1Collision Summit 2023

Chicago, Illinois, June 8-9, 2023

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Leading Collision Industry Professionals

The 1Collision Summit 2023 is an exclusive two-day invite only event targeted specifically for collision repair executives and key managers. Presenting on the conference’s vital topics, our industry experts will provide a high level view of trends across the entire auto collision repair industry. Day one of the summit includes touring I-CAR’s new state of the art Chicago Technical Center where the I-CAR team will be presenting the latest and upcoming industry technologies. This is an extraordinary opportunity to network with your fellow 1Collision affiliate owners and staff while gaining insights and ideas on innovative approaches, technologies, and industry methodologies to thrive in 2023 and beyond.

Tickets for this event include meals, transportation to and from I-CAR, and all scheduled events. Capacity is limited to 70 attendees. The 1Collision Team is excited to spend two value packed days with you at the beautiful Marriott resort in Lincolnshire. For any locations interested in attending the 1Collision Summit, please note that the room block is now closed. Contact John Keller for assistance with securing your discounted room block rate with the Marriott Lincolnshire Hotel.

Mike Jones

Founder and president of Discover Leadership Training, a next level leadership development solutions company in Houston, Texas. Mr. Jones has inspired millions to Create a Better Version of Themselves™ by using his gifts and expertise to develop programs where he helps people realize their untapped potential.

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Mark Adler

Mark Adler

Mark, National Account Executive at PartsTrader, has been working at PartsTrader for 10 years focused on helping shops/MSOs increase gross profit on parts and improve the parts procurement processes. He’s been in the industry, including working with insurance carriers, for over 25 years.

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Dan Risley

Dan Risley

Dan is the Vice President of Quality Repair and Market Development for CCC Intelligent Solutions. He has spent the past 30 years working in the collision repair industry. He began working in a family owned and operated collision repair facility in Chicago, Illinois.

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Nicky Woerner OEC

Nicky Woerner

Nicky is currently responsible for the development of the sales strategy for the RepairLogic Repair Planning Platform in North America, with the goal of eliminating the endless complexity around vehicle repair. As Director, Collision Sales her duties include setting business strategy and defining implementation processes that focus on customer experience, growth, and profitability.

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Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter is currently the Manager of Business Support at the Certified Repair Network, an OEC Company. With a passion for consumer safety, Patrick spent years as a third-generation shop owner/manager at Porter’s Body Shop in Brookhaven, Miss.

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Caleb Spitler

As both a former award-winning athlete and award-winning business person, Caleb knows how to maximize productivity. What Caleb originally failed at was recharging. The success wasn’t sustainable and ultimately left him burnt out. After getting help from some of the top recovery experts in the world, personal experimentation, and an obsessive amount of research, Caleb now helps businesses and organizations throughout the country.

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Greg Peeters

Greg Peeters

Greg Peeters is the CEO of Car ADAS Solutions. As a highly motivated and results-driven automotive executive, Greg has extensive experience in strategic planning, business development, competitive market share expansion, and operations management. He has dedicated his career to the collision repair industry, specifically focused on vehicle safety systems.

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Tristina Egloff

Tristina has been with Enterprise Holdings for over 25 years. The first 23 years of her career were spent as a senior leader in the Colorado market providing technology and business solution strategies to a wide range of insurance, collision, and dealership partners to create new efficiencies and cost savings initiatives.

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Andi Dachel

Andi Dachel

Andi is a Director of Sales & Business Development at Entegral, a subsidiary of Enterprise Holdings. She has been with Enterprise for over 27 years, starting her career in the Minnesota Group and advancing to the EHI Global Headquarters in St Louis, Missouri.

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Frank Terlep

Frank Terlep

Frank is serial entrepreneur that recently sold his last company Auto Techcelerators to OPUS IVS, where he is now the Vice-President of Collision and ADAS Services. Frank started his automotive career as a student at SIU Automotive College in Carbondale, IL. During school he worked as a brake and alignment technician.

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Jeff Peevy

Jeff Peevy

Jeff Peevy has worked in the collision repair segment for over 40 years. For 33 of those years, he has either volunteered or been employed by non-profits or not-for-profits striving to improving the industry’s education and training programs and work to increase safe repairs for the families riding in the vehicles our industry repairs.

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Summit Day 1 at I-CAR - June 8th
7:45am - 8:45am Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am Transportation from Marriott to I-CAR
9:00am - 10:45am Introduction - Hosts and Guests, Tour
10:45am - 11:00am Networking Break
11:00am - 12:00pm Continued Tour
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm Greg Peeters - Car ADAS
1:45pm - 2:30pm Frank Terlep - OPUS IVS
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm – 3:30pm Brandon Eckenrode - CREF
3:30pm - 4:00pm Bus departs back to Marriot
4:00pm - 5:30pm Free Time
5:30pm – 6:00pm Reception
6:00pm - 7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Keynote Speaker

Caleb Spitler - Restio
Summit Day 2 at Lincolnshire Marriott Resort - June 9th
7:15am - 8:00am Breakfast
8:00am - 8:45am Opening Comments/Meet the Team/Sponsorship Introductions
8:45am - 9:30am Dan Risley - CCC
9:30am - 10:05am Mark Adler - PartsTrader
10:05am - 10:20am Networking Break
10:20am - 10:55am Patrick Porter - Assured Performance
10:55am - 11:25am Tristina Egloff and Andi Dachel - Entegral
11:25am - 11:55am Nicky Woerner - OPUS IVS
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Keynote Speaker

Mike Jones - Discover Leadership
2:00pm Closing/Depart

Presentations Featuring

Join leading Collision Industry Professionals for two days of highly valuable Industry information at the 2023 1Collision Summit in conjunction with I-CAR where you’ll discover powerful strategies for raising the bar with OE certification, diagnostics, analytics, the connected car, and insurer relationships as the industry evolves.

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A Day At I-CAR: A Look Inside The Chicago Technical Center

I-CAR, the Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair, marked the official opening of its new Chicago Technical Center (CTC) in August of 2022. “I-CAR’s mission is to deliver increasingly accessible, on-demand and relevant education, knowledge, services and solutions for the collision repair inter-industry, and our new technical center in metro Chicago serves as another beacon of progress and promise that will benefit all industry segments amid one of the most transformative eras of automotive innovation,” explained I-CAR CEO & President John Van Alstyne.

The new 48,000 sq-ft. facility expands on the expert foundational technical resources and programming footprint at I-CAR’s Appleton, WI Technical Center. “This investment in our industry’s technical infrastructure couldn’t have come at a more critical time, with accelerating repair complexity in areas not previously native to our industry, and we thank the countless individuals from throughout the industry who have provided untold hours of input to help guide us forward to this milestone,” said Van Alstyne. He further noted that 18 organizations have donated much of the tooling and equipment within the CTC, and “we are very appreciative of their support.”

Jeff Peevy, I-CAR Vice President, Technical Products, Programs and Services described the CTC as a “a purpose-built research and development facility” offering an intentional work-lab approach. “This enables I-CAR’s technical experts to vet and test collision repair methods, best practices and educational programming for emerging technologies as these continue to accelerate and become increasingly complex,” he said.

“The Technical Tsunami™ our industry is facing drives the need for relevant and timely solutions to support new competencies collision repair professionals must possess, and that is why, with the inter-industry’s support, I-CAR is doubling down on its commitment to expand our technical capabilities and capacities,” Peevy added.

With its expanded capabilities, I-CAR, working closely with the OEs, will be able to address new technologies with greater speed and proficiency, Peevy explained. “As technical advances show up on the horizon, we do not have the luxury of waiting to determine if it is going to become mainstream or not. We must go to it, learn it, and be able to educate the industry in a timely manner if needed.”

For more about I-CAR’s Technical Team and Resources, check out the Special Edition of I-CAR’s Collison Reporter magazine.