Lucian has been involved in the refinish paint industry for 26 years. His career in the industry started as a paint laboratory technician. This role was followed up by involvement in technical support, training and various sales positions throughout Africa. Lucian is currently the National Sales leader at Axalta Coating Systems South Africa. To see [...]

Tom Avon is currently responsible for repair performance and strategy for Admiral Group UK, the largest private motor insurer. Coming from a background in engineering and design, his experience in smart factory process control and large scale projects is something that’s brought into financial services. At Admiral, Tom has developed a track record in supplier [...]

Robert has extensive 360 degree collision industry experience in apprentice, technician, management, director and business owner level roles in both blue chip corporate and private companies, during which time he has supplied, grown, invested in, acquired and transformed bodyshops. Robert’s three-year term in multi-brand distribution includes opening new branches and doubling the geographic footprint of [...]

Jason is the IBIS CEO. His vision and mission are to grow the IBIS brand globally and continue to expand IBIS as the leading thought-leadership organisation for the worldwide collision repair market. He also takes a very active role in many of the IBIS conferences as conference director. Previously, Jason was a board director at [...]

Dr Stefano Longo has an MSc and PhD in automation, and over 10 years of experience in automotive controls research. He’s currently the head of automotive at the Swiss software company Embotech, where he leads a team of developers to create optimal and certifiable motion planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. He also holds a senior [...]