Lecture Program
A key element of the Aachen Body Engineering Days is the lecture program with highlights of the year from the car body industry. Experts in vehicle construction, development and industry presented the latest facts and trends to the participants.
Program 2025
16
Sep 2025
| Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00am | Introduction | Max Brandt Managing Partner Consulting fka GmbH |
| 09:30am | Key-Note speech |
Prof. Dr. Lutz Eckstein |
| 10:00am |
The new Audi A6 Avant |
Dr. Michael Holzer & Felix Janotta Audi AG |
| 10:30am | Coffee Break in the Technical Exhibition | |
| 11:00am | The Li Auto First Electric SUV i8 (online) |
Dr. Danshi Li & Yudong Xu Li Auto |
| 11:30am | The Lucid Gravity: the perfect sequel to Air |
Eric Bach |
| 12:00pm |
The New BMW X3 – Paving the way for the Neue Klasse |
Dirk Margane BMW Group |
| 12:30pm | Lunch Break in the Technical Exhibition | |
| 02:00pm | Audi Q6 e-tron – The body concept as an integral part of the whole vehicle topology |
Tobias Stöhrl & Tobias Urban |
| 02:30pm | INGLO - BIW Platform: A scalable foundation for Safe, Silent and Strong Electric Mobility | Prasadbabu Namani Mahindra |
| 03:00pm | Redefining Body Structure: From Multipiece to Overlap Patch & new Sill solutions |
Jose Manuel Rio, Carlos Garrido & Xavier Valencia |
| 03:30pm | Coffee Break in the Technical Exhibition | |
| 04:00pm | Next level body structure design in steel with SIBORA® | Dr. Ansgar Hatscher & Christian Schwering Volkswagen AG |
| 04:30pm | The upper Class of the Environment | Markus Buckner & Gert Pollmann Outokumpu Nirosta GmbH |
| 07:00pm | Evening Event |
17
Sep 2025
| Titel | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00am | Engineering of Stainless Steel Battery Housings: A Holistic Approach for the Electric Vehicle Performance |
Saghi Saedlou & Dr. Reiner Steins |
| 09:30am | Full-composite and composite-metal hybrid underbody protection systems for BEV in series production | Daniel Heidrich Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG |
| 10:00am | High-performance of Ges-Enubox for electric vehicles: Hybrids, PHEVs and BEVs | Sergio Faria Gestamp |
| 10:30am | Coffee Break in the Technical Exhibition | |
| 11:00am | Reversing the Weight Spiral: An Alumobility Vehicle Case Study with a Global OEM | Prof. Dr. Mark White & Vincent Laurent Alumobility |
| 11:30am | Trends and challenges of mega castings: Insights from an aluminium supplier perspective |
Dinesh Thirunavukkarasu Christian Harter |
| 12:00pm | Topology optimization of aluminum rollformed profiles for crash applications |
Martin Müller-Bechtel Christian Gutgar |
| 12:30pm | Tailored Properties, a black box? Advancing the synchronization between numerical analysis and hardware testing | Prahel Bhandari & Tim Scharfenberg GEDIA Gebrüder Dingerkus GmbH |
| 01:00pm | Lunch Break in the Technical Exhibition | |
| 02:30pm | Integrated Optimization of Component Structure and Casting Process for Cost-Efficient Production of Aluminum Body Parts |
Robert Epp |
| 03:00pm | Metal and composite material concepts for fire safe battery casings |
Warden Schijve |
| 03:30pm | NECTO©: A new sustainable ultra-lightweight structure offers new options for car bodies |
Michael Probst |
| 04:00pm | Summary |
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