{"id":3486,"date":"2016-05-27T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2016-05-27T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:27:09","slug":"vra-annual-conference-2016-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/vra-annual-conference-2016-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"VRA Annual Conference 2016 \u2013 Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 19<sup>th<\/sup> May, over 150 delegates descended on this year\u2019s VRA Conference \u2013 An Industry You Can Bank On \u2013 at Cranmore Park, Solihull. With great keynote speakers supported by expert panellists, delegates enjoyed a day of insightful commentary, meaningful debate and highly topical discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by TV broadcaster and motoring journalist Ginny Buckley, notable subjects included the contentious but increasingly relevant EU referendum and its potential impact on the automotive industry, the challenges of the constantly evolving remarketing environment, the changing influence of the consumer on supply chain, and a fascinating look into future technology.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent panel sessions provided delegates with the opportunity to pose challenging questions to key industry experts, and leading industry suppliers were also present to showcase their latest propositions for delegates to discover.<\/p>\n<p>The VRA would like to thank the speakers, Debapratim De \u2013 Deloitte, Tim Hudson \u2013 Manheim, Mark Squires \u2013 NFDA, Lynne Goulding \u2013 Arup and all our panellists for their invaluable contributions. Further to that, we\u2019d like to thank our event sponsors Manheim and the BCA, the exhibitors and all those who attended \u2013 we look forward to welcoming you again next year.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not already done so, we would be grateful if you complete the post-event survey featured on your Conference App (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vraconf16.com\">www.vraconf16.com<\/a>). Your feedback is highly valuable and will help us to further improve the conference in years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 19th May, over 150 delegates descended on this <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/vra-annual-conference-2016-wrap\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,85],"tags":[84,424],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-vra-news","tag-vra","tag-vra-annual-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}