Program Agenda
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| 8:00 |
Tuesday,
Nov 3 -- Registration, Coffee/Muffins begins at 8:00a |
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| 9:00 |
Welcome & Introduction of Co-Chairs
Tom Griffiths, Publisher --
Solid State Lighting Design & LIGHTimes Online
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How Do I Know What Works?
The needs and challenges of the lighting designer
Kathy Abernathy, LC, IALD, Principal
-- Abernathy Lighting Design
President-Elect -- International Association
of Lighting Designers (IALD) |
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Co-chair
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Lighting design is an applied
art and demands a comprehensive "palette" of tools for it's
success. While energy-saving initiatives have narrowed that tool set
over the last decade, LED-based lighting has the potential to broaden
it far beyond what it has ever been before. But it has to work, and
given that SSL luminaire "manufacturers" now number over
500 companies, there is a lot of opportunity for poor quality implementations.
The lead-off talk will help frame the challenge, and the opportunity,
that SSL offers to lighting designers.
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Light in the Public Sector:
Fitting the puzzle together for long term solutions
Margaret Newman AIA, LEED AP,
Chief of Staff -- New
York City Department of Transportation |
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Special
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The combined factors of stimulus
funds, "green" initiatives and tightened municipal/state
budgets create a "perfect storm" for adopting new technologies
that can save on maintenance and operating costs. There are a lot
of taxpayer-owned lights out there, but the process is not as simple
as "show me the photometrics and we'll start the retrofit".
New York City's Department of Transportation is currently involved
in an evaluation and test program that includes the US Dept of Energy
and The Climate Group, and that highlights many of these issues. We'll
hear about the department's objectives, coordination elements, methodologies
and thought processes, which will shed additional light on strategies
to accelerate the municipal/public-sector solid state lighting adoption
process.
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| 10:30 |
Networking
Break -- 30 minutes |
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Considering the Big Picture:
A world where the light doesn't have to degrade over time
Ben Frank, VP Sales & Marketing,
Elumen Lighting |
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The output of HID, fluorescent
and other high-efficiency sources, and their fixtures, degrade substantially
over their lifetimes. When properly designed, LED lighting systems
maintain virtually all of their brightness over their lifetime, including
accounting for dust and other environmental factors, even to the point
of being able to build-in output compensation in order to keep the
"foot-candles on the target" at a specified level. The "intelligent
power" approach also opens the door to a host of new capabilities,
including self-metering and remote control functions. How should top-level
design parameters be adjusted to keep up, and expand on the business
case in key applications?
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Energy Star/DOE Update: More
categories, more data and a new street light consortium
Michael Myer, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratories |
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The US Department of Energy's
(DOE) Energy Star specification for LED-based lighting includes a
series of comprehensive quantitative measures that go far beyond simply
how much electricity it uses. We'll hear the latest on the integral
replacement lamp and outdoor lighting specifications, on the new street
lighting consortium, as well as Round 9 of the DOE's CALiPER program,
which has measured the real efficiency of a number of representative
fixtures, and compared the results to the label.
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| 12:15 |
Lunch
-- 90 minutes |
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Common Sense Luminaire Design
John "Jack" Curran, PhD,
President - LED Transformations |
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A solid state lighting luminaire
is an electronic and optical system, not just a group of LEDs wired
together. What answers do luminaire manufacturers need to have at
the ready to demonstrate that they have done it right?
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Energy Incentives and Rebates:
Product qualifications the utilities will use
Sarah Eckstein, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships -- Designlights
Consortium
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The Designlights Consortium,
organized by NEEP, has been tasked by its sponsoring utility and energy
efficiency stakeholders to develop a qualified LED lighting products
list as resource for incentive program administrators, to help them
decide which solid state lighting products to include in their energy
efficiency promotions. Their primary reference tool for solid state
lighting is ENERGY STAR, however the regional list fills in gaps in
categories which ENERGY STAR does not include. How does a product
qualify, and how does the decision maker find qualified products?
There's only a few billion in incentives at stake, so the answers
might be important... fortunately this talk will point the way!. |
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| 3:00 |
Networking
Break -- 30 minutes |
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Using the Tax Incentives:
Not leaving any money on the table
Julio Gonzalez, President - Engineered
Tax Services |
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While green initiatives and
stimulus monies are making the news, there have been substantial energy
efficiency tax-incentives left on the table for several years. Many
outside tax experts missed it, and they can be reluctant to dig deeper
into what is available for fear of uncovering the money their clients
left on the table. |
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It's a Business Case, Not
a Light Bulb: Why LED lighting wins when viewed with ROI in mind
Richard Burton, Greenlight
Initiative |
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If management is presented
with a "widget" that attaches to each light fixture in a
building, saves 50% on their energy, extends the lifetime by a factor
of 5 times, eliminates maintenance and has a 2-3 year payback, do
they beg to get them right now? Prove it's true and you can bet they
will. But often, when it comes to LED lighting, the "expense"
is looked at as a light bulb instead of a cash flow generator. What
is the top-level business case when viewed as a purely P&L decision?
With first hand experience and success in exactly these scenarios,
Richard will provide insights for both how to make the business case,
as well as how to receive it.
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| 5:00 |
Evening
Product Showcase and Reception -- 5-8pm
Participants:
Keep in mind that all showcase companies must be vetted to ensure
basic quality and that their product specs consistently match their
performance |
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2 -- Coffee/Muffins begins at 8:30a |
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A Future Success Story: Winning
back the specifier's trust
Randy Sabedra, IES, IALD, Principal,
RS Lighting Design, Past-president, IES NY Section |
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Co-chair
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We know it's shocking, but
some decision makers have run into issues, including poor quality
or under-performing products and inadequate support. Our co-chair,
Randy Sabedra, has experienced this first hand, and can share his
view for what it will take for the LED lighting manufacturers to better
establish their credibility in the white-lighting space.
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Standards, Standards, Standards:
What's here, what's coming, and what might be missing?
Jianzhong Jiao, PhD, Director
of Regulations and Emerging Technologies -- OSRAM
Opto Semiconductors Inc. |
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We often hear the cry that
"there aren't many standards in place yet" or worse, "the
standards work is too slow". Is that the case? How many standards
are in place, and what is still coming that will help assure quality
and consistency (on the spec sheet, as well as in real-life)? We'll
hear from a master of the standards community on the status and relationships
on this critical area. |
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| 10:15 |
Networking
Break -- 30 minutes |
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Distributed and Mixed-Lighting
Control Systems
Avraham Mor, Partner, Lightswitch
Architectural |
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Special
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With recent accomplishments
including Chicago's 55 E. Monroe building, and the new Wit Hotel,
Avi Mor of Lightswitch Architectural has been applying LED lighting
to both highly functional and decorative applications. In the process,
some key challenges have been met, including approaches to distributed
power and flexible control systems, as well as how to handle requirements
for integrating mixed illumination sources, including LEDs, CMH and
halogen.
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More tools for discerning
what works and what doesn't
(or... separating the wheat from the chaff) |
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Luminaire Consistency: A
fixture-level strategy
Ken Czech, VP of Strategic Product
Development and Innovation -- Philips Lightolier |
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When the right luminaire
is matched to the application, the results can be both visually appealing
and economically sensible. Sometimes the challenge may lay with keeping
it consistent, not just for today but also in future installations,
replacement units or upgrades. How can the decision maker be sure
that tomorrow's product will be consistent in color and light level,
while still bringing more efficiency savings to the table?
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Luminaire Consistency: A
component level strategy
Shawn Du, Manager -- Nichia
America Corporation |
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Color consistency is key,
and as we've known for decades, even the plus/minus extremes in a
standard color temperature "range" can vary widely. While
tighter LED color bins can provide consistency, the cost or limited
availability of a "single narrow-bin" strategy may be prohibitive
on the luminaire manufacturer. How narrow can it, or should it be,
and how can manufacturers use common-sense processes to assure product
consistency?
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| 12:30 |
Lunch
-- 75 minutes |
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LED Lifetimes Explained:
LM-80 and L70
Ralph Tuttle, Applications
Engineering Manager -- Cree, Inc. |
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IES LM-80 is a 6000-8000
demonstration of an LED's output degradation as it relates to a series
of operating temperatures, but not yet a predictive tool beyond that.
L70, the predicted time it takes for a light source to degrade to
70% of its orginal output, has become a defacto standard brought into
LED discussions. How do those tests or measures relate to the luminaire,
and how appropriate are they applied to a technology that doesn't
exhibit a linear fall-off from day 1? Ralph will share some very positive
results that have been observed through Cree's LM-80 testing and what
it may mean for still better predictions and even longer lifetimes.
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Roundtable Discussion: Making
use of all the tools available |
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What's it going to take, and
when do we expect to see SSL providing 50%, 75% and 100% of all the
lumens around the US? How about the world? What is the industry doing
right, and what's it need to do better to make that happen when we
expect it can? |
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| 3:00 |
Conference Concludes
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