Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week '19 (HDAW 2019) conference organizers have announced "Connecting to the Future" as the theme for the annual conference to be held Jan. 28-31, 2019 at the Mirage in Las Vegas. The HDAW theme is used to drive the highly-anticipated education session topics and speakers.

 "We looked at our industry's primary challenges, from both the supplier and distributor angles, and will focus the education program on bridging concerns to solutions," said Brett Penzkofer, Vice President, North America Aftermarket for Meritor.

"In 2019, HDAW is going to focus on customers, employees, products, and technologies, and the issues that keep us up at night," said Ian Johnston, VP Operations & Marketing for Harman HVS. "We want to identify and confront business pain points with resolutions that we can actually use."

HDAW 2019 will offer industry participants four days of a highly-targeted distributor education program, including a world-class product expo with the latest and greatest in HD parts-services and information, peer networking, social activities, and the extremely valuable one-on-one meetings during which suppliers and distributors spend time discussing opportunities for growth in their relationships to serve end-user customers better.

The 14th annual HDAW will be held Jan. 28-31, 2019, at The Mirage in Las Vegas. HDAW is the largest North American gathering of the independent heavy-duty aftermarket industry. More than 2,500 executives and managers from the U.S., Canada and six other countries - including distributors, suppliers, service providers, educators and industry media - attended the 2018 conference in Las Vegas.

HDAW is a business-to-business, executive conference presented by a joint operating committee of industry leaders from 12 distinguished industry associations: American Council of Frame and Alignment Specialists (ACOFAS), Association of Diesel Specialists (ADS), Auto Care Association/ HDDA, Commercial Vehicle Solutions Network (CVSN), HDA-Truck Pride, Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association (HDMA), APRA's Heavy Duty Remanufacturing Group (HDRG), International Truck Parts Association (ITPA), Overseas Automotive Council (OAC), Power Heavy Duty, Service Specialists Association (SSA), and VIPAR Heavy Duty.

For more information, go to www.hdaw.org, contact W.T. Glasgow, conference management, at 708.226.1300.