AGORA
May 12 – 15, 2025
IEC "Expocentre", Moscow
Conference area
About
The AGORA conference area brings together specialists and professionals in the field of service stations and garage equipment, analysts and experts in the auto components and spare parts market on its platform.
Over the course of 4 days, a series of master classes, open discussions, reports and presentations by leading industry experts were held.
Over the course of 4 days, a series of master classes, open discussions, reports and presentations by leading industry experts were held.
AGORA 2024 conference program
11.00 – 11.45
Official opening ceremony of the MIMS Automobility Moscow exhibition
12.00 – 13.30
Plenary-Analytical Session: Market Analysis of Post-Sales Services
Moderator: Alexander Ovanesov, Managing Partner, Arthur Consulting
Invited Speakers:
- Sergey Udalov, Executive Director, AA "Autostat"
- Alexey Podshchekolin, President, ROAD
- Andrey Gorodov, Communications Director, Industrial Development Fund
- Daniil Soloviev, Project Manager for creating a production line, Rosco
- Alexander Kuzmin, Deputy head of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart)
- Vitaly Kravets, General Director, INDEX
- Alexey Golovin, Head of Parts and Auto Service Business Division, Avito
- Representative of TKM International Consulting
13.45 – 15.30
Plenary Session Future Mobility: The King is dead, long live the King. A new hegemon in transport (or not)
Partner: Skolkovo Foundation
Moderator: Kirill Zhanydarov, Director of the Department of transport, Skolkovo Foundation
Speakers:
- Alexey Uvarov, Director of the Department of industry and infrastructure, Government of the Russian Federation
- Tigran Parsadanyan, Director of the Department of automotive industry and railway transport, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
- Iya Gordeeva, President of the Association for the development of electric, autonomous, and connected transport and infrastructure
- Maxim Sokolov, President and CEO, JSC "Avtovaz"
- Vasily Chebotarev, Head of special projects, Evolute
- Yuri Dobrovolsky, Director of the hydrogen technology center, AFK "Sistema"
- Pavel Azgaldov, Director of strategic business development, JSC "TVEL"
- Ilya Rashkin, Founder, EVM.PRO
- Representative of Gazprom Gas Engine Fuel
16.00 – 17.45
Round Table:Modern Challenges for Car Dealers and Independent Service Stations
Partners: OPORA RUSSIA Committee on the automotive business together with ROAD, RASTO, and NAPTO Associations
Moderator: Sergey Timofeev, Chairman of the OPORA RUSSIA committee on the automotive business
Key questions:
- How can a fair service survive in the era of automaker exits? Disclosure of technical information on car repairs and certification of service stations.
- How will the tax reform affect the auto business? Risks and hidden reserves for the industry.
10.30 – 12.00
Round Table:Independent car services in the new reality
Partner: Union of Car Services
Moderator: Ilya Plisov, Deputy General Director of EuroAuto, Board Member of the Union of Car Services
Speakers:
- Ekaterina Grineva, Head of the methodology department for loss adjustment, RSA
- Dmitry Potyomkin, Managing Partner, Auto Center "Viaduct"
- Mikhail Petrov, Development Director, EuroAuto
- Natalya Vaganova, General Director, AUTOritet Service Station
- Ilya Nikolin, General Director, Reactor Network
- Dmitry Danyshov, General Director, "Mechanic" Group
- Natalya Kryuchkova, Project Manager
- Ilya Nikolin, General Director, Reactor
12.30 – 14.15
Panel Discussion: Digitalization of business processes in the car service market
Partner: Auto Marketer
Key Questions:
- How can car services improve customer experience and attract repeat clients offline?
- Modern technologies in spare parts sales at service stations: automation, artificial intelligence, statistics
- How to retain clients in the service department?
- What can be changed in the business model concept of a car service in 2024 to lay the foundation for development?
- Joint advertising - a marketing trend
Speakers:
- Svetlana Goloviznina, Senior analyst, TradeSoft
- Alexander Garankov, Development Director, FIT SERVICE
- Konstantin Palfinov, business trainer
- Representative of Auto.ru
14.30 – 16.00
Round Table:Auto parts market 2024: current situation and future of procurement alliances
Partner: Nexus Automotive
Moderator: Alexey Suslov, Development Director, NEXUS Automotive Russia
Key Questions:
- Assortment and quality in the modern market
- Brand adaptation: what has changed in the product range and what to work with in the modern service station
- Principles of forming an effective assortment of car service retail in new conditions
- How to increase the demand for a specific brand's product?
Speakers:
- Alexey Krasnoslobodtsev, Head of marketing department, TOPCOVER
- Alexey Istomin, General Director of the exclusive distributor MPSV, EXOVO
- Evgeny Zhidkov, Development Director, IBERIS
- Dmitry Berg, General Director of the exclusive distributor, JUST DRIVE
- Denis Samoilov, Product Director, AVANTECH
16.15 – 18.00
Panel Session Future Mobility: The human factor. Exclude?
Partner: Skolkovo Foundation
Moderator: Yuri Butenko, Director of technological development, GBU Mostransproekt
Speakers:
- Dmitry Bakanov, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation
- Vladimir Voloshin, Director of the Department of Digital Development and Data Economy
- Grigory Forostovsky, General Director, SberAutoTech
- Marseil Nigmetzyanov, General Director, EvoCargo
- Pavel Boksha, Head of the Center for research and development of autonomous transport, Moscow Metro
- Alexey Sividov, General Director, Avtonomika
- Representative of Yandex
10.30 – 13.30
Conference: Maintenance of corporate fleets
Partner: AA "Autostat"
Block 1. Market overview, questions for discussion at the conference
Block 2. The corporate user's perspective: client's pain
Speakers:
- Marat Adzhimambetov, lawyer, Public council for taxi development
- Andrey Belov, Director of taxi "068" St. Petersburg, Head of the committee for work with car manufacturers, Public council for taxi development
- Denis Nechetaluk, Head of Indirect Procurement Department, Rulog
- Leonid Sysoev, General Director, MC Intermark Auto
- Representative of Delimobil
Block 3. The service provider's perspective: service recipe
Block 4. Round table with conference participants
14.00 – 15.30
Round Table:How to find new partners among Chinese spare parts suppliers
Partner: Autoboss
Key Questions:
- How to check the quality of supplied parts?
- How to verify the reliability of suppliers in the changing spare parts market? (Algorithm for verifying partners - who to work with and who to avoid?)
- How to simplify the process of choosing from a sea of alternatives for spare parts and suppliers?
- How has the situation with European spare parts changed, and is there a way out?
Speakers:
- Olga Solovyeva, Director of supplier relations, Amtel
- Alexander Gruzdev, General Director, Gruzdev-Analyze
- Tatyana Arabadji, Director, National Agency of Industrial Information (NAPI)
- Alexey Makhmudov, Head of automotive, motorcycle, and sports goods, Ozon
16.00 – 18.00
Panel Session Future Mobility: Hour of the Moscow Transport Museum. "Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow"
Partners: Skolkovo
Generational continuity and new technological trends from experts of the Moscow Transport Museum and leading industry experts
Moderator: Oksana Bondarenko, Director of the Moscow Transport Museum
11:00 – 12:00
MIMS Automobility Awards Ceremony
MIMS Automobility Awards is an independent professional award presented within the framework of the spare parts, automotive components, equipment, and technical goods exhibition.
12.30 – 13.00
Stage of the World Automotive Components Award
The International Independent Award "World Automotive Components" (WAC) in the automotive component industry has been held annually since 2012, officially registered, and has its own trademark No. 617850. Stage II "WAC-2024" is held based on the survey results of visitors to the MIMS Automobility Moscow exhibition.
Who benefits from participating
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After-sales car service CEO -
Service station specialists and professionals -
Garage equipment experts -
Analysts of the auto components and spare parts market
Photo report 2024
Contact us
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Anastasia Medovaya