Events

The 22nd consecutive edition of LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) broke all records for attendance and exhibit space in its May 17-19 run at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, the LFI 2011 venue. LFI covered 200,000 net sq.ft. feet of exhibits in its largest-ever trade show floor. There were 474 exhibitors, including 59 first-time exhibiting companies. [...]

The Energy Center of Wisconsin will present a free webinar, “ALG Online: In-Depth Review of Best Practices in Advanced Lighting Design,” on June 21, 2011 at 1–2 PM Central (2–3 PM Eastern). While the webinar is free, registration is required. When you have completed registration, you will receive an email confirmation that will include a [...]

On June 20, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will host a 90-minute live webcast providing an up-to-date assessment of LED replacements for linear fluorescent lamps. In this webcast, Jason Tuenge of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will discuss current Lighting Facts-listed products as well as products evaluated in the latest CALiPER reports. Eric [...]

By Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy Now that I’m back in the confines of my relatively calm office in our nation’s capital, I thought I’d share some thoughts on what I saw in the City of Brotherly Love last week at LIGHTFAIR International, which was a buzzing beehive of burning activity. I enjoyed meeting [...]

Highlights from the opening day at LIGHTFAIR International in Philadelphia.

Illuminex, previously known as Lighting South Asia, will showcase products and services from hundreds of Indian and international lighting industry players, attracting more than 8,000 architects, designers, lighting manufacturers, construction companies, engineers, dealers and distributors from throughout that country. The event will focus on the Indian lighting industry, which is worth more than $1 billion. [...]

The MFA Lighting Design program at Parsons The New School for Design has spent the last two years exploring lighting issues in a large part of the world where the electric lighting we know doesn’t exist–the developing word. In fact, 1.6 billion people in the world, more than 25%, live in energy poverty, and thus [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced a Call for Papers for its 2011 annual conference to be held October 30-November 1, 2011 at the Hilton Austin Hotel in Austin, TX. Authors of papers regarding the art, science and practice of illumination are invited to submit their papers for possible presentation for the conference, the theme [...]

The U.S. chapter of the International Commission on Illumination (Commission International de l’Eclarage) – CIE/USA is hosting a series of seminars on solid-state lighting. The seminars begin at 7:00AM, May 19, 2011 at the Philadelphia Airport Courtyard Hotel (Philadelphia, PA), the last day of LIGHTFAIR, which is being held in the same city May 17-19. [...]