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Key Practical Learning Points of the Summit:

Stuttgart, Germany | March 3 - 4, 2016

Guglielmo MacrelliSenior Research ScientistIsoclima SpA – R&D Department, Italy

Roberto FagarazziHead of Automotive LightingHRSflow, Italy

Ron BrandhorstTeamleader/Expert GlasBusiness Field Building Materials TÜV, Netherlands

Jan BelisDirector, Laboratory for Research on Structural ModelsGhent University, Belgium

Dr. Uwe KellerOEM Business Development Manager EMEAKuraray Interlayer Solutions Germany

Hillar AbenScientific DirectorGlasstress Ltd., Estonia

Frederic A. VeerAssociate Professor Materials ScienceDelft University of Technology Netherlands

Joseph WelkerStudio DirectorJames Carpenter Design Associates, USA

Joseph M. HararyPresident and CEOResearch Frontiers Inc., USA

Exhibit Sponsors:

Speakers:

Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Reinhard WeckerCEOa2-solar Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH

Designing the ultimate supercarCutting-edge technology in injection moldingAutomotive glazing: not just a weight saving technologyPolycarbonates – the silent revolutionKey Aspects of the AGRR aftermarket

Inspiration and innovations in automotive glazingOptimize processes, improve quality, reduce costs: 100% in-line inspection for each step in the automotive glass production – a clear competitive advantageInnovations in plastic glazing to meet market expectations

David Foster Sales Manager AGP

2nd AnnualAutomotive Glazing

SUMMIT

March 3 - 4, 2016

Stuttgart, Germany

Who Should Attend:

We are pleased to invite you to the “2nd Annual Automotive Glazing Summit” scheduled on March 3-4, 2016 in Stuttgart.This premier B2B event will enable the participants to learn about the latest developments in the Automotive Glazing Industry. This Sum-mit will be focusing on latest market development trends, innovation challenges & expectations, sustainability, future trends & technologi-cal developments, etc. It is an honor and privilege to invite you to participate in this Summit. We look forward to welcoming you at the Summit in Stuttgart upcoming March!Sincerely,

Alexander HartmannDirector

About Us

Vonlanthen Group offers business facilitation platforms for clients who want to develop in emerging markets and Europe. We conduct exhaustive research, match buyers and sellers and then produce high-profile events, all with a strategic focus on facilitating deals—all in the right place and at the right time.We work in the key sectors, leveraging our expertise to create deal flow, foster networking and train leaders. Vonlanthen Group has the capacity to help you enter new markets, raise capital, secure partners and close sales.

Glazing Plastic glazing GlassDesign Injection Molding Advanced Materials Roof systems Product DevelopmentSafety Quality management ManufacturingBusiness DevelopmentMarketing/Sales

Automotive manufacturing Automotive Design Glass manufacturing Plastics Roof Systems Chemical Companies Raw material suppliers Research institutions within the industry Aftermarket & glass repair Consultancies

CeOs, CTOs, Directors, Heads, Project managers, leads and engineers dealing with: From:

Vonlanthen Group produces, promotes and hosts ‘deal flow’ platforms in the liquid growth markets. We operate across 6 sectors: Auto-motive, Information technology, Life science, Business management, Cross industry and Sport science.• Our platforms include business-to-business summits, leadership forums, capital raising meetings and executive training programs. • Our Business Summits connect pre-screened purchasing decision makers with pre-qualified global solution providers to do business. • Our focus not only European Market but also Russia & CIS , APAC countries. Our goal is to bring modern decision makers in one

meeting point.

What We Do


Case Study

Registration and Welcome CoffeeOpening Address from the Chairman

Case StudyLatest developments in solar systems for the Au-tomotive Industry towards light weight and quite higher power output

Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Reinhard WeckerCEOa2-solar Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH

FLEXflow - New technology for surface improve-ment, weight & clamping force reduction

Morning Coffee and Networking Break

8:30 9:00

AUTOMOTIVE GLAZING MATERIALS & SOLUTIONS

9:10

11:00

10:30

- Significant price drops and parallel strong efficiency increases of solar cells have now proven economic benefits of solar energy in automotive applications (cars, trucks, busses) - Additionally quite strong CO-2 credits are granted in Europe and US for the use of solar modules in car surfaces - Up to 400 Watts are now possible in a car surface allowing a “range extension” of up to 3000 km per year - free of costs and CO-2 emissions - Single Glass (ESG) - or Double-Glass (VSG) - Modules are state of the art at a2-solar, recently developed light weight solar modules (very thin glass combined with carbon-fiber reinforced materials) are showing their potential for future applications - a2-solar has more than 25 years of experience in all kind of solar applications, - especially for spherical bended solar modules in the Automotive Industry

- Total control of the plastics flow in a sequential VG system- Reduction of machine tonnage and injection pressure- Cascade injection on transparent PC with no hesitation lines- Thickness reduction on lenses, roofs and side windows- Drastic reduction of the warpage on large plastic surface

Case Study14:30

13:00 Business Lunch

Case Study12:20

Roberto FagarazziHead of Automotive LightingHRSflow, Italy

Case Study

A real world analysis of the use, benefits and reliability of SPD-SmartGlass in automotive and other glazings

11:40

Joseph M. HararyPresident and CEOResearch Frontiers Inc., USA

- An overview of SPD-SmartGlass uses in the automotive and other industries - The real world benefits of using SmartGlass including cabin heat reduction, UV protection, glare control and reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions- How SPD-SmartGlass can further transform automotive engineering and design

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS & TRENDS IN AUTOMOTIVE GLAZING INDUSTRY

Automatic measurement of stress in automotive glazing

Hillar AbenScientific DirectorGlasstress Ltd., Estonia

- Scattered light polariscope for pointwise stress measurement - A robot for scanning with SCALP the whole surface of windscreen or backlit - Examples of stress fields in automotive glazing (stress field neara corner of a sunroof, stresses due to soldering of the heating wires, etc)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Glass strength and post-breakage behaviour

- Glass edge strength experimental investigation- Influence of edge finishing- Post-failure behaviour of laminated glass- Effects of local interlayer debonding

Jan BelisDirector, Laboratory for Research on Structural ModelsGhent University, Belgium

Case Study 9:50

Day One - March 3, 2016

2nd Annual Automotive Glazing Summit

Applying smart glass: how to reduce cost

16:40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and End of Day One

Cocktail Reception

15:40 Panel Discussion

18:00

Afternoon Tea and Networking Break15:10

With Speakers of the DayModerated by the Chairman

Thin chemically strengthened glass by ion ex-change: perspectives and problems in automotive applications

Guglielmo MacrelliSenior Research ScientistIsoclima SpA – R&D Department, Italy

- Chemically strengthened glass by ion exchange: physics of stress build up.- Thin chemically strengthened glass: new developments and characteristics- Residual stress profiles tailoring by ion exchange and thermal processes- Automotive applications : laminated constructions, hybrid glass/plastic constructions, stiffness issues- Automotive applications : advantages and drawbacks


Case Study

Welcome CoffeeOpening Address from the Chairman

AGP eGlass facility and capabilities

Case StudyLight in the Public Realm

Case Study

Morning Coffee and Networking Break


8:30 9:00

GlAZING PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

9:10

11:00

10:30

14:30

- Lightweight laminated glass solutions - Cielo Windshields and Panoramic Roofs - Advanced solar and Variable light transmission

- The use of materials to activate and transform both private and public spaces with varied qualities of light - The increased need for thermal and solar performance while focusing on innovative strategies

Case StudyChanges in the Regulation 43, regarding testing of glass and laminated rigid plastics windscreens

11:40

- Sand Drop Test- Car wash test- Wiper test

Optimize processes, improve quality, reduce costs: 100% in-line inspection for each step in the automotive glass production – a clear competitive advantage

With the Speakers of the Day Moderated by the Chairman

16:00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Post-Conference Tea & Coffee

End of Summit

15:10 Panel Discussion

13:00 Business Lunch

Day Two - March 4, 2016


Frederic A. VeerAssociate Professor Materials ScienceDelft University of Technology, Netherlands

Case StudyThe effect of the variation in the pre-stress level of tempered glass on the statistics of the failure strength of glass

9:50

- Glass is usually considered to be material with highly variable strength- This variation in strength is not the result of statistical variation but of deterministic differences- In tempered glass the variation in compressive surface pre-stress is the biggest cause for the deterministic differences- The consequences for design are outlined- Processing methods to reduce the variation are outlined

OVERVIEW OF TESTING CAPABILITIES

Joseph WelkerStudio DirectorJames Carpenter Design Associates, USA

Ron BrandhorstTeamleader/Expert GlasBusiness Field Building Materials TÜV, Netherlands

Speed Networking:12:20Innovative approach to maximize networking capabilities through two minute periods, where delegates can meet their peers and exchange business cards before rotating to the next company representative

David Foster Sales Manager AGP

Enhancing the properties of lightweight laminates with acoustic interlayers

- Weight reduction scenarios for laminated glass - Acoustic and stiffness properties of thin glass laminates - Enhancement of UV-blocking performance - Benchmarking with plastic glazing materials

Dr. Uwe KellerOEM Business Development Manager EMEAKuraray Interlayer Solutions, Germany

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Speakers Biographies


JAN BELISDirector, Laboratory for Research on Structural ModelsGhent University, Belgium

Jan Belis is Professor at Ghent University (BE) and Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). He leads a research group on Stuctural Glass and is supervising multiple MSc and PhD students in this domain, several of whom have been awarded scientific prizes. Jan Belis was Chair of the re-cently finished EU COST Action TU0905 “Structural Glass – Novel Design Methods and Next Generation Products”, representing glass experts from 25 member states. The network was marked “outstanding” by the TUD Domain Committee and was considered a Success Story by COST. He was invited professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH in 2010 and visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology, NL (2004), the University of Stuttgart, DE (2007) and EPFL, CH (2008). Further-more, Jan Belis is Editor-in-Chief of the new journal “Glass Structures & Engineering”, published by Springer, and author of about 180 scientific publications in international journals and in proceedings of international conferences. He was/is co-organisor of international conferences (“COST TU0905 Mid-Term Conference on Structural Glass”, Porec, 2013, “Chal-lenging Glass 4”, Lausanne, 2014, “IASS Future Visions”, Amsterdam, 2015, “Challenging Glass 5”, Ghent, 2016) and member of the Scientific Committee of many other. He also was organiser of the first interna-tional Training School on Structural Glass (Ghent, 2012). Finally, Jan Belis is member of several international Technical Committees and Working Groups, among which TC250 WG3 on an European level. For the latter he was recently elected member of the Project Team charged to prepare the first Eurocode for Structural Glass. Due to his activities and engagements on the international scene, Jan Belis and his group are highly visible and well-appreciated within the Structural Glass community and are a prefer-ential partner for projects both in academia and industry.

JOSEPH M. HARARYPresident and CEOResearch Frontiers Inc., USA

Joe Harary joined Research Frontiers Incorporated as its Vice President and General Counsel in 1992 and has been a director of the Company since 1993. After various promotions, Mr. Harary became President and Chief Operating Officer in 2002, and Chief Executive Officer starting in January 2009. Mr. Harary has actively managed and directed all aspects of the Company’s business including licensing, raising private and public equity capital, marketing, and government relations. During his tenure, Research Frontiers’ SPD-SmartGlass technology has become the best-selling high-performance smart window in the world. He and the ex-ecutive team have built an SPD supply chain infrastructure through the licensing of premier companies that include the world’s largest chemical and glass companies, and building global awareness of the benefits of SPD-SmartGlass technology. Currently Research Frontiers SPD-Smart-Glass technology is available on five different models of Mercedes-Benz vehicles and is offered as standard equipment on seven different models of aircraft. It is also being used by the Smithsonian and other museums to protect valuable artifacts and light-sensitive documents, on various yachts, and in architectural projects around the world. Prior to joining Research Frontiers, Mr. Harary’s corporate law practice emphasized tech-nology, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and intellec-tual property law at three prestigious New York City law firms. Mr. Ha-rary graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia College with an A.B. degree in economics, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar as well as an editor of the Columbia Law Review. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Harary worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Joe Harary is frequently asked to share his business experience with other companies directly, and as a speaker and published author in the fields of intellectual property, corporate law, and smart glass. Mr. Harary also teaches several business courses, and serves on the boards of various charities including the Imagine Academy which helps children with autism and their families.

DR. UWE KELLEROEM Business Development Manager EMEAKuraray Interlayer Solutions Germany

Uwe Keller is a chemist with expertise in the fields of polymers and or-ganic materials. He holds a doctorate degree obtained at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research. He has been involved in research and development of PVB-interlayers for more than 15 years prior to taking over his current role of OEM business development manager within Ku-raray Interlayer Solutions.

JOSEPH WELKERStudio DirectorJames Carpenter Design AssociatesUSA

Joseph Welker is James Carpenter Design Associates Studio Director. His current focus is utilizing light to transform an addition to the Museum of Westward Expansion below the St Louis Arch and to enliven a new com-mercial loft building near completion along the High Line in New York City. Mr. Welker has been at JCDA for 14 years, overseeing some of the firm’s most complex projects.

MR. DIPL.-ING. REINHARD WECKERCEOa2-solar Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH

Having more than 30 years of first-hand expertise in the field of solar modules and systems, Mr. Wecker has managed quite some foundations and set-ups of solar business companies. In 2013, he founded a2-solar GmbH upon an asset deal to take over the asola Automotive Business together with a German partner and since then taken the position as the CEO of a2-solar. From 2000 till 2013, he was the CEO of the asola group, located in Erfurt, Germany. The asola group produced standard modules and special solar car roof modules. Mr. Wecker built up the company from the scratch, succeeding revenues of up to 72 Mio. € and counting 270 employees. He was also the founder of “satellites” in Canada, the US and China. From 1991 till 2000, Mr. Wecker set up the WEBASTO business unit on solar car roof systems and special advanced modules, leading the unit from the scratch up to revenues of 20Mio. DM. Between 1987 and 1991 already, he headed the development of a special swimming encapsulation system for flexible solar modules in industrial tents as well as car roofs. Before, he was operating as sales engineer for H.V. equip-ment starting in 1985

FREDERIC A. VEERAssociate Professor Materials ScienceDelft University of TechnologyNetherlands

Studied materials science Delft university of technology 1983-1998 Worked on a PhD in structural integrity at Delft University of Technol-ogy 1988-1993. Appointed assistant Professor of Materials Science in the Building Technology Department of Delft University of Technology in 1994. Frederic was appointed associate Professor of Materials Science in the Building Technology Department of Delft University of Technology in 2007. Dr. Veer awarded three patents. He wrote over 100 published ref-ereed journal and conference papers on structural integrity of materials and mechanical properties of glass.

Speakers Biographies


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ROBERTO FAGARAZZIHead of Automotive LightingHRSflow, Italy

Roberto Fagarazzi is Business Unit Manager for Lighting and Glazing Di-vision at INglass-HRSflown Group, a world leading toolmaker and hot runner manufacturer in the Automotive Business based in San Polo di Piave (TV), near Venice, Italy. Graduated Management Engineer in Milan Polytechnic, he developed his whole career in the creation and manage-ment of branched sales structures with international footprint in differ-ent business fields of plastics. From 2000 to 2006 he mainly focused on North and South American markets of PET blow-moulding machinery, from 2007 to 2011 he managed the Middle East and Central Asian branch of Italian bottling plants manufacturer SIPA S.p.A. Since 2011 he joined INglass as Commercial Director of HRSflow, a globalized company with 3 production facilities and 14 technical branches worldwide. Today he’s responsible for the Business Unit dedicated to the lighting and glazing applications, both for hot runners and injection tools.

GUGLIELMO MACRELLISenior Research ScientistIsoclima SpA – R&D Department Italy

Guglielmo Macrelli received Ms.Sci in Physics with honors at the Univer-sità di Bologna (Italy) with a thesis in “Neutrons transport and diffusion in matter”. He has 7 years of experience in a testing laboratory (Istituto Giordano – Italy) as responsible of Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics laboratotory and research project coordinator in glass science and tech-nology. Since more than 25 years he works with Isoclima SpA – R&D department as research scientist and actually senior research scientist. His main development projects are glass chemical strengthening by ion exchange, variable transmittance systems (electrochromic, liquid crystal and SPD), thin film deposition on glass by sputtering for heatable glazing and solar control. Guglielmo Macrelli has about 20 publications in peer re-viewed international journals and international conference proceedings.

RON BRANDHORSTTeamleader/Expert GlasBusiness Field Building Materials TÜV, Netherlands

Ron Brandhorst has a background in mechanics and worked for more than 12 years at one of Europe’s leading glass manufacturers. After ex-tensive problem solving at a glass consultancy company, he now works for 3 years at the testing laboratory of TÜV Rheinland for glass in gen-eral and automotive glazing in particular and as lead auditor for quality systems, both in building products and automotive industry. Testing for glass products is performed in various fields of industry; Construction, Automotive, Trains, Ships, Furniture, Greenhouses, Kitchens, Showers, Elevators, Sound barriers along highways and railway tracks, Packaging, Solar Energy and others.

HILLAR ABENScientific DirectorGlasstress Ltd., Estonia

Hillar Aben is Scientific Director of Glasstress Ltd (Tallinn, Estonia) and also the Leading Research Scientist at the Institute of Cybernetics, Tal-linn University of Technology. He was born in Estonia in 1929. H. Aben obtained his DSc degree from the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1966. His main research area has been photoelasticity. He has developed a new nondestructive method for 3D stress analysis – integrated photo-elasticity (H. Aben, “Integrated Photoelasticity”, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979). H. Aben has been mostly engaged in developing new methods for stress measurement in glass (H. Aben, C. Guillemet, “Photoelasticity of Glass”, Springer, 1993). H. Aben has been elected a member of the Es-tonian Academy of Sciences, Finnish Academy of Technology, European Academy of Sciences, and European Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2010 The Society for Experimental Mechanics (USA) awarded H. Aben the William Murray medal. FREDERIC A. VEER

Associate Professor Materials ScienceDelft University of Technology Nether-lands

From 1983-1998, Frederic Veer studied Materials Science at Delft univer-sity of Technology. After, he worked on a PhD in structural integrity at Delft University of Technology and in 1994 was appointed as an assistant Professor of Materials Science in the Building Technology Department of Delft University of Technology. Since 2007 Frederic Veer works as an associate Professor of Materials Science in the Building Technology De-partment of Delft University of Technology and was awarded with three patents. Mr. Veer is the author of over 100 published refereed journal and conference papers on structural integrity of materials and mechanical properties of glass.

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