The Tokyo DVN Workshop was held last week, for the first time since 2018. It was a great success with 250 registrants from around 100 companies, including 50 attendees from 14 automakers: Audi; Daihatsu; Geely; Honda; Hyundai; Jaguar Land Rover; Mazda; Mitsubishi; Nio; Nissan; Subaru; Suzuki; Toyota, and Volvo. And 100 attendees from 12 tier-1s: Hasco Vision; Hyundai Mobis; Ichikoh; Koito; Marelli; Mind; Plastic Omnium; SL; Stanley; Valeo; Varroc, and XingYu.
Everything went great! There were four keynotes from Honda; Valeo; DVN, and Osaka University. Five lectures from Toyota; Mitsubishi; Audi; Volvo, and Geely. And four sessions with 25 lectures from lighting suppliers.
As always, the regulation session attracted great interest and spurred spirited discussion; it was broadly supported by prominent regulation-and-standards organisations including JASIC; JAMA; JAPIA, and GTB. It got under way with an opening speech by JASIC’s director, followed by presentations from GTB on regulatory developments in GTB and the GRE working group on lighting and signalling regulatory simplification. For the first time, an interactive round table was held with around 100 active participants, garnering positive feedback on illuminated grilleboards and logos—less so in re greeting animations.
The expo booths were amazing, showing off a grand cornucopia of innovation from Koito; Stanley; Valeo-Ichikoh; AMS Osram; Lumileds; Nichia; OLEDWorks; AML Systems; Auer; Bicom Optics; Covestro; LG Innotek; LMT & TechnoTeam; Synopsys; Suss MicroOptics; Spy, and Yejia.
Watch for our full report, which will be published next week.
Sincerely yours,
