LPS-TIL 2019 Aftermovie: Connect – Collaborate – Create

The post-show movie for the LED professional Symposium + Expo 2019 and Trends in Lighting Forum & Show 2019 is online! The LPS-TIL 2019 aftermovie features the best of the last event edition, covering the conferences, show floor exhibits and demonstrations, Lake Constance networking event and the Award Ceremony in Lindau, Germany.

LPS-TIL 2019 Aftermovie: Cool-Down & Warm-Up

Missed the event? Or just want to warm-up for the 2020 next edition? Take a minute to view and hear what others say about the best meeting place for lighting peers in Europe, located at the borders of Lake Constance:

LpS-TIL Bregenz is THE lighting industry event to experience a large range of topics from technologies, miniaturization, regulation, component developments, printed optics, sustainability and circular economy, to light sources, lighting design and architectural applications and light quality for end-users.

LED professional Symposium + Expo 2020

LED professional Symposium 2020, Europe’s Foremost Lighting Conference and Exhibition celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020, is scheduled for September 22-24, 2020 in Operahouse Bregenz.

LPS 2020 is a must-visit event for lighting professionals. More information, the 2020 program and registration options are available at the event website.

LpS 2019 – Europe’s Trend-Setting Lighting Technology Event

The international LED professional Symposium 2019 (LpS 2019) will take place from 24 to 26 September in the Opera House Bregenz, Austria. The ambition for already the 9th edition is to nurture, support and drive the continued development in, and around, the lighting industry to enable its sustainable future. LPS is a trendsetting lighting event with international key lectures and forefront exhibitors!

LPS 2019: Catalyst for Positive Change in the Lighting Industry

In 2019, LpS will deliver an event that is a catalyst for positive change in the lighting industry. It will do this by making available to its attendees an in-depth diverse and vital 360-degree perspective of lighting and what drives informs and affects it, from the smallest nanotechnologies to the global problems surrounding human wellbeing.  The event is designed to be a forum; a place to share, learn and exchange ideas across disciplines and even sectors.

By bringing together over 1700 experts from around the world, LED professional Symposium 2019 offers its attendees the opportunity to explore and to learn more about technology. With the co-hosted Trends in Lighting and DALI SUMMIT, the combined event program offers delegates the chance to really explore lighting, its impact and potential. Exploring a topic that will resonate throughout the 2019 event will be the Keynote from Trilux, who during these uncertain times in lighting discusses “The Changes in Lighting”.

Hands-on workshops: Experience-led learning

Delegates can get hands-on in several in-depth and varied workshops throughout the event. This year LpS welcomes multiple industry experts sharing their expertise across varied subjects including: “Inside the Pyramids -Light Where There Should Be Darkness” by Professor Ruairi O’Brien, “Intertwining Daylight and Light Design”, by Isabel Villar and Maha Shalaby, “Setting Up A Robust Lighting Control System with Bluetooth Mesh” by Silvair, and “Experience How New LED Technologies Raise The Bar in Human Centric Lighting” by Giovanni Vecchio.

LPS Awards: Celebrating Light

The awards return this year, bigger and more exciting than before. LpS has increased the awards categories for exhibitors to celebrate the complete spectrum of light. The seven Awards will be presented at a stunning ceremony dinner in Lindau on September 25th. They are given for cutting edge technologies with the strongest impact on lighting, applications and sustainability.

LED professional Symposium 2019 Exhibitors

More than 100 exhibitors will show the latest systems, products, equipment and services in the LpS 2019 exhibition during the three event days. Some remarkable companies include Luximprint, Dutch service provider of 3D printed optics for lighting applications, Lightly Technologies, inventor of the ultra-thin, OLED-like LED light panels, among many other firms, both large and small that offer the latest emerging lighting technologies.

LpS 2019 is supported by Lifud, Nichia, Seoul Semiconductor and Tridonic and is co-located with the 3rd Trends in Lighting Event and the 1st DALI Summit 2019 from the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA).

More information and tickets via www.LpS2019.com

LpS 2018: Starting Point for Lighting Technology, Use and Application

Carefully Curated LpS 2018 Progam Tackles the Disruption to the Lighting Industry 

The 8th international LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2018) will take place from 25 to 27 September in Bregenz, Austria. LpS continues to be aimed at technology experts from industry and research, as well as those who are curious about the latest developments in lighting technology. The carefully curated LpS 2018 program, together with the co-hosted TiL 2018, now forms a comprehensive overview of the current developments, hurdles, and solutions for the disrupted and ever-changing world of lighting.

LpS 2018 Program: Understanding Techology, Users and Applications

It is not easy to describe the current situation in the lighting domain, as there are so many different perspectives. Essentially, however, we can all agree that we are in a state of flux, change and disruption. We are looking at a future none of us can confidently create a roadmap for. We see the solution for the disruption of lighting as progression and innovation with light. This requires an understanding of technology, users and the applications. Only when all sides are understood and considered can valuable new solutions truly be created with, and in, light.

LpS 2018: A Gathering of the Greatest Minds in Lighting

LpS will bring together the greatest minds in lighting to tackle this year’s key 5 topics of Strategies & Technologies:

• Digitization,
• Human Centric Lighting
• Quality Engineering
• Technologies
• Applications

There will be over 100 specialist lectures, workshops, and panel debates that will be enjoyed by more than 1,600 visitors, who will come together to discuss, debate, design and develop the “Lighting Technologies of Tomorrow”.

Lighting Technologies of Tomorrow

The extensive LpS 2018 Program of conferences encompasses strategies and markets, engineering and design, testing and applications, and covers the central building blocks of lighting systems from the component or materials right the way through to the application. The design questions concern topics such as reliability, costs and issues around the production of modern lighting systems.

The workshop program has also been extended to allow our delegates to have a real hands-on experience. Delegates can encounter the latest technologies, explore creative thinking, problem-solving, and ask questions and work alongside new and interesting people. The workshops and demonstration sessions will inspire you to think bigger, achieve greater things and to be better prepared for the uncertain, but exciting, future of lighting.

LpS2018 is the place where a true understanding of a process of change in technology, design and application really begins. Don’t miss it!

The TIL 2018 and LpS 2018 lighting events in 2018 are in partnership with Seoul Semiconductor, TRILUX and Bluetooth SIG.

TIL 2018 Program Released

The TiL 2018’s Program Inspires, Empowers and Reinvigorates today’s Disrupted Lighting Industry

Trends in Lighting 2018 is an event that has been designed to support and inspire architects, engineers, art directors, product designers, fashion technologists, artists and the constantly curious, to find new meanings and new relevance of light in the digital age. The TiL 2018 program was just released, prepare yourself for another inspirational lighting event!

TIL 2018 Program – Curated by Rogier van der Heide

The event’s curator, award-winning lighting designer Rogier van der Heide, recognized a need to explore and broaden the lighting industry’s ideas about modern innovations and their applications,  and he has brought together a handpicked squad of international experts to form an impressive program of speakers, workshops and gatherings to inspire us all.

“Trends in Lighting is a much needed event in the world of lighting. It demonstrates that lighting knows no boundaries and has new and unexpected applications everywhere: in healthcare, entertainment, mobility and agriculture, to name just a few areas. But Trends in Lighting is also mission-critical for the lighting industry in its quest to find new meanings and new relevance of light in the digital age.” Rogier Van Der Heide, Program Curator at TiL 2018.

Modern Challenges meets New Technologies

Modern challenges mean we need to utilize new technologies in meaningful ways to create experiences that are memorable and relevant. TiL 2018 brings together knowledge, like-minded professionals and curious minds, and is a fantastic opportunity to gain new skills and to get inspired.

The international program line-up comes from all over the world and includes companies such as Boeing, Arup, LichtVision Design, Volpi, OSRAM, Zumtobel, Signify, Bluetooth and many more. The carefully curated program is divided into four topics all as vital, and inspirational, as the next:

Lighting Heart & Soul: People have a special connection to light. It brings us joy and facilitates good health. This track is designed to inform about the best of human-centric lighting by demonstrating special applications and sharing new insights. Delegates will acquire concrete methods and design concepts to integrate human-centric lighting into projects.

The Right to Create: Let Trends in Lighting empower you! Join the workshops, with their hands-on approach and you too can learn about new technologies by working and experimenting with materials you would otherwise have no access to.

Humanized Technology: Learn about some of the world’s best user experiences with light and how those experiences were designed by considering customer journeys and personalization of the lighting design. Attendees will be able to grasp how to create their next project with a better understanding of the expectations and perceptions of their audience.

Beyond Illumination: Connected lighting is the next, big thing. But how will it make sense to people? The workshops and seminars in this track explore the purpose of light as a carrier of data and a vital part of a much bigger technology ecosystem. Visitors to TiL 2018 will get the low-down on meaningful applications of “smart lighting” and learn how all of this will change our lives.

Full TIL 2018 Program Online

The full Til 2018 program is now live on the website and the organizers’ team is looking forward to welcoming you all to TiL 2018!

TIL 2018 Announces Curator Rogier van der Heide to Empower and Inspire

Rogier van der Heide and Luger Research: A Future-Proof Lighting Event Marriage

TIL 2018, the even co-located event with LED professional Symposium (LpS 2018), proudly announced this week its curator for the next edition of the event. In his position as ‘a master of light’, a provocateur and a futurist, Rogier van der Heide is on a mission to inspire and empower every lighting professional around the globe.

Lighting & Technology Tracks

The transformation of lighting into a digital technology does not just create new technical possibilities. In addition, it empowers professionals of all backgrounds to create meaningful solutions with light. At the 2018 edition of Trends in Lighting, the four knowledge tracks will enable everyone to discover the incredible breadth of digital lighting applications and to exchange lighting passion, expertise, and enthusiasm.

The four carefully curated tracks will be as follows:

1. Lighting Heart & Soul: Light for better living, light for health, light at work, light & sleep, light & mood
2. The Right to Create: Design process, rapid prototyping, light & business, value with light
3. Humanizing Tech: User experiences, usability, holistic experience of light
4. Beyond Illumination: Connected light, IoT, software & light, integrating light in technology

Rogier van der Heide is an awarded IALD lighting professional. Here some of his work, the Hanhwa Galleria West in Korea.

Rogier van der Heide and Luger: A Dedicated Collaboration

Rogier van der Heide, an IALD Radiance Award winner, was the first choice for the Luger Team when deciding on a collaborative partner. Having nearly a decade of experience in international lighting technology events, Luger wanted to collaborate with a strong creative leader in Light for TiL 2018. The change to digital technologies light and lighting coming in recent years inspires LpS to bring the two worlds of lighting technology and innovative light applications together. It’s now the right time for it.

“Digital Transformation of Light: The Time is Ripe to Merge Lighting Technology and Lighting Applications”

TiL 2018: An Open and Inclusive Lighting Event

Light has been the field of specialists until now, accessible only by the ‘educated’. The entrance barrier was high. Now, after running into the digital age, light is perceived differently: light now easily adds different values in applications, ranging from “health and wellbeing” to “light that sells” and “connected light”.

The role of the lighting designer is shifting and others are entering the field such as art directors, designers, business leaders, product designers and even doctors. Light is ‘open-source’ now and anyone can create value with light.

Mark your calendars and don’t miss the opportunity to visit TiL 2018 in Bregenz and get inspired by Rogier van der Heide as well as many other lighting experts that share their vision on the future of lighting!

LPS 2018: More Relevant than Ever Before!

LED Professional Symposium + Expo LPS 2018: More Relevant than Ever Before

Every sector has been affected by the dramatic evolution of technology that has taken place in the last decade. In lighting, this evolution has become a revolution, taking us from the use of phosphors, through LEDification and on into the current-day connected, smart solutions that open up the sector to a whole new world of potential. LpS 2018 is THE event to be when it comes to learning about the latest trends and technologies in the lighting sector!

Lps 2018: The Evolving Lighting Event

The development and application of lighting technologies have never needed to be more agile, market aware and reactive to keep up with the changing tides than today. This need for fast and accurate investment and decision-making makes the LpS event more relevant today than it has ever been before.

LpS 2018 will see nearly 2000 leaders in light technology come together to share and debate the latest updates for researchers, engineers and system architects in the fields of LEDs, OLEDs, drivers, controls, printed optics, thermal management, materials, standardization, testing, technology trends, and luminaire design.

LpS, the international symposium and exhibition, has kept up with the rapid rate of change that has taken place in the sector. LpS has been through the lighting revolution, developing its format and content at the same rate as the changes in the technologies themselves.

LPS 2018: The Leading European Lighting Conference

Over the last 8 years, LpS has earned its title as the leading European lighting conference because it calls on the leading experts from academia and industry to present their latest research, developments, innovations and expectations for future technologies to its highly-qualified audience.

This year it will not only be the technologies that LpS will focus on; the multiple knock-on-effects created by this boom in development means that LpS will welcome specialists in cybersecurity, miniaturization, the human-centric approach, productivity, manufacturing and economics.

More information on the show and conference program is available at the event website.

TIL 2017 Aftermovie

TIL 2017 Aftermovie

Enjoy the highlights of Trends in Lighting 2017 by viewing this TIL 2017 Aftermovie, the inaugurational Lighting Designer event held alongside with the LED professional Symposium and Expo in Bregenz, Austria.

Trends in Lighting is an international business event dedicated to bridging the gap between lighting technology and design. It will reinvigorate how lighting designers, architects, engineers, consultants, planners and investors think. By bringing together the most fascinating innovators, inventors and industry leaders, the event aims to inspire and encourage attendees to build a future for lighting design that is relevant and secure.

The next edition of the event, TIL 2018, is scheduled for September 25-27, 2018. The event theme for this next edition is ‘Lighting Design for our Future World’.

Review Lps 2017: 7th International LED professional Symposium+Expo

Review LPS 2017: The most Comprehensive International Event in Lighting to Date

The widely anticipated 7^th LED professional Symposium + Expo was set to be the biggest and most comprehensive event in lighting to date, and it kept its promise. Over 1,600 leading technology experts, from industry and research, came together at LpS 2017 to explore, to debate and to build the future of lighting technologies together.

Comprehensive Lectures and Workshop Program

With over 110 lectures, given by the world’s most prominent and admired experts in lighting, the delegation was guided through, and educated in, the very latest developments in technologies, markets and lighting.

Over the three day event, the prominent topics rose to the surface and they permeated the speaker sessions, workshops and the networking discussions on the exhibition floor.

Light Quality is Still Paramount

Against the backdrop of the innovative, next generational smart lighting concepts, the subject of light quality took a leading role at LpS 2017. With all the developments in technologies and the subsequent arrival of new applications, lighting is racing ahead into its future, a future that is being conceptualised and realized simultaneously. Several speakers delivered a note of caution to the crowds. We can build this future for lighting, but we must not forget the spectrum of LEDs still requires considerable work. How can we create the optimal lighting solution if we are focused on the end results speed to be realized, not the quality of it and its value?

Massive Impact for Miniaturization

The integration of light within the world of computer technologies has been a leading trend in the light sector since the introduction of LED and OLED technologies. Experts shared their thoughts on new approaches to miniaturization of control electronics by high-frequency circuits, the adoption of OLED lighting and the potential of miniaturization in both the light source, the drivers and the electronics required to power them. The events content covered the central building blocks of lighting systems from the component or materials right the way through to the application, and it explored the changes, and challenges, being brought by the miniaturization revolution.

LpS Scientific Paper of the Year

The LED professional Scientific Award was awarded to the best scientific paper. The winner was Dr. Ekaterina Nannen from the NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In her paper, Ekaterina Nannen deals with alternative techniques for light generation

LpS 2017 can be considered as a huge success and will continue to grow to meet the needs of delegates, exhibitors and the lighting industry and research as a whole. This year highlighted the need for us to all come together, to share ideas and to support each other because the future of lighting, and its impact on the world, is bigger today than ever before.

The Future of Lighting needs You!

Join LPS 2018 from 25 – 27 September next year, more info to follow soon!

Trends in Lighting – TIL2017

TIL2017 – The Smart Lighting Forum & Show

Trends in Lighting 2017 (TIL2017) is an immersive, international event designed for those at the forefront of lighting. The Trends in Lighting event addresses the big questions being asked in modern light design and technologies. This September, the event will be inaugurated by leading lighting experts. The event is organized by Luger Research, for years the driving force behind the successful LED professional symposium and Expo in Bregenz, Austria.

TIL2017: For Professionals At the Forefront of Lighting

This year, the focus is Human Centric Lighting, Connected Lighting, Smart Controls, IoT, Light as a Service. The event has been curated for Architects, Lighting Designers, Lighting Consultants, Electrical Consultants, Lighting OEMs and IT/IoT System Integrators.

The Trends in Lighting 2017 event runs in parallel with its twin-event LpS 2017 in Festpielhaus Bregenz, Austria. You can download the full event program here.

Stellar LPS 2017 Program Reveiled

LpS 2017 Program Hosts chosen Lighting Specialists and Delegates sharing proven Insights and Findings

The organizers are proud to reveal the LpS 2017 program, for what will be the greatest LpS event to date. Over 1,600 delegates and 100 exhibitors will come to Bregenz this year, including global experts from industry and research. The event focus will be on multiple lighting applications such as Human Centric Lighting, Transportation Lighting, Agricultural Lighting, Healthcare and many more.

Insights and Findings by chosen Specialists

These chosen specialists will be sharing their future visions, innovative technologies, trend insights and research findings in over 100 carefully selected lectures.

“We have been building up to this for 7 years; LpS 2017 will be something truly special! We are bringing together the very best minds in light, from industry and research, for what I believe will be 3 unforgettable days that will explore and develop the light technologies of tomorrow,” Siegfried Luger, Event Director.

LpS 2017 Program Hightlights

Highlights this year will include keynote lectures on prominent trends. Delegates will hear from the world’s foremost expert in Solid State Lighting, Fred Maxik, and industry trailblazer Jan Denneman, Vice President of Philips Lighting, who will be sharing his visions on “Connected Lighting – A Global View”.

Additional sessions will also cover laser lighting, future markets & trends, Human Centric Lighting, light sources and modules, intelligent lighting, IoT and security, materials and components, system qualification and applications.

“LpS is a great opportunity for experts in light technologies and research to come together.  It allows professionals to share ideas that help to shape and build the future of light.”

~ Dr. Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize winner and the inventor of the blue LED ~

Hands-On: LpS 2017 offers its attendees the chance to get hands-on and to explore light, and its possibilities. With a series of detailed and informative workshops delivered and lead by such internationally renowned companies and organizations as EPIC, Photonics21 and Bluetooth SIG on subjects including Miniaturization, LiFi, and the potential of Bluetooth and IoT.

Award Winners: The very best technology, products, equipment or services at LpS 2017, one that demonstrates uniqueness, sustainability and the highest-quality in the field of Solid-State Lighting, will be honored with the coveted LpS Award.

LpS 2017 Program hosts high quality conferences and top lighting industry exhibitors.

LpS 2017 – The Leading International Lighting Technologies Event

LpS is the leading international lighting technologies event for design, testing and production of lighting systems, controls and equipment, showcasing state of the art lighting designs and products. The conference has a long heritage and a trusted reputation for being the event that brings together the very best light technologies experts from around the world and has also received the Austrian Congress Award 2017.

Trends in Lighting 2017

Trends in Lighting 2017: The First International Forum & Show Dedicated to Smart Lighting & IoT

Light and how it is used affects our lives. Light creates our environments, enhances our moods, it can alter our health and it is pivotal to our very existence. By combining LED/OLED technology with the infinite possibilities of today’s connected ‘smart’ world, light and lighting design are now open to a whole new world of possibilities and solutions. We now have Smart Lighting that will affect us all today, and in the future Trends in Lighting 2017 perfectly addresses these novel future lighting solutions and trends.

TIL 2017 – A Carefully Curated Hub

The event has been created to address the questions being asked in modern light design and technologies. The event comprises of exclusive lectures, panel debates, workshops and exhibition. A carefully curated hub, TiL 2017 will offer architects, planners, designers, manufacturers and systems integrators a unique experience, a place to learn about modern lighting and connect with international experts. There is also a chance to get hands-on with the latest technologies, making it a truly immerse experience.

Trends in Lighting 2017 is the perfect place to discuss the latest lighting technologies and innovations.

The Art of Design

Lead architect Thomas Kinzler of Zaha Hadid Architects will share his passion and ideas about the role of lighting design in modern architecture. Lighting designer Massimo Iarussi will present the excellent lighting project for the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence, where lighting, design and the forms all contributed to finding new solutions.

“The space, the geometry, the light of an architecture in great proportions must remain the core aim, while engineering aims for zero carbon, ultra-green architecture. But this balance between the poetry of architecture and its green engineering is crucial,” Steven Holl, Architect.

In addition to the design and forms of the architecture, practical lighting system solutions will be presented and discussed. Philips, Zumtobel Group, Osram, Trilux and other industry trailblazers will explain the latest insights into light and present some of their intelligent system solutions.

Smart, Intelligent, Internet of Things

A key trend is the agility of modern networks that allow lighting solutions to evolve and adapt, increasing the efficiency in cities and buildings. The diverse questions of networking and connectivity are central to the TiL 2017 lectures and workshops. The aim of which is to generate a greater understanding of smart lighting and to present solution concepts from global brands such as Huawei.

“TiL 2017 is an interactive and practice-oriented hub created by, and for, experts in order to collectively experience the future of light. It will close the gap between application, design and technology.” Event Director, Siegfried Luger.

Trends in Lighting 2017 showcases interactive light environments that mirrors the latest trends and technologies.

Hands-On Workshops

In addition to the lectures TiL 2017 offers interactive workshops. The wide range of topics for these workshops include, data transmission via light, an exploration of visual perception, the theme of “Design meets Technology” and the balance that must be stuck, miniaturization of lighting systems, and the issue of cyber security.

Hands-On Show

In the parallel hands-on show, attendees can experience a showcase of the current light trends. This will include Amazon echo in the Experience Lab; APIL realized light projects; energy-saving and intelligent lighting controllers, innovative lighting assembly; colored and intelligently controlled floor plates and ‘Internet of Lighting’ products. Also this year, the best application system will be awarded the TiL Award.

Trends in Lighting 2017 (TiL 2017) will take place on the 26-28 September 2017 in Festspielhaus Bregenz, Austria and runs in parallel with the LED professional Symposium 2017 (LpS 2017).

Pictures in this post are courtesy of Luger Research e.U.

Trends in Lighting co-located with LpS2017 Bregenz

Trends in Lighting Bregenz: The Novel LpS2017 Partner Event

The 7th annual LED professional Symposium + Expo will be taking place from September 26th to 28th. This year renowned speakers and experts from the areas of research and the lighting industry meet again in Bregenz, Austria for the three-day LpS2017 symposium and exhibition where the newest lighting technologies and innovations are presented and discussed.

Interactive: Lectures, Workshops, Forums and Discussion Panels

The LED professional symposium is comprised of a series of lectures, workshops, forums and discussion panels while the exhibition is filled with the newest technologies components and developments presented by international companies and organizations. The LpS focuses on an expert audience from the areas of Design & Engineering, Quality Assurance, Technical Management and authorities from the international lighting industry. This year the organizers are expecting over 1,600 visitors from 50 countries.

In 2017, for the first time, the event Trends in Lighting (TiL), will be running parallel to the LpS. Trends in Lighting is a forum for architects, interior designers, lighting and building planners, lighting designers and lighting consultants. TiL will be looking at the subject of transitions in indoor lighting as well as covering current trends like Human Centric Lighting, Smart Lighting and the Internet of Things.

The LpS2017 Expo offers a rich versatility of lighting suppliers.

LpS2017 Symposium and Expo

The motto for the LpS 2017 is “Smart Technologies for Lighting Innovations” which will be structured around the subject areas of Strategy, Design & Development and Applications & Solutions over three days. The entire event program includes the Opening Ceremony with a Keynote from Dr. Wu Chou, CTO at Huawei, for the conference, the Opening Ceremony for the exhibition, subject oriented lectures, workshops, discussion panels, press conference – which will include product launches – and an evening event aboard the MS Vorarlberg. The exhibition associated with the conference will present the newest products, capital goods and services.

The LpS Expo offers comprehensive views of everything from components to modules, measuring devices to production machines, and research facilities to test laboratories. Leading companies from the lighting industry will be presenting their market innovations in Bregenz.

The latest trends and technologies will be discussed at LpS2017

Trends in Lighting – TiL 2017

Digitalization, communication and new lifestyles change the way we deal with light. These changes necessitate adaptations and improvements to existing light systems and lighting solutions. Completely new concepts are needed due to the rapid developments of LED and OLED technologies and altered implementation profiles. Trends in Lighting is a forum for architects, interior designers, light planners, lighting designers and IT/IoT system integrators, that looks at the newest trends in the lighting industry and takes place parallel to the LpS. Next to the forum the TiL expo, which will be in the Foyer of the Bregenz Opera House, will be presenting highly innovative lighting systems, luminaries, lamps, control systems and fixtures. The motto of TiL 2017 is “Smart Trends in Indoor Lighting – from HCL to Luminaries to Internet of Things”.

Epic and Zumtobel in the Spotlights at LpS2016

Bregenz – The LpS2017 Event Location

The city of Bregenz is located on the shores of Lake Constance and is the capital city of the state of Vorarlberg, Austria’s westernmost province. The area is known as a high-tech region in the heart of Europe, situated on the borders to Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The LpS and TiL events will take place at Festspielhaus Bregenz.

Registration is now open for visitors and attendees of both events. Go to the registration pages www.LpS2017.com or www.trends.lighting for more information. If you register before July 1st you will also receive an Early Bird discount. The entry tickets for the exhibition are valid for both events.

Pictures in this post are sourced from Luger Research / LED professional.

LpS2016 – The International Conference Dedicated to Smart Lighting Innovations, Trends and Technologies

LpS2016 – The Lighting Trends, Knowledge & Innovation Platform

The lighting sector is facing enormous challenges. The LEDification process is ongoing while Intelligent Lighting and Human Centric Lighting strongly affect future lighting developments. New stakeholders, market players and organizations play important roles in future businesses and technology opportunities. State-of-the art knowledge, trend views and collaborations are vital for success in the highly dynamic market. In this environment the 3-day LpS2016 event builds a platform to follow the latest trends, predict next generation lighting solutions, enforce collaborations and trigger lighting innovations.

4 Tracks with over 70 Top-Class Speakers

The conference program will concentrate on Future Trends, Intelligent Light, Internet of Things, Light Quality, Light Sources, Intelligent Lighting, Optics, Thermal Management, Reliability, Testing, and Applications, in four parallel tracks. More than 70 international speakers from key organizations such as IBM, Johnson Controls, Bartenbach, Lumileds, Tridonic, Philips, Holst Center, Infineon, NXP, and several renowned universities, will present their findings in the opera house and James Bond film location, the Festspielhaus Bregenz, on beautiful Lake Constance.

High-Level Lighting Celebrities

The LED professional Symposium + Expo 2016 will be opened by Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Shuji Nakamura from the University of California Santa Barbara (the inventor of the blue and white LEDs), who will present the latest developments in LED and Laser-Diode technologies. The opening will also give insights into the strategic goals of the European Commission and LightingEurope, the voice of the European lighting industry. Secretary General, Diederik de Stoppelaar will highlight their strategic lighting roadmap 2025 in the field of intelligent lighting.

5 New Lighting Innovation Triggers

A “Design meets Technology Forum” is planned where the needs and requirements of the lighting designer will be discussed and interaction with the lighting design engineer and the system designers will be sought. The creative lighting community will also be given the chance to present their solutions from the component up to the lighting systems in the new “Start-Up Innovators” area. Besides the technical innovations, a Light-Art Design area opens the door to lighting designers and lighting artists, presenting their objects in the foyer of the opera house. In addition, intelligent light engines will be presented in a workshop covering spectrally and tunable LED and OLED lighting. The European project HI-LED will be covering “Intelligent Solutions” for museum, horticulture and street lighting. Finally, on day 3, EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortia, will offer a workshop on Horticultural Lighting and present their latest findings in plant growth system lights.

Visitors, Exhibitors and Partners

The organizers are expecting more than 1,500 visitors from over 50 countries. More than 100 exhibitors will present new products, latest innovations and the current status of LED and OLED lighting technologies in a 3,000 square meters exhibition area. Over 20 media partners, about 15 supporting organizations and several scientific partners are supporting the LpS2016 event.

Early Bird Tickets Available

Online registration is open now with Early Bird tickets available until July 1st at the official event website: www.LpS2016.com.