LEDucation 9: Full Schedule

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: This schedule is intended to provide you with a detailed view of events and activities during LEDucation. You can let us know that you PLAN on participating in certain sessions by adding the event to your calendar with the online tools but PLEASE NOTE - You must PURCHASE LEDucation passes online at www.LEDucation.org/REGISTRATION to attend ANY Session or EXPO.

Upon completing registration, you will receive a ticket with a BAR CODE allowing access into the Event and Sessions you selected during the Registration process.

Simply register ONLINE at www.LEDucation.org/REGISTRATION.

8:30am EST

PRESS BREAKFAST AND PRE-SHOW TOUR

Private Event for Press to meet LEDucation Speakers in advance of show opening. Directly following introductions, members of the Press will be able to tour the trade show floor prior to opeing to the public. Pre-Show Tour will start at 10:00 am.

To request a Press Pass to attend LEDucation, please email Cindy Foster-Warthen at press@cfwevents.com or complete the online Press Pass Request form at the following link:

http://www.leducation.org/press.html

Moderators

Cindy Foster-Warthen

Principal, CFW Marketing Communications

Speakers

Francesca Bastianini

LumenArchitecture

Francesca Bastianini is a lighting designer in New York City with a Senior Designer with Lumen Architecture. The firm focuses on integrating lighting with architectural and interior spaces to enhance the environment and the user’s experience. The office works on varied project typologies... Read More →

JP Bedell

SDA Lighting

Over the last 16 years, JP has designed lighting for theatrical productions, special events and architectural projects. Some clients of note: NBC Universal, Google, The Oxygen Network, Sega, Wired Magazine. He has also been a lighting designer for Abercrombie and Fitch. Today, JP... Read More →

Jim Benya

Benya Burnett Consultancy

James Benya is a professional engineer and lighting designer with 41 years of experience in architectural lighting design including daylighting, theatrical and performance lighting, urban streetscapes, light as art and zero net energy building design. Mr. Benya provides expert and... Read More →

Dan Blitzer

Dan Blitzer, Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, brings over 30 years of experience to issues of lighting application, energy effectiveness and sustainability. The Practical Lighting Workshop is a 22-year old consultancy providing strategy, marketing, communication... Read More →

Lee Brandt

HLB Lighting Design

Lee discovered architectural lighting design during her studies at Penn State University and obtained both her Bachelor's and Master's of Architectural Engineering. She has been with HLB Lighting Design since 2000 and is now a Principal at the firm. Lee leads the Energy Standards... Read More →

Megan Carroll

Director of Sales, East, Xicato

Xicato is changing the way the world looks at and experiences light and enabling everyone to experience it the way they prefer. We’re a team that believes people in any environment will be more comfortable, stay longer, and will choose to be in those spaces that have better light... Read More →

Karyn Gayle

Acuity Brands

Karyn Gayle is the Vice President of Healthcare at Acuity Brands Lighting, one of the world’s leading lighting, controls and daylighting manufacturers. With more than 14 years of experience in the lighting industry, she is keenly focused on understanding and improving the visual... Read More →

Paul Gregory

Focus Lighting

Paul Gregory is the founder and president of Focus Lighting. Paul and his team have completed projects across the world including the hundredth anniversary of the Times Square Ball, Daniel Libeskind’s Crystals at CityCenter in Las Vegas, and the Beverly Hills Hotel. Paul’s... Read More →

Nelson Jenkins

LumenArchitecture

Nelson Jenkins is an award-winning lighting designer whose consultancy practice, involvement in the professional community, and university teaching experience inspire his creative work in the unique and ever-evolving field of lighting design. Since founding LumenArch in 2005 as a... Read More →

Steven L. Klein, IALD, LC

Owner, Klein Lighting

Steven Klein is an architectural lighting consultant and since 1998 Steve has been the Managing Member and principal lighting designer of Klein Lighting, LLC in Fox Point, WI. Steven designs lighting for healthcare facilities, commercial office, retail and hospitality, Houses of... Read More →

Andy McMillan

BACnet

Andy McMillan is President of BACnet International and founder of ArborCoast LLC where he provides strategy consulting services. His background includes several years as an executive with Philips Lighting as well as leadership in controls companies where he brought disruptive... Read More →

Peter Ngai

Acuity Brands

Peter is the Vice President of OLED Lighting at Acuity Brands Lighting. Peter is a pioneer in the field of OLED technology. His vision has helped in setting the direction of OLED development within the lighting industry, and resulted in the establishment of Acuity Brands OLED Business... Read More →

Tony Parisi

SEMS

For the Past 27 years Tony has worked as a senior applications engineer at Philips Semiconductors. During that time he focused on microcontroller and power control applications. In 2007 Tony migrated to the SSL lighting division of Philips. His responsibilities included interfacing... Read More →

Bob Parks

Smart Outdoor Lighting Alliance

Bob is the founder of the Virginia Outdoor Lighting Taskforce (VOLT), an all-volunteer, non-profit, grassroots advocacy group working for safe and efficient outdoor lighting since 2000. He is an authority on ecologically responsible lighting design, currently serves as chair of the... Read More →

Mark Phillips

eldoLED/Acuity Brands

Mark Phillips, IES, CLEP, Sales Manager at eldoLED, has been a lighting industry professional for over 10 years and has spent much of the last few years educating the lighting community on the challenges and benefits of controlling LEDs. Mark has a multi-discipline background that... Read More →

Ann Schiffers

USAI Lighting

As Vice President of Specification Sales at USAI Lighting, Ann Schiffers strives to push for lighting solutions for modern day challenges. Before joining USAI Lighting in 2010, Ms. Schiffers maintained her own lighting design practice for more than a decade. Her passion for lighting... Read More →

Shoshanna Segal

Senior Designer, Hartranft Lighting Design

Shoshanna Segal believes in the power of light to make the world a more equitable and accessible place. She uses both the artistic and scientific sides of her brain to illuminate the spaces where people live, work, and learn because this is the way she can effect change for the gre... Read More →

Brooke Carter Silber

JanBrooke Luminae

In 2014, Jan Moyer and Brooke Silber founded lighting design firm Jan & Brooke, Luminae. Brooke’s current projects include multiple videoconferencing facilities for the CoStar Group and interior and exterior lighting for high-end residences and hotels. Before partnering with Jan... Read More →

Melanie Taylor

With more than 25 years working as a professional architectural lighting designer, Ms. Taylor is the head of the lighting design studio in the New York City office of WSP Lighting Design. Melanie’s work includes large-scale transportation projects, commercial campuses, complex... Read More →

Ruth Taylor

PNNL

Ms. Taylor currently serves as a project manager on the Advanced Lighting Team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) where she contributes to a number of projects focused on the commercialization of solid-state lighting (SSL). She began her career at PNNL in 1984 but... Read More →

Gary Trott

Cree

Gary Trott is a product development innovator for Cree Lighting. For the past eight plus years, Gary has focused on developing solid state lighting products and served as a key member of the LED Lighting Fixtures (LLF) team that commercialized the LR6, the first viable SSL fixture... Read More →

Beatrice Witzgall

CEO, Founder, LumiFi

LumiFi

LEDucation Committee

Burt Grant

LEDucation Co-Chair, Metro Area Sales

Caroline Rinker

LEDucation Co-Chair, O'Blaney Rinker Associates

Clifford Starr

LEDucation Committee, Lighting by Gregory

Co-owner of Lighting by Gregory . Live , breathe and eat lighting. That says it all.

Craig Fox, LC IES

LEDucation Committee, ETC Architectural

ETC Northeast Architectural Manager LEDucation Committee

Gary Mann

LEDucation Committee, New Gen Lighting & Energy 

Jamie Eck

LEDucation Committee, Brazill Brothers

Matthew Dacey

LEDucation Commitee, The Dulanski Group

Max Hoover

LEDucation Commitee, GoodMart

Nathalie Faubert

LEDucation Committee, Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design

Stephen Bickford

LEDucation Committee, Stephen Bickford Design

Architectural Lighting Designer of Restaurants, Residences, Showrooms, Art Galleries, Places of Worship.

Wendy Kaplan

LEDucation Committee, Feelux Lighting

Thursday March 5, 2015 8:30am - 10:00am EST
West Room - Empire Ballroom Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel

F&B PRESS EVENT

12:00pm EST

LUNCH

Thursday March 5, 2015 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
West Room - Empire Ballroom Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel

F&B

8:00pm EST

"LIGHT IT UP" RECEPTION

Join us for this special event as we celebrate a great day at LEDucation with a little fun at our "Light It Up" Reception sponsored by Lighting by Gregory, Kichler and Sonneman.

Don't worry about leaving the hotel or looking for a place for that "after hours" cocktail. We will simply move from the show floor expo and educational sessions upstairs to the main ballroom for a few hours of networking and relaxation.We'll be serving hor d'oeuvres and cocktails throughouth the reception as exhibitors and attendees get the opportunity to mingle and relax after our first full day at LEDucation.

Admission is included with your EXPO and CEU Session Pass.

Sponsors

Host Organization Sponsored by: Lighting by Gregory, Kichler, Sonneman, Acuity Brands