US Dealer Principals, GMs & Group Leaders - AI Dealership Ops

🚗 Calling US dealer principals, GMs and group leaders 🚗 I'm producing The Next Era in Automotive Retail: How AI is changing the American dealership - a Financial Times event in Chicago on Thursday 8 October 2026. This is a senior, peer-level conversation about what the dealership actually looks like once AI moves beyond bolt-ons and into the operating model. A few of the questions on the agenda: – When the buyer has already negotiated with AI, what does the dealer still offer? – Are current DMS and data structures fit for AI, or are they the bottleneck? – Where is AI delivering real margin in fixed ops — and where is the promise outstripping the proof? – When AI takes on the routine work, where do dealers redeploy their people? – Will the dealership of 2030 still have a BDC? I'm looking for speakers and panellists who: – Sit at C-suite, COO, CIO, CDO, GM or dealer-principal level in a US dealer group – Are actively deploying AI across sales, F&I, service, BDC or inventory – Can speak candidly about results Self-nominations welcome. Recommendations even more so please tag or DM anyone whose story this audience needs to hear. Drop me a line: [email redacted] #AutomotiveRetail #Dealerships #AI #FutureOfTheCar