Lightfair 2015 Review

Lightfair 2015 Review: New York Celebrates Novelties in Lighting and Design for Today and Tomorrow

On May 05, Lightfair 2015 opened at the Javits Center in New York today with the 26th edition of the world’s largest annual commercial and architectural lighting trade show and conference delivering the largest trade show floor in LFI history. Thousands of attendees from around the world flooded LFI exhibit halls to explore and experience the future of lighting design solutions.

LFI 2015 Show Opening

Preceding and setting the stage for the trade show opening, the prestigious LFI Innovation Awards® highlighted the industry’s most innovative products and designs introduced during the last 12 months. The energy and excitement extending from the Awards is expected to continue through the close of the show on Thursday.

International Year of Light 2015 Celebration

The “Reception & Celebration of the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL 2015)” at LFI took place this evening with opening remarks by Dr. Ana Peršic from the UNESCO office in New York followed by a member of UNESCO’s Steering Committee for the IYL, Dr. Ernest Arthurs, who is the CEO of SPIE.

LFI 2015 Innovation Awards

Known as the “New Products Showcase” for many years, this LIGHTFAIR tradition has been renamed and redesigned to focus on both new and truly innovative and smart lighting technologies, products and designs. The LFI Innovation Awards honors industry innovations for lighting-related products and designs introduced in the past 12 months. Each product was judged by an independent panel of renowned lighting professionals. The 2015 LFI Innovation Awards saw 286 entries spanning 14 categories, with each submission judged by an independent panel of lighting professionals. Among the 14 winning companies are these key awards:

• OSRAM (OmniPoint™): Most Innovative Product of the Year—the program’s highest award, recognizing the most innovative new product, booth 1922;

• HUBBELL LIGHTING, INC. (Architectural Area Lighting KicK™): Design Excellence Award—recognizing outstanding achievement in design, booth 721;

• OSRAM (OSLON® SSL 730 nm): Technical Innovation Award—recognizing the most forward-thinking advancement in lighting technology, booth 1922;

Category Winners are marked as such in their specific categories, you’ll find a complete listing at the pages of the LFI Innovation Awards. LFI has also awarded exhibitors that excelled in visual display and product presentation.

Lightfair 2015 Program

For LIGHTFAIR International 2015, the Pre-Conference program took place from Sunday, May 3 – Monday, May 4, 2015 and the LFI Trade Show and Conference run from Tuesday, May 5 – Thursday, May 7, 2015. LIGHTFAIR® International is the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference and is sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD).

Mark your Calendar for LFI 2016

The next edition, Lightfair 2016 Trade Show and (Pre) Conferences, will run from April 24 – April 28 in the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA. Also, the dates and location for Lightfair 2017 were announced recently: LFI 2017 returns to the Pennsylvania Convention Centre in Philadelphia.

LpS 2014 Conference & Expo Review

LpS 2014: THE DEFINITION OF FUTURE SSL TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

The 2014 LED professional Symposium + Expo (LpS 2014) took place from September 30th to October 2nd in Bregenz, Austria. Being held for the 4th time this year, the event has established itself meanwhile as an international meeting place for technical lighting professionals dealing with (O)LED lighting components, modules and systems. Innovations and new products were explored, and a lot of in-depth discussions and informal talks took place on the latest lighting trends and technologies.

LpS 2014 – Facts and Figures

LpS 2014 once again proved itself to be an internationally relevant event in the area of design and engineering for future LED lighting systems. This year the LpS attracted over 1,100 partakers from 43 countries. 45% of the attendees came from technical areas like Research and Development, Engineering and Project Management, Product System Design and Manufacturing and Application Engineering. A further 15% were from the Executive and Corporate management level. In total, 60% of the participants can be deemed as decision makers, responsible for the technologies and products used for future LED lighting modules and systems. Attendees, authors and exhibitors alike commended the high quality and technological focus of the event.

“Participants described the event as ‘unique in its kind’ and especially stressed the quality and strong technical focus of the symposium and exhibition”

 

Lighting & Technology Inspiration

The initiation of new ideas was brought about by discussions generated by the 58 lectures, five workshops and two tech panels. The conference program covered topics dedicated to integrated designs of LED and OLED lighting systems: Trends and visions in future LED lighting systems, materials and manufacturing, light sources, reliability and lifetime, engineering of LED optics, electronics and smart lighting as well as design with LEDs and OLEDs.

New Product Inspiration

Close to 100 exhibitors from all over the world used the LpS as a platform to introduce their latest products, services and innovations to the technically adept audience. At least 10 companies decided to use the LpS as a platform for their European or global product launches, including LEDs, LED Optics, thermal management products and measurement equipment.

Technical Highlights

The ‘Scientific Award’ was presented at the LpS this year for the first time. Dr. Peter Bodrogi, TU of Darmstadt, Germany was awarded for his paper titled: “New binning strategy for white LEDs to improve the color quality of interior lighting”. In addition, three major trend areas were highlighted in the keynotes setting the cornerstones of the three symposium days: “Intelligent Lighting”, “SSL Value Chain” and “SSL Quality Issues”.

(1) Intelligent Lighting for People

The first keynote explained why the LED applications have only made use of a minor part of the possible added user value and business development potential, so far. The platform, “Lighting for People”, will help to enhance the added values by promoting improved solutions which are better for people’s health and well-being. Customized lighting for individual projects. Here, companies such as Dutch Luxexcel, contribute to smart and intelligent lighting, based on the flexibility of their digital optics manufacturing approach, possible with their unique 3D printing process. At LpS, the next generation 3D printers for LED Optics and the renewed opportunities arising from that were introduced in Bregenz, during an interactive Technology & Application Workshop session.

(2) The Changing Role of Components in SSL Systems

The second corner stone of the symposium was given by Mark McClear. He explained the influences on the Solid State Lighting market and technology and showed how improved LED quality, power and efficiency allow for the reduction of the number of LEDs in applications and the lowering of costs. Nevertheless, he remarked that the “free Epi era” is over and therefore future cost reduction has to be mainly carried by other components.

(3) Color quality of high-end LED products

The third keynote speech was by Prof. Tran Quoc Khan, Technical University Darmstadt. He discussed the topic “Color quality of high-end LED products” and explained the V-Lambda function and how the human visual signal processing works. He showed that perception is individually different and mentioned different parameters, which should be taken into account for future regulations. Color quality affects several technology fields, whereby measurement and testing is one of them.

LpS2015 Bregenz

The LED professional Symposium + Expo will be further developed in order to become the most relevant trend-setting event for future LED lighting systems covering new technologies, products and services all around solid-state lighting.

The next LpS event will be held again in Bregenz during the IYL2015 from September 22nd until 24th.

Review: Light+Building 2014 sets new Visitor Record

“LIGHT+BUILDING IS WORLDS LARGEST LED AND SSL TRADE FAIR WITH PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES RANGING FROM PACKAGED LEDS TO DECORATIVE LUMINAIRES ON DISPLAY”

Light Building Frankfurt once again provided an impressive demonstration of its role as the world’s leading trade fair for lighting technology. The world’s biggest exhibition of lighting, electrical engineering, house and building automation and software for the building industry ended with a new record on the visitor side: 211,500 trade visitors (2012: 195,582) from 161 countries came to Frankfurt to find out about the latest innovations and solutions in lighting and beyond of the manufacturers taking part.

L+B 2014: leading light & building technology

The visitor structure underscored the significance of Light + Building as the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building-services technology. For the industry, the large proportion of foreign visitors (almost 1 out of 2) is an important factor for a positive assessment of the fair. Hardly any other fair in the world is distinguished by as many innovations as Light Building. Complex and highly efficient systems are developed in next to no time in the fields of lighting and building-services technology. In this respect, Light + Building 2014 exceeded all expectations by far and left no doubt about its position as the world’s leading trade fair for the sector.

2014 L+B Show: Record Breaking

Light+Building 2014 set new records in all relevant areas. Light+Building is in a class of its own when it comes to smart lighting, light design and the future-oriented field of building and energy management. Manufacturers have demonstrated the great energy-saving potential offered by the use of innovative, market-ready technologies.

Spotlight on Sustainable Energy

The spotlight of Light+Building 2014 was on energy efficiency, a vital aspect of the shift away from nuclear energy. The self-sufficient and sustainable use of energy is increasingly becoming the focus of the modern world.

You will find further information and photographs for downloading in the ‘For journalists’ section of the Light+Building website at www.light-building.messefrankfurt.com.

For your agenda: Light+Building 2016 will be held from 13 to 18 March, 2016.

EuroShop 2014 Review: Retail in a Great Mood to Invest!

“MORE THAN 109,000 TRADE VISITORS ATTENDED WORLD’S NO.1 TRADE FAIR FOR RETAIL AND ITS PARTNERS IN DÜSSELDORF”

Retail companies and their partners came to their leading global event, EuroShop to Düsseldorf with optimism. Retailers’ currently high propensity to invest gave rise to justified hopes for a positive outcome of the trade fair. And people’s high expectations for EuroShop 2014 were actually far surpassed over the five days of the trade fair. From the first day of the event an outstanding atmosphere prevailed thanks to many new leads and an unexpectedly high number of business deals closed.

EuroShop 2014 Review: visitors from Europe, Americas, Far East

Two thirds of EuroShop visitors travelled to Düsseldorf from abroad with significantly higher numbers from overseas – both from North, Central and South America as well as from the entire Asian region. Delegations of large retail chains from such countries as Brazil, Colombia, Canada, the USA and China were welcomed at EuroShop. A total of 109,000 visitors from 110 countries were represented. In terms of European countries, more trade visitors from the Eastern countries such as the Baltic region and the Russian Federation were represented in Düsseldorf. 73% of all EuroShop visitors were executives, two thirds of all visitors stated they were involved in their companies’ decision–making processes.

Lighting Designer – Architect – Shopfitter

With its size and diversity EuroShop 2014 provided a comprehensive overview of all important trends in the four segments EuroConcept – Shop Fitting, Architecture & Store Design, Lighting, Refrigeration Furniture and Cooling Systems. The 2,226 exhibitors from 57 countries included the market leaders from all these segments as well as young enterprises from growth markets.

Shopping Experience – Lighting Concepts & Systems

Two aspects, above all others, were centre stage at EuroShop 2014: the staging and emotionalisation of the shopping experience through spectacular shop fittings, innovative and smart lighting concepts, creative design ideas and extraordinary materials. In addition to this, the multi-channel theme – i.e. integrating and linking the various different channels like the offline, web and mobile businesses with latest technologies – was omnipresent at EuroShop. Beyond this, energy-efficient lighting systems as well as energy-enhanced refrigeration systems and furniture were in focus for food retailers.

Meeting with an extraordinarily good response were the practice-driven forums at EuroShop. In brief lectures international expert speakers covered current issues from the areas of architecture and design, IT, multi-channel, sustainability and point of sale marketing.

The next EuroShop event will be held from 5 to 9 March 2017 again in Düsseldorf, Germany.