IES Conference Coming Soon

Craig DiLouie July 30, 2019

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s Annual Conference August 8-10, 2019 at the Omni Louisville Hotel in Louisville, KY will provide a range of educational programming, including workshops, seminars, immersive experiences, tours, networking, and paper and poster presentations on the art, design, science, and research of lighting.

Besides the usual high-quality seminars and trade show, the conference has some interesting highlights this year worth noting:

Self-styled “cyborg” Neil Harbisson will deliver the conference’s keynote address on August 9. Harbisson is an artist best known for having an antenna implanted in his skull, which allows him to perceive visible and invisible colors such as infrareds and ultraviolets via sound waves, while the antenna’s Internet connection allows him to receive colors from space as well as images, videos, music, or phone calls directly into his head.

Demo Room: The LiDO Experience: LiDO is a novel lighting design procedure that aims to focuses on human response to the visible effects of indoor lighting rather than horizontal illuminance requirements. This demo room illustrates the use of this procedure, which promises to “put the control for interior lighting design back into the hands of the designers.”

Demo Room: Glare: The IES Discomfort Glare in Outdoor Nighttime Environments Committee (DGONE) invites attendees to participate as a subject in a demonstration test related to glare. Best characterized as an eyes-on Twilight Zone experience, you will be ushered into a simulated nighttime environment to get dark-adapted, then be transported into the Night Gallery to test the full breadth of your glare senses. The results will be summarized at the end of the conference.

Demo Room: TM-30: What do all three TM-30 metrics mean, in real life? In the TM-30 Demo Room, visitors will experience immersive mockups illuminated with a variety of light sources illustrating the various design intents (Fidelity, Preference, or Vividness). These live lighting demonstrations will be paired with TM-30 values to show how TM-30 can be used to select light sources for each intent.

Learn more about the 2019 IES Annual Conference and register here.