Topic
Agenda
Day
1 presents topics of interest to lighting decision makers
and luminaire manufacturers alike |
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Wednesday,
Jan 20 -- Registration, Coffee/Muffins begins at 8:00a |
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| 9:00 |
Welcome: Why we're here, and why solid
state lighting matters
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
Andy Powell, Principal & Conference
Co-chair -- Lighting
Design Alliance
Chip Israel, President -- Lighting
Design Alliance |
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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 leadoff talk will help frame the challenge, and the opportunity,
that SSL offers to lighting designers.
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Standards and Standardization
Terrence Walsh, President, Tempo
Industries |
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It all sounds easy to pick
up a box or test report and tell what you're going to get. Is it that
easy, or are there still some holes in the system? What does the lighting
decision maker need to know to read between the lines and get to the
facts they need? We'll raise the questions in this interactive presentation
that will cut to the point on several key issues..
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Networking
Break -- 30 minutes |
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LED Lighting is Different:
It's about lumens on the target
Leonard Livschitz, VP Marketing & Business Development --
LedEngin
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LEDs are unique in their
ability to direct light, from the source, in a single direction. Understanding
that key element leads to will make apparent some of the challenges,
and some of the substantial advantages they can offer, including a
number of applications where better control of the lumens means less
lumens are required to do the same, or better job, than the incumbents. |
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Programs, Standards
and Initiatives |
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Energy Incentives and Rebates:
The importance of the programs, plus approaches and product qualifications
the utilities will use
Vireak Ly, Energy Efficiency Program Manager -- Southern
California Edison
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How do the energy efficiency
stakeholders, such as utilities, view solid state lighting, and what
criteria and references will guide their rebate and incentive programs?
How will programs like Designlights
Consortium, organized by NEEP, be used 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? The primary reference tool
for solid state lighting is ENERGY STAR, but are there ways to fill
in any gaps in categories which ENERGY STAR does not include? How
does a product qualify, and how does the decision maker find qualified
products? There is 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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Energy Star/DOE Update: More
categories, more data and a new street light consortium
Marc Ledbetter (bio),
Program Director, Pacific
Northwest National Lab |
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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 updates on that program,
and on the new street lighting consortium, as well as the latest review
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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Environmental and Efficiency Standards:
How SSL is covered
Dan Ryan, Underwriters Laboratories
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UL has recently created a
new subsidiary, "UL Environmental" which is intending to
bring the power of the UL mark to the energy efficiency and environmental
arena. We'll hear more about the directions, and intentions, and see
how SSL will fit into the puzzle. In addition, we'll hear a brief
update on the newly released UL standards for SSL.
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An SSL Solutions Sampling |
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Coves, Rails and Steps: Lighting
we don't see
Christine Bassett/Steve Herman
-- Tempo Industries |
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LEDs have been winning in
areas that we may not have really noticed. Even though they may seem
obvious, once you hear them, there are still a lot of ways to do them
wrong, especially in applications that may have additional safety
or revenue implications.
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Networking
Break -- 30 minutes |
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LED Curtain Walls: A study
in the need for industry flexibility
Kevin Furry, Chief Technology
Officer -- Lighting Sciences Corporation
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Every good idea comes with
a challenge, and in this case, the challenge can be trying the balance
the client's vision with the realities of what the market and supply
chain can, or will, do. Kevin's team has pushed the envelope to create
spectacular, and reliable, LED lighting architectural installations.
He'll share some experiences that point to the need for the industry
to stay flexible in order to take full advantage of the opportunities. |
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Downlight Replacement Lamps:
Examining the technology and business case
Michael Eckert, Director of Marketing--
LEDnovation |
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High-quality solutions that
provide a compelling business case to the retail and commercial markets
are here and working now. Unfortunately, for every one company that
does it right, you can see hundreds who are likely doing it wrong.
What can we expect from the replacement lamp technology today, and
where is it really making sense? We'll hear answers and see examples. |
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Replacing Linear Fluorescents:
Case studies for retrofit lamps
Anthony Mitchell, Managing Director -- IHNcorp / Ecogreen Solutions
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Linear fluorescents are one
of the most efficient lamp sources out there, and replacing them is
not an easy thing. While "best in class" fluorescents are
still almost untouchable at the replacement lamp level, there are
a number of installations out there which are "merely average",
and can, in some cases, be served by a properly designed replacement
tube. This talk will be a little controversial, but we like it that
way..
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Using the Tax Incentives: Not leaving
any money on the table
Don McDougall, Sales Director -- 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. There can be millions of dollars in unrealized
benefits on a single project, so strap on your seatbelts for a shock... |
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Discussion (time permitting):
The business case for (or against) solid state lighting |
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The business case can be
strong in a number of common applications, but there are subtle decision
points in the process that can cast doubt, or limit the role of LED
lighting. Where is the case strongest, where is the SSL industry merely
beating its head against the wall and what does the industry still
need to learn about meeting the needs of the decision makers. We'll
bring up the questions and debate the answers in this fully interactive
session. |
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| 6:00 | Evening
Product Showcase and Reception -- 6-8pm
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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Day
2 -- Coffee/Muffins begins at 8:30a |
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Day
2 presents topics of primary interest to luminaire manufacturers
(but many lighting decision makers will find the day of interest as well) |
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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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Luminaire Consistency: A
component level strategy
Hideki Kaneguchi, Area General 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 commonsense processes to assure product
consistency?
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Networking
Break -- 30 minutes |
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LED Lifetimes and the Impact
on System Reliability
Richard Hamburger, Director
of Segment Marketing -- Philips
Lumileds Lighting |
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LED lifetimes vary over current
load and temperature, and as the LEDs go, so does the luminaire. 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 original output, has become
a defacto standard brought into LED discussions. What have the lifetime
testing methods revealed and how do those tests or measures relate
to the luminaire?
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LM-80 Findings: A brief summary
Paul Scheidt, Product
Manager -- Cree |
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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 original output, has become a defacto standard brought
into LED discussions. What has the LM-80 testing revealed and how
do those tests or measures relate to the luminaire?
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Panel: LM-80 and L70 |
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Are all high-quality LEDs
created basically equal? Does one manufacturers lifetime curve tell
you much about what to expect from other manufacturers? How appropriate
is applying measure like L70 to a technology that doesn't exhibit
significant depreciation smoothly over time as we're used to with
the incumbent technologies? We'll raise these and other questions
in what should be a lively discussion among our panelists and audience.
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Control Systems: Designing
for compatibility and the future
Cheryl Burke -- Lutron |
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Color changing systems have
had specific control protocols worked out for years, but the world
of white lighting has often been as simple as "on-off" or
"feed it less voltage to dim". LED lighting provides a high-efficiency
light source that can respond well to a variety of controls, but challenges
lurk in a number of areas, including such areas as dimming and compatibility
with load-based power sources. Where are those challenges, and what
types of control solutions are solving the luminaire designers' issues?
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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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Conference Concludes
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