HAPPENING SOON Don't Miss Out! Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit (Oct 19-21)

Seven Summit Speakers Put AI Warranty Use Cases To The Test

AI warranty use cases at the 2026 Summit, led by Lance LaCoe of CARS Protection Plus alongside six industry speakers.

Lance LaCoe, President & CEO of CARS Protection Plus, is bringing a live claims-operation case study to Detroit. For leaders evaluating AI warranty use cases, it is an opportunity to examine how a business is applying the technology to the decisions its claims teams make every day. LaCoe and Ted Danner, Senior Director Warranty & […]

Meet the Leaders Shaping Aftersales, Aftercare & Warranty

Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit graphic encouraging teams to review the agenda together, compare notes and agree on one improvement.

Meet the Leaders Shaping Aftersales, Aftercare & Warranty With 36 speakers already announced and more speaker reveals still to come, MAPconnected’s 6th annual Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit is building toward a 50-speaker program. At MAPconnected’s 6th annual Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit, October 19–21 at The Westin Southfield Detroit, warranty, quality, technical assistance, field […]

Parts Return and Quality Analysis Meetup 3

Six questions for parts return leaders covering field context, conflicting evidence, escalation, corrective action, decision speed and AI-supported human judgment.

When “No Trouble Found” Is Not The End Of The Parts Return Story Parts return analysis can end with three words: “no trouble found.” On the bench, the component behaves as expected. In the field, the story may be less tidy. A customer has returned. Technician notes describe an intermittent condition. Repair history points to […]

The Summit Conversation Expands: Meet 6 More Industry Leaders

Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit speakers James Nardini, Kristin Kolodge, Jose Clemente, Paul Whitworth, Tim Kellogg and Victor Garcia

The Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit speakers continue to expand the range of operating perspectives coming together in Detroit. MAPconnected is pleased to introduce 6 more leaders joining the 6th annual Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit, taking place October 19–21 at The Westin Southfield Detroit. This group connects OEM warranty operations, customer and product research, […]

TAC Metrics: Moving Beyond Call Center Numbers to Measure What Really Matters

TAC metrics benchmarking for Technical Assistance Centers

TAC metrics must measure more than call volume, response times and cases closed. The third meetup of the MAPconnected Technical Assistance Centers (TAC) Leadership Xchange Group brought OEM leaders back together around a more consequential question: How do we measure whether a TAC is truly successful? A Technical Assistance Center is not simply processing contacts. […]

6 More Summit Speakers Connect Warranty Strategy, Data and Operations

6 more speakers announced for the MAPconnected Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit in Detroit October 19–21.

Summit speakers do more than fill an agenda. The strongest lineups bring together people who see different parts of the same operating system and can help an audience understand where decisions connect. MAPconnected is pleased to introduce 6 more voices joining the 6th annual Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit, taking place October 19–21 at the […]

6 New Voices Strengthen the 2026 Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit

Six new 2026 Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit speakers

What the New 2026 Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit Speakers Bring to the Conversation The 2026 Service & Warranty Lifecycle Summit continues to grow with six additional leaders joining the speaker community. Their experience spans customer service, consumer technology policy, warranty management, data intelligence and AI, financial products, program design and warranty performance. Taking place […]