We have been preparing our DVN Munich Event since last September, working to bring in more interaction. We’re designing it for participants to be active the full two days of the workshop.
To that end, we’ve decided to increase the number of keynote speakers. And we’re dividing the sessions thematically with focus on EE, design, display, ADB, and sustainability. We’ll have a one-hour pitch session for our exhibitor, and more round tables. We’ve scheduled a market insight session so everyone will be primed to discuss it during the cocktail hour immediately following. One session will be dedicated to design, ending in a panel discussion with designers to interact with the audience via the Slido app, which has made audience participation easy and fun at past DVN events, and input via that channel will be fed back in as fresh material for the panel discussion.
We’ve had another idea, too: we’ve integrated step-by-step design because design is now the second pillar of lighting devices (and it’s headed toward overtaking safety performance to become the first pillar). So with those two pillars in flux, we’ve broadened the focus and scope to encourage interactive participation involving the whole lighting community and supply chain as part of our event. Business development, sales, marketing, purchasing people are participating, so we’re welcoming them to speak up. And that’s in addition to CEOs giving keynote speeches or otherwise participating.
So…why not organize a CEO round table? Wolfgang and Hector and I thought hard about it, and in the end, we decided it’s a good idea. For a start, each of us contacted two CEOs. Five months later, we are able to propose, for the first time at a lighting event, a lighting CEO panel discussion to talk about the stakes that the automotive industry faces—especially the vehicle lighting industry.
You won’t want to miss this central element of our 2-day workshop, with the rubric:
The automotive industry is in transformation; what opportunities do you see for our business?
