The Taiwan Summit will be a 2-day top-level networking event providing LED lighting executives and managers the connections and information they need for their LED-based general lighting products to succeed globally.

As many have figured out, there's more to making an LED-based luminaire or fixture than just mounting some LEDs on a heat sink and adding a driver. While cost issues are important, if you can build an LED-based luminaire or "replacement lamp" that is affordable for a consumer market, you have fallen into the marketing trap of chasing a market using inferior product. The consumer market will not find a realistic payback on a quality product at the current price points.

The key to success as an LED lighting manufacturer will be to understand and address the real needs of the commercial/industrial lighting professionals, including designers, architects and facilities managers. Accurate specifications, quality of the light produced over the life of the product, ease of installation, standards conformance and verifiable lifetimes are all critical to success.

The SSL Design Summit Taiwan will bring together leading enabling technology and lighting market-knowledge providers that will share insights into how to correctly approach the market and profit from it. This will not be a "how to design an LED luminaire" tutorial, but rather "how to set the organizational goals, where to find the markets, and what to look for in strategic partners and technologies". Managers and top-level executives need to know where they will find success worldwide, and the SSL Design Summit will deliver.

Sponsorships are now available. You can see more details on the sponsorships for this conference, or visit our series sponsor page for those details.