The Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA) has announced the speakers for its annual seminar, which will look at ‘2023: The Year Ahead in Remarketing’.

Registration for the VRA annual seminar is available here and the meeting will also be accessible online

The free-to-attend event will take place on Tuesday 22nd November at The Slate, Warwick University, and will include speakers from the Bank of England, Birmingham Business School, Cap HPI, Auto Trader, Arval and Loughborough University.

Presentations will include Graeme Chaplin, agent, West Midlands and Oxfordshire, at the Bank of England, who will explore the general economic outlook for 2023.

David Bailey, professor of business economics at Birmingham Business School, will provide a general overview of the automotive sector, while Jim Saker, professor emeritus at Loughborough University, will examine the changing automotive retail landscape.

Dylan Setterfield, head of forecast strategy at Cap HPI, will speak on the used car market in 2023 and Jen Wilson, performance director and Louis Maxwell, EV insight manager, both of Auto Trader, will examine the coming explosion in used EVs.

Finally, Stuart Chamberlain, head of B2B and partnerships (remarketing) at Arval, will look at the practicalities of large-scale, used EV disposal.

The event open to anyone who works within the motor industry and has an interest in remarketing. Registration is available here and the meeting will also be accessible online.

Philip Nothard, chair at the VRA, said: “Our Seminar is one of the high points of the motor industry calendar, attracting close to 200 delegates, and we are very pleased to be able to hold the event for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

“The speakers we have been able to name so far are of a very high quality and we are sure will provide a high level of insight into what 2023 holds for the remarketing sector. We plan to announce more – and our event sponsors – very soon.”