
Automotive Interiors 2024
Lighting is the new chrome
As automotive design continues to evolve, the role of lighting in vehicle interiors has become crucial and is a key element in shaping the overall ambiance and user experience within car cabins. Today, modern vehicles use innovative lighting concepts to create impressive and customizable environments, with ambient lighting not only serving aesthetic purposes but also enhancing driver attention and passenger comfort.
Interior lighting as well as the following key topics were discussed Automotive Circle conference on Automotive Interiors 2024:
Focus topics 2024:
Cars on site which could be explored:
Andrea Huber summerizes the benefits of the 2024 conference for you
Please find the detailed conference program below.
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Technical Presentations
from various OEM, supplier and academic institutes
Cockpit Clinic
Test and evaluate current series vehicles on a specific topic on site.
Interactive Session
on a specific topic in small groups.
Accompanying Exhibition
Suppliers presenting topic-specific products and services.
Meet the Speakers
Get in direct contact with the speakers during Meet the speakers-sessions!
Network, network, network!
Meet your peers of the automotive interior industry and exchange on brand new concepts, trends and your experiences.
Conference Program
Agenda
9:00 AM |
Welcome and conference introduction |
Andrea Huber, Automotive Circle, DE |
9:15 AM |
IMPULSE
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Jochen Werner, Oliver Arzer-Andujare, Airbus Operations GmbH, DE |
Concepts and Trends |
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9:45 AM |
How to Build Brands and Win Customers from Passenger To Commercial Vehicles Through Inside-Out Thinking |
Benjamin Nawka, Daimler Trucks, DE |
10:15 AM |
The role of design in shaping a sustainable future for commercial vehicles
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Koorosh Shojaei, Quantron AG, DE |
10:45 AM |
Coffee & Contacts |
Meet the Speakers and the Exhibitors on site |
11:15 AM |
Future Smart Cabin User Experience |
Andrea Hees, Yanfeng, DE |
11:45 AM |
FlexiSteer – Functions of the future |
Barbara Goldstein, Jannes Buthmann, EDAG Engineering GmbH, DE |
12:15 PM |
Quality Assurance in Automotive Interiors: The Crucial Role of Machine Vision for Automatic Inspection |
Juan Carlos Garcia, Eines Vision Systems, UK |
12:45 PM |
INTERACTIVE Creating the Interior of the Future – functional, attractive, cost-effective: What do we have to do? What´s necessary? |
Time for your ideas and impulses! |
1:15 PM |
Lunch & Contacts |
Meet the Speakers and the Exhibitors on site |
Human Machine Interface |
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2:15 PM |
The Colourful Void |
Rainer Gruenen, Rainer Gruenen Consulting, DE |
2:45 PM |
Comfort Control Interior Trends: Today and Tomorrow |
Marco Ludwig, Kostal Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KG, DE |
3:15 PM |
Designing the in-vehicle audio experience |
Alexander Wodrich, why do birds GmbH, DE |
3:45 PM |
Coffee & Contacts |
Meet the Speakers and the Exhibitors on site |
4:15 PM |
Lancia Y Cockpit |
Klaus-Peter Eckhardt, Stellantis, DE |
4:45 PM |
Multisensory experiences: choreographed sensory environments to stimulate emotions, facilitate behaviour and enhance functionality |
Scott King, Full Fathom Ltd, UK |
5:15 PM |
Adaptive seating based on biomechanics and personal preference |
Prof. Peter Vink, TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial design engineering, NL |
5:45 PM |
Get Together |
Meet the Speakers and the Exhibitors on site |
6:30 PM |
Networking Night |
with BBQ under the Arcades of the Hotel Dolce |
Comfort & Functionality |
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8:00 AM |
Interior of the NIO ET5T
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Philipp Fromme, NIO, DE |
8:30 AM |
Highlights of the new Ford Explorer Interior Development |
Werner Jakobs, Torsten Voigt, Ford-Werke GmbH, DE |
9:00 AM |
Interior of Alfa Romeo Junior |
Klaus-Peter Eckhardt, Stellantis, DE |
9:30 AM |
COCKPIT CLINIC |
All participants are invited to test and evaluate current production vehicles, which will be exhibited on site, under certain aspects. |
10:30 AM |
Thoughtful High Quality Feeling of Japan Kei car SAKURA interior |
Tomoharu Kato, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd, JP |
11:00 AM |
New Renault 5 and how the seat support the EV transition |
Isabelle Pimort, Philippe Souville, Renault Group, FR |
11:30 AM |
A new front seats mounting system for a quantum leap in interiors design: SeatBridge |
Claudio Buccini, SB Sintec, IT |
12:00 PM |
Relaxing in an automotive interior |
Thomas Dillinger, Adient, DE |
12:30 PM |
Lunch & Contacts |
Meet the Speakers and the Exhibitors on site |
Sustainability and Materials |
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1:30 PM |
Plastics Recycling in the Scope of Sustainability |
Rolf Verhoeven, Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH, DE |
2:00 PM |
Car Interior as a driver for shaping the circular future of automotive industry |
Ciro Gaudino, Autoneum Management AG, CH |
2:30 PM |
Functional aluminium for automotive interior design |
Milan Wilhelm Krumbe, Alanod, DE |
3:00 PM |
Airbag weakening of textile-covered interior parts |
David Mattha, Jenoptik Automatisierungstechnik GmbH, DE |
3:30 PM |
End of conference |
Subject to change (Status as of June 18, 2024)
Participants
International OEM Advisory board
The Automotive Circle and OEM Advisory Board of the Automotive Interiors conference, consisting of experts from the following brands and companies:
Maksymilian Nawka
AVATR GmbH
Benjamin B. Nawka
Daimler Truck Asia
Werner Jakobs
Ford-Werke GmbH
Rolf Verhoeven
Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH
Lars Willke
Lotus Tech Innovation Center GmbH
Manabu Tachibana
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd
Sahil Jain
Pebble Mobility
Isabelle Pimort
Groupe Renault
Klaus-Peter Eckhardt
Stellantis
Exhibition & Sponsoring
Become a sponsor or exhibitor
Take advantage of the high coverage of the Automotive Circle and profit from the sponsoring options before and during the events. Show your competence and services, matching the conference subjects, to the numerous car body engineers of international OEM. Thus, you are strengthening your brand awareness in the automotive industry!
Come on board as an exhibitor or sponsor and benefit from this excellent platform to strongly promote your company’s capabilities as a reliable supplier!
Check out the various exibition and sponsoring options!

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