Leaseurope’s Future Group has been empowering emerging talent, generating ideas, and tackling leasing industry themes since 2013.

It brings together young leasing professionals to develop innovative ideas and solutions for the leasing and automotive rental industry in partnership with Invigors EMEA.

The program aims to foster innovation, develop future leaders, and provide a platform for these young talents to present their concepts to senior industry members at Leaseurope’s Annual Convention which Autorola attended in Cascais, Portugal.

Autorola represented in 2025 Future Group
This year one of the 15 chosen from 400 people from 40 countries was our very own Job Boons, Business Development Manager of Autorola Group Netherlands.

He spent six months with four other professionals to develop a new idea for the industry that would address topics such as sustainability, the transition economy, and AI integration.

Job and his team developed a Digital Factory concept which is an AI asset valuation tool for machinery and industrial assets.

Using AI to calculate asset values
Similar to Indicata’s Portfolio Valuation service it aims to support large asset leasing and rental fleets and banks with current used values as well calculating asset values at the end of their individual contracts.

“The process was very exciting, and I was part of a fantastic team that worked very well together to develop our Digital Factory concept. It was great to be able to share it with a packed Leaseeurope conference that was attended by senior leaders from across the EMEA leasing industry,” explained Job.

Helping future proof customer needs
“Sadly, we didn’t win but I appreciated the opportunity to meet with other professionals from across the European leasing industry and look at how we can help future proof their customers’ needs,” he added.

The winning concept was entitled Transitional Asset Finance (TAF): Powering the Electric Vehicle Revolution for SMEs. The TAF platform is designed to connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to electric transitional assets, helping businesses make informed decisions about their electric vehicle fleet transitions.

The third concept from this year’s Future Group involved developing an AI solution for second-life asset financing.