ICAT organises two-day symposium on lighting

The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) organised a two days event, International Symposium on Lighting (ISOL) for the automotive fraternity across the globe on  November 23 and 24, 2015 at Epicenter in Gurgaon. In 2009, ICAT conceptualized the idea and objective of ISOL and since then it has been providing a platform and accumulating ideas from the automotive professionals including lighting experts across the world. ISOL brings together all the lighting experts on a common forum and provides a platform to share and discuss the latest technologies in the lighting arena. With ISOL being organised biennially, ICAT tries to give a new shape to the Indian Automotive lighting industry.

ISOL 2015 brought together more than 400 participants from 68 different organizations ranging from all sectors of Indian and  international automotive industry. This includes speakers and special invitees.

ISOL-2015 saw several dignitaries gracing the event. They included Ambuj Sharma (Additional Sectary - Department of Heavy Industry), Sanjay Bandopadhyaya (CEO - NATRIP), Vikram Pawah (Managing Director , Harley Davidson Motor Company India), Tom von Bonsdorff (Managing Director, Volvo Auto India),  C V Raman (Executive Director, Maruti Suzuki India) and Dinesh Tyagi (Director, ICAT). The inaugural ceremony was followed by a laser show, to represent the light technology and purpose of ISOL 2015. This show also welcomed all the delegates and portrayed the amazing journey of ISOL along with its partners.

In the technical sessions speakers represented their research and discussed topics -“Adaption of Advanced Lighting Technology to the emerging market ,New semiconductor light sources (LED, OLED, LASER) – future possibilities for styling and functionality. Eminent speakers on the first day were from Hella, Germany, Varroc Lighting, Germany, FAKT Italy, Fiem India, Osram, USA, Sabic India, and LUMILEDS, Germany.