This interview will explore how Tracy's personal excellence, authenticity, and passion fuel collaborative leadership and business results. Through her career journey, we’ll discuss motivating teams, leading through change, and creating inspired products by bringing out the best in people.

Analog Devices’ Yasmine King and Shalini Palmer share how partnership, beyond transactions, powers trusted mobility. As two women CVPs leading a unified automotive strategy, they explore how standards-based ecosystems unlock industry-wide scale, while reflecting on leadership journeys shaped by trust, collaboration, and relationships.

Join leading industry voices as they discuss what defines effective leadership in today’s fast-evolving automotive landscape, new technology demands and the shift in talent skills required. This panel explores how to align organizational demands while fostering individual growth and team success.

Changing frontline behavior at scale takes more than communication—it takes visibility, accountability, and engaged frontline workers. In this main-stage panel, leaders from Dana and BorgWarner share how digital connection and real-time workforce data helped shift expectations, empower managers and deliver measurable results.

Attendees will gain practical insights on enabling frontline leaders, reinforcing behavior change, and linking engagement directly to productivity and retention.

Automotive has always been powered by community, from dealers to owner clubs, motorsports enthusiasts, and digital spaces. This session will explore how brands can build deeper loyalty by listening to the communities around them, showing up in ways that add value, and using social media as a lens into what people care about, question, celebrate, and share. The discussion will offer a practical look at how automotive brands can build trust through the people, places, and conversations that shape brand connection.

Participate in a dynamic networking activity designed to connect you with attendees who have shared interests and goals - making every lunch table a hub for meaningful conversation.

Discover how Iron Dames is creating a global platform for women in a male-dominated world through elite motorsport. As the only all-female team competing in the SRO GT2 European Series, Laura van den Hengel shares how performance, resilience, and ambition are pioneering opportunities for women to compete, succeed, and win against men.

Chris Garramone, General Manager – Purchasing Supplier Development, Toyota Manufacturing North America, and Alisha Bellezza, PPG Senior Vice President, Automotive Coatings, discuss how leaders can enable people to perform amid rapid industry and technology transformation—creating safe learning environments, engaging leaders through large organizations and building cultures that turn disruption into lasting capability

A highly interactive open floor session, closing the day bringing the room together for an honest, energetic discussion, shaped entirely by the audience. The panellists will take questions live, offering candid, on-the-spot perspectives from a diverse group of industry experts.

As part of the Women Automotive Summit, all our in-person attendees and sponsors are invited to the AutoTech Awards & joint networking. The Women Automotive Network will present the ''Woman Automotive Leader of the Year" & "People & Culture Excellence" awards.

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