AGORA

10.45 – 11.30
Official opening ceremony of the MIMS Automobility Moscow exhibition


11.30 – 12.30
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.


12.45 – 13.45
Plenary-Analytical Session: Market Analysis of Post-Sales Services

Moderator: Maksim Kadakov, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Za Rulem”

Key topics:

• Dynamics of the ASP market and prospects for the automotive aftersales service industry in 2025
• The Russian auto parts market conditions, its capacity and prospects
• What will happen to parallel imports of cars in 2025 and how will this affect the auto service industry?
• Analysis and prospects for the development of the service industry: finding growth potential through changes in customer behavior
• Future Mobility: electric transport; hydrogen; AI in the automotive industry; smart city concept
• Perspectives for Turkish spare parts manufacturers on the Russian automotive market
• Chinese auto parts: current situation and prospects for deliveries to the Russian automotive aftersales service market
• Current situation with the marketplaces. What has changed over the year.

14.00 – 15.30
Industry Session: The revenue of law-abiding automotive business

Organizer: OPORA RUSSIA Committee on the automotive business

Moderator: Sergey Timofeev, Chairman of the OPORA RUSSIA committee on the automotive business

Key topics:

• Legality vs. Profitability. Or the entrepreneur's constant walking on thin ice.
• You can't do It On Your Own. How much does it benefit auto repair shops to limit the acceptance of customer spare parts?
• Financial literacy as one of the factors for increasing company income.

15.45 – 17.30
Special Working Session: Servicing of Chinese Cargo Vehicles. The interim results

Partners: Union of Car Services

Moderator: Oleg Ivahnov, Auto-repair complex Remservice

Key topics:

• The operating experience by the companies owned a fleet of Chinese equipment
• Spare parts supply for maintenance and repair of Chinese technics
• Repair under warranty, nothing is as it was. Or what?
• Repair at the independent service station

10.30 – 12.30
Round Table: Working with government agencies of the Union. Successes and failures over 5 years

Partner: Union of Car Services

Key topics:

• New taxes first results.
•  The Honest Sign: current situation.
•  Innovative assessment of oil composition (Anti-counterfeiting).
•  Customer service and Global habits. How does this affect our industry?

12.45 – 14.15
Panel Discussion: Digitalization of business processes in the field of automotive service

Partner: AUTOMARKETOLOG
Moderator: Tatiana Akimova, General Manager, Auto Marketer

Key Questions:

• Service station database — gold mine 2025: how dealers can work effectively with clients
• Business process automation in sales of spare parts
• The ecosystem of WB-Auto 
• AI in  the auto service business
• Web-solutions for auto part identification for auto service

14.30 – 16.00
Round Table: E-com under the hood: how online auto parts sales are changing

Partner: Avito

Moderator: Artem Samorodov, the author of telegram-channel “Samorodov About Autobusiness” and the expert of auto dealer market

Key Questions:

•  Where is the online market heading and where is the seller's place?
• What is more important for the client: trust, price or convenience?
• Counterfeit and risk of fakes: who is responsible and how to protect?
• How can auto part sellers earn more?

16.15 – 18.00
Panel discussion: Possibilities for further growth of influence of detailers in the domestic auto services market

Partner: PDR

Moderator: Aleksey Kolchugin, Director of the Service Development Academy, Director of Regional Development at KRYTEX, consultant in detailing

Key Questions:
1. Detailing as a part of the automotive industry: 

• services that directly influence the culture of car maintenance
• interest in detailing from the automotive market, participation in major industry events
• profession recognition, creation of a professional standard, development of quality standards
• areas of detailing that show the greatest growth dynamics

2. PDR as one of the fastest growing areas of "big detailing":

• Introduction to the PDR industry: technology capabilities and application areas
• PDR evolution: Expanding capabilities and impact on classic body repair.
• Preservation of factory body elements: key value in the context of spare parts shortage
• Growing demand for detailing: how the increase in the value of used cars affects the service market
• Implementation of PDR in auto studios as a new opportunity for profit growth

10.30 – 15.00
Conference: Service of Corporate fleets 2025
Partner: AA "Autostat"

Round table with representatives of corporate fleets, distributors and manufacturers of cars, services.

Key topics:

The service station market in Russia. Key issues of the service station business and today's trends:

• How to service corporate fleet vehicles today? A fleet's view: tasks-problems-solutions-needs.
• How to service corporate fleet vehicles today? A service center's view (independent service stations/official DC) - needs-tasks-solutions-problems.
• Where and how are fleets serviced - cars, LCVs, trucks?
• How do operating leasing companies and corporate fleet management aggregators service their client fleets? Where is it better, more convenient? Why?
• Service of a fleet of different brands and service of Chinese cars. What are the difficulties and what are the solutions?
• New products for corporate fleet services.
• After-sales service of Chinese brands. What after-sales support programs do Chinese automakers offer? What is their content? How do they work? What do corporate fleets think about this?
• Repair after an accident - how do insurance companies help customers? What do they face? What are the solutions?
• Spare parts - availability, speed of receipt, quality, accessibility, compatibility, ease of ordering and receiving, price.
• What solutions do spare parts suppliers offer for corporate users?
• Digital solutions for repair and maintenance of corporate fleets.

10:30 – 12:15
Panel Discussion: Auto parts market 2025: current situation and future of procurement alliances

Partner: Nexus Automotive
Moderator: Alexey Suslov, development director, Nexus Automotive

Key topics:

• The range and quality in the modern market
• Adaptation of brands: what has changed in the product range and what to work with in the modern service stations
• Principles of forming an effective assortment of auto service retail in the new conditions
• How to increase demand for goods of a particular brand?

12.30 – 14.00
Club of auto service leaders SMART

Partner: SMART
Moderator: Pavel Klyukin, Head of SMART Center

Key topics:

• The range and quality in the modern market
• Adaptation of brands: what has changed in the product range and what to work with in the modern service stations
• Principles of forming an effective assortment of auto service retail in the new conditions
• How to increase demand for goods of a particular brand?

14.00 – 15.00
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.