Events

On November 4, 2018, Americans reset their clocks back one hour as daylight saving time 2018 ended at 2:00 AM. In this article, National Geographic examines why we have daylight saving time and how it has affected history.

The Illuminating Engineering Society is now accepting registrations for its 2019 annual conference, which will be held August 8-10, 2019 in Louisville, KY.

The 2nd Trends in Lighting (TiL), co-hosted with the LED Professional Symposium +Expo (LpS), saw lighting designers, innovators, architects and planners come together with technologists, engineers and researchers in Bregenz, Austria. At a press conference during the event, five industry leaders spoke about the future of lighting.

Following the completion of a recent investigation of LED street lighting’s impact on sky glow, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a simplified method for comparing contributions to sky glow among lighting products. On November 8, PNNL’s Bruce Kinzey will describe and demonstrate use of the comparison tool in an hour-long webinar.

On October 25 at 2:00 pm EDT, Naomi Miller of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will examine key findings from a June 2018 Department of Energy study, An Investigation into High-Achieving LED Luminaires, in a webinar that looks at tradeoffs between efficacy, lumen output, light distribution, color temperature, and visual comfort

LEDucation 2019 is accepting submissions for presentation proposals to be given during the 2019 conference taking place March 12–13, 2019, at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.

LIGHTFAIR International recently announced that it will continue its management contract with International Market Centers (IMC) following the merger between IMC and AmericasMart Atlanta (AMC).

LIGHTFAIR recently announced it extended its speaker proposal deadline to August 17 at 11:59 PM EDT.

LIGHTFAIR International has issued a call for speakers for its 2019 conference. The deadline for submissions is August 10, 2018.