Watch on demand: Automotive Logistics’ livestream, ”Leading automotive logistics through 2025: Key turning points and trends”, to hear from industry thought leaders and gain actionable insights on overcoming today’s toughest automotive supply chain challenges. Discover strategies to stay ahead of disruption and lead the way toward more profitable operations.
This livestream explores three critical pillars of supply chain success:
1. Managing unpredictability and complexity
2. Cost reduction strategies and managing pressures
3. Building supply chain resilience
Who should watch?
This livestream is tailored for decision-makers in the automotive supply chain, including executives, directors and managers from OEMs and tier-one suppliers. Whether you’re focused on procurement, logistics or supply chain planning, this session will provide valuable insights to enhance your strategy.
Gerardo de la Torre is an experienced automotive supply chain executive with extensive experience leading Nissan’s regional and global supply chain and manufacturing operations. He is currently responsible for leading supply chain improvements, innovation and digitalisation across supply chain management functions in North America and, since January 2025, South America, including the carmaker’s digital action plan. De la Torre recently led Nissan Americas Semiconductor Supply Crisis Management Strategy enabling incremental production volume during the severe global supply crisis, receiving the 2021 Global Nissan President Special Award in recognition of his leadership and his teams’ contribution. Since joining Nissan in 1989 he has successfully implemented global innovations, improvements and strategies across new model launches in Mexico, Brazil and USA, dealer and manufacturing order-to-delivery and vehicle allocation in the Americas markets, and global sales planning and car flow management in Japan. In 2015 Gerardo also received the Global Nissan-Renault Alliance SCM Innovation award in Paris.
Mathias Schmidt is the founder of Schmidt Automotive Research, a European automotive industry market consultancy and publishing company. Delivering exclusive incisive trends and developments in the global automotive industry to the industry and stakeholders with two decades’ worth of experience. Research focuses primarily on the heterogeneous nature of the West European electric car market and the current and future market developments up to 2030. A wide-ranging customer client list includes auto executives, product planners, shipping and energy companies as well as investment bank auto-analysts.
Christopher Ludwig is chief content officer at UK-based Ultima Media, part of SWMH, where he is responsible for all editorial and content strategy and delivery across B2B automotive titles including Automotive Manufacturing Solutions (AMS), Car Design News (CDN), Automotive Logistics as well as business intelligence and analysis. Ludwig is responsible for developing leading information and growing expert audiences across events and publications for dedicated expert groups especially in the automotive industry, and is a frequent host and speaker at global industry events. He also supports and collaborates with the editorial teams across the Cluster Industry, Automotive and Events at SWMH, including Automobil Produktion. Christopher Ludwig has 20 years’ experience in journalism and media and has been covering the automotive industry since 2007. He has a Master of Science in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics.
Daniel Harrison has over 15 years of experience as a market analyst, economist, writer, and industry commentator. He has produced a wide range of insightful industry analysis including market reports, whitepapers, forecasts, databases, presentations and news commentary across a broad range of automotive issues including the automotive logistics market, electric vehicles, Gigafactories & the battery supply chain, production/sales forecasting, powertrain forecasting, CO2 regulation/targets, sustainability in supply chains, interior design trends & surveys, automotive manufacturing surveys, and finished vehicle logistics (FVL) surveys.
Automotive Logistics 2025 livestream series:
This livestream is just the beginning! Join us for a series of events throughout 2025 that will uncover the latest trends and strategies to drive sustainable, resilient and profitable automotive supply chain operations.
Don’t miss our next livestream: Data: Silos, Security and Sovereignty on May 14, 2025 – explore the critical challenges and strategies for managing data in today’s complex supply chain landscape. Register now>>>
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Join Automotive Logistics’ livestream, Data: Silos, Security & Sovereignty, to learn how supply chain and technology leaders can work together to future-proof their data. With a mix of interviews and market intelligence, this livestream session will detail the steps organisations can take to manage their datasets effectively, ensure they are shared with trusted partners and can be utilised in real-time to provide actionable information.
Join Automotive Logistics’ livestream, Finished vehicle logistics: Mitigating complexity through innovation, to take the pulse of the finished vehicle supply chains in Europe and North America, as we address the critical trends and challenges shaping the industry. We’ll explore key aspects of vehicle logistics and service requirements—from capacity and infrastructure to technology and equipment—and delve into the strategies and game-changing innovations that are giving carmakers and service providers a competitive advantage in an ever-evolving landscape.
Join Automotive Logistics’ exclusive livestream, Building trust and partnerships to effectively digitize supply chains, to explore how organisations can foster a collaborative mindset to overcome industry silos and encourage open communication, break down barriers and establish the trust needed to share real-time data and critical insights, develop actionable strategies for creating long-term partnerships that drive digital transformation and unlock the benefits of real-time collaboration and data exchange to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
