This past week, your DVN team put on our last event of 2023: the Lidar Conference, with around 160 attendees in Wiesbaden.
Lidar is very much a central topic for DVN. That’s why we have a lidar-specific business unit, led by Eric Amiot, with support from Martin Booth in the USA, and Alain Servel in France—really a terrific team. It was the first time I attended as part of DVN, and I was quite impressed by the quality of the presentations and the atmosphere in the room.
Not long ago, lidar integration in lamps was nothing but an interesting possibility. As it has happened, most makers are choosing to put long-range lidar on the roof, especially for highway pilot functions. But lidar integration in lamps is still on stage for short-range detection in L4 and L5 vehicles, particularly with FMCW lidar technology. That’s the focus of this week’s in-depth article.
And now, the DVN lighting team are focusing on 2024!
We are preparing actively our first event in Munich, on 27-28 February, with the theme Design and Lighting Technology and Electrical Architecture to Support New Mobility. We’re adjusting the organisation of this event: to make it more interactive, there will be ten sessions: Design · Electrical Architecture · MLA · Trucks · Motorbikes · ADB · Exterior Displays · V2X · Complete Front and Rear · Sustainability. Each session will have presentations from automakers and tier-1 and -2 suppliers.
Also new: every exhibitor can make a 1-minute pitch at the beginning of the event to talk about their company and the attractions at their booth, and we will make an official visit to each booth during the first day.
There will be three panel discussions with interactive audience participation supported by the Slido app. The survey questions will be sent to all DVN members a month beforehand to have additional feedback, which we’ll use to shape the panel discussion topics for maximum relevance.
Then the next event will be in Detroit on 11-12 June. I am investigating the possibility to organise a night drive with US-spec ADB demo cars from automakers and suppliers—stay tuned!
In September we will go back to India for an event in Pune (our last event in India was in Delhi in 2016). We have seen big interest from Indian automakers and suppliers to attend such an event. LED penetration in India is a central topic, with others besides, so watch for the date and docket as they develop.
To close the year, we will be back in Shanghai, in November.
As always, we shall strive—we’re already working—to make each and every event better than the previous one. We treasure your support; these events are your events, and without you we cannot do anything worthy. So by all means, if you see something (as the saying goes), say something! Got a thought for how any of these events might be made better? Please give us a shout about it.
