Scott Painter, the founding father of CarsDirect, TrueCar, Honest, and Autonomy will ship the keynote handle on the 2023 Worldwide Automobile Rental Present (ICRS), convening April 16-18 at Paris Las Vegas.

For the keynote session, titled “From Possession to Usership – How Automobile Rental Can Thrive within the New Mobility Panorama,” Painter will have interaction with Chris Brown, government editor of Auto Rental Information and convention chair, in a hearth chat after which take viewers questions.

A “serial entrepreneur,” Painter has integrated 38 firms with a main focus in auto retail, auto finance, and insurtech.

Painter based CarsDirect (now Web Manufacturers), the primary firm to place an upfront worth for a automotive on the web, and automotive shopping for service; TrueCar, a NASDAQ-traded automotive shopping for web site for brand spanking new and used automotive consumers and sellers that ushered in transparency in auto retail, in addition to used subscription startup Honest which pioneered the Automobile-as-a-Service mannequin. His newest startup, Autonomy, is an EV-only subscription service that’s on a mission to make entry to EVs simpler and extra reasonably priced.

Painter is a member of the World Financial Discussion board and has spoken at its Davos convention. He was additionally a founding member of Richard Branson’s Carbon Battle Room and was an early advisor at Tesla. He’s garnered quite a few expertise and entrepreneur of the yr awards and launched TrueCar Racing, an all-female racing group sponsored by Penske Media Company and Virgin Group.

“With the intense disruption of the previous few years, how we get round is altering quickly,” stated Chris Brown, government editor of Auto Rental Information and convention chair. “We’re delighted to have a giant thinker similar to Scott Painter take the stage at ICRS. His keynote will encourage attendees to check the larger image for his or her organizations’ success and the way forward for the automotive rental business.”

The ICRS yearly gathers business professionals from North America and over 30 nations. The opening keynote will happen on April 17 at 11am. Registration is open now.