SUGGESTED TOPICS
Industry Dynamics
- Industry Transformation
- New and emerging applications for LEDs in lighting
- Trends in adoption, economic drivers
- Standards
- Regulations and policy
- Supply chain dynamics
- Scenarios for the future
- Impacts of COVID-19; healthcare, economics, technology, design, remote workforce best practices
- Unified controls and IoT
- Adaptive business models
- Construction and real estate market impacts
- Industry Financial and Economic Outlook
- Market analysis
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Profitability analysis
- New industry participants
- Market disruption from COVID-19
Connected Lighting, Controls, and IoT
- Innovative business models and market drivers
- Creating value for customers and end-users beyond lighting
- Case studies with quantified benefits
- Integrating lighting and other building system controls
- Impact of multiple distribution channels on connected lighting adoption
- New advancements/trends in communication protocols
- Power over Ethernet
- Advances in Bluetooth interoperability
- DC Direct integrated systems
- Standards and interoperability
- Network security
- Visible light communications (LiFi)
- Sensor improvements
- Software – application, SPD match, GUI
- The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Smart buildings and smart cities
Markets and Applications
- Lighting for Health and Wellbeing
- Case studies
- Latest research results - patient recovery time, light and shift workers, the effect of light on certain diseases, circadian disruption, etc.
- Technological and design improvements
- Market potential
- Integrated systems
- UV Applications
- Science of UV and pathogens
- Emerging technologies in UV light sources, including 222 nm
- Regulations and public safety
- Disinfection lighting
- Integration with general lighting
- Best practices for use, safety, effectiveness
- New applications
- Small-scale/portable
- UV curing
- Other applications
- Architectural Lighting
- Case studies
- New applications
- Integration of LEDs into building materials
- Horticultural Lighting
- The latest science on the effect of different wavelengths on plants
- Solutions to business model challenges and market entry
- New products and technologies impacting LED horticultural applications
- Economics of LED lighting for horticulture
- Market potential
- Expanded spectral content (UV and IR)
- Automotive lighting
- Adaptive headlamps
- Laser-based headlamps
- Other advanced lighting concepts
Technology, Design and Manufacturing
- New Developments in LED and Lighting Technology
- Novel form factors made possible by LEDs
- Novel integration technologies
- New approaches to cost reduction
- Supply chain collapse
- Advances in Luminaire Design and Manufacturing
- New approaches to luminaire fabrication
- 3-D printing/additive manufacturing
- Low-cost materials and assembly
- Techniques for advanced light shaping and distribution
- Recycling potential for luminaires
- Acoustic integrated products
- LED Component Trends, Roadmaps and New Form Factors
- Performance and cost projections
- Chip-scale packaging
- Advanced packaging technologies
- Micro- and mini-LEDs
- OLEDs
- Laser light sources
- UV LEDs
- Drivers and Electronics
- Advanced concepts for drivers and power conversion
- AC LEDs
- DC direct lighting systems
- Dimming and flicker
- Supporting technologies
- Down converters (phosphors and quantum dots)
- Innovative optics
- New materials
- Advanced software for design and simulation