On June 16, dealer principals, executives, legal experts, and policymakers gathered in Washington, DC for the inaugural CBT News Auto Leadership Summit: Fair Pricing & Compliance. The consensus was clear: compliance has become a core operating discipline.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. The work continues — and so does the summit. Join the waitlist to be the first to know about our next event.
Highlights from a day of hard conversations, dealer principals, policymakers, and industry leaders in Washington.
A day of panels and a fireside on the hardest questions in dealership compliance. Read the full recap from each session below.
What the Bureau of Consumer Protection is signaling, where enforcement is heating up, and the operational changes dealers should make now.
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Three dealers on what changed in the store, in F&I, and in their marketing — and how they built transparent pricing into the operation.
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Online listing compliance, doc fee disclosure, and the “all-in pricing” standard — with live examples of what passes and what gets flagged.
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Building an FTC-ready dealership through training, reviews, and AI. How strong leadership and accountability create a compliant organization.
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Scott Painter on how upfront pricing and compliant digital merchandising are moving the needle on CSI, gross, and close rates.
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How AI-powered tools are reshaping pricing, deal structuring, and customer engagement — and where the compliance bar lives for automated conversations.
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Senator Bernie Moreno in conversation with Jim Fitzpatrick on FTC enforcement, dealer advocacy, and what's coming next.
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Paul Metrey (NADA) and Don Hall (VADA) on what the FTC really wants from dealers, where state policy is headed, and how dealer associations are shaping the conversation.
Read the recap →On-camera with the speakers, dealers, and policymakers in the room. New interviews drop weekly.
John Fitzpatrick | President & CEO, Force Marketing
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Devin Daly | Co-Founder & CEO, Impel
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Aaron Baldwin | CEO, automotiveMastermind
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Michael Affronti | Chief Business & Product Officer, DriveCentric
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Marco Schnabl | Founder, RockED
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Mike Gilson | CEO, Conversica
Watch the interview →An amazing event — everything was so well done. The coordination, the energy, and the conversations were all worth it. I cannot wait for future events.
Informative, enjoyable, and exactly the kind of conversation our industry needs in Washington every year. Given how quickly our business is changing, the topics here are only going to matter more.
I don’t usually fly home from a conference still mentally in the room. Sitting in the airport after the summit — notes scattered, phone full of screenshots — I couldn’t stop thinking about what I’d just heard.
We had incredible panel experts led by CBT News, and the conversation did not disappoint.
An important conversation focused on transparency, accountability, consumer trust, and the evolving regulatory environment dealers are navigating every day.
Thank you to our 2026 sponsors.
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