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DVN Frankfurt Sensing & Applications Conference
November 19, 2025 @ 8:00 am – November 20, 2025 @ 5:20 pm
DVN Frankfurt Sensing & Applications Conference – November 19-20, 2025
The theme is “Emerging Markets: L2+ & Robotaxis”.
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
The 8th DVN Sensing & Applications Conference will take place on November 19-20, 2025, in Wiesbaden (Frankfurt Area). Since their inception, DVN Lidar & ADAS Conferences have quickly become the must-go technical congress to see and hear all about the latest innovations amidst the galloping growth of the automotive lidar & ADAS sector.
Aligned with the conference program, we have planned ample time during breaks to visit the exhibition and get into contact with executives, decision makers, experts, potential suppliers, customers. OEMs usually attending are BMW, Ford, GM, Hyundai Kia Motors, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche, Stellantis, Volvo, VW, Zoox, Torc Robotics, Scania, Iveco.
NEW this year:
- From 2025, the new scope of DVN Lidar is DVN Sensing & Applications for ADAS/AD: as a consequence, the scope of the Conference is extended this year to all “ADAS Sensing & Applications”
- More rides & drives have been planned, after the success of last year
Like last year, the conference will be held at the Dorint Pallas Hotel in Wiesbaden (about 30 minutes from Frankfurt airport or Frankfurt main railway station by train or taxi). The conference room can accommodate up to 300 participants. The exhibition area is directly adjacent to the conference room, with space for 20-25 expo booths. The exhibition area will host the cocktail and dinner event on the first day as well as all coffee breaks and lunch breaks.
Eric Amiot, DVN Sensing & Applications General Editor
Speakers presentations
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Preliminary program
DAY 1 – November 19th, 2025 – AD Applications & Markets, Perception Systems
08:00 am: Registration & Breakfast
08:30 am: Opening: DVN – Eric Amiot
08:35 am: Session 1: Applications (part1): L2+, L3 and Robotaxis
- Keynote: Great Wall Motors – Peng Yan Lun, Technical Director
- Keynote: WAYVE – Dan McCloskey, VP of Hardware
- Keynote: VALEO – Benazouz Bradai, Dir. Innovation AD
- Keynote: i4Research by Luc Bourgeois, DVN Senior Advisor: L2+ Perf. tests in China
- Keynote: AUMOVIO (ex-Continental) – Bernd Hartmann, Head of Innovation Line Driveless
- Keynote: APTIV – Gabor Vinci, Head of Business Dev. Advanced Safety
- Q&A
10:15 am: Coffee break & exhibitor’ speeches
11:00 am: Session 2: Applications (part2), Market, Regulation
- Keynote : Wideye by AGC – Raed El Makhour, Chief Product & Marketing Officer: Lidar integration through Wideye lens : Market landscape overview and Wideye innovative solutions
- Keynote: Photonics21– Lutz Aschke, President: Photonics for mobility in view of the next European Framework Programme
- HYUNDAI Motors – Youhoon Park, ADAS R&D
- RENAULT – Javier Ibanez-Guzman, AD/ADAS Expert
- YOLE – Pierrick Boulay, Market Research Senior Analyst
- UNECE/GRVA – Francois Guichard, Secretary Autonomous & Connected Vehicles (speaker-tbc)
- Q&A
12:20 pm: Panel-1: L2+ still mainstream market or shift to L3?
12:35 am: Lunch break & democars’ tests
02:05 pm: Session 3: Vision & Radar Systems for L2+,L3/4 applications
- Keynote: MOBILEYE – Yaniv Avital, Senior VP, Radar General Manager
- Keynote: ARBE robotics – Kobi Marenko, CEO
- Bosch – Torge Keuter, Product Manager Radar Sensors
- Forvia Hella – Dietmar Stapel, VP Program Management Radar & Heinrich Rasche-Schürmann, Head of Global Radar Frontend: High-Resolution Radar Sensor
- TU-Illemenau – Prof. Dallmann: Autonomous & Connected Vehicles
- Dr Dickmann, Consulting & DVN Senior Advisor: US/CN trade war: What is the impact on automotive Radar and cooperation models?
- Q&A
03:25 pm: Coffee break & democars’ tests
04:10 pm: Session 4: AI, Data Management & Perception Software, Localization
- Keynote: VALEO – René Karsten, Business Dev. Dir.
- SUNNY Smartlead – by Ian Montandon, CEO iNet
- ARCSOFT – Dr. Feng Chen, Deputy General Manager, Automotive Vision Group: Enhance Driving Safety with DMS and ADAS Fusion
- ZENDAR –- Andreas vom Felde, Head of Sales EU
- Universee – Prof Ting Yuan, Founder
- TOMTOM – Giovanni Giancaspro, AD/ADAS Expert
- Q&A
05:25 pm: Panel-2: New Trend, Vision only with AI come or raw data from all sensors?
05:40 pm: Democars’ tests
06:00 pm: Cocktail
07:00 pm: Dinner
DAY 2 – November 20th, 2025 – Lidar/IR Technologies, ADAS/AD Components, System Validations
08:30 am: Session 5: Lidar Sensors & Manufacturing
- Keynote: AEVA – James Reuther, CTO
- Keynote: VANJEE – Harmett Singh, VanJee European LiDAR Manager: How will VanJee LiDAR and perception model empower ADAS?
- SEYOND – Oliver Ramoli, Business Development & Manager Key Accounts Automotive EMEIA: No One-Size-Fits-All: Understanding Global LiDAR Adoption
- ROBOSENSE – Felix Yang, EU General Manager
- CEPTON/KOITO – Henri Haeffner, Product & Marketing Director
- SCRAMBLUX – Mirvais Yousefi, CTO
- Q&A
09:50 am: Coffee break & democars’ tests
10:35 am: Session 6: New Technologies – Lidar, IR, Gated Cameras
- Keynote: LUMOTIVE – Apurva Jain, CTO: Light Control Metasurface
- Keynote: VOYANT– Chris Phare, Co-founder
- Keynote: COMPAL – Richard Seoane, General Manager IR Systems: Improving Safety with Infrared Technology L2 and beyond
- ADAS_Management Consulting – Walter Hagleitner, CEO: Active Gated Imaging
- Joachim Tiedeke, Inventor, ex-Simens VDO, CTO Driver Assistance: SensLight: LEDSens
- Werner Ritter, ex-Mercedes manager for Vision Enhancement
- Q&A
12:10 pm: Panel-3: Key factors for AD deployment: affordable sensors, easy integration
12:25 pm: Lunch break & democars’ tests
01:55 pm: Session 7: ADAS/AD System Architecture, Validation & Simulation
- Keynote: DEKRA – Uwe Burkhardt, Testing Manager @Lautsitzring
- AVL – Heiko Scharke, Sr Global Product Manager ADAS/AD Tools & Solutions
- KOGNIC – Tom Dahlström, Sales: Beyond LiDAR: constructing data pipelines for multi-modal perception
- Super Computing Systems / SCS – Felix Eberli, Head of ADAS Dept.
- ANSYS – David Auger, Lionel Bennes – Lead Product Manager
- PERSIVAL – Christoph Popp, Senior Engineer: The Roadmap towards Continuous Validation of Sensor Models
- Q&A
03:05 pm: Coffee break & democars’ tests
03:50 pm: Session 8: ADAS Components – Sensors & Systems
- Keynote: NXP – Huanyu Gu, Dir. Product Marketing & Business Dev.
- SCHOTT – Sandra Von Fintel, Sr Product Manager
- CHASM – Dan Skika, CEO
- ADAPS Photonics – Changtao Hou, Deputy General Manager: SPAD array fusing Lidar and image sensor paves way for fusion of 2D & 3D data
- FORTSENSE – Lin Feng, Deputy General Manager of R&D: Fortsense All-direction Optical Control™️ drives the implementation of vehicle-mounted Solid-State LiDAR mass production
- MOCOM – Karolina Guicking, Product Specialist & Martin Kahl, Business Development Manager: Materials for Automotive Sensing
- Q&A
05:05 pm: Panel-4: Lidar, Imaging radar competition or complementarity – key-factors
05:20 pm: Closing of the conference