DVN Workshops are rapidly becoming the go-to events for the community to convene in an open, low-stress environment to exchange ideas and formulate strategies. Attendance has grown rapidly from each workshop to the next. After the success of our three first DVN workshops in Europe in 2009, 2010, and 2011; in 2012 and 2013 we branched out to America, Japan, and China. Now it’s time to come back to Europe!
The 8th DVN workshop will be held in Paris next February 25th with a dinner the evening before. It will take place at a 5-star hotel located just 500 metres from the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysées. We anticipate it will be an excellent starter to 2014’s schedule of vehicle lighting and driver assistance conferences.
The workshop will be focused on the future; the rubric is Automotive Lighting Technologies in 2020–2025. There will be lectures from OEMs, Tier-1 and -2 lighting suppliers, research institutes, and regulators.
One of the most difficult things for a manager is to acquire a complete working vision of the technologies in his or her domain, so as to make solid choices tailored for the company and its markets, and to wisely allocate investments in engineering and production, people, and materials. This next DVN workshop, as others before it, goes directly to that goal. Through lectures, exhibitions, and networking, practitioners and regulators will gain insight into which of the burgeoning nascent lighting technologies will be attractive in the future, and in what timeframes. Unlike congresses and symposia with their academic focus, DVN workshops are orientated to managers who who have to take decisions. We build in time to ask questions, to talk with the speakers and to network around the booths. It’s a matchless opportunity for all of us to talk and listen with each other.
So what’s to discuss? Plenty! LEDs, OLEDs, and lasers are the light sources of the future, of course, but there are clear signs of at least a few years’ window of opportunity for 25w HID. As for optical technique: matrix beam, scanning lasers, glare-free high beam, and spot marking lights will be the stars of the next decade.
Sincerely yours
DVN Editor in Chief