08:00

Registration

09:00

[Welcome remarks]

Peter Gresch Peter Gresch Managing Partner, OptE GP Consulting
09:10

[Keynote] DVN Lighting VISION - Interior Lighting trends

Paul Henri Matha, CEO & Lighting Editor, Driving Vision News, Speaker at the AILC 2025 Paul Henri Matha CEO & Lighting Editor, DVN (Driving Vision News)
09:40

[Keynote] Audi.Digital.Light - Safety.Communication.Personalization

Stephan Berlitz Stephan Berlitz Head of Exterior Lighting Development, AUDI AG
10:10

Coffee Break

10:40

[Presentation] Challenges of complex Headlamps - Modules and Lighting-Concepts

DI. Gerald Böhm DI. Gerald Böhm Innovation and Products, Technology Relationship Management Principal, ZKW Group GmbH
11:10

[Presentation] Innovation Under Pressure - Meeting Market Demands with Advanced Lighting Technologies

Martin Vollmer (M. Sc.) Martin Vollmer (M. Sc.) Vice President Innovation | Business Group Lighting @Forvia Hella & Member of the Board of Management at BrightView-Technologies (Forvia Hella invested into this US based company)
11:40

[Panel]

Stephan Berlitz Stephan Berlitz Head of Exterior Lighting Development, AUDI AG Paul Henri Matha, CEO & Lighting Editor, Driving Vision News, Speaker at the AILC 2025 Paul Henri Matha CEO & Lighting Editor, DVN (Driving Vision News) Portraitfoto von Dr. Christian Amsel, Chief Technology Officer, ZKW Group GmbH Dr. Christian Amsel Chief Technology Officer, ZKW Group GmbH Peter Gresch Peter Gresch Managing Partner, OptE GP Consulting
12:20

Lunch Break

13:30

[Keynote] Interior Trends

Otmar Rauchensteiner Otmar Rauchensteiner Senior Vice President. Head of Technical Engineering Interior; DST Dräxlmaier Systemtechnik GmbH
14:00

[Keynote] Interior Lighting im digitalen Zwilling – Simulation trifft Realität

Stefan Menninger Stefan Menninger Head of Pre-Development & Product Management, Preh GmbH Picture of Johannes Dünninger, Preh GmbH Johannes Dünninger Senior Development Engineer for System Engineering, Preh GmbH
14:30

[Keynote] Lighting up the future: latest key trends of China Interior Lighting & Smart Cabin design

Christophe Pincemin Christophe Pincemin Deputy General Manager Smart Interiors Business Unit & Executive Director Smart Surfaces & Lighting, Yangfeng
15:00

Coffee Break

15:30

[Keynote] From Sound to Light: Opportunities and Challenges of Sound Visualization through Semantic Audio Analysis

Christoph Sladeczek Christoph Sladeczek Head of Virtual Acoustics, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT
16:00

[Keynote]

Joern Conze Joern Conze SVP Sales, Managing Director, Elmos
16:30

[Presentation] Unleash design limitations with ultra small mainlight modules

Markus Krautscheid Markus Krautscheid Head of Optical Engineering, LIGHTWORKS GmbH
17:00

Innovation: The Smart LED – Disrupting the Automotive Interior Lighting Market

Thomas Rothhaupt Thomas Rothhaupt Director Sales & Marketing, Inova Semiconductors GmbH
17:20

Closing remarks

Peter Gresch Peter Gresch Managing Partner, OptE GP Consulting
17:25

Get together

19:00

End of the event