Dealer AI Week
Dealer AI Week is a high-impact, content-driven initiative designed to demystify AI and showcase its real-world applications in motor retail. Through a curated mix of thought leadership, expert insights, and actionable guidance, the week aims to equip dealership professionals with the clarity and confidence to embrace AI solutions.
This themed week is designed to showcase how AI solutions can transform dealership operations—driving efficiency, enhancing decision-making, and unlocking new opportunities for growth.
The week's agenda:
Day 1 – Understanding AI
Kick-starting the week by addressing knowledge gaps—highlighting findings from a 2024 AM survey where one-third of respondents admitted to uncertainty around AI’s role in their business.
Day 2 – Where AI Delivers Impact
Exploring key operational areas—from customer interactions to backend automation—where AI is already driving measurable value.
Plus, our AI webinar
Day 3 – Unlocking Efficiency
Demonstrating how AI technologies streamline processes, reduce overheads, and boost productivity.
Day 4 – Empowering the Workforce
Focusing on training, reskilling, and boosting staff confidence in working alongside AI tools.
Day 5 – The Long View: Lasting Benefits & ROI
A strategic look at AI’s evolving role in motor retail and the long-term gains for early adopters.

News
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You’re planning your next State of the Nation survey - what insights do you expect it to uncover?
Executive View: AI. Surely it will do better next time?
A dabble with an online artificial intelligence platform proves a dispiriting experience for AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, emeritus professor of Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
Saker: Should HR protect employees, not the company, in sex harassment cases?
AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, shares his thoughts about the damage done to companies by HR departments that put corporate damage-limitation ahead of victim welfare.
AM News Show Podcast: ‘affluence is central to car buyers' EV interest’
Auto Trader brand director Marc Palmer asserted that “areas of affluence” are the UK’s hotspots for interest in electric vehicles (EV) as the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze car buyers’ purse strings.

