We hope you had a grand holiday and are off to a fine start in 2018. At DVN we’ve done an enormous amount of work over the last year, and I am proud to present our plans for 2018. As usual, DVN will carry on with our custom: 52 newsletters, one every single week, and at least 11 Reports. We will cover congresses, workshops, and auto shows, publishing reports on the main events including NAIAS, Geneva, and Mondial; Munich and Tokyo DVN Workshops, VISION Congress, and for the first time CES Las Vegas. We will work hard this year to bring you five especially-requested reports:
- Engineering companies involved in lighting
- Japanese lighting market
- Varroc profile
- Camera technologies
- Volkswagen profile
Two DVN Workshops are planned in 2018, one in Munich, and the second one in Tokyo. That Munich Workshop is coming soon, at the end of this month on 30–31 January at the Hilton Munich Airport Hotel. The world’s greatest lighting minds will come together at this DVN event to talk about digital light. Speakers include:
- Christian Amann, BMW General Manager of Lighting & Visibility systems
- Wolfgang Huhn, Audi General Manager of Lighting and Vision,
- Uwe Kostanzer, Mercedes-Benz General Manager of Exterior Lighting Development
- Wickramasinghe Shammika, JLR Technical Specialist for Exterior Lighting
- Paul-Henri Matha, Lighting Expert at Renault
- Carlos Elvira, SEAT’s Lighting Manager
- Thorsten Warwel, Ford Lighting Core Manager
- Whilk Gonçalves, PSA Specialist on Lighting and Signalisation Innovation
- Kamislav Fadel, Hella Lighting R&D Director
- Gerd Bahnmüller from Automotive Lighting
- Ralf Klädtke, ZKW’s CTO and Vice Chairman
- Laurent Evrard, Valeo Visibility Systems’ R&D Director
- Rainer Neumann, Varroc Lighting’s VP of Global Technology
- Satoshi Yamamura, Koito’s Deputy General Manager, and
- Liang Deng, XingYu’s R&D team leader
Two panel discussions will be held, with themes Scientific Contributions on Digital Light from 4 Universities, and Brainstorming on the Future of Digital Light.
An award ceremony will also take place celebrating the first 10 years of DVN.
Ten demo-cars (prototypes or newly-launched cars) will be displayed outdoors.
For more information and details about the Munich workshop program follow this link. Be sure and download the new DVN Workshop app from the Apple store or Google Play store.
Registration must close very soon, as safety rules prevent us welcoming more than 320 attendees.
The whole DVN team and I send you again our friendly wishes for the new year.
Sincerely yours
DVN President 