SUNDAY, August 7, 2022
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Bourbon Trail Experience
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Welcome Reception
MONDAY, August 8, 2022
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:45 am
Welcome Address
- Gil Van Over, Automotive Compliance Education
8:45 am – 9:30 am
Amazon-Proofing Your Dealership
Should brick-and-mortar dealers be afraid of online retailers? An industry expert makes the case that the online retailers should be afraid of traditional dealerships that adapt to their threat.
9:30 am – 10:15 am
Updated Safeguards Rule
The revised Safeguards Rule dramatically expands both dealerships’ obligations and their potential liability if they don’t effectively meet them. This session explains how.
- James Ganther Esq., Mosaic Compliance Services
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Networking Break
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Paperless Contracting
- Kyle Wilke, CDK Global
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Cutting Edge Strategies for Customer Retention & Lawsuit Prevention
Learn cutting edge strategies to retain your customers and reduce litigation costs. This highly rated training has been presented across the country to motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers.
- Harold Oehler, Attorney, Oehler Mediation
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Keynote Luncheon
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
BREAKOUTS
F&I: Menus: Sales Tool or Compliance Document?
- Menus have been an effective sales tool for a couple of decades. Over time, the tool has evolved to be both a sales tool and one of the most important compliance documents in a deal file. This session will focus on both sales processes and compliance documentation.
Sales: Desking Done Right
- Desking processes facilitate the vehicle sale and documents agreement. Learn how to avoid potential claims of discriminatory pricing or payment packing.
- Ron Reahard, Reahard & Associates
Compliance: Developing a CMS
A Compliance Management System is the method by which an automotive retailer manages the entire consumer compliance process. It includes the compliance program and the compliance audit function. Spend a little time with Gil Van Over to develop a game plan to implement a CMS in your dealership.
- Gil Van Over, Founder and President, gvo3 & Associates
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
BREAKOUTS
F&I: Documenting Federal Requirements
- Red Flags, OFAC, and Adverse Action Notices are three core Federal requirements that dealers must be able to document compliance with. Learn how to identify and properly clear potential Red Flags or OFAC hits and an efficient Adverse Action process.
Sales: Common Sense & Technology
- Identity theft is a fact of modern life, and dealerships are often caught up in the aftermath. Learn the techniques that can effectively spot identity thieves before you deliver a vehicle your dealership may wind up paying for.
Compliance: Humans do the Dumbest Things
- Data Security has never been more important for sustained success. The new Safeguards rule outlines multiple new requirements for a dealerships IT network. However, the biggest risk dealers face is still the humans they employ.
- Tyler Raquet, Mosaic Compliance Services
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Networking Break
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
BREAKOUTS
F&I and Sales: Gathering Intel: Interview or Conversation?
Compliance: Auditing Deals
- You have trained your Managers on the compliant processes to sell the vehicle and Voluntary Protection Products. A structured approach, either manually or digitally, to auditing output is necessary to ensure they are following your policies and procedures.
- Gil Van Over, Automotive Compliance Education
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
A Blockchain Approach to the Digital Road to the Sale
The COVID pandemic forced a change in the sales and F&I process at many dealerships, including Germain Toyota of Naples. General Manager Brian Kramer leveraged a blockchain approach to save time, maximize F&I profit, reduce chargebacks while protecting dealership assets through compliance. Hear his case study.
- Brian Kramer, Cars.com
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Opening Reception
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Dinner on the Town
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
7:30 am – 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am – 8:45 am
Morning Address
- Gil Van Over, Automotive Compliance Education
8:45 am – 9:30 am
Fair Credit & Fair Pricing
With a new Administration comes a renewed emphasis on documenting fairness in the F&I box. This session will show you how, and potentially speed up the F&I process as well.
- Terrence O’Loughlin, Reynolds & Reynolds
9:30 am – 10:15 am
BREAKOUTS
F&I and Sales: Compliant Credit Applications
Compliance: Network Security
- The greatest area of expanded obligations under the revised Safeguards Rule is in the realm of network security. Learn what multi-factor authentication, encryption, and penetration testing mean and how they’ll impact your dealership.
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Networking Break
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Pre-Loads & Product Sales
Pre-loading products can be an effective way to increase profits, but done wrong they can lead to liability. Learn how to maximize the upside of this technique while minimizing the risk.
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Overcoming Objections: 4 Steps to Addressing Customer Concerns
Resistance to financial services offerings is often pre-programmed in your customers’ minds. To effectively influence your customers’ actions, they must go through a period of self-discovery before deciding your offerings are a good decision. Attendees will walk away with a logical process aimed at reducing resistance and guiding customers to discover the benefits on their own, which motivates more of them to say “I’ll take it!”
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Luncheon Keynote: Consultative Selling
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
The Three Biggest Risks
As the current environment heats up, keeping your eye on the risk landscape will be key in 2022. Join Ryan Daly as he dives into how to navigate the 3 Biggest Risks facing your dealership today.
Ryan will cover:
- The new FTC/GLBA data security enhancements needed by dealers and how to prepare
- The increase in fraudulent vehicle purchases and how to prevent it
- Fair lending and fair credit compliance gotchas with a focus on product pricing markup disparity
Ryan Daly, District Manager, KPA
1:45pm – 2:30pm
Evidence That Helps
A Dealer Attorney will discuss the evidence he uses to fight these claims and provides a roadmap to help the attendee document this evidence.
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Networking Break
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Preventing Sexual Harassment Claims
Defending against accusations of sexual harassment is hard. Preventing them is easier. By employing policies, training, and resolution techniques a dealership can create an environment where instances of harassment are low in number.
- James Ganther, Mosaic Compliance Services
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
Stump the Professors
Open mic question and answer session with speakers gathered to answer audience questions.
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Evening Reception