Events

The third Community Lighting for the Urban Environment (CLUE) competition, sponsored by Philips Lighting University, is now welcoming submissions. This year’s CLUE competition carries the general theme, “One for Light, Light for All.” Industry-college and university students as well as young professionals are invited to propose innovative lighting solutions around the specific theme of extending [...]

The Lightspace California conference will take place February 28-March 2, 2017 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. “We believe the West Coast is long overdue a dedicated event for the lighting specification community, a place where the emphasis is on inspiration and design, rather than technology,” the show’s website states. “A place where creativity [...]

Earlier this year, the OLED Coalition and the California Lighting Technology Center hosted the OLED Lighting Workshop. Peter Ngai of Acuity Brands kicked off the event with a keynote. Click here to download the presentation.

DOE is offering a series of webinars on healthcare lighting. Both start at 1:00 PM EST and last for 60 minutes: Tuesday, October 4: Evidence-Based Design for Healthcare Lighting: Where’s the Evidence? Presenters: Anjali Joseph, Clemson University, Robert Davis and Andrea Wilkerson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The nonvisual effects of light have captured a lot [...]

LIGHTFAIR has extended the deadline for speaker submissions to Friday, September 16. Click here to submit your proposal to speak at LIGHTFAIR in 2017.

LIGHTFAIR has issued its call for speakers for the 2017 conference in Philadelphia. Content areas include: • Inspiration • Applications Research • Design Strategies – NEW • Design Tools & Technologies • Core Knowledge – NEW • Intelligent Lighting & Connectivity – NEW • Professional Development – NEW The deadline is September 9, 2016 at [...]

SeventhWave is hosting a seminar in Michigan on September 8 on LED lighting technologies. It will be presented by Randall Johnson, LC, President of US Lamp. LED lighting technologies: evaluating performance and financial considerations (on-location course) September 8 │ 8:30 am–4 pm │ Marquette, MI │ $199 LEDs are rapidly changing the landscape for commercial [...]

From the ALA leadership (click here to see the announcement on the ALA website): After much discussion, the ALA Board of Governors and the ALA staff have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2016 ALA Conference due to the elevated health risks associated with the Zika virus. This decision was based on the health [...]

David Shiller, President of Lighting Solution Development, LLC, recently blogged his top 11 takeaways from the 2016 Strategies in Light Conference. Socket saturation, OLEVs, price erosion, mini luminaires, R9 and more interesting observations here.