Rooms with a View: CAR 2025 will be held at the scenic, luxurious, and recently renovated Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina.
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The team from Auto IMS, an automotive remarketing technology and data firm, is among the many industry attendees at the CAR event ready to connect and do business.
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The 2025 Conference of Automotive Remarketing has launched its Call for Papers period as it accepts ideas for session topics, presentations, speakers, and panelists for the event's education and information agenda.
CAR focuses on remarketing topics of interest to vehicle consignors, auctions, dealers, logistics carriers, vehicle financers, and the many supplier and support services that connect the automotive remarketing industry.
Key Takeaways by Attending CAR:
The state of the industry as it returns to more normal patterns
Adapting to shifts in buyer-seller transactions and marketplace options
Building business relationships and creating new connections
Winning and keeping clients while increasing revenue
Leveraging new technologies and AI
New insights from industry outsiders
Latest EV challenges
CAR, launched in 1995, is the industry-leading networking and connections resource for all segments of the vehicle remarketing industry. It is co-programmed with the Automotive Remarketing Alliance (ARA), the event's official partner.
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