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Automotive Trend Forum

This international science and economic congress focuses on the latest trends in automotive sales and marketing. The whole-day event is held at CongressPark Wolfsburg. Approximately 600 international Automotive Trend Forum participants in Wolfsburg come from business and science. Top experts from all over the world present the latest studies, examples of best-practice and offer solutions for your specific problems. All lectures on 06.-07. October 2021 will be translated simultaneously. In addition to numerous managers from the Volkswagen Group, guests also include participants from other automotive manufacturers, the supply industry, the automotive trade, medium-sized businesses and importers. The science representatives are mainly professors, employees and students of the Ostfalia University or our partner universities abroad.

Greetings from Dr. Christian Dahlheim

Automotive companies are in the middle of a transformation process. New competitors are entering the market, new technologies are enabling new forms of mobility, and customer needs are changing, especially in the wake of digitalization. At the same time regulation and the demand for sustainable mobility is increasing.

The subject of the upcoming Automotive Trend Forum “Mobility Changes” is highly topical in 2021, as the transformation of our industry continues. Driving assistance systems are constantly developing and are available to us at a high level of maturity. Autonomous cars are dependent on networking with their environment. In New Mobility, we are no longer exclusively dealing with our product, the automobile, but with mobility in its entirety.

In addition to the product itself, the relationship between brand and customer is also changing. Automotive companies are addressing their customers directly and digitally. At the same time personal advice is still an essential point of contact to the customer. In the future successful automobile companies will be able to offer their customers a holistic and individual mobility package in which the car, but not necessarily its ownership, has its place.

The Automotive Trend Forum is a valuable opportunity to think outside the box and serves as a platform for the exchange of ideas between all stakeholders of New Mobility. As patron of the ATF 2021, I cordially invite you to discuss tomorrow’s mobility with us and I look forward to welcoming you in Wolfsburg on 06 & 07 October 2021.

Top Speakers 2021

The following speakers have already confirmed!

Prof. Dr. Antje Helpup

ATF event organizer, professor at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

Verlagsleiter, Chefredakteur Fachmagazin Autohaus

Ralph M. Meunzel

ATF co-presentation, Publishing Director Springer Automotive Media

Dr. Christian Dahlheim

ATF patron, Head of Sales Volkswagen Group

Klaus Mohrs

ATF Greetings, Lord Mayor Wolfsburg

Jürgen Keller

ATF Speaker, CEO Hyundai Motor Deutschland GmbH

Dr. Norbert Alt

ATF Speaker, CEO of FEV Europe GmbH

Alexander Mankowsky

ATF Speaker, Futurist, Daimler AG

André Schmidt

ATF Speaker, President at Toyota Deutschland GmbH

Gerald Krainer

ATF Speaker, Director Go-to-Market Europe BYTON

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Balleis

ATF Speaker, Special Commissioner of the Federal Government for Clean Air

Heinz-Dieter Tiemeyer

Interview partner, CEO and owner of Tiemeyer AG

Hans-Jürgen Persy

Interview partner, Member of the Board of LÖHR & BECKER AG

Jochen Rudat

ATF Speaker, ex-Tesla Director Central Europe, founder of muchbetterelectric & Electric Ventures

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gert Bikker

ATF Greetings, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

Klaus Steinmann

ATF Panel Moderator 1, Global Head Automotive & Mobility Mercuri Urval GmbH

Dr. Michael Mandat

ATF Moderator Panel 2, Management Consulting PROGENIUM GmbH & Co. KG, Managing Partner

Benjamin Pfeifer

ATF Panel Member, Head of Sales & Business Development ioki GmbH

Dr. Jörg Hipp

ATF Panel Member, Member of the Board of Management Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Ressort Automotive Germany

Dr. Kerim Galal

ATF Panel Member, Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy & Innovation DEKRA

Bernhard Linnenschmidt

ATF Panel Member, Member of the Management Board of the Emil Frey Group

Michael Grosche

ATF Panel Member, Fleet, Mobility & Remarketing Volkswagen Financial Services AG

Stephan Goldmann

ATF Panel Member, Member of the Executive Board Arvato Supply Chain Solutions

Dr. Michael Hajesch

ATF Panel Member, CEO IONITY GmbH

Philipp Sayler von Amende

ATF Panel Member, Managing director of carwow GmbH

Dr. Friedhelm Boschert

ATF Speaker, managing director of the Mindful Finance Institute

Henrike Richter

ATF Meditation Leader, Diploma in Psychology and is a licensed systemic coach, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

Uwe Höhne

ATF Moderator Start Up Challenge, Account General Manager DXC Technology Deutschland GmbH

Maria Grazia Davino

Interview partner, CEO FCA Germany AG

Jürgen Reers

ATF Moderator Innovator Challenge, Accenture GmbH, Managing Director

Agenda 2021

3 Events with expert speakers

07. October 2021, CongressPark Wolfsburg

8:00

Registration

8:30

Greetings

Klaus Mohrs

Lord Mayor Wolfsburg

8:45

Opening Speech

ATF patron, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand with responsibility for Sales, Marketing and After Sales

09:10

Short imagination ATF-Partner

09:25

Module 1: Trends & Innovations

09:25

Cultural and technical innovations - ways into a desirable and feasible future

Alexander Mankowsky

Futurist, Daimler AG

09:50

Individual interviews

Maria Grazia Davino

with Jürgen Reers

10:00

Speech

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Balleis

Special Commissioner of the Federal Government for Clean Air

10:25