For decades, our automotive lighting community has benefited from the work and lectures of exceptional whole-career experts like Wolfgang Huhn (DVN Person of the Decade 2000-’09), Rainer Neumann (DVN Person of the Year 2013), and Michael Hamm (DVN Person of the Year 2011). Now we are witnessing the arrival of a new generation of “bright lights” in lighting, such as Hella’s Michael Kleinkes and Valeo’s Pierre Albou, both of whom gave notably excellent lectures at VISION and ISAL; AL’s Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, always presenting key lectures at lighting congresses; and Koito’s Satoshi Yamamura, a winner at ISAL and DVN Paris workshop. And while Europe for many years was where most vehicle lighting innovation originated, today’s and tomorrow’s new ideas, technologies, and techniques—and the people who devise and develop them—come from Japan, from Korea, from Canada and the USA, from New Zealand and Australia, from Brazil and Argentina.
To help you get acquainted with some of the new names in the automotive lighting community, we’ll be publishing a series of interviews with these future senior experts. Each month, we’ll interview one. This week, our interview with AL’s Claude Penn initiates the series. After tenures at Valeo and Renault, Penn signed on as R&D Director of AL Asia. He has a great knowledge in lighting and will make a lecture and chair a panel discussion at the DVN Seoul workshop later this month.
DVN Seoul Workshop—Get In While You Can!
The registration list will be closed on Wednesday 18 June and possibly before then, if the limit of 180 attendees is achieved early. If you haven’t yet signed up, now’s your last chance! Get the info and fill out your registration online . Only a few rooms are left at the Ritz-Carlton, hurry-up. We’ll see you there!
Sincerely yours
DVN Editor in Chief