday said April’s meeting would discuss supplemental restraint system inspections, calibrations and electric vehicles.
“The agenda is set to incorporate a special presentation in the Emerging Technologies Committee on SRS Repair Information & Inspection Best Practice Development and EV Servicing Essentials,” the CIC wrote. “This special presentation includes overview of the abilities and tools needed to develop a calibration together with along with discussing dynamic and static calibrations. It offers a panel discussion of subject-matter experts within the EV arena, presenting unique views into the challenges a repair center overcomes with EV vehicles. In that same subject of ADAS, the Industry Relations Committee will talk about building stakeholder trust in the ADAS procedures.
Other topics includes an information education and knowledge Golden Rules panel; Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association software standards; and “Collision Industry 2035, where OEMs, repairers, insurers, and supplier's people, processes, and technologies have already changed dramatically since the vehicle, its components, repair procedures, and also the consumer want it!”
The CIC is going to be held from noon to five p.m. having a reception at 6:30 p.m. April 21 and 8 a.m. to noon Mountain Standard Time on Thursday, April 22.
It’ll follow an in-person Society of Collision Repair Specialists open board meeting from 8:30-11 a.m. April 21, at the hotel.
