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Awards

Awards, LED + SSL, Products + Technology

LED Products Earn Top Honors at Lightfair

Craig DiLouie May 12, 2009

The Lightfair Innovation Awards, sponsored by Architectural Lighting Magazine and elumit.com, honored five products out of 218 submissions with the following awards: Most Innovative Product of the Year: Calculite Solid-State Downlights by Lightolier/Philips Design Excellence Award: Kite by Peerless Lighting/Acuity Brands Lighting Technical Innovation Award: Luxeon Rebel ES from Philips Lumileds Lighting Company Technical Innovation [...]

Awards, Lighting Design

Benya, Neils, Villatoro and Christensen Win 2008 GE Edison Award

Craig DiLouie May 11, 2009

The 2008 GE Edison Award was presented to James R. Benya of Benya Lighting Design, Michael Neils and Juan José Villatoro of M. Neils Engineering, Inc., and James E. Christensen of the City of Sacramento, for lighting the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California. GE Consumer & Industrial presented a personalized Steuben crystal award for [...]

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Events

CEDIA Expo / Commercial Integrator Expo

Denver, CO

September 1-4, 2026

ArchLIGHT Summit

Dallas, TX

September 15 -16, 2026

DALI Alliance North America Summit + Technical Training 2026 (co-located with ArchLIGHT Summit)

Dallas, TX

September 16-17, 2026

ALA Conference 2026

Tucson, AZ

September 27-29, 2026

NEMRA Lighting Summit 2026

Dallas, TX

TBD - Being rescheduled

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