AutoRent 2025 Was a Success!

AutoRent 2025 was a success!

On 1 April, the first AutoRent 2025 forum for the car-rental industry took place at the Lomonosov Cluster in Moscow. Those who have been reading my posts for a while will know that Arturs Zantmans and I put a great deal of effort into making sure everything ran at the highest possible level.

To be honest, the event exceeded even our boldest expectations. Attendance surpassed our forecasts, the calibre of the speakers was remarkable, and it is hard to do justice to either the range of topics covered or the depth of the discussions.

Naturally, we could not have organised a forum of this calibre on our own. Among those involved who are on LinkedIn, I would particularly like to mention:

• Kirill Kulikov, CIO of Haval, the forum’s principal partner. Haval brought several cars to the event, giving every participant the opportunity to test-drive them, ask questions and hear the answers first-hand.
• Maksim Koropchenko, Head of Marketing and Innovation, representing one of the major cybersecurity systems integrators. He helped us find one of our key speakers, an expert in personal data protection.

You might think that after an event of this scale we could finally take a breather, but that could not be further from the truth. The forum has generated a huge number of joint projects that we can pursue with our new partners in the near future. That is exactly what our entire team is working on now.

For the moment, I will share a short video from the event. I will save the rest of the details for a future post.

Thank you to everyone who helped organise the forum, and to everyone who took part!

P.S. The forum showed that there is enormous demand for events like this in the mobility sector. I am therefore certain that, although this was the first forum, it will be far from the last!