Toronto, Ontario — The Canadian Collision Industry Forum (CCIF) will be hosting its first virtual event this October, featuring a host of helpful sessions in both French and English.
The virtual event will be held on Wednesday, October 7 and Thursday, October 8, with conference sessions commencing at 1 p.m. EST each day.
Event speakers include Charles Aubry, account manager at Progi, who will deliver a discussion to help shops establish capacity plans and improve performance; Dave Flockhart, BETAG Innovation’s chief operating officer, who will focus on how the industry can return to prosperity; Fadi Smaidi, CEO/founder of SkillsTrader, who will talk tips for finding top talent for your trade; and Kathryn Peterson, professional business trainer and speaker, who plans to get into the details of dealing with difficult colleagues.
This session will host a bilingual workshop with Patrick Piché and Tim White of AkzoNobel, where the pair will focus on working with WIP, limits to avoid bottlenecks in the bodyshop and variables for improving production flow.
According to CCIF’s event website, key objectives of this workshop will be to identify the variables faced by bodyshops today, gaining control of these variables, how to improve information flow and how to track results.
The French workshop scheduled for Wednesday, October 7 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. and the English equivalent slated for Thursday, October 8 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
In addition to the host of virtual sessions, this event will showcase CCIF’s new virtual platform, which will allow attendees to network in virtual spaces via text, audio and video chat; ask questions to speakers and sponsors and attend conferences and workshops from the comfort of their own homes.
Register for this virtual event before September 4 to qualify for the $159 early bird registration price. As of September 5, the registration fee will increase to $179. Registration will close on October 4.
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