Ignacio Cadenas

Exterior Lighting Senior Engineer Volvo Cars

After almost 4 years in Spain working for several Automotive Exterior Lighting Tier-1 suppliers, he changed to Volvo Cars, in Sweden, to work as a Concept Leader in Rear Lighting for almost 2 years. Later, he joined Ferrari as an Exterior Lighting Technical Leader for another 2 years. He has, since beginning of 2022, been back at Volvo Cars, first with a position as Senior Engineer in Exterior Lighting, taking care of innovation, and a second position as System Architect for the complete Exterior Systems department.

Main Conference Day 1 | 30th August 2023

10:50 AM FIND THE BALANCE BETWEEN LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN LIGHTING WHILE OPTIMISING COST & VALUE FOR THE DRIVER

OEM & TIER-1 PANEL DISCUSSION


Join this panel to hear lighting experts from across the supply chain discuss how OEMs and suppliers can collaborate to find a better balance between technical innovation, affordability, and efficiency.

  • Find out OEM strategy for improving cost effectiveness of new and emerging lighting technologies
  • Understand the progression being made to mainstream intelligent lighting technology
  • Discuss whether the commoditisation of lighting features is a possible cost saving solution for the industry
  • What is the sweet spot between cost and value? Discuss alternative solutions for driving user experience whilst keeping cost to a minimum

Main Conference Day 2 | 31st August 2023

11:30 AM IMPROVED HEADLAMP ARCHITECTURE

LEARN HOW HEADLAMP ARCHITECTURE IS CHANGING TO INCORPORATE MORE INTELLIGENT FUNCTIONS


In this presentation, an expert will explore the technical challenges of incorporating more intelligence into the headlamp module, and what this means for the electrical architecture of the module.

  • Discuss how headlamp architecture is developing to account for more computing power in the ECU
  • Gain insights into the benefits of simplifying headlamp architecture to increase capacity for intelligent functions
  • Understanding the conflict between reducing headlamp packaging and adding in more intelligent functions
  • Explore how simplifying headlamp electrical architecture can make parts easily interchangeable in case of failure

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Ignacio.

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