IBIS Global Summit 2026 – Partners

Axalta is a global leader in the coatings industry, providing customers with innovative, colorful, beautiful, and sustainable coatings solutions. From light vehicles, commercial vehicles and refinish applications to electric motors, building facades and other industrial applications, our coatings are designed to prevent corrosion, increase productivity, and enhance durability. With more than 150 years of experience in the coatings industry, the global team at Axalta continues to find ways to serve our more than 100,000 customers in over 140 countries better every day with the finest coatings, application systems and technology.

Repairify is a global market leader in automotive diagnostics, calibration, and programming solutions, transforming how the automotive industry manages vehicle repairs. We deliver innovative tools and services that support automotive repair and service providers worldwide, meeting the growing demand for advanced vehicle diagnostic technology.

Our unified, technology-driven ecosystem bridges the gap between traditional repair methods and the sophisticated, data-intensive requirements of today’s vehicles. By combining patented technology and authentic OEM tools with the support of certified technicians, we ensure every repair is accurate, compliant, and efficient. By integrating high-precision diagnostic hardware, intuitive software, and expert-led remote services, Repairify enables workshops to standardise their repair processes and return vehicles to the road safely. We are committed to the future of automotive service, providing the tools and intelligence that empower repair professionals to thrive in an evolving industry.

Your trusted partner, serving the industry around the world

Collision repair facilities and professionals around the world have grown up with 3M, we’re a proven partner, and we’re here for the long haul. Our products, technologies, and expertise help shops operate more profitably each day, which is critical when shops are pressed to find value in places they never knew to look.

3M continuously evolves our focus to understand the greatest challenges, needs and opportunities you are facing. We understand that your business requires innovative solutions to help boost efficiencies, maximize profitability and help ensure vehicles are repaired back to OEM standard.

Your needs are our priority.

3M is pioneering the era of connected body shops to help ensure that all vehicles are repaired to the OEM specifications. This also drives our focus in proper repair procedures and training current and future technicians – which is core to how 3M engages with the industry. At 3M, we are advancing our digital engagement not only at the end customer, but in how our product information is served through portals, syndication feeds, and increasing training options both on-line, virtual, and in-person. 3M continues to invest in the training needs of current shops and expanding for the body shop of the future.

Our innovative products, our body shop solutions, and our focus on training help allow our industry to unlock more value from materials and become more efficient with labor. 3M is scaling up visibility and control of the shop environment in a relevant, differentiated, and innovative way.

Everything is connected, You are the starting point and 3M is ready to guide owners, managers, painters, and body shop technicians to help make you and your business successful.

For more information, visit the website at www.3Mcollision.com and follow us on social media at www.facebook.com/3MCollision, on Instagram @3MCollision, and on twitter @3M_Collision.

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing more sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together. For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com .

Sikkens Creating Together

For Sikkens, creating partnership goes beyond solving business challenges and developing new products. Creating together is a core value shared by the Sikkens team around the globe. Working hand-in-hand with our partners gives us a unique insight into the increasing demands and challenges they face. Backed by Sikkens and powered by AkzoNobel, our customers can deliver outstanding results with premium-quality products, creating a strong foundation for future growth and business sustainability.

BASF Coatings is a global expert in the development, production and marketing of innovative and sustainable automotive OEM and refinish coatings as well as applied surface treatments for metal, plastic and glass substrates in a wide range of industries. We create advanced performance solutions and drive performance, design and new applications to meet our partners’ needs all over the world. We share skills, knowledge and resources of interdisciplinary and global teams for the benefit of customers by operating a collaborative network of sites in Europe, South America, Middle East, Africa, North America and Asia Pacific. In 2025, our businesses achieved global sales of about €3.7 billion.

BASF Coatings – Driven by passion and science, we always go beyond the surface. For more information, visit www.basf-coatings.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

At Thatcham Research, we assess every vehicle on the road, cars and light commercial vehicles alike, rating them across safety, security, and sustainable repair through our world-leading Vehicle Risk Rating model spanning five critical risk pillars. Our ratings are built on rigorous research and independent analysis, enabling insurers to price risk confidently and make informed decisions.

We collaborate closely with insurers to track real-world claims patterns, with vehicle manufacturers on the sustainable implementation of emerging technologies and with repairers to anticipate evolving skill demands and collision repair complexities. This creates a vital feedback system for the automotive industry, one that drives vehicles toward being safer, more secure and more sustainable to repair.

Thatcham Research operates world-class facilities in the UK. Our HQ in Thatcham, Berkshire, is home to our security and crash testing facilities, Repair Technology Centre and training Academy. Our test-track at Gamston in Nottinghamshire is a bespoke, real-world Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) testing facility, enabling a wide range of regulatory and beyond the rule book tests to be conducted in a safe and repeatable manner.

Thatcham Research Automotive Risk Intelligence data powers more than 8 million insurance quotes every week. For more information, please visit www.thatcham.org