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DVN Japan Interior Workshop
2026-12-01 - 2026-12-02 | More information to come soon
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DVN Sweden Workshop
2026-11-18 - 2026-11-19 | The Yard, Anders Carlssons gata 30, Lindholmen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Scandinavian Design & Nordic Lights
Exterior & interior lighting · UX and experience design · smart surfaces & CMF · sustainable materials
Gothenburg is one of the most dynamic automotive cities in Europe, with a great automotive ecosystem of OEMs, design studios, tier-1 and -2 suppliers, and universities and research outfits.
For our first DVN Sweden event, chaired and steered by DVN’s Paul-Henri Matha and Andreas Friedrich, we’re bringing the lighting and interior sectors together to talk, listen, learn, and facilitate collaboration. Passion for knowledge exchange is central to DVN’s mission, and so we are happy to present this event to gather the Swedish lighting and design communities.
The event will focus on:

exterior design & lighting
lighting technology and innovation, including smart surfaces
UX, CMF and interior lighting, key ingredients for interior design and user experience
Swedish safety expertise & design language, including DMS integration
sustainable design
lighting integration into components
optical & visualisation tools

Panel discussions will bring diverse perspectives together, engaging on ideas including:

Lighting regulation (including a discussion with GTB experts)
Designers & engineers on lighting design, from concept to reality
Lagom (moderation, balance, perfect simplicity) in automotive design
Round table discussion with Zeekr, Lynk & Co, Polestar, Volvo Car and Volvo Truck heads of design.

DVN Stuttgart Sensing & Applications Conference
2026-11-17 - 2026-11-18 | Kultur- & Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Berliner Platz 1-3 D, Stuttgart, 70174, Germany
L2+ AND WHAT MORE: THE AUTONOMY AGENDA FOR 2030 AND BEYOND
The 9th DVN “Sensing & AD Applications” Conference will take place on November 17-18, 2026, in the Stuttgart Area. Since their inception, DVN Sensing & AD Applications Conferences have quickly become the n°1 sensor technology forum to see and hear all about the latest innovations amidst the galloping growth of the automotive AD/ADAS sector. Aligned with the conference program, we have planned ample time during breaks to visit the exhibition and get into contact with executives, decision makers, experts, potential suppliers, customers.
OEMs attending our events:
Mercedes, BMW, Ford, GM, Hyundai Kia Motors, Honda, Nissan, Porsche, Stellantis, Volvo, VW, GWM, Scania. SW Stack providers also appear on the stage like Autoware, Wayve, Torc Robotics.
NEW this year:

Regulation special session planned with key players to highlight the type approval path for E2E systems
Special focus on L2+ and Robotaxis/L4 deployment in EU, and discussion on the real demand for 2030 and beyond
Special session on Dual Use opportunities of Defense and Automotive

We decided to hold the conference in Stuttgart this year to be close to OEMs and AI development hubs. The conference room will accommodate up to 300 participants. The exhibition area is directly adjacent to the conference room, with space for 20-25 expo booths. The exhibition area will host the cocktail and dinner event on the first day as well as all coffee breaks and lunch breaks.

DVN India Lighting Workshop
2026-10-28 - 2026-10-29 | Hyatt Regency Gurugram, NH48, Sector 83 Gurugram, Haryana, India, 122012
INDIAN LIGHTING MARKET, THE RISING STAR
TECHNOLOGY • INNOVATION • DESIGN • AI • SOFTWARE • GLARE • PREMIUM INTERIOR & INTERIOR • COST EFFICIENCY

October 28 and 29, 2026
Hyatt Regency Gurugram, Delhi area
Topics we will address passenger cars, commercial vehicles, 2/3 wheelers and trucks/bus:

Lighting for Safety, including Performance, ADB & Glare control
Cost efficient projection system to enhance safety
Design
Optical design innovation
Indian Software development
Testing
Interior lighting
Leader round table and regulation round table

For more information:
Rugved Khati, Marketing Coordinator: rkhati@drivingvisionnews.com
Emilie Bonnet, MarCom Director: ebonnet@drivingvisionnews.com

DVN USA Interior Workshop
2026-09-22 - 2026-09-23 | More information to come soon
WHAT’S COMING IN VEHICLE INTERIORS?
During the Beijing auto show last April, specialists noticed the exterior design sameness across numerous brands and makers, and wondered if this means exterior design is losing importance.
Conversely, there was intensely competitive focus on every aspect of the interior, and great diversity across brands and makers. Materials quality, comfort, infotainment, user experience and wellbeing, and row-2 luxury, to name a few. Cars are being designed less as third spaces and more as second homes, while increasingly capable driving automation and human-driver assistant technology (ADAS) mean occupants have more time and cognitive space to relax and things other than drive.
Is this trend apply also in USA?
This is what we will discuss during our first DVN Interior workshop in September 22 & 23 in Detroit.
The workshop will explore innovations in:

Interior electronics & smart surfaces
Haptics & smart cockpits
Displays & HMI/UX
Interior lighting
CMF
Seating
Sustainability & circularity

Panel discussions will grapple with important ideas, including:

How to increase development and decision speed (takeaways from China-speed benchmarking)?
How to leverage and benefit from AI?
What’s next after screens?
What’s the right balance between digital and physical controls?
Sustainability as an early-stage decision framework, not as a downstream tradeoff

Opportunities are open for presenters and exhibitors.
Contacts:

Laurent Sérézat, Head of DVN Interior: lserezat@drivingvisionnews.com
Laetitia Lopez, Senior Advisor CMF: Llopez@drivingvisionnews.com
Felix Urbina, Senior Advisor: Furbina@drivingvisionnews.com
Emilie Bonnet, MarCom Director: ebonnet@drivingvisionnews.com

DVN Shanghai Interior Workshop
2026-09-08 - 2026-09-09 | Shanghai Binjiang 1353 Conference Center, 1353 Waima Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
VEHICLE INTERIORS: WHAT’S NEXT?
Shaping the Holistic Cabin Experience
The cabin is no longer just a space—it’s the next frontier for user experience. At Driving Vision News Interiors, we explore how technology, design, and human-centric innovation converge to redefine mobility.
The Holistic Cabin: Where Everything Connects Moving beyond isolated features, the future lies in a seamlessly integrated cabin. It’s where design, HMI, smart surfaces, lighting, seating, and wellness systems work in harmony, with a single goal: to elevate every journey into an exceptional experience.
Driven by Megatrends, Focused on the Human Automotive interiors are being transformed by connectivity, automation, EVs, and new regulations. Our conference dissects these forces, focusing on the tangible innovations they spur—from advanced displays and driver monitoring to intelligent interiors that think ahead.
Join the Dialogue on Key Domains:

Smart Surfaces, Cockpits & Displays
Interior Lighting & CMF Strategies
Next-Generation Seating & Electronics
Driver & Cabin Monitoring Systems
…and more, capped by an exclusive Design Roundtable with industry leaders.

For more information: Emilie Bonnet, MarCom Director: ebonnet@drivingvisionnews.com

DVN Shanghai Lighting Workshop
2026-09-08 - 2026-09-09 | Shanghai Binjiang 1353 Conference Center, 1353 Waima Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
Vehicle Lighting Experience
The 41st DVN Lighting workshop will take place in Shanghai on September 08-09, 2026.
DVN are back in China for the 9th time. Last year we put a strong focus on design that is impacting our whole value chain. Lighting is not any longer a unique component, but has become an experience. Theme is Vehicle Lighting Experience – Technology, Innovation, Safety and Design.
We will this year propose a deep dive into technology:

Projection system including DLP, LCOS, MicroLED, MLA technology
Front panel that include new technologies (chrome, films, PUR coating, miniLEDs and microLEDs displays)
Start-up session to meet new comers and possible disruptors for our industry

We are inviting technical and design universities to brainstorm about what will be our future.
Sessions will include:

Lighting for Safety: CNCAP rating, ADB
Deep Dive into projection system, including DLP, MicroLED, MLA, MEMS, Gobo.
ADAS & Lighting : how can lighting support ADAS, how can ADAS support lighting, status about ADAS sensor integration into lamps, Turquoise light status
Lighting design, including deep dive into front panels and lit grill
Lighting Process deep dive: what’s next for the 4.0 light manufacturing
Lighting simulation tools, including AI, what’s new?
EE new architecture to support new lighting functions
ISD, what’s next?
Interior lighting, CMF & UX

2 Panel discussions:

Regulation with CATARC, SMVIC, GTB officers
Design round table : Exterior designer – Lighting designer – Interior Designer – UX designer

Award Ceremony: Best lamp design, best rear lamp design, best auxiliary lamp design, best
technology. Feel free to send us your proposal to be part of the nominees.
This Shanghai DVN Workshop will bring together more than 500 participants from all over the world. Experts, researchers, managers, designers, engineers…and you!

DVN U.S. Lighting Workshop
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-10 | Laurel Manor, 39000 schoolcraft RD, Livonia, 48150, United States
DVN U.S. Lighting Workshop June 09-10, 2026
The 40th DVN Lighting Workshop will be held at the Laurel Manor in Livonia, Michigan on 9-10 June, 2026.
The theme for the 2-day conference and expo is American & Global Lighting Innovation for Next-Gen American Mobility.

The automotive industry faces serious challenges and upheavals right now. There’s disruption from the tech industry. Automated driving is becoming a reality. Computing is becoming the most critical asset, and software-defined vehicles are coming onstream. All of this is transforming the vehicle lighting sector.
At this high-content workshop event, you’ll have the opportunity to talk, listen, learn, and share with colleagues and experts on topics including:

How are evolving geopolitical dynamics shaping the automotive lighting landscape in the United States, and what do they mean for American OEMs and international companies operating within the U.S. ecosystem?
What will be the new EE architectures for lamps? What new possibilities are unlockable? What new constraints will arise along with function safety and cybersecurity?
What are the lighting trends and ways of working? Where-all does AI stand to improve our world and how we work in it?

Technical sessions will include:

Interior lighting
Optical design innovation
EE architecture from a global to a component approach, with value chain deep dive
Safety
Car body design

Two panel discussions are on the docket, with highly relevant topics:
• Regulation, powered by GTB and SAE committees
• OEM challenge
The event will be chaired and steered by DVN’s Paul-Henri Matha, Daniel Stern, and Mark Verplank.

DVN U.S. Cocktail
2026-06-08 18:00 - 23:00 (America/Detroit) | Laurel Manor, 39000 schoolcraft RD, Livonia, 48150, United States
DVN U.S. Cocktail
The evening before the event, at 6pm, a cocktail reception will be organized for DVN members (limited to one participant per company). It will take place at Phoenix Mill. This networking event will take place ahead of the DVN US Lighting Workshop – Detroit, held on June 9–10, 2026 at Laurel Manor in Livonia, Michigan.
Participation is subject to prior registration and final approval by the organizer.
For more information, please contact: Emilie Bonnet, MarCom Director: ebonnet@drivingvisionnews.com

DVN U.S. Deep Dive
2026-06-08 13:00 - 17:30 (America/Detroit) | Laurel Manor, 39000 schoolcraft RD, Livonia, 48150, United States
DVN U.S. Deep Dive
Before the DVN US Workshop, participants have the opportunity to take part in working sessions (registration is required).
1:00 pm REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
2:00 pm SOFTWARE DEFINE VEHICLES
Chairman: Michael Borgholthaus, Fusaware, Founder & CEO

Fusaware – Michael Borgholthaus, Founder & CEO: The Shifting OEM-Supplier Interface: Rebirth of Systems Engineering
Texas Instruments – Marc Castillo, Product Marketing Manager: UART-over-CAN and Ethernet T1S: Sort-of CAN, Sort-of Deterministic
Intrepid Control Systems – Arpan Rughani, Worldwide Marketing Manager: Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY): One-Size Fits Most Lighting Control
Discussion

6:00 pm BARBECUE (for DVN members only)

DVN & Enmore Shanghai EAC Lidar, ADAS and Interior Tech Expo
2026-05-28 00:00 - 2026-05-29 23:59 (America/Detroit) | Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center, 7575 Boyuan Rd, Jiading District, Shanghai, China, 215332
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DVN is co-host with Enmore of the Intelligent Driving Conference
May 28-29, 2026Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center
Autonomous Driving & Embodied Intelligence Thematic Activities

4th Intelligent Driving Innovation Conference
2026 Robotics Intelligent Perception Innovation Conference
Embodied Intelligent Robotics Forward-Looking Technology Exchange Meeting
8th LiDAR Forward-Looking Technology Exhibition & Exchange Meeting
8th Millimeter-Wave Radar Forward-Looking Technology Exhibition & Exchange Meeting
7th Automotive Vision Camera Forward-Looking Technology Exhibition & Exchange Meeting
4th Functional Safety, Cybersecurity & AI Technology Seminar

Exhibition

Speakers

Exhibitors only, OEMs invited, Special conditions for key overseas speakers

Visitors

Incl. access to the Conference & Exhibition4200 RMB / 550€ (discount for >2 tickets: 3500 RMB / 460€)VIP free ticket for OEMs + DVN ADAS Platinum Members (1 free ticket)

Standard Booths

6 m2, 9 m2, 12 m2, 24 m2(48m2, 96m2 also available )

BoothsShellBusinessPremium-1Premium-2Size6 m29 m212 m224 m2LectureYesYesYesYesFree Ticket2336Cost12.000 RMB/1.600 €25.000 RMB/3.300 €30.000 RMB/3.900 €60.000 RMB/7.800 €

A maximum of 2 standard booths can be reserved. An additional fee of RMB 3,000 per booth will apply for double-opening standard booths.

Exhibitor information will be featured in the conference’s external promotional materials, such as the official WeChat account and event promotional grids.

Standard booths are designed by the sponsor and constructed uniformly by the organizer; custom booths must be designed and constructed by the sponsor.

Sponsorship

Please contact us

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EAC Lidar & ADAS

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Intelligent Driving Conference

Attendees

18.000 Visitors

1.000 Overseas Visitors

400+ Speakers

350+ Exhibitors

Autonomous Driving & Embodied Intelligence

AD/ADAS System & Domain Controllers

Lidar, Lasers, Detectors, Beam Control, Optical Components

Millimeter Wawe Radar, Chips, Antennas & materials

DMS, IMS, OMS Driver / Cabin Monitoring Systems

Automated Production

Simulation & Testing Solutions

Functional Safety, Middleware

Master Schedule / Intelligent Driving Innovation

OEMs registered

Intelligent Driving / Previous Exhibitors

EAC Interior

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Interior & Cockpit

Surface Materials

Intelligent Surfaces

Ambient Optics

Seat Systems

In-Vehicle Display Systems

NVH & Audio Systems

Safety Systems

Interiors & Exteriors Systems

Previous Exhibitors

DVN Interior Köln Workshop
2026-04-22 12:30 - 2026-04-23 05:30 (America/Detroit) | BASE, Schanzenstr. 6–20, Gebäude 1.21, Köln, 51063, Germany
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DVN Köln Interior Workshop – April 22-23, 2026
Vehicle Interiors: What’s Next?UX · Cockpit · Lighting · Seating · Electronics
Base, Köln, Germany
The theme is holistic cabin approach, for the main goal of UX (user experience) is to create and improve driving and mobility experiences.
It means technology and design are user-centric. It covers design, HMI (human-machine interaction/interface), perceived quality, comfort, infotainment, audio, health and wellness, and everything that contributes to the best driving experience.
Global megatrends are shaping the future of the automotive interior: display, smart surfaces, voice activation, connectivity, automation, EVs, regulations, and more. These are pushing and pulling technical and technological progress, transforming the cabin into a smart, interactive space.
The workshop will include sessions on seating · smart surfaces, cockpits, displays · driver and cabin monitoring · interior lighting · electronics. A design roundtable will gather and discuss a variety of perspectives.

Exhibitors

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Speakers Presentations

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Program

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Our exhibitors

Lighting, UX & Brand Conference | Haus of Automotive x DVN
2026-04-21 | Talent House, Via Tortona 31, Milan, Italy, 20144
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Join us for a full week of design excellence during the Milan Design Week 2026.
Konzepthaus is excited to bring back Haus of Automotive to Milan Design Week, uniting the automotive design industry under one roof.
This unique space will bridge diverse brands and foster collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Next to thrilling exhibitions by our partners, the week will also feature two inspiring conferences on the topics of CMF, UX & Brand, and Lighting, offering a platform for thought leaders to explore the future of design and mobility.
This year, DVN is glad to collaborate with Konzepthaus to co-organise the Lighting conference. Lighting has become a big topic during the last year in our automotive lighting design world. Talking about automotive lighting in Milano, mixing designers from different horizon (transportation, architecture, fashion) will bring interesting discussions and fresh ideas into our automotive lighting world.
Glad to have Forvia Hella as sponsor for the conference.
PANEL 1: Exterior Lighting as Brand Language: from Design Identity to Technological Enablers
Lighting has become one of the most recognizable elements of a vehicle’s identity. From distinctive daytime running lights to animated welcome sequences, exterior lighting now plays a central role in defining how a brand is perceived on the road.This panel explores how lighting evolved into a powerful design signature. How do designers balance creativity with regulatory and engineering constraints? And how can brands maintain a clear visual identity as lighting possibilities continue to expand?Our panelists will discuss how design and technology intersect in modern lighting development and how exterior lighting is shaping the future language of automotive and mobility design.
PANEL 2: Interior Lighting as Spatial and Emotional Design: Atmosphere, Comfort and Perceived Quality
As vehicle interiors transform into multifunctional spaces, lighting is becoming a key element in shaping how these environments are experienced. Beyond simple illumination, interior lighting now influences atmosphere, comfort, and the perceived quality of a space.This panel examines the role of lighting in creating emotional and spatial experiences inside vehicles. How can designers use light to define zones, enhance materials, and support different moments of use from focused driving to relaxed travel? In what ways does lighting contribute to the feeling of a living space rather than a purely functional cockpit?We will explore how lighting helps turn mobility interiors into environments that feel intuitive, comfortable, and increasingly comparable to domestic spaces.
PANEL 3: Lighting-driven UX: how Light Shapes Interaction, Safety and User Perception
Lighting is no longer only about visibility or decoration. Increasingly, it acts as an interface between the vehicle and its users, communicating information, guiding attention, and supporting intuitive interaction.This panel focuses on the growing role of lighting within the user experience. How can light help users understand vehicle functions and systems without relying on traditional displays? What role does lighting play in communicating safety, status, or intent both inside and outside the vehicle? And how can designers ensure that lighting based interactions remain intuitive rather than overwhelming?Our panelists will discuss how lighting is evolving into a core component of mobility UX and how thoughtful design can transform light into a meaningful communication tool.

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Venue: Talent House, Milan

DVN Detroit Design Talks
2026-03-25 | Newlab, 2050 15th St, Detroi, Michigan, 48216, United States
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DVN Design Talks – March 25, 2026
Newlab, Detroit, US
We are pleased to invite you to our first-ever DVN Design Talks to talk, listen, and learn about topics centrally relevant to our lighting and interior communities: lighting, materials, and design.
The idea is to exchange and share approaches with different eyes, ears, experiences and back- grounds, and to learn from each other.
There’ll be four round tables of 45 minutes, with a 5-minute speech and panel discussion. 15-minute coffee breaks during each session, and a cocktail hour and dinner starting at 7:00 pm will give ample opportunity for networking and discussing the afternoon’s proceedings.

Participants:

Program

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Venue: Newlab, Detroit

DVN Detroit AEB & Safety Assessment Workshop
2026-03-24 17:30 - 2026-03-25 17:30 (America/Detroit) | Marelli Corporate Office, Southfield / Detroit, US, 26555 Northwestern Hwy, Southfield, MI, MI 48033, United States
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DVN AEB & SAFETY ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP – March 24-25, 2026
Marelli Corporate Office, Southfield / Detroit, US
CONFERENCE • PANEL DISCUSSION • EXPOAEB & SAFETY ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP – FMVSS 127, AUTOPILOT/L2+
DVN Sensing & Applications is organising again its AEB Workshop in Detroit, focused on the new FMVSS 127 rule of NHTSA which defines scenarios for Pedestrian AEB at night. These specifications will apply in 2029 to all cars. The workshop aims to look at the performance and competitiveness of the different technologies, including camera, Radar, IR and Lidar that might be required to meet the new standard and consider safety, validation and integration challenges. The experts of the two DVN communities (Lighting and ADAS) will have the unique opportunity to meet and confirm their expectations.
New this year: the workshop will also consider the AEB performance of “Autonomous Driving” modes (Autopilot/L2+ and beyond)

Speakers Presentations

To view the presentations, you must be a workshop participant or a Sensing & Applications Gold Member.

Exhibition

Interested to exhibit at DVN Detroit AEB & Safety Assessment Workshop? Contact us!Stay in touch with your customers/prospects & present your product/service innovations or other important messages to highest-level decision makers.

Booth TypeShared BoothSize4 m²Tickets2Price€ 4.5KDemocar1€ 3K

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Your company logo featured in the event agenda & on the website

For more information, please contact: Emilie Bonnet, Marketing & Communication Director: ebonnet@drivingvisionnews.com

Access & Accommodations

Venue: Marelli Corporate Office, Southfield

Accommodations:The hotels listed below are provided for information purposes only; we do not have any special rates or agreements with them.

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DVN Munich Lighting Workshop 2026
2026-02-04 07:30 - 2026-02-05 18:40 (Asia/Shanghai) | Small Olympia Park, Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21, München, 80809, Germany
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39th DVN Munich Lighting Workshop – February 4-5, 2026
Small Olympia Park, Munich, Germany
SOCIAL COCKTAIL & DINNER • CONFERENCE • PANEL DISCUSSION • AWARD CEREMONY • EXPO
2035 AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING: WHAT’S NEXT ?

Automobile is born in Europe more than one century ago. With new ways on mobility, climate change and strong worlwilde competition, Automotive industry has to be reinvented.

This is impacting also our automotive lighting community and our supply chains.
Exterior lighting has never been in such a big role at IAA Munich last September, with new technology release, new design language and strong marketing usage.
We have now to bring an holitistic approach to lighting. It is not only safety and design.
It is time to think together about the next step. What will be our automotive lighting world in 10 years?
For this purpose, the agenda will include different sessions:

Lighting and design
Innovative technology including EE to support
Simulation and AI : how to accelerate and change our way of working
Sustainability and how to move forward
Niche market and special needs (2W, trucks, sport cars, luxury cars)

Including round tables and award ceremony.
For the first time we are inviting design schools to give us input and vision and we have defined a Jury to select the best design proposal.

This Munich DVN Workshop will bring together more than 500 participants from all over the world. Experts, researchers, managers, designers, engineers…and you!

Paul-Henri MathaDVN Chief Executive Officer and Lighting General Editor

Speakers Presentations

To view the presentations, you must be a workshop participant or a Lighting Gold Member.

Program

PARRALLEL SESSIONS
02:00 pm to 5:30pm:
ROOM 1 — DEEP DIVE INTO AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING SUSTAINABILITY STAKESEXPERT DISCUSSION BETWEEN OEM, TIER1 AND TIER2Chairman: Gerd Bahnmüller, DVN
Covestro & Forvia Hella – Jan Helmig, Global Technical Marketing Mobility Lighting & Mathias Niedling, Head of Sustainability at Business Group Lighting:
• Reducing CO Footprint and Enabling Circular Economy: Final Results from the NALYSES Research Project
Sabic – Erhard Bruss, Senior Manager Automotive Marketing
• Intensify Sustainability with Engineering Thermoplastics
Audi – Michael Kruppa, Head of Front Light Development
Momentive – Andreas Haeuseler, Global Automotive Marketing Leader – Functional Coatings:
• Maximize the Handprint: Functional Coatings for Mobility Lighting
NanoVents – Jiří Schirl, R&D and Business Development Team Leader:
• PFAS Dilemma: Legacy Technology, Environmental Conflict and the Challenge of Transition Beyond
PFAS in Automotive Towards Sustainable Alternatives

PARRALLEL SESSIONS
02:00 pm to 5:30pm:
ROOM 2 — DEEP DIVE INTO EXTERNAL DISPLAY: STATUS ABOUT RESEARCH FROM INSTITUTE & INDUSTRYChairman: Paul Henri Matha, DVN
Forvia – Christian Schmidt, Head of Innovation:
• Vision2X democar presentation
Marelli – Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Director Headlamp Innovation:
• Heidi Project outcome
Stellantis – Julisa Le:
• Advanced Light Signature as Communication device
Technical University Darmstadt – Jonas Bix, PhD student and research assistant:
• Principles of symbol design and brightness configuration for display and signalling units in the context of AV-communication
Dekra – Wilfried van Laarhoven, Manager Approval Testing Development:
• External Displays – Regulatory options and obstructions
Audi – Werner Thomas, Project Manager OLED-Lighting / Exterior Displays
Valeo – Stefan Namyslo, R&I Technical Leader:
•On-vehicle displays and on-grund projection for automated vehicle communication

Day 1 – February 4, 2026
07:30 am: Registration & Welcome coffee
09:15 am: OPENING OF THE EVENT
DVN – Paul Henri Matha, CEO
ams Osram – Aldo Kamper, CEO
China Academy of Art – James Hope, Dean of Transportation Design Institute:
• Clarity vs. Conformity
09:45 am: SESSION 1 – PART 1: LIGHTING, COMMUNICATION & DESIGN – THE NEW 3 PILLARS FOR OUR COMMUNITY
Chairman: Wolfgang Huhn
Mercedes-Benz – Anton Nelson, Predevelopment Front Lighting Systems; Dominik Reule, Predevelopment Rear Lighting Systems; Üsame Akkoca, Project Manager Exterior Innovations:
• The Mercedes Tech-Programm Concept AMG GT XX
Audi – Michael Kruppa, Head of Front Light Development:
• Essence of Lighting – Technical precision and radical simplicity
BMW – Thorsten Krajc, Project leader exterior lighting und viewing sytems Neue Klasse:
• BMW’s Neue Klasse – Implementation of a new exterieur light design
Polestar – Christophe Ferreira Da Silva, Design Manager:
• Polestar 5 lamp details
Stellantis – Richard Brevet, Lighting leader style Citroën:
• Citroen C5 and Elo lighting design
OPmobility – Michael Rosenauer, Director Innovation Exterior & Lighting:
• Transforming Automotive Lighting Design with Advanced Decoration and Sustainable Manufacturing
SL Corporation – Hyeongdo Kim, Research Engineer:
Color MLA Headlights
Tactotek – Dominique Heilborn, Director Ecosystem Partnerships:
• SEAMLESS SKIN – A Designer’s Dream
Porsche – Benjamin Hummel, Manager Front Lighting Development:
• Porsche HD-Matrix: The Hidden Role of Modularization and a Headlamp Aiming Analysis
Microrelleus – Raúl García, CEO:
• Production Tool Engraving vs. Direct PMMA Processing with Femtosecond Laser: A Comparative Study on Homogeneity and Efficiency
11:30 pm: Coffee break
Sponsored by Nichia
12:00 pm: SESSION 1 – PART 2: LIGHTING, COMMUNICATION & DESIGN – THE NEW 3 PILLARS FOR OUR COMMUNITY
Chairman: Hans Joachim Schwabe
Sabic – Dr. David Elvers, Sr. Business Development Automotive; Erhard Bruss, Sr. Manager Automotive Marketing:
• Trends and Opportunities in materials for Automotive Lighting – Focus: Light & Chrome
Saint Gobain Sekurit – Fabien Geniaux, Marketing Portfolio Manager, Active Glazing Systems:
• Light in Glazing: New Horizons for the Automotive Experience
ZKW – Gerald Boehm, Innovation and Technical Customer Relationship Management Principal:
• Display solutions and challenges
Tata Motors – Salil Kulkarni, Head of Global Design Operations:
• From Tata Motors’ LED Lighting Evolution to the New Sierra’s Lighting Journey
Edag – Jannes Buthmann, Global Head of Lighting & Display Systems:
• Natural 3D Appearance, Unbounded Form: EDAG´s Remote Phosphor Approach for Lamp Design
Marelli – Felix Freytag, Front Lighting Specialist:
• Future Communication by Light: New Options by External Displays and Ground Projections
Ford – Mike VanBelle, Global Exterior Lighting Manager:
• Update from Ford
Mind – Jin Hui, Innovation Director:
• How High-Performance Technology and Reliable Solution Empower Chinese User and OEMChallenges?
LG Innotek – Svenja Sohrbeck, Global Key Account Manager (Europe):
• Lighting the Future: Nexlide Pixel in a Compact Design & Nexlide Air with a Simplified Structure
1:30 pm: Lunch break

03:00 pm: SESSION 2 – DEEP DIVE INTO FILM TECHNOLOGY: PRODUCT & PROCESS
Mercedes-Benz – Marc Hainke:
• Mercedes Front panel development
Gerhardi – Nicole Michael, Product and Process Development:
• Lighting Meets Chrome: Enabling Innovative Exterior Front Design in the new Mercedes GLC
KraussMaffei – Andreas Bierbaumer, Technology Manager Surfaces IMM
• From Hard Coating to In-Mold PUR: A New Approach for Automotive Lighting
Leonhard Kurz & SP3 – Sven Oberndörfer, Head of Advanced business Development:
• Virtual Validation of design driven multi-layer lighting
Nissha – Tino Theer, Development Engineer:
• Film technology illuminating the next step in automotive exterior lighting
Niebling – Udo Weustenhagen, Director Sales & Marketing
• Preforming for Film Insert Molding (FIM): Fundamentals and Industrial Boundaries
Inevo – Roberto Fagarazzi, Managing Director Sales
Magna – Bünyamin Uzun, Product Line Manager Europe – Lighting:
• Chrome-Film Meets Light: Challenges and Solutions in the Illuminated Frontpanel
Proell – Hans-Peter Erfurt, IMD/FIM Manager:
• IMD/FIM Screen Printing Inks and Lacquers for the Decoration of Automotive Front Modules and Lighting Applications
04:30 pm: COFFEE BREAK
Sponsored by Nichia
05:00 pm: DESIGN CONTEST
moderated by Andreas Friedrich
06:00 pm: DVN AWARD CEREMONY
07:00 pm: COCKTAIL & DINNER

Day 2 – February 5, 2026
07:00 am: WELCOME COFFEE
08:00 am: PRE-SESSION – OPTICAL DESIGN DEEP DIVEChairman: Franco Marcori
Huaju – Jia Zhenqing, Vice President & Project Director:
• Beyond Spherical Limits: How Aspherical Glass Lenses Elevate Automotive Lighting Performance & Design
Fraunhofer IAP – Manuel Gensler, Department Head:
• Engineering Customized Light: Quantum Dots Beyond Information Displays
Fraunhofer IOF – Dmitrii Stefanidi, Research assistant:
• Maskless irregular microlens arrays for headlights and signaling with high optical efficiency
Docter Optics – Markus Winkler, CTO / CSO:
• Cost competitive lens solutions for Pixel Light Headlamps
ams Osram – Florian Wittmann, Application Engineer:
• Novel Intelligent LEDs for Highly Scalable Dynamic Exterior Lighting
Refond – Felix Zhang, International Technical Support Manager:
• Optimization of ADB Light Engine
Delo – Christoph Appel, Product Manager Automotive Lighting
09:00 am: KEYNOTE SPEECH
S&P Global Mobility – Sascha Klapper, Research and Analysis Manager:
• Automotive market turbulences, new times ahead – Where is the automotive lighting market going?
A2S – Hector Fratty & Michel Favre
Renault – Francois Bedu, Lighting Expert:
• Lighting and ADAS, what’s next for 2035?
09:45 am: ROUND TABLE
Chairman: Hans Joachim Schwabe, DVN
Audi – Stephan Berlitz, Head of Exterior Lighting Development
BMW – Jörg Kälble Exterior lighting development chief
Mercedes-Benz – Stefan Töpfer, Senior Manager R&D Lighting Systems
10:30 am: COFFEE BREAK
Sponsored by Nichia
11:00 am: SESSION 3 – SIMULATION AND AI : HOW TO ACCELERATE AND CHANGE OUR WAY OF WORKING
Chairman: Benoit Deschamps, Expert Virtual MockUp & eXtended Reality, Renault
Renault – Benoit Deschamps, Expert Virtual MockUp & eXtended Reality:
• Automotive Lighting Challenges: From Collaborative Design to Predictive Simulation
Ansys part of Synopsys – Mathieu Reigneau, Senior Product Manager – Speos:
• Acceleration in digital engineering: what AI & software customisation can truly deliver in lighting?
Dassault Systems & Keysight – Stephan Ritz & Tobias Schmid, Director Portfolio Management & Ph.D:
• F3DEXPERIENCE CATIA & LucidShape – A Paradigm Shift for Lighting Design Workflows
Eclat Digital & Covestro – Romain Hivet, Operations manager:
• Covestro & Ocean™: From Pixel to Real Part – Eliminate guesswork in design with predictive optical simulation
United Visual Researchers – Thomas Labardens, Chief Commercial Officer:
• Predict on Omniverse : Leveraging USD for Lighting Design
Edag – Jannes Buthmann, Global Head of Lighting & Display Systems:
• Advantages and Challenges of Real-Time Virtual Night Drives with Unreal Engine 5 in EDAG´s ZeroPrototypeLab
Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal – Benedikt Lamontain, Professor of Design and CAD:
• ViSUS PRO – The Potential of XR-Technologies
Luminous Algorithms – Ingo Steiner, CEO:
• Specification-Driven Engineering – Automated Generation of Freeform Optical Surfaces for Lighting
BSCA – Michele DiTaranto, CGI Expert & Visualization Strategy
• Differences between human visual perception and camera capture. Why this gap matters.
PANEL DISCUSSION
12:30 pm: LUNCH BREAK

01:30 pm: SESSION 4 – NICHE MARKET AND SPECIAL NEEDS
Chairman: Paul-Henri Matha
Volvo Trucks – Berk Keskin, Head of Exterior Design
• One Light, Two Worlds: A Designer’s View on Car and Truck Lighting
Aspoeck – Kevin Riepl, Head of Group Innovation & PPM; Daniel Strubreiter, Head of Engineering:
• Lighting- and assistance systems on heavy trailers
Wipac Technology, Lanzante & LESS – Simon Baker, Head of Advanced Development; Paul Howse, Chief Designer & Yann Tissot, CEO/Founder:
• OEM, Tier 1 and Tier 2 new technology collaboration – First to Market
02:00 pm: SESSION 5 – INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING EE TO SUPPORTChairman: Alfred Vollmer
OPmobility – Andreas Schramm, Innovation Product Manager – Electronics:
• The smart way to an LDM-less headlamp: How the next-generation E/E architecture enables a more efficient approach
Ennostar – Dr. Meng-Yu Ho, Senior Director of Automotive Product Development:
• Mini LED ISD for Automotive: A Chip-to-Module Framework
Robert Bosch – Gregor Sunderdiek, Group Manager Intellectual Property Products:
• CAN FD light for next generation E/E architectures
Melexis – Andreas Laute, Product Manager, Exterior Lighting:
• A Multi-Channel LED Driver IC Approach for Exterior Lighting with High Flexibility
ams Osram – Lufei Shen, Product Manager:
• Cost-effective system solutions using OSP-based LED Drivers
Indiemicro – Lingjun Wang, SD of EMEA and North America, indiemicro:
• Innovation Amid New Trends in Automotive Lighting
Macroblock – Gary Chang, LED Display And Lighting Product Manager:
• Macroblock LED Driver ICs Enable the Next Generation of Intelligent Signal Displays And Ambient Lighting
Inova Semiconductors – Gerhard Nill, Senior Product Manager:
ROUND TABLE
03:00 pm: COFFEE BREAK
Sponsored by Nichia
03:30 pm: SESSION 6 – SUSTAINABILITY AND HOW TO MOVE FORWARD
Chairman: Paul-Henri Matha
Covestro & Forvia Hella – Jan Helmig & Mathias Niedling, Global Technical Marketing Mobility Lighting & Head of Sustainability @ Business Group Lighting:
• NALYSES Sustainable Headlamp Demonstrator: Innovative Design Meets More Sustainable Materials
Valeo – Grégory Planche & Laurent Barré, Lighting Circular Economy Program Manager & Engineer:
• Circular Polymers in Automotive lighting : New Circular Value Chain
Emerson Branson – Marian Blasko, Key Account Manager:
• Innovating the Future: Sustainable Headlamp Assembly Process
Sumitomo Chemical – Oliver Vollmar, Business Development Manager:
• A solution for sustainable lighting – proposal from New PMMA materials
Lumileds – Wolfgang Schiene, Director Product Management Auto LED Solutions – Headlighting:
• Replaceable LUXEON Go light source modules, easing repairability in a sustainable headlamp architecture
DVN – Paul Henri Matha, CEO:
• Synthesis of DVN deep-dive
Q&A
04:40 pm: CLOSURE

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DVN Munich Working Sessions 2026
2026-02-03 14:00 - 18:40 (Asia/Shanghai) | Small Olympia Park, Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21, München, 80809, Germany
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DVN Working SessionsMunich, February 3, 2026

Before the DVN Munich Workshop on February 4–5, 2026, participants have the opportunity to take part in working sessions organized on February 3rd (registration is required).

ROOM 1 — DEEP DIVE INTO AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING SUSTAINABILITY STAKES

We are inviting the lighting community to an open forum to talk about External display on February 3rd, in Munich, just before the 2-day DVN lighting event (February 4 & 5)

This forum is open to everybody: Contracting parties, NGOs, universities, OEMs, lighting tier1 and tier2.

At DVN, we fully understand the questions marks about the needs for external display in term of V2X communication for AD vehicles and we know that the technology is ready and already on vehicles in China.

A lot of investigations have been done in Europe the last 5 years and it would be very beneficial to gather all the initiative and discuss with experts.

ROOM 2 — DEEP DIVE INTO EXTERNAL DISPLAY: STATUS ABOUT RESEARCH FROM INSTITUTE & INDUSTRY

Sustainability has become one of the most important pillar for European OEM, and lighting has to follow the trend.

The goal of the workshop is to take time to gather the lighting community & sustainability specialist to see how to tackle this topic, to see initiative, and tackle what is currently missing.

DVN will present during the main conference on the sustainability session a short summary about the discussion.

Speakers presentations

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Program
ROOM 1 — DEEP DIVE INTO AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING SUSTAINABILITY STAKES
Chairman: Gerd Banhmuller, DVN
02:00 pm – 05:30 pm

Covestro & Forvia Hella – Jan Helmig, Global Technical Marketing Mobility Lighting & Mathias Niedling, Head of Sustainability @ Business Group Lighting: Reducing CO₂ Footprint and Enabling Circular Economy: Final Results from the NALYSES Research Project
Valeo – Grégory Planche, Lighting Circular Economy Program Manager & Laurent Barré, Senior Materials & Polymers Expert
Sabic – Erhard Bruss, Senior Manager Automotive Marketing
Mocom – Christian Vogler
Audi – Michael Kruppa, Head of Front Light Development
Momentive – Andreas Haeuseler, Global Automotive Marketing Leader – Functional Coatings: Maximize the Handprint: Functional Coatings for Mobility Lighting

ROOM 2 — DEEP DIVE INTO EXTERNAL DISPLAY: STATUS ABOUT RESEARCH FROM INSTITUTE & INDUSTRY
Chairman: Paul-Henri Matha, DVN02:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Audi – Thomas Werner, Project Manager OLED Lighting
Forvia – Christian Schmidt
Marelli – Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Director Headlamp Innovation
Stellantis – Julisa Le
DEKRA – Wilfried van Laarhoven: External Displays – Regulatory Options and Obstructions

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DVN Torino Interior Workshop 2026
2026-01-14 15:00 - 2026-01-15 17:30 (Europe/Rome) | Museo Nazionale dell Automobile, Corso Unità d’Italia 40, Torino, 10126
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10th DVN Torino Interior Workshop – January 14-15, 2026
Museo Nazionale dell’ Automobile, Torino, Italy
SOCIAL COCKTAIL & DINNER • CONFERENCE • PANEL DISCUSSION • EXPO
NEXT-GEN AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORS: WHERE CMF, LIGHTING AND SUSTAINABILITY CONVERGE

Car interiors have evolved far beyond mere functionality—they now reflect the convergence ofluxury, advanced technology, and individual expression. At the heart of this transformation liesCMF (Color, Material, and Finish) strategy, a powerful tool in defining brand identity, shapingconsumer perception, and delivering a cohesive design language across the cabin. Today materials, beside their peculiar properties, are called to do more than look and feel good—they must also support sustainability goals without compromising performance or aesthetics. From seating systems and cockpits to interior lighting, the synergy between design innovation and responsible material use is what defines Next-Gen Interiors.
Key Sessions:

Interior design trends in a holistic approach that combine User experience, ergonomics & sustainable materials
Interior lighting part of the global vehicle experience, and how it interferes with CMF design
Material sustainability importance, how designers can take advantage of these new materials and be incorporated into the car brand DNA

Speakers & Panels:
Top voices from automotive interior & CMF design studios, interior lighting, Cockpit and material will share their insights. Expect keynote talks, expert panels, and roundtable sessions fostering dialogue across design, engineering, and sustainability disciplines.
Workshop Objectives:

Inspire bold, responsible interior designs with emerging trends and insights
Drive collaboration between designers, engineers, and material innovators.
Showcase breakthrough technologies redefining the cabin experience.

The DVN Interior Workshop is the industry’s premier platform dedicated to Interior Design, CMF, Smart Interior Lighting, and Sustainable Innovation. Join leading designers, CMF experts, engineers, and visionaries to explore the future of vehicle interiors—where UX/UI, material responsibility, and design excellence meet.
If you want to immerse yourself in the futuristic world of Auto interior, in the heart of the world of Design, join our workshop in Torino!

They participated:

Speakers Presentations

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Preliminary Program

Day 1 – Afternoon

Day 2 – Morning

Day 2 – Afternoon

Day 1 – January 14, 2025

03:00 pm: Registration & Welcome coffee

04:45 pm: Opening Day 1 by Paul Henri Matha – DVN

04:50 pm: SESSION 1 – INTERIOR DESIGN: DRIVING THE CAR INTERIOR FUTURE – PART 1Chairman: Paul Henri Matha – DVN

Stellantis – Michele Longo, Head of Fiat&Abarth Interior Design

FORVIA – Andreas Wlasak, Global VP Design

Granstudio – Wouter Struijk, Senior Design Manager

06:30 pm: Round tableModerator Laetitia Lopez – Freelancer

07:00 pm: Cocktail & dinner

Day 2 – January 15, 2025

08:00 am: Registration & Welcome coffee

09:00 am: SESSION 2 – INTERIOR DESIGN DRIVING THE CAR INTERIOR FUTUR – PART 2Chairman: Andreas Friedrich – DVN

Zeekr – Charles Trelogan, Interior Design Expert: Zeekr Design Europe – Pinnacle. Inside the 9X

Matikon – Thorsten Süß, Head of Global Design

LemonLab – Jimena Martinez, Consumer Research: Back in the Driver’s Seat: Decision-Making in Uncertain Times

VW-Diconium – Guang Yang, Advanced UX Designer: Culture Made Visible: CMF, Lighting, and UX Between China and Europe

Q&A & Panel discussions

10:30 am: Coffee break

11:00 am: SESSION 3 – CMF: HOW IMPORTANT IS FOR CAR MAKER DNAChairwoman: Laetitia Lopez – Freelancer

SEAT/CUPRA – Francesca Sangalli, Head of Color&Trim and Concept&Strategy CUPRA Design: How materials shape brands and create the next aesthetic frontier

SKODA – Katerina Vranova, Head of CMF Design: From vision to mission for Škoda CMF team

Q&A & Panel discussions

12:30 pm: Lunch break

02:00 pm: SESSION 4 – SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS & CMF, THE PERFECT MATCHChairman: Laurent Serezat – DVN

Stellantis – Gabriele Ciaccio, Material Manager Polymers & Sustainability, R&D Dept, CRF: Recycling challenge

Covestro – Ciro Piermatteo, Global Technical Marketing Interior: Pixel to Reality: Digital Design Freedom Meets Sustainable Interior Innovation

BCOMP – Gabriele Grezzana, Market Manager North America and United Kingdom: Setting New Standards for Automotive Interiors with Sustainable and High-Performance Natural Fibre Solutions

Q&A & Panel discussions

03:15 pm: Coffee break

03:45 pm: SESSION 5 – UX/UI, HMI,INTERIOR LIGHTING AND RENDERING TOOL. THE ULTIMATEEXPERIENCEChairman: Laurent Serezat – DVN

Iveco Group – Alessandrina Grajales, UX/UI Designer for HMI

Marelli – Salvatore Grande, Product Management: Decoding the Cabin: What Today’s Consumers Expect from Tomorrow’s Cars

Design LED/FORVIA – Martin Walker, Senior Product Development Engineer: Sustainable dynamic backlighting of automotive surfaces

TUC Technology – Ludovico Campana, Founder

Martur – Ana Bravo, CMF Designer: How CMF is evolving in the era of digital interiors: tactile + digital

Q&A & Panel discussions

05:30 pm: Closing

Exhibition

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DVN Frankfurt Sensing & Applications Conference
2025-11-19 08:00 - 2025-11-20 17:20 (Europe/Berlin)
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DVN Frankfurt Sensing & Applications Conference – November 19-20, 2025

The theme is “Emerging Markets: L2+ & Robotaxis”.
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
The 8th DVN Sensing & Applications Conference will take place on November 19-20, 2025, in Wiesbaden (Frankfurt Area). Since their inception, DVN Lidar & ADAS Conferences have quickly become the must-go technical congress to see and hear all about the latest innovations amidst the galloping growth of the automotive lidar & ADAS sector.
Aligned with the conference program, we have planned ample time during breaks to visit the exhibition and get into contact with executives, decision makers, experts, potential suppliers, customers. OEMs usually attending are BMW, Ford, GM, Hyundai Kia Motors, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche, Stellantis, Volvo, VW, Zoox, Torc Robotics, Scania, Iveco.
NEW this year:

From 2025, the new scope of DVN Lidar is DVN Sensing & Applications for ADAS/AD: as a consequence, the scope of the Conference is extended this year to all “ADAS Sensing & Applications”
More rides & drives have been planned, after the success of last year

Like last year, the conference will be held at the Dorint Pallas Hotel in Wiesbaden (about 30 minutes from Frankfurt airport or Frankfurt main railway station by train or taxi). The conference room can accommodate up to 300 participants. The exhibition area is directly adjacent to the conference room, with space for 20-25 expo booths. The exhibition area will host the cocktail and dinner event on the first day as well as all coffee breaks and lunch breaks.
Eric Amiot, DVN Sensing & Applications General Editor

Speakers presentations

To view the presentation, you must be a workshop participant or a Sensing & Applications Gold Member.

Preliminary program

Day One

Day two

DAY 1 – November 19th, 2025 – AD Applications & Markets, Perception Systems

08:00 am: Registration & Breakfast

08:30 am: Opening: DVN – Eric Amiot

08:35 am: Session 1: Applications (part1): L2+, L3 and Robotaxis

Keynote: Great Wall Motors – Peng Yan Lun, Technical Director

Keynote: WAYVE – Dan McCloskey, VP of Hardware

Keynote: VALEO – Benazouz Bradai, Dir. Innovation AD

Keynote: i4Research by Luc Bourgeois, DVN Senior Advisor: L2+ Perf. tests in China

Keynote: AUMOVIO (ex-Continental) – Bernd Hartmann, Head of Innovation Line Driveless

Keynote: APTIV – Gabor Vinci, Head of Business Dev. Advanced Safety

Q&A

10:15 am: Coffee break & exhibitor’ speeches

11:00 am: Session 2: Applications (part2), Market, Regulation

Keynote : Wideye by AGC – Raed El Makhour, Chief Product & Marketing Officer: Lidar integration through Wideye lens : Market landscape overview and Wideye innovative solutions

Keynote: Photonics21– Lutz Aschke, President: Photonics for mobility in view of the next European Framework Programme

HYUNDAI Motors – Youhoon Park, ADAS R&D

RENAULT – Javier Ibanez-Guzman, AD/ADAS Expert

YOLE – Pierrick Boulay, Market Research Senior Analyst

UNECE/GRVA – Francois Guichard, Secretary Autonomous & Connected Vehicles (speaker-tbc)

Q&A

12:20 pm: Panel-1: L2+ still mainstream market or shift to L3?

12:35 am: Lunch break & democars’ tests

02:05 pm: Session 3: Vision & Radar Systems for L2+,L3/4 applications

Keynote: MOBILEYE – Yaniv Avital, Senior VP, Radar General Manager

Keynote: ARBE robotics – Kobi Marenko, CEO

Bosch – Torge Keuter, Product Manager Radar Sensors

Forvia Hella – Dietmar Stapel, VP Program Management Radar & Heinrich Rasche-Schürmann, Head of Global Radar Frontend: High-Resolution Radar Sensor

TU-Illemenau – Prof. Dallmann: Autonomous & Connected Vehicles

Dr Dickmann, Consulting & DVN Senior Advisor: US/CN trade war: What is the impact on automotive Radar and cooperation models?

Q&A

03:25 pm: Coffee break & democars’ tests

04:10 pm: Session 4: AI, Data Management & Perception Software, Localization

Keynote: VALEO – René Karsten, Business Dev. Dir.

SUNNY Smartlead – by Ian Montandon, CEO iNet

ARCSOFT – Dr. Feng Chen, Deputy General Manager, Automotive Vision Group: Enhance Driving Safety with DMS and ADAS Fusion

ZENDAR –- Andreas vom Felde, Head of Sales EU

Universee – Prof Ting Yuan, Founder

TOMTOM – Giovanni Giancaspro, AD/ADAS Expert

Q&A

05:25 pm: Panel-2: New Trend, Vision only with AI come or raw data from all sensors?

05:40 pm: Democars’ tests06:00 pm: Cocktail07:00 pm: Dinner

DAY 2 – November 20th, 2025 – Lidar/IR Technologies, ADAS/AD Components, System Validations

08:30 am: Session 5: Lidar Sensors & Manufacturing

Keynote: AEVA – James Reuther, CTO

Keynote: VANJEE – Harmett Singh, VanJee European LiDAR Manager: How will VanJee LiDAR and perception model empower ADAS?

SEYOND – Oliver Ramoli, Business Development & Manager Key Accounts Automotive EMEIA: No One-Size-Fits-All: Understanding Global LiDAR Adoption

ROBOSENSE – Felix Yang, EU General Manager

CEPTON/KOITO – Henri Haeffner, Product & Marketing Director

SCRAMBLUX – Mirvais Yousefi, CTO

Q&A

09:50 am: Coffee break & democars’ tests

10:35 am: Session 6: New Technologies – Lidar, IR, Gated Cameras

Keynote: LUMOTIVE – Apurva Jain, CTO: Light Control Metasurface

Keynote: VOYANT– Chris Phare, Co-founder

Keynote: COMPAL – Richard Seoane, General Manager IR Systems: Improving Safety with Infrared Technology L2 and beyond

ADAS_Management Consulting – Walter Hagleitner, CEO: Active Gated Imaging

Joachim Tiedeke, Inventor, ex-Simens VDO, CTO Driver Assistance: SensLight: LEDSens

Werner Ritter, ex-Mercedes manager for Vision Enhancement

Q&A

12:10 pm: Panel-3: Key factors for AD deployment: affordable sensors, easy integration

12:25 pm: Lunch break & democars’ tests

01:55 pm: Session 7: ADAS/AD System Architecture, Validation & Simulation

Keynote: DEKRA – Uwe Burkhardt, Testing Manager @Lautsitzring

AVL – Heiko Scharke, Sr Global Product Manager ADAS/AD Tools & Solutions

KOGNIC – Tom Dahlström, Sales: Beyond LiDAR: constructing data pipelines for multi-modal perception

Super Computing Systems / SCS – Felix Eberli, Head of ADAS Dept.

ANSYS – David Auger, Lionel Bennes – Lead Product Manager

PERSIVAL – Christoph Popp, Senior Engineer: The Roadmap towards Continuous Validation of Sensor Models

Q&A

03:05 pm: Coffee break & democars’ tests

03:50 pm: Session 8: ADAS Components – Sensors & Systems

Keynote: NXP – Huanyu Gu, Dir. Product Marketing & Business Dev.

SCHOTT – Sandra Von Fintel, Sr Product Manager

CHASM – Dan Skika, CEO

ADAPS Photonics – Changtao Hou, Deputy General Manager: SPAD array fusing Lidar and image sensor paves way for fusion of 2D & 3D data

FORTSENSE – Lin Feng, Deputy General Manager of R&D: Fortsense All-direction Optical Control™️ drives the implementation of vehicle-mounted Solid-State LiDAR mass production

MOCOM – Karolina Guicking, Product Specialist & Martin Kahl, Business Development Manager: Materials for Automotive Sensing

Q&A

05:05 pm: Panel-4: Lidar, Imaging radar competition or complementarity – key-factors

05:20 pm: Closing of the conference

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DVN Shanghai Lighting Workshop 2025
2025-10-29 08:00 - 2025-10-30 17:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Golden Furnace • China Baowu Steel Conference Center, Shanghai, China
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The 37th DVN Lighting workshop will take place in Shanghai on October 29-30, 2025.
DVN are back in China for the 8th time. This past April, we witnessed the impressive development speed in China, the large number of new vehicle reveals, and the super-crowded event. Now, six months on, we sit down and take time, all together, to analyze the lighting content presented at the Shanghai auto show, and to see what’s coming next.So the primary main anchors for the event are speed, cost, and technology, and the theme is Vehicle Lighting Tech, Cost, & Speed in China’s Disruptive Market.
At the Shanghai auto show, three lighting trends held my attention:
Personalization and gamification in the UX and hardware and software content of interior and exterior lighting;The need for V2X communications – ISDs, turquoise AD lamps, etc – especially for vehicles with L2+ or L3 ADAS and AD content;The interior-lighting shift from static solutions focused on wellbeing to sequential solutions to communicate with the driver.Based on these observations, we are organizing an event at a conference centre where we will have exhibition space, including a dark room for interior and exterior lighting demonstrations. The vehicle exhibition will be extended, too, with more vehicles to see and analyze.
Sessions will include safety, lighting performance, light source development (including LED, mini- and microLED, OLED, and laser), EE architecture, regulation, car body lighting (charging lamps, lit bumpers · grilles · logos, ISDs, road projections), lighting for design, and – for the first time – an interior lighting session.
Young designers from the China Academy of Art will present their vehicle lighting design projects and describe how they have integrated lighting into the cars. They will also take part in the panel discussion about vehicle design and lighting needs.
This Shanghai DVN Workshop will bring together more than 500 participants from all over the world. Experts, researchers, managers, designers, engineers…and you!

Speakers

Preliminary Program

Tab 1

DAY 2

Tab 3

Tab 4

Tab 5

08:00 am: Registration & Breakfast

09:30 am: Opening & Welcome by DVN – Paul Henri Matha, CEO with:

China Association of Automobile Manufacturers – Ye Shengji, Chief Engineer

BYD 13th Business Unit/Fudi Lighting – Sun Shixiang, Vice General Manager

09:45 am: Keynote speeches

Automobility Limited – Bill Russo, Founder & CEO: How China’s Digital Ecosystems are Re-Shaping Intelligent Connectivity

Trendforce – Joanne Wu, Assistant Vice President: 2025 Micro/Mini LED Automotive Lighting and Display Trend (Incl. P-HUD and Micro LED display)

China Academy of Art – James Hope: Design Trends

10:30 am: Exhibitors pitches

11:00 am: SESSION 1 – Part 1: Interior LightingChairman: Joachim Reil, ams OSRAM

DVN – Paul-Henri Matha, CEO: Trends and Challenges

Yanfeng – Christophe Pincemin, DGM Smart Interiors / Smart Interiors BU, Executive Director Smart Surfaces & Lighting / YFITC: Interior Lighting Next Trends and Innovations

FORVIA HELLA – Wang Mengmeng, Interior Lighting Design Senior Supervisor: FORVIA HELLA Interior Lighting Innovative Solutions

Antolin – Sunny Mu, Interior Lighting & Electronics Engineering Manager: Antolin Intelligent Interior Lighting

Rebo – Pietro Postal, Director of Electronics: Scalability of Interior Lighting Electronics

Q&A

12:00 pm: Lunch Break

01:30 pm: SESSION 1 – Part 2: Interior Lighting EE architectureChairman: Hans-Joachim Schwabe, DVN

Brightek – C.H. Tzeng, General Manager: LIN-Lite Smart LED – Next-gen Innovation for High-Efficiency Ambient Lighting

Inova – Bernhard Andretzky, Senior Technical Sales Manager: ISELED the automotive ambient lighting standard

Lumissil – Eben Qiu, Application Senior Manager: Lumissil Dynamic ambient lighting driver chip

Indiemicro – Jim Zhuang, Senior Marketing Director

Macroblock– Steve Ho, Special Assistant to the General Manager: Smart Cockpit Ambient Lighting: From Single-color to Dynamic Multi-zone Dimming

Novosense – Andreas Zhang Marketing Director: Novosense empowers automotive lighting

ams OSRAM – Lufei Shen, Product Manager: Emerging Trends in Automotive Electronics and Lighting Solutions

02:40 pm: SESSION 2: Automotive lighting EE session & SDVChairman: Wolfgang Huhn, DVN

Seso – Brian Tai, CMO: Innovative ideas for vehicle lighting connectivity solutions

Novosense – Jack Deng, Product Application Manager: Empowering the Future of Intelligent Automotive Lighting with NOVOSENSE Innovative Solutions

Continental – Xu Bingyang, Head of S6 RD China, Architecture and Networking (AN)

Infineon – Xing Su, Principle Field Application Engineer: Lighting the Future: GaN Technology for Automotive Front Lighting, and the Emerging Role of Ambient Interior Lighting

Onsemi – Preparing Automotive Headlamps for the Era of Software-Defined Vehicles

MIND – Yu Shijie, Director of Electronics: Lighting Electronics Architecture Trends In The Era of SDV

03:40 pm: Coffee Break

04:30 pm: VIP cornerChairman: Wolfgang Huhn, DVN

Opening speeches:

Hasco Vision – Ao Jinlong, Vice General Manager & CTO

Lighting and Lamps Subcommittee of the National Automotive Standardization Technical Committee – Bu Weili, Secretary General

04:45 pm: Lighting KeynotesChairman: Wolfgang Huhn, DVN

Liaowang – Gu Dan, President: User-Centric Thinking and Product Innovation

Ennostar – Mr. CN Huang, VP of Advanced Research Center: The Path to Compact and Integrated Automotive Lighting

S&P Mobility – Laura Dong, Sr. Research Analyst: Data Insight: China Automotive Lighting Market Forecast

05:30 pm: Leaders Round Table with DesignersChairmen : Wolfgang Huhn, DVN & Paul Henri Matha, DVN CEO

06:00 pm: Cocktail

07:00 pm: Dinner with Award Ceremony

08:00 am: Registration & Breakfast

09:00 am: Welcome by DVN – Paul Henri Matha, CEO

09:15 am: SESSION 3 – Part 1: Lighting Exterior DesignChairman: Qiong Chen, Audi

Chery QQ – Liu Yujie, Styling Engineering Manager : QQ5 concept car lamp technology sharing – design and engineering integration from concept to mass production

Geely – Carl: Geely’s Innovation in Automotive Lighting

Hasco Vision – Yang Fan, Creative Styling Designer: Freely Combined Micro-Lens Headlights – Innovative Integration of styling and Full-Scenario application

Optiseen – 1.5x Optical Integrated Light Source: Innovative & Cost-Effective Approach for Automotive Lighting

BrightView Technologies – Michael Murphy, CCO: Advanced Automotive Lighting through Computational Optics

Sabic– Melody Jin, Lead Scientist: Mobility & Energy Simulation Capabilities Excellence Empower Lighting Innovation

Q&A

10:30 am: Coffee Break

11:00 am: SESSION 3 – Part 2: Lighting Exterior DesignChairman: Peter Cao, Marelli

Huaju – Jia Zhenqing, Vice President & Project Director: The Application and Case of Artificial Crystal Materials in Automobiles

Nissha – Zou Mengjia: “Lumistyle” by Nissha, Innovative lighting pattern design

IM Motor – Ma Mudi, Senior Expert of automotive interior and exterior lighting market: IM Motor Smart Lighting Approach of Product Matrix

Roehm – Zhong SHEN, Head of Technology: Lighting the Future: How PLEXIGLAS® PMMA Transforms Automotive Design with Style and Performance

MIND – Dai Jie, Styling Director: Research On The Styling Trends In The Era of Intelligent Driving – From Regulation to Design

Dongfeng – Henning Knoepfle, Design Director: “Revisit, Revise, Revitalize”, using light signature to signal brand transformation

Chery – Zi Haifeng, Senior Chief Engineer: Innovative Development of Smart Lighting Based on Scenario Applications

11:50 am: Round table (with Hasco Vision – Yang Fan, Creative Styling Designer, Mind – Dai Jie, Styling Director, Dongfeng – Henning Knoepfle, Design Director, China Academy of Art – James Hope; BAIC Group – Daekeun Kim, Chief of Lighting Communication Design; Dreame – Julien Campoy-Amador, Exterior Designer, Xingyu – Jiang Qinglian)

12:15 pm: Lunch Break

01:30 pm: SESSION 4: Lighting and Safety PerformanceChairman: Wolfgang Huhn, DVN

Xingyu – Tongyang Zhao , Department Leader , Product Design Department: Regulation-Driven, Digital Lighting: From Passive Compliance to Active Guardianship

Sunex – Ingo Foldvari, Director of Business Development: Insights and Future Perspectives for Hybrid Lens Designs in High-Resolution µLED Headlamps

ZKW: Vertical Designs for Main Beam Solutions: Challenges of Legal Requirements and Consumer Ratings

Zhijiang – Li Yunlong, Senior Research Fellow: Adhesive system solutions for headlight bonding

Ford – Henry Shi, Automotive Lighting Senior Engineer: ADB Systems: Deglare and Lighting Strategies Discussion

China Automobile Intelligent Technology (Tianjin) – Zhao Zhun: Introduction to the Draft of C-NCAP 2027 Lighting Safety Test Regulations

Lumileds – Keanu Ma, Director of Asia-Pacific Technology Center: LUXEON MxN Gen2 — SmartFlex Design supporting flexible and customizable ADB solution

LMT & TechnoTeam – Claire Yang, Regional Manager Aisa-Pacific LMT & Bob Liu, Managing Director Light-All: Current Challenges in Automotive Lighting Testing: Goniophotometry of XXL Lighting and Signalling Components; High Speed LID Generation of Front Lighting for EOL and R&D

Valeo – Zhao Fang, Mechanical Expert: Just in Light: An Energy-Efficient Approach to Automotive Lighting

Q&A

03:00 pm: Coffee Break

03:30 pm: SESSION 5: Lighting and Exterior HMIChairman: Paul Henri Matha, DVN

FORVIA HELLA – SU Haowen, Innovation Manager: The Automotive Lighting Revolution in the Age of Intelligence: The Evolutionary Path of Exterior Lighting from Functional Illumination to Scenario Symbiosis

APT– Esther Law Auto LED Business Unit, R&D Senior Engineer: Automotive LED and Module on Exterior Interactive Signal Display

FAW-VW – Guo Yong, Senior Manager: A Brief Discussion on Intelligent Interactive Social Display

Lynk&Co – Alsed Briscoe, Exterior Chief Designer & Joel Hake, Senior Exterior Conceptualist: Designing with Light: The Lynk & Co 900 Story

ANRUI – Zhang Yunfei, R&D Deputy Director: RGB DLP redefines the interaction between human, vehicle, and road

Appotronics – Dr Han Meng, Senior Marketing Director: All-in-One Laser Digital Color Projection Headlamp

Q&A

05:00 pm: SESSION 6: Lighting RegulatoryChairman: Wolfgang Huhn, GTB

CATARC

Xingyu – Zhu Caiping

GTB – Davide Puglisi

SMVIC – Bu Weili & Wang Wei

05:30 pm: Closing

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FAQ

Are tickets refundable or transferable? Tickets are non-refundable but may be transferable. Please contact us directly for any ticket transfer requests. Is there parking available at the venue? Yes, there will be designated parking areas at the venue. Valet services might also be available. Can dietary restrictions or allergies be accommodated? We aim to accommodate dietary restrictions. Please inform us in advance by contacting our team to ensure appropriate arrangements.
