AAPEX 2024 will offer free training and insights on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) to ensure automotive aftermarket professionals excel at ADAS repairs and benefit from one of the largest emerging aftermarket opportunities.

The daily training will take place on the new ADAS Stage, located in Joe’s Garage, Booth 7642, Level 1, The Venetian Expo. 

Training sessions will include: 

• The Value of Lighting in ADAS
• Brand IRB Automotive
• Vision Positioning – How it’s Changed ADAS Calibration
• How to Profitably Bill and Perform ADAS
• The People Have Spoken, and They Love ADAS
• ADAS – Keeping It Moving In The Right Direction
• ADAS Calibrations – Unmatched Opportunities!

See below for the Opening Day ADAS Schedule

Sessions will be presented by exhibiting companies Autel.US Inc. (Booth A1432, Bay 8, J8215), Bosch (Booth A4409 & Bay 2), Hunter Engineering Company

(Booth J8029 & Bay 3), IRB Automotive (Booth J10215), Repairify (Bay 5), Standard Motor Products, Inc. (Booth A4226) and Valeo North America, Inc. (Booth A1642).

To learn more about training opportunities and view a daily Schedule of Events, visit the ADAS Stage. 

Here’s a sample of the ADAS sessions being schedule for Tuesday, Nov. 5, the first day of AAPEX:

10:00 am – 10:30 am

The Value of Lighting in ADAS
Valeo
Andrew Peckham, Techcare Manager and Technical Trainer

This presentation will be an overview of the ADAS systems produced by Valeo and how they are interconnected. It will then briefly describe how the systems work together. Lastly, it will show the impportance of lighting in ADAS technology that is incorporated into Valeo lights and supported by Valeo lights. 

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10:45 am – 11:15 am

Brand IRB Automotive
IRB Automotive
Caio Venceslau – CEO – IRB Automotive

We will present about the brand, about the products. We are a company that has been in the market for 25 years. We provide aftermarket products for cars and are expanding into the United States. We carry out various commercial and social actions. Our objective is to train mechanics, work hard on sales and serve 100% of the fleet with products developed and manufactured with quality and safety for the consumer.

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11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Vision Positioning – How it’s Changed ADAS Calibration
Bosch
Scott McKinney, Senior Product Manager – Bosch

Learn how Bosch has revolutionized ADAS recalibration using innovative vision positioning allowing for a quicker and easier calibration set up.

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12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

How to Profitably Bill and Perform ADAS
Autel
Stewart Peregrine – Sr. Executive of Sales ADAS | Autel North America

Learn how to bill and charge for ADAS calibrations to either customers or insurance companies. See how to maximize a regular bay to perform ADAS calibrations. Identify when and why ADAS needs to be calibrated after a repair.

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2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

The People Have Spoken, and They Love ADAS
Hunter Engineering Company
Justin Allen, Regional Field Trainer, Hunter Engineering Company

ADAS technology is being embraced as quickly as the new car models can roll off the delivery trucks. People didn’t realize how much they would love it, nor how quickly they would become dependent upon it. Is your shop emotionally prepared, and logistically equipped to handle the needs of this automotive industry revolution? 

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2:45 pm – 3:15 pm

ADAS – Keeping It Moving In The Right Direction
Standard Motor Products
Ryan Kooiman, Director of Training, Standard Motor Products

As an overall goal of improving highway safety, a key feature of ADAS is keeping a vehicle moving on it’s intended pathway. When an objecvt interferes with that pathway, modern ADAS equipped vehicles will react to avoid the object and keep the vehicle moving in the right direction. Attend this session to learn about how sensor fusion is utilized to accomplish this task, and how cameras, steering angle, yaw rate, and wheel speed sensors, along with ABS actuators are used together to keep the motoring public safe.

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3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

ADAS Calibrations – Unmatched Opportunities!
Repairify
Ben Johnson, VP General Repair Markets, Repairify

We will discuss ADAS fitment trends and trends of shops doing ADAS calibrations. We will also discuss the liability of putting a vehicle on the road without ADAS being properly calibrated, and that many “non-ADAS” – related maintenance and repair also require ADAS calibrations. Finally, we will discuss how asTech’s remote access to OEM tools and service information drive confidence in accurate ADAS calibrations and open new opportunities for shops.

AAPEX 2024 will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5 through Thursday, Nov. 7, at The Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. To sign up, visit Attendee Registration. 

About AAPEX
AAPEX unites the more than $2.3 trillion global automotive aftermarket industry and historically draws approximately 2,500 exhibiting companies from around the globe that display innovative products, services and technologies that keep the world’s 1.6 billion vehicles on the road. AAPEX provides advanced technical and business management training for professionals to maintain excellence and take their businesses to the next level. Industry buyers include automotive service and repair professionals, auto parts retailers, independent warehouse distributors, program groups, service chains, automotive dealers, fleet buyers and engine builders. 

AAPEX was recognized by Trade Show Executive (TSE) as one of 50 fastest-growing trade shows that took place in the United States in 2023, marking the second consecutive year for the event to earn its place on TSE’s Fastest 50 Class. 

AAPEX is a trade-only event and closed to the general public.