1) Can LEDs rule the world?

The opening plenary session will discover why LEDs are ready to dominate global markets, revolutionising the way the world is lit. Philip Smallwood, Director of LED & Lighting Research, Strategies Unlimited, USA, will comprehensively review the changes that are disrupting the lighting status quo.

LED Lighting Market Review and Forecast: Weds 18 November, 11:00 – 11:30 - Platinum Room 3&4, Level 3

2) The future is calling; what can smart lights learn from smartphones?

Could your iPad or iPhone monitor, control and streamline lighting services? Will wired or wireless connectivity be the norm in the businesses and homes of tomorrow? Gerard Harbers, Chief Technology Officer, Xicato, USA, unravels this complex new web of digital development, and signposts the business signals for the future.

What Can Smart Lights Learn from Smartphones and What Can Smartphones Learn from Smart Lights? Weds 18 November, 13:30 – 14:00, Platinum Room 1, Level 3

3) Can we communicate using light?

Today's broadband is nearly saturated; can visual light communication forge a new path? Tom van den Bussche, President, TORIC, France, will elucidate the Li-Fi market and its scope for indoor navigation, broadcasting and the Internet.

Talking Lights: Weds 18 November, 14:00 – 14:30, Platinum Room 1, Level 3

4) Lightening the load on health

Over the past 20 years, the effect of light on health and wellbeing has been better understood and scientifically studied. Now, we know that specialised cells in the retina control hormonal rhythms and vigilance.

What scope then for human centric lighting, building better health and productive working environments? Herbert Plischke, Professor for Light and Health at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich gives his diagnosis on how people can profit from artificial light.

How Can Human-Centric Lighting Make People Feel Better? Weds 18 November, 15:30 – 16:00, Platinum Room 1, Level 3

5) The building blocks of light

SSL technology is re-envisaging light, not just as a means of articulating space, but as an architectural building block in its own right. Evolving procurement, construction materials and industry convention are being comprehensively re-imagined, placing light at the heart of tomorrow's smarter, more responsive, futurist buildings.

Eoin Billings, Founding Director, Billings Jackson Design, UK, will bring clarity to the architecture, integrated design and fantastic possibilities of tomorrow.

SSL as a Building Material: the Reinvention of Lighting Design: Thurs 19 November, 09:40 – 10:00, Platinum Room 1, Level 3

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1) The Future Is Phosphors

By blending a variety of phosphors, the LED emission spectrum can be optimized for visual display. Suddenly, merchandising across the retail sector has become dramatically more exciting. Optimizing retail LED lighting requires a variety of distinct and efficient phosphor materials, and a willingness of LED manufacturers. But the potential winnings are equally significant.

Daniel Doxsee, Deputy Managing Director, Nichia Europe, will examine the key pathways to optimizing the spectral ouput of LEDs for retail applications.

Using Phosphor Technology to Enhance the Retail Experience, Weds 18 November, 14:30 – 15:00, Platinum Room 2, Level 3

2) Design For Light

Even the newest LED luminaires often look like their conventional predecessors, and most building applications remain similarly consistent, with new technologies simply replicating the conventional forms of before.

Is a new wave of design on the way, or will the LED revolution remain untelevised? Dr. Thomas Knoop, Managing Director, INTEGRATED, Germany, seeks answers to how design, features and technology can usher in a brave new world of lighting.

The Impact of LEDs on Luminaire Design, Weds 18 November, 15:30 – 16:00, Platinum Room 2, Level 3

3) Be Smart, Be Sustainable

Today, smart lighting is imperative for the sustainable development of our cities. Public lighting is being managed ever more efficiently, optimizing energy consumption and improving quality of service. As lamps, parking lots, cycle networks and EV charging stations evolve, and as a worldwide 4 billion street lamps change to LEDs, what does the future hold? Gianni Minetti, President and Chief Executive Officer, Paradox Engineering, Switzerland, will tell us.

Smart Lighting, The New Imperative for the Sustainable Development of Cities, Thurs 19 November, 09:40 – 10:00, Platinum Room 2, Level 3

4) Cost And Efficiency; Can The Challenges Be Met Smartly?

Bringing the bulb within computerised control offers numerous benefits, including a reduction in wasted power. But, smart lighting must add this extra control without compromising the efficiency improvements that originally drove LED introduction. Andrew Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager,

Power Integrations, USA, ponders how it might be done.

Meeting the Challenges of Cost and Efficiency Presented by Smart Lighting in Consumer Applications, Thurs 19 November, 11:30 – 12:00, Platinum Room 2, Level 3

5) Life's A Gas; Can Gas Cooling Systems Deliver Optimal Performance?

Replacing traditional solid heat sinks with gas-phase cooling systems leads to a better luminous efficacy, plus unexpected spinoffs in optical performance and aesthetics.

James Hooker, R&D Manager LED & Special Lamps, Havells Sylvania Lighting Belgium NV, delivers an insight into the development of an entirely new class of LED light source.

Development of Gas-Cooled LED lamps, Thurs 19 November, 13:30 – 14:00, Platinum Room 2, Level 3

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