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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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DAY 1 – November 19th, 2025 – AD Applications & Markets, Perception Systems
Session 1:APPLICATIONS (PART1): L2+, L3 AND ROBOTAXIS
Keynote: Great Wall Motors – Peng Yan Lun, Technical Director: Driving the Autonomous Future: The Revolution from BEV to E2E and VLA – Deconstructing the Next Wave of Development in China’s L2+ Market
Keynote: WAYVE – Dan McCloskey, VP of Hardware
Keynote: VALEO – Benazouz Bradai, Director Innovation AD
Keynote: i4Research – Luc Bourgeois, Expert DVN: L2+ Perf. tests in China
Keynote: AUMOVIO – Bernd Hartmann, Head of Innovation Line Driveless: Faster Innovation Through Smart partnerships
Keynote: APTIV – Gabor Vinci, Head of Business Dev. Advanced Safety
Session 2: APPLICATIONS (PART2), MARKET, REGULATION Chairman: Eric Amiot – DVN
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, Senior Research Engineer: Development of a High-transmittance sensor Glass system
RENAULT – Javier Ibanez-Guzman, AD/ADAS expert: the Influence of Locality in the performance of ADAS/AD applications
YOLE – Pierrick Boulay, Market Research Senior Analyst: Imaging Radar and LiDAR: Friends, not substitutes
UNECE/GRVA – François Guichard, Secretary Autonomous & Connected Vehicles
Session 3: RADAR SYSTEMS FOR L2+,L3/4 APPLICATIONS Chairman: Dr Jürgen Dickmann, DVN
Keynote: MOBILEYE – Yaniv Avital, Senior VP, Radar General Manager: Enabling Eyes-Off Highway Driving with Mobileye Imaging Radar™
Keynote: ARBE robotics – Kobi Marenko, CEO
Bosch – Pascal Gitschier, Product Manager: Driving the evolution of ADAS: Radar’s role in SDV & the next big thing in Radar
Forvia Hella – Heinrich Rasche-Schürmann, Head of Global Radar Frontend: High-Resolution Radar Sensor
TU Ilmenau – Thomas Dallmann: Automotive Radar: Open challenges from a research perspective
Dr Jürgen Dickmann, DVN Senior Advisor : US/CN trade war: What is the impact on automotive Radar and cooperation models?
Session 4: VISION, AI & PERCEPTION SOFTWARE, LOCALIZATION Chairman: Dr Jürgen Dickmann, DVN
Keynote: VALEO – René Karsten, Business Dev. Director: Valeo Smart Safety 360: The scalable ADAS towards Zero accidents
SUNNY Smartlead – by Ian Montandon, CEO iNet: Under Vehicle Camera for Automated Valet Parking Functions and Off-Road Driving
ARCSOFT – Prof. Feng Chen, VP Automotive vision group: Enhance Driving Safety with DMS and ADAS Fusion
ZENDAR – Vinayak Nagpal, CEO: Beyond Point Cloud: A New Era of Radar Lies Ahead
Universee – Prof Ting Yuan, Founder: Will OEMS outsource Fusion to 3rd parties and will 3rd parties be ready to support activities for OEMs.
TOMTOM – Giovanni Giancaspro, Market Segment Lead, Automated Driving: The Role of Maps in the Age of AI-Driven Autonomy
DAY 2 – November 20th, 2025 – Lidar/IR Technologies, ADAS/AD Components, System Validations
Session 5: LIDAR SENSORS & MANUFACTURING Chairman: Heiko Leppin, AUMOVIO
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 Dev. Manager: No One-Size-Fits-All: Understanding Global LiDAR Adoption
ROBOSENSE – Felix Yang, Sales Director: Applications and Future Development of Automotive LiDAR
CEPTON/KOITO – Henri Haeffner, Product & Marketing Director: Besides the obvious – Bringing high-performance lidar technology to mass production
SCRAMBLUX – Mirvais Yousefi, CTO
Session 6: NEW TECHNOLOGIES – LIDAR, IR, GATED CAMERAS Chairman: Heiko Leppin, AUMOVIO
Keynote: VOYANT– Chris Phare, Co-founder: #Scalable, Flexible, Affordable : FMCW LiDAR, 100% Solid-State
Keynote: LUMOTIVE – Dr. Hassan Moussa, Vice President of Global Customer Engineering and General Manager of Lumotive Oman: Light Control Metasurface
Keynote: COMPAL – Richard Seoane, General Manager IR Systems: Improving Safety with Infrared Technology L2 and beyond
LYNRED – Quentin Noir, Product Manager: Thermal image sensor to extend ODD: a monolithic, passive and mature technology ready to scale
Joachim Tiedeke, Inventor, ex-Simens VDO, CTO Driver Assistance: SensLight
Dr Werner Ritter, ex-Mercedes manager for Vision Enhancement
BRIGHT WAY VISION – Walter Hagleitner (ADAS-MC): Gated Cameras imaging
Session 7: ADAS/AD SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE, VALIDATION & SIMULATION Chairman: Luc Bourgeois, DVN
Keynote: DEKRA – Marcel Kolling, Connectivity Expert & Marc Schilhaneck, Technical Sales Manager
AVL – Christian GUTENKUNST, Global Product Manager: Increase Scenario Mining Efficiency by Automated Pre-Labeling
KOGNIC – Tom Dahlström, Sales: Beyond LiDAR: constructing data pipelines for multi-modal perception
Super Computing Systems / SCS – Felix Eberli, Head of Embedded & Automotive: Will robots drive our cars – what sensors/concepts are needed?
ANSYS – David Auger, Lionel Bennes – Lead Product Manager: End-to-End Sensor Simulation for Safer Vehicles
PERSIVAL – Christoph Popp, Senior Engineer: The Roadmap towards Continuous Validation of Sensor Models
Session 8: ADAS COMPONENTS – SENSORS & SYSTEMS Chairman: Martin Booth, DVN
Keynote: NXP – Huanyu Gu, Dir. Product Marketing & Business Dev.: Imaging Radar Goes Global: How Scalability and Efficiency Are Powering the Rollout
SCHOTT – Sandra Von Fintel, Senior Global Product Manager: Enhancing Autonomous Driving – Exploring the Benefits of BOROFLOAT® 33 Glass
CHASM – Dan Skika, Vice President, Performance Films
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-Solid-State LiDAR Solution with Breakthrough OmniLumi™️Solid Laser Scanning and SPAD-SoC Integration
MOCOM – Karolina Guicking, Product Specialist & Martin Kahl, Business Development Manager: Materials for Automotive Sensing
NanoVents – Jiří Schirl, Business Development, R&D: PFAS-Free Nanomembrane Multilayers for Protection and Pressure Equalization in AD/ADAS/LiDAR and Electronic Systems
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