Day 1 - 14 January 2025
11:00 – 17:00 | The Specifiers’ Arena - Product Pitch
This thrilling live on-stage session offers an exclusive opportunity for the audience to witness the final round of judging, where cutting-edge lighting products and solutions take centre stage in the ultimate battle for the Light Middle East Awards 2025 Product of the Year.
Day 2 - 15 January 2025
10:10 – 11:10 | Panel Discussion: A Brief Insight Into Working As Lighting Designers In The Region By Local Ambassadors for The Women In Lighting Project
Moderator: Sakina Dugawalla-Moeller, Founder & Design Director, Light.Func
Speakers:
- Cherine Saroufim, Interior Architect - Lighting Designer, Atelier Saroufim – Idepconsult
- Jinane Abi Khalil, Design Director, Moonlight Architectural Squad - MASQ
- Ghada Dhwaik, Founder/lighting designer, GDesigns
- Ayazhan Assanova, Ambassador in Kazakhstan, Women in Lighting
- Momena Saleem, Lighting Designer, Worktecht & Co. Japan
- Alla Fillipovich, Lighting Designer, 962Light
- Dalal Alsharhan, CEO, DAL Studio
- Surbhi Jindal, CEO, Da Light Hub
10:10 – 11:10 | Panel Discussion: A Brief Insight Into Working As Lighting Designers In The Region By Local Ambassadors for The Women In Lighting Project
Moderator: Sakina Dugawalla-Moeller, Founder & Design Director, Light.Func
Speakers:
- Cherine Saroufim, Interior Architect - Lighting Designer, Atelier Saroufim – Idepconsult
- Jinane Abi Khalil, Design Director, Moonlight Architectural Squad - MASQ
- Ghada Dhwaik, Founder/lighting designer, GDesigns
- Ayazhan Assanova, Ambassador in Kazakhstan, Women in Lighting
- Momena Saleem, Lighting Designer, Worktecht & Co. Japan
- Alla Fillipovich, Lighting Designer, 962Light
- Dalal Alsharhan, CEO, DAL Studio
- Surbhi Jindal, CEO, Da Light Hub
11:10 – 11:40 | Presentation: Advancements In Facade Lighting and Integration Art-chitecture
Ways in which smart lighting systems are changing the way we interact with our surroundings. Linking these systems to digital home assistants and Internet of Things devices to improve user control, personalisation, and energy efficiency.
Speaker: Tac Lion, General Manager, Media Facade
11:40 – 12:10 | Presentation: Outdoor Smart Lighting and IoT integration
How connectivity technology and smart LED systems improve outdoor lighting helping end-users to reduce energy and maintenance costs, enhancing the monitoring of the lighting infrastructure thanks to standardizations such as Zhaga and D4i.
Speaker:
Matteo Toscan, Head of Application Street and Area, Inventronics
13:10 – 13:30 | Presentation: Techniques Through Which Lighting Technology Can Make the World more Sustainable
Attention to how lighting is changing to be more sustainable. This includes using eco-friendly materials like recycled and biodegradable components, utilising LED technology improvements, and emphasising how products can last and be recycled.
13:30 – 13:50 | Presentation: Smart Lighting and BMS: Creating Unified, Efficient, and Intelligent Spaces
Combination of lighting systems with Building Management Systems (BMS) represents a key trend in the lighting industry.
16:00 – 16:20 | Presentation: Investigating The Ways In Which Lighting Produces An Immersive Environment: From Lighting Design To User Experience Design
Diving deep into innovative lighting design creating immersive environments in both commercial and residential spaces. The integration of lighting with other design elements to enhance user experience, focusing on the evolving trends and technologies that are shaping the future of these spaces.
Speaker:
Ranjith K., Director & Principal Lighting consultant, veda Lighting Design Consultants
16:20 – 16:40 | Presentation: Revolutionizing spaces with modular and adaptive lighting
Design of modular lighting that are popular and provide customization and control for the user. Improvements in lighting control standards that are compatible with one another and the trend towards more adaptable lighting options that can be quickly adjusted to shifting requirements.
Day 3 - 16 January 2025
10:30 – 10:50 | Presentation: From the Big Bang to Bright Spaces: Exploring Light’s Transformative Impact on Architecture, Urban Environments, and Everyday Life
Speaker:
Riad Saraiji, Professor and Dean, College of Architecture, Art, and Design, Ajman University
10:50 – 11:10 | Presentation: Tackling Design Dilemmas: The Role of Lighting in Biophilic Environments
How light is used to enhance the biophilic design, which aims to connect the residents closer to nature. This can include the use of natural lighting, dynamic lighting systems that simulate environmental changes, and the integration of plant-based lighting in indoor spaces.
11:10-11:30 | Presentation : See the light: How Quantum Dot Technology will Transform Lighting Forever
Looking into quantum dot technology, which offers extremely high efficiency and amazing color quality and promises to transform lighting.
11:30 – 12:00 | Presentation: Examining Innovative Approaches to Make Lighting More Sustainable
Explaining outdoor lighting trends that are evolving to include energy-efficient options, advanced smart control systems, and the incorporation of lighting into landscape design.
Speaker:
Tac Lion, General Manager, Media Facade
12:00 – 12:20 | Presentation: Redefining Competence: Transforming Workforce Development in the Lighting Industry
Redefining competence in the lighting sector enhances workforce resilience and adaptability to technological and regulatory changes. By focusing on targeted learning solutions to address skills gaps and applying the 55:25:20 model of learning, the industry can strengthen its competency ecosystem. Additionally, building talent pipelines and implementing evaluative feedback loops are crucial for effective strategic workforce planning.
Speaker:
Teresa Beazley, Commercial & Training Manager, The Lighting Industry Association
12:20 – 13:20 | Panel Discussion: Global Challenges and Aligned Local Solutions
Focusing on how some challenges arise from within a region and can be solved within the region; BUT some challenges are global in context and just cannot be solved effectively with purely regional solutions! These include battling Night Sky Pollution, Material consumption and disposal, Health & Well Being issues due to artificial lighting solutions
Moderator:
Linus Lopez, Partner, Lirio Lopez Lighting Design Consultants
Speaker:
- Maria Dautant, Senior Associate, HLB Lighting
- Andrea Hartranft, Principal, Hartranft Lighting Studios
Workshop on Building Commonality in Global Lighting Best Practices
Hosted by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), this workshop unites experts to explore the harmonization of global lighting design standards and best practices. As the world becomes more interconnected the importance of aligning various aspects of lighting design has never been greater. Through this interactive session participants will examine the core principles that guide best lighting design practices such as energy efficiency, sustainability, human-centric lighting, dark skies and much more. A key focus will be on identifying commonalities in these approaches to create a more cohesive global framework that fosters innovation and creativity, while addressing local and regional needs.
13:30 – 14:15 | Presentation
Speaker:
Brienne Willcock, Director of Education and Standards, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
14:15 – 15:00 | Presentation
Speaker:
Dan Lister, President, Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), Director - UK Lighting Practice Leader, Arup
15:00 – 16:00 | Panel Discussion: Building Commonality on Global Lighting Best Practices
Moderator:
Matt Waring, Editor, arc magazine
Speakers:
- Dan Lister, President, Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), Director - UK Lighting Practice Leader, Arup
- Mark Lien, Consultant, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) & President, Augmented Illumination LLC
- Brienne Willcock, Director of Education and Standards, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
- Riad Saraiji, Professor and Dean, College of Architecture, Art, and Design, Ajman University