From Variant and Platform Managers to System Architects, Data Scientists or Engineering Managers – whatever hat you wear or wherever you stand on the spectrum of complexity and variant management in the automotive ecosystem, the conference has something of interest for you. Join more than 150 key decision-makers and thought leaders on complexity and variant management in the automotive industry in Berlin!
Join us at the
Smart Automotive Variant.CON!
Master Product Complexity in the Automotive Industry
Smart Automotive Variant.CON fuels you with new ideas, connections and inspiration
What can you
expect as an Attendee
at Smart Automotive
Variant.CON
Community
The Smart Automotive Variant.CON is Europe’s leading event on complexity and variant management for the automotive industry. Speakers from all over the globe give insights into their approaches and processes, present the tools and methods they use, and discuss the strategies that will allow the automotive industry to manage the challenges of the autonomous future!
Attendees
150+ senior level executives and leading professionals discuss the most pressing challenges and solutions, technologies, trends and best practice innovations in complexity and variant management, and how they can support OEMs and T1s in dealing with the profound changes affecting the automotive industry.
Speakers & Moderators
35+ industry leaders share experiences, forecast trends & technologies, present their latest research & solutions, evaluate best-in-class projects and explain development in recent projects.
Multi-Touchpoint Networking Concept
Multiple opportunities in 30+ hours of networking. You are invited to meet and greet with those hard-to-meet executives in a relaxed and social setting. Take part in our unique networking approach.
Sessions
30+ innovative and interactive sessions ensure that all key topics are covered.
Format
2 Icebreaker round tables, 5 World Café sessions, and more than 20 case studies and Keynotes fill 2,5 days of the latest innovations, technologies and research in this field.
Join over 150 of the most influential experts from the automotive industry! Here is a snapshot of our past attendees:
What can you
expect as a
Solution Provider?
Commercial focus
With over 60% of the attendees joining us from OEMs and Tier 1s, this is the most important and commercially focused complexity and variant management event in the automotive industry.
Comprehensive Program
The Smart Automotive Variant.CON agenda covers all aspects, challenges & insights into complexity and variant management & the changes that lie ahead of the automotive industry.
Partnering
Partnerships for OEMs, Tier 1s and suppliers! With its unique Multi-Touchpoint Concept, the Smart Automotive Variant.CON provides the platform for key decision-makers in complexity and variant management in the automotive industry to look for business, deals and partnerships that will allow them to stay abreast of innovation, technology, and change.
Scale
With over 150 attendees and 35 speakers, this is the most interactive and in-depth complexity and variant management event for the automotive industry in Europe!
Leading solution providers
As an industry-driven conference, the Smart Automotive Variant.CON focuses on bringing only solution providers with a very innovative or relevant approach to complexity and variant management.
Our Multi-Touchpoint Networking Concept
The most effective and most informal networking hub to reach a maximum of ROI ‒ personal dialogue, direct exchange and numerous opportunities to get meetings with top executives!
KEYNOTE
Top spakers, trendsetters, evangelists and experts in the field share their personal experience.
WORLD CAFÉ
Be part of several thematic conversation rounds with changing topics and team constellations.
CHALLENGE YOUR PEERS
Parallel round table discussions offer the delegates the possibility to talk about their own challenges
CASE STUDY
Selected brand new case studies from the industry offering insights into strategic approaches, project planning and operative realization. Learn from the most successful practices and use these real business results for benchmarking with the competition.
ICEBREAKER
Round tables on the evening before the first conference day. The Icebreaker is a first informal networking.
EVENT APP
Our event app hubs help’s you to arrange meetings with people that matches your criteria. Have the agenda always at your fingertips and create your personal schedule. This and much more…
POLAROID WALL
Discover who else is participating in the Smart Automotive Variant.CON. Our unique Polaroid Picture Wall will help you identify who you want to meet at the conference.
SAY HELLO!
Get the show on the road. Discover who is joining the conference and why. To warm you up for the conference we invite you to get to know your conference peers. Have your business cards ready.
NETWORKING DINNER
Wind down, enjoy great food and drink in a relaxed atmosphere to absorb all the new stimulations from the day.
BREAKFAST CLUB
Start the conference with coffee and… NETWORKING! Join the we.CONECT Breakfast Club – an exclusive area in your hotel – and get into a conversation with other delegates already while having your first coffee.
TRAINING SESSION
An environment that allows participants to be guided through specific topics from experts in small groups.
LIVE TECH TAKE
Delegates and solution providers have the chance to actively participate in product and service demos on the expo floor.
What are the
10 reasons to
attend Smart
Automotive Variant.CON?
Discover
how to integrate complexity in an existing or new product to establish product development processes for platforms.
Explore
the main requirements for platform structure needed to manage the balance between a global product platform and localized products.
Learn
from key industry players how to modularize existing products into building blocks for product platforms.
Discuss
and define central processes, methods and requirements for tools based variant analysis and complexity forecast.
Understand
how to establish the right measurements of success of a product platform.
Get insights
into configuration lifecycle management: From design to delivered and serviced vehicles.
Team up
with industry leaders and discuss the impact of agile development on variant management.
Explore
how product configuration on the Internet of Things works and how are we to handle that?
Discover
modularization models and frameworks for successful product-service-systems engineering.
Debate
how model based system engineering methods help to control complexity.
Audience Profile
Geographic Split
Industry Split
Job Functions
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