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AI or Bye | Beat the Regulators: Material Compliance & AI Automation

AI or Bye | Beat the Regulators: Material Compliance & AI Automation

AI or Bye. Act now, or explain the gap when the regulator comes asking.

The AI or Bye series, presented by Mimacom in partnership with the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S. (GACC South), brings together Mimacom experts and industry leaders for four sessions in 2026, built for business leaders who are done with hype and ready for results.

This second session looks at a challenge few manufacturing businesses have solved well: managing material compliance requirements without allowing the associated cost, bureaucracy, and risk to overwhelm the business. The session will explore how AI can help meet these legal obligations more efficiently, reducing administrative burden while strengthening compliance and keeping the business moving.

This isn't a European-only problem; any manufacturer building for or shipping into the EU market must comply with these frameworks, regardless of where its headquarters are located. Doubtless, similar requirements will hit the US market soon.

 

Key details

  • What: Beat the Regulators: Material Compliance & AI Automation
  • When: Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 11 AM to 12 PM (EDT)
  • Where: Virtual, via Zoom
  • Who: Tim Weinmann (VP, Mimacom USA Inc.), Fabian Kleiser (VP Technology, Mimacom), and Tunc Kip (automotive industry expert, guest speaker)

The session runs 45 to 50 minutes of content, followed by 10 to 15 minutes of Q&A.

 

Webinar 2: Beat the Regulators: Material Compliance & AI Automation

This is where compliance and AI collide, and where most transformation programs stall. A manufacturer's own engineering data and its suppliers' material declarations describe the same physical part in two systems that were never built to talk to each other, and a single modern vehicle carries roughly 10,000 parts. Reconciling that by hand no longer scales, and six regulatory frameworks are now converging on the same data foundation at once.

Tim and Fabian are joined by Tunç Kip, a customer guest speaker who has faced the problem directly. He will discuss the industry implications of these regulatory developments, while the Mimacom team will demonstrate the material compliance solution they created for a global automotive manufacturer.

 

Key takeaways

  • Regulation: Why getting ahead of six overlapping EU frameworks which are converging on the same underlying material data matters now
  • Automation: Where AI can enable solutions not available so far, eliminate manual reconciliation today — and where human sign-off remains essential
  • Risk: How compliance data can expose supply-chain dependencies before they become production disruptions
  • Next step: The concrete action you can take immediately after the session to start moving forward

Meet the speakers

Tim Weinmann is Vice President of Mimacom USA Inc., based in Atlanta. He is an international business leader, C-level executive, entrepreneur, and investor with over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation, AI transformation, business automation, and connected healthcare solutions. As VP of Mimacom USA, he leads go-to-market strategy for North America, connecting American enterprises with Mimacom's engineering-driven consulting model and helping organizations translate AI opportunity into measurable business outcomes.

Fabian Kleiser is VP Technology at Mimacom, with 15 years of experience as a technology leader, hands-on software engineer, and solution architect. He has built his career on one principle: turning ideas into digital reality. He leads Mimacom's technology strategy across engineering teams, working with globally leading businesses to transform their operations with AI. Known for his focus on code quality and the fastest path to production-ready systems, Fabian bridges deep technical execution with business impact, ensuring every solution proves its value fast.

Tunç Kip is a senior automotive industry leader with extensive experience in business transformation, product development, manufacturing operations, and strategic growth. As CEO and co-founder of GAMUT, he focuses on advanced automotive technologies including electrification, vehicle electronics, software-defined vehicles, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation mobility. His work spans established automotive operations and emerging technology ecosystems, with a focus on developing and commercializing technologies shaping the future of mobility.

 

Upcoming sessions

The third webinar in the series continues the AI or Bye cadence on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, following the series' every-third-Wednesday schedule through November. Topic and speaker line-up will be confirmed ahead of the Webinar 2 follow-up email.

 

Bringing these discussions into practice

The pattern holds across every session: real project experience, not theory, and a next step you can act on before the following one begins. The first session gave you a way to assess where your organization stands today. This one turns to a different test: whether your AI decisions hold up once a regulator starts asking questions.

Attend one session or all four. Each stands on its own, and each adds another layer of judgment you can bring back to your own AI decisions.

Registration for the second webinar is open here.

We look forward to meeting attendees online on September 16.