Each and every one of the 270 attendees gathered at the grand Ritz Carlton Tokyo for the DVN Workshop today have my sincere gratitude. It’s my great pleasure and high honour to welcome 15 car makers, 13 set makers, 32 Tier-2 companies, ten organisations…in total over 70 outfits. I also thank the 25 exhibitors whose innovative products make such a fine and intriguing set of presentations, and of course the 25 speakers for their central involvment in making this workshop into the latest in a series of successful, productive, fruitful DVN Workshops.
So many things are changing right now in vehicle lighting. So many new questions are being asked, fundamental assumptions are being rethought, and decisions are being collaboratively made that will shape our world for many years to come.That’s what makes DVN Workshops so pivotal, and the capacity-crowds at every DVN Workshop demonstrate the strong interest of the lighting and ADAS community in being brought up to date on the latest innovations and ideas and taking benefit of the networking opportunities really not available anywhere else.
Today’s workshop is divided in three parts: there’s an important keynote address by Honda’s Ryou Chijimatsu on the future prospects for vehicle lighting; 25 lectures from automakers, set makers, and other companies, all given by senior VIPs in their respective companies’ lighting divisions; then there’s a panel discussion chaired by the highly accomplished GTB President Geoff Draper, who is assembling ten of the world’s finest minds in lighting regulation to discuss and debate the future of global regulations for vehicle lights.
If you’re attending the Workshop, be sure to download the DVN Workshop app for your iPhone or Android phone. In the app, you’ll find all the information concerning the workshop, as well as the newsletter just released today for ready reference. During the Workshop, you can use the app to find your way to the sessions and exhibitions that interest you most, to rate the lectures, and to quickly and easily pose questions to the speakers in real time.
In this week’s news, we’ve got updates on the case of the pedestrian killed by a self-driving Uber car with an inattentive “safety driver” behind the wheel last Spring. There are some obvious and not-so-obvious conclusions arising as new information and analysis becomes available, and a very thought-provoking idea by University of Michigan professor Matthew Johnson-Roberson, so give it a read.
And if you haven’t yet got your copy of the Japanese vehicle lighting report that went live last week, go ahead; it’s packed full of facts, figures, and interviews.
Sincerely yours
DVN President