Time flies. It is 20 August—one year (already!) since I joined the DVN team. And what a busy year it has been.
No time to sleep; 10 days after I joined, we were in San Francisco for our first DVN event in California. It was great to see new faces from the Silicon Valley automotive ecosystem—first time for me. From September, I really started my daily activity with DVN team. In a nutshell:
- Organization of DVN lighting events: Shanghai November 2023, Munich February 2024, Detroit June 2024 and now Pune September 2024. Each event was a success. In Munich and Detroit, we had more than 400 attendees for the first time. We have reached more than 30 exhibitors, too, for the first time.
- Interviews and customer visits to be able to write the content of the weekly DVN newsletter.
- Monthly technical reports with support from DVN senior advisors
- Yearly study publishing (ADB in 2023 and now we focus on the 2024 ISD study)
- Growing the DVN team and network—we are glad to have welcomed 31 new lighting members in one year
- Smooth transfer of my GTB assignment (Chairman of WG-Installation to Alexander Cosic from JLR and Co-chair of WG-Strategy to Achim Freiding from Hyundai Europe), finalized last month in my last GTB meeting in Charlotte, USA
All along the year, Hector Fratty gave me support and advice to be able to handle his previous tasks. I try to add my own added value. I hope you like what we changed. As always, I am listening—we all are, on the DVN team. Please feel free to write me to share your thoughts, ideas, and requests so we can continue improving the value you get for your DVN participation.
Thank you Hector, Jean Claude, and Geoffrey for your trust. Thank you all DVN consultants and senior advisers for the job you are doing to maintain and boost DVN as the reference resource for the vehicle lighting and driver-assistance world. And—most of all—thank you all DVN members. Without your active participation, we could not exist.
I said the year was really busy. That’s why I needed a summer break to recharge the battery again and think about DVN’s future. Starting here and now, the DVNewsletter is back in print!
Sincerely yours,
