Each DVN Workshop has been a great success, with all the expo booth spaces generally reserved a month or two before the event, and the attendee spaces all snapped up by about two weeks beforehand.
This consistent demand shows the real and ongoing value in these events where automakers present their needs, lighting suppliers show their achievements, innovations, and goals, researchers describe what they’ve learnt, and regulators talk and listen perhaps more openly than in any other venue. There is also an ongoing trust in DVN, which we’d like to think results from our constant efforts to provide useful, timely information and analysis, not wasting your time or resources with material you can find elsewhere, choosing the best hotels, organising the best areas for exhibitions and conferences, and responding to your feedback—for example with the DVN smartphone app to let Workshop attendees easily find what they need and easily participate in Q&A dialogue with speakers.
My heartfelt thanks to all of you: together we have built a community to efficiently keep you up to date with the latest discoveries, innovations, efforts, ideas, and regulations…and in touch with an incomparable network of your peers. We’re looking forward to a fresh instalment of that success at the Tokyo Workshop in a few days’ time.
This week you’ll find an interesting in-depth report from GTB President Geoff Draper, who present the results of last week’s GTB meeting in Kyoto. Take a look and learn about the enormous progress toward UN Regulation reform and global regulatory synchronisation being achieved under Draper’s able stewardship, with the coöperative effort of experts from round the world.
Finally, it is with sadness that we note the untimely death of Brad Van Riper, Truck-Lite’s Senior VP. Among his many accomplishments and involvments in the lighting world, he was active in the DVN community and we will sorely miss him and his contributions.
Sincerely yours
DVN President