Tekion One 2026 is a wrap — and our community made it something we won't forget.

From June 15–17 at Resorts World Las Vegas, Tekion hosted its inaugural customer conference and automotive's premiere data and AI event. Sold out before the doors opened, Tekion One brought together more than 700+ dealer partners, operators, technology partners, and Tekionites for three days of learning, connection, and a front-row seat to what comes next for the industry. It also marked ten years of Tekion — a decade of building the platform that is redefining how dealerships operate.

Here’s a look at everything that happened during these three unforgettable days in Las Vegas.

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The Community

Tekion One kicked off Monday with registration, the Tekion Village, and the Partner Expo — followed by the Welcome Reception with the theme We Race as One. Tuesday night, after the biggest day of sessions, the community gathered for the Tekion Bash at AYU — an outdoor poolside celebration themed around a Decade of Innovation.

The peer-to-peer moments — the roundtables, the product demos, the connections made between sessions — were as valuable as anything that happened on stage.  

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The Main Stage

Across two days, eight general sessions delivered a standout experience, with full rooms, major announcements, and a caliber of speakers rarely seen at automotive industry events.

Jay Vijayan opened with a keynote introducing the AI-Native Dealership and unveiling four new AI innovations. Alex Rodriguez brought a different kind of energy — a conversation on leadership, reinvention, and building at the highest level in any arena. And former Tesla President Jon McNeill closed the day with The Algorithm — a proven five-step framework for scaling, simplifying, and accelerating any business.

On the final day, Jay was joined by 2026 NADA Chairman Rob Cochran and Mario Murgado, President and CEO of Murgado Automotive Group, for a state of the industry conversation grounded in real operator experience. Then Tekion CTO Binu Mathew sat down with Anthropic's Ash Alhashim for a discussion on responsible AI and what businesses should be doing right now.

The Big Announcements

The centerpiece of Jay's keynote was the unveiling of four new AI innovations as part of Tekion's Agentic AI Suite — all built on real dealership data.

T1 Pro — Tekion's unified AI interface and agent orchestration layer built directly into ARC. Surfaces what matters, recommends next steps, and helps teams move faster across the dealership.

Salesperson AI — Engages leads quickly with relevant responses on pricing, availability, and vehicle details, driving faster response times and more opportunities to convert.

F&I Manager AI — Catches missing documents, incomplete checklist items, and potential compliance issues before submission, reducing funding delays and improving deal consistency.

Accounts Payable AI — Automates invoice processing from capture to approval, delivering faster processing, greater visibility, and more efficient accounting operations.

Together, these innovations advance Tekion's vision for the AI-Native Dealership — where every process is connected, informed, and continuously improving.

Read the full press release.

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Spotlights, Breakouts, and Roundtables

Beyond the main stage, six learning tracks — Accounting, Service, Parts, Retail, CRM, and Executive — ran across both days with product overviews, hands-on workshops, and peer-led roundtables.

The Spotlight Series brought leading operators to the stage including Doug Eroh of Longo Toyota, Ryan Rohrman of Rohrman Automotive Group, executives from Ken Garff Automotive Group, and leaders from Asbury Automotive Group — sharing what real transformation looks like in practice.

The roundtables on the final morning were among the highest-rated sessions of the event. Dealers from across the country, in the same room, comparing notes on what is actually working.

Whether you attended and didn't get a chance to download the implementation guides at the end of a session, or you couldn't make it to Tekion One and want a look at what was covered—explore the session implementation guides here.

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The Awards

Tekion One closed with the inaugural Awards Ceremony — recognizing the dealer partners doing the work that makes this community worth building.

Consumer Excellence Award — Twin Pine Ford, Pennsylvania

The number one ranking for customer experience across Tekion's entire network — earned through the culture Gary Zimmerman and his team have built every single day.

Tekion Max Award — Ewing Subaru of Plano, Ewing Auto Group

Tekion's highest recognition for platform adoption and utilization. Ewing stands alone at the top of our entire network — a blueprint for what full commitment to an AI-native platform makes possible.

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The Themes That Defined the Week

Every session, every conversation, and every announcement pointed toward the same ideas.

AI-native is not AI-enhanced — the distinction is structural and it cannot be bolted on after the fact. Clean data is the prerequisite for everything. Operational discipline is a genuine competitive advantage. And the AI-Native Dealership is not a vision on a roadmap — it is already running.

What Comes Next

General session recordings will be available on demand in the coming weeks. Jay Vijayan and Binu Mathew have also launched a new technical blog series going deeper on what AI-Native actually means — the first post is live now.

Read: The AI-Native Dealership: Why Automotive Retail Now Runs on Agents.

And Tekion One 2027 is coming. If this inaugural year set the standard, the next one raises it.

To every dealer partner, speaker, sponsor, and Tekionite who made Tekion One 2026 possible — thank you. The automotive retail industry is changing faster than most playbooks can keep up. The dealers who were in Las Vegas this week just got a head start.

Watch the sessions on demand.