AAAA Chairman says the Board is set to conduct a full review with a view of making Autocare even better in the future

Every aspect of the Autocare event will come under inspection by the AAAA Board following the successful staging of the conference at Brisbane last month.
That’s the word from AAAA Chairman Wayne Bryant – he declared Autocare 2025 a huge accomplishment, but said as part of a thorough review process – which he said is normal practice – it will be scrutinised with potential improvements identified.
“I think that Stuart (Charity) and Lesley (Yates) and the entire AAAA team have done a lot of work,” Wayne said.
“They’ve been working on this for the best part of two years since the last event; thinking about how they create value for the exhibitors; get the right speaker line up; how we attract technicians, business owners, and bring them all together to collaborate and think about how we evolve and adapt to the future.
“And when you come to events like this, you see it all unfold in real life right in front of you. I think it was a great, great event; well attended and well supported.”
Wayne believes it is important that the Conference has a point of difference from the AAA Expo, which is held every second year in Melbourne.
“We need to make sure that we have a nuance between this event and the Expos so that there’s slightly different propositions there, but I think the balance is about right and we’ll post-critique,” Wayne said.
“We’ll talk to our exhibitors and our speakers and we’ll think about what it needs to look like in two years from now.”
He indicated that while the free trade stand floor at Autocare was important for the event, it is paramount that it does not overshadow the Expo.
“I do think they need to be just treated carefully and they need to be a little bit unique, but again the most important part of all of that is to listen to and respond to the needs of the participants,” Wayne said.
“So, we’ll need to continue to be mindful of that and get feedback and adapt accordingly.”
Wayne refused to rule out a change of city in future for Autocare.
“I don’t think any specific city is off the agenda but we did find that the Conference was well supported by the Queensland market, and we’ve even had participants from interstate who have responded well to the Brisbane event,” Wayne said.
“We’ll need to think about it for the future as to where the next one’s held, but so far it has served us really well and it has been a great alternative to the Melbourne based Expo that we have every other year.”