Since joining Koito in 1977, Kenji Arima has acquired extensive experience and a high level of insight through serving as Director of Koito Europe, Head of International Operations Headquarters and in other positions. He has contributed significantly to the improvement of the Company's performance and corporate value,and since June2019, he is the Executive Vice President overseeing Koito's technology division

Until 2006, Markus Maier made Studies of Physics at TU Munich and in 2010, he succeeded PhD / Dr. in Solid State Physics at the “Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF)” together with “University of Freiburg” about “Epitaxy of wide-well InGaN LEDs”. He just after joined Mercedes-Benz to be responsible at for Testing and Lighting Technology of Headlamps. Now he is responsible of High Resolution Headlamp Modules.

2010 - 2012: LurexX optical GmbH, Lighting Simulation

2012 - 2015: BMW Group, Testing and Validation

2015 - 2020: BMW Group, Lighting Functions Development

2020 - now: BMW Group, Pre Development Lighting

2012 - 2014: mpx GmbH, SE-Team Leader Lighting  

2014 - 2017: BMW Group, Quality Manager Lighting

2017 - now:  BMW Group, SE-Team Leader Lighting  

Engineer Ecole des Mines 1997, Paul-Henri Matha joined Renault in 2000 and the lighting department in 2004. Lighting Project Manager on Mégane 2 and 3 from 2004 to 2009ץ Head of Pre-Development and Innovation from 2009 to 2012. Manager of the Lighting and seating department in Bucharest for the Dacia range from 2012 to 2015, then Expert lighting of Renault since August 2015. A dozen patents dozen under his name in the field of lighting. He joined Volvo in 2018.

In 2003, Ricardo Ploeger got his Bachelor of mechanical engineering and one year later, the Master of mechanical engineering, both at Technical University of Darmstadt), Then, he joined VW to work on different areas before taking in 2011, the head of Safety and Prediction Department at Volkswagen do Brasil. He came back to Wolfsburg to be in 2016, the Senior Manager of Lighting and Vision Department.

François Bedu entered in RENAULT in 1999 for Front and Rear End packaging of upstream and then development projects, He moved to Lighting Department in 2005 and begin with development and industrialization of all the lighting parts of a C-segment vehicle and then change for lighting upstream activities and innovation. Since 2014, he is the team leader for Simulation, Performance, Validation and Homologation of Lighting/Signaling systems before becoming the leader of Lighting Innovation..

Erns-Olaf Rosenhahn studied physics in Darmstadt University. He got his PHD at the Darmstadt University, Institute of Lighting Technology in the subject of “Adverse Weather Lighting Function for Headlamps”.

He joined Robert Bosch in 1998 in the R&D lighting development department

He is now Head of Headlamp Innovation.

In 1989, graduated Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Kanto Gakuin University

In 1989, Joined ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES,LTD Mirror Design Engineer. In 1998, Research & Development Engineer In 2009, Section Manager, Research & Development Department

2014 – Present, General Manager, Innovation Department - Lead all projects in Advanced development of the Lighting and Mirror including Electronics parts and the System

Studied Technical physics and Research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology. Started at ZKW in 2006 as lighting engineer. 2011 take over the responsibility of the global Pre-Development until today.

• In 1996, graduated the master's degree of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University .
• In 1996, Joined Stanley Electric co., ltd.  Belonging to the R&D center. 19 years of experience in developing lighting and light sources for automotive.
• The first member to start developing LED headlamps in Stanley in 1999.  Engaged in LD headlamp development since 2010.  
• In 2015, Assigned as a Product Manager of R&D Center. Engaged in development of  Laser Scanning headlamp system with MEMS technology.
• In 2017, Assigned as a Team Manager of Engineering Technology Center, and Engaging for next-generation ADB system development.

Geoff was elected GTB President in 2008 after a 47-year career in the vehicle lighting industry working for Lucas Lighting UK, Carello UK, Magneti Marelli in Italy and finally as Technical Director of Koito Europe based in Belgium.

Apart from his “mainstream roles” Geoff developed an interest in international regulatory harmonisation and, in 1989, was elected chairman of the GTB Harmonisation working group and subsequently he led the GTB Front Lighting group, CIE TC-4-45 and the SAE Pedestrian Visibility Taskforce.

Geoff is also a member of the ISAL Steering Board, Honorary President of the ALE Forum (China), and a regular contributor to Driving Vision News and its workshops.  He was voted “DVN Personality of the Year” in 2017.

Michael Larsen is the Exterior Lighting Technical Leader at General Motors, where he has been responsible for lighting for almost 30 years. Michael is also actively involve with the SAE Lighting committees, including the SAE Headlamp Assessment task force which is the topic of his talk today.

Rainer Neumann studied physics at the university in Frankfurt/Main, where he did his diploma and Ph.D. in Optics. In 1984 he joined Bosch in Stuttgart, where he spent 13 years in Research and development of Automotive Lighting. In 1997 he became the global director of lighting development at Magneti  Marelli in Turin (Italy).  In 2000 he joined Visteon as the Head of the European Lighting Group. In 2012 Visteon sold its Lighting division to Varroc as Varroc Lighting Systems, where Dr. Neumann became Vice President Global Technology.

He is now 36 years in Automotive Lighting and has published numerous articles, he is the inventor of more than 100 patents and he is working in various regulation committees for future lighting technologies over the past twenty years. He is reviewer of the annual SAE Technical Congress in Detroit, scientific member of the biannual Vision Congress in Paris, and steering committee member of the biannual ISAL Symposium in Darmstadt (Germany) as well as a member of the organizing committee of IFAL, ISOL, and VISION.

In 2013, Dr. Neumann received the award from Driving Vision News as the personality of the year. He represents Varroc in GTB as a Co-Chair of the strategy group and is the chair of the GTB research group SVP.

From 1981 to 1986 he made Electronical Engineering Studies at TU Darmstadt. From 1987 to 2001, Wolfgang worked at BMW as head of testing lighting then as Head of Production Planning Electrics / Eletronics. In 1999, he got the PHD at TU Darmstadt, Lighting department Eletronics. From 2001 to 2005 Audi AG, Dr Huhn was at the Head of Development Lighting and Switches. From 2006, he is Head of Development Lighting and Vision Systems at Audi.

Dr Huhn is one of the foremost worldwide experts in automotive lighting, and has greatly influenced the evolution of lighting technologies. He got two important awards : In 2011 Professor Ferdinand Porsche Award for introduction LED-headlight in automotive, University Vienna Austria, In 2011 Man of the decade.