Live Interviews From LuxLive Showfloor

20 – 21 November, 2013.
London, UK.

New this year

Your humble Editors from EdisonReport.net and EdisonReport.eu were at LuxLive conducting interviews live from the show. View them here.

Do you have an opinion? Is there something about the lighting industry that really fires you up? What is it about lighting that gets you passionate, draws your emotions, makes you think? Have your Lighting say.
We would like to hear what is important to you. We want you to have your say. So come on down and tell us what you think of the show and the lighting industry in general.

LuxLive

LuxLive 2013 is the UK’s biggest and best lighting event. Meet with the world’s biggest brands, hear from experts in more than 50 hours of complimentary seminars and be inspired by the latest technology in new, dynamic, interactive features! It’s easy to attend – you just need to register for a pass. – See more at: www.luxlive.co.uk

Get the inside track on the very latest in lighting for key sectors including: healthcare, retail, education, transport, outdoor, leisure, commercial and manufacturing.

Included in the exhibition is the unique EcoLight Conference – a special event on low-carbon lighting for anyone with responsibility for large lighting estates in the retail, industrial, commercial, exterior and public sectors.

The Lux Arena

The best way to learn is when you’re enjoying yourself. That’s our belief, and that’s why we’ve created a new feature for this year that will put fun in function by explaining lighting technology through demonstrations, discussions and debates. The Lux Arena is a stunning new, 216 square metre theatre on the floor of the show which will have a series of interactive content hosted by some of most engaging and informed personalities on the lighting beat, including tech experts and team Lux.

It’s a rolling programme, so whatever time you rock up to the Lux Arena, there’ll be something engaging and interactive that you’ll learn from.

Sessions will include:

  • Live and dangerous! Extreme dimming with the Control Freak Live LED control guru Jeremy Turner of Fab Controls hosts a live workshop using good, bad and ugly kit from diverse manufacturers. In this hands-on session, Jeremy Turner and Lux technical editor Alan Tulla show what you need to do to ensure smooth LED control in the real world.
  • Lighting Talk Live panel discussions LEDs in retail – hit or miss? Can LEDs stop the big streetlighting switch off? How can we tackle the NHS’s legacy lighting? If LEDs are so great, why won’t manufacturers give decent warranties? Just some of the questions our panel of grumpy, opinionated experts will tackle!
  • Lux Cool Wall What’s seriously cool and what’s totally uncool? Leading product and lighting designers and manufacturers pass judgment on the stand-out luminaires made possible by LED and OLED designs, and discuss how to maximise the design possibilities of solid state technology to give specifiers new solutions to old problems.
  • Lighting Spy We expose the worst excesses of lighting energy waste in the UK – by visiting new and existing projects and checking. But we don’t just criticise – our Lighting Spy team will propose alternatives which will save energy and improve the quality of the lighting.
  • Named and Shamed Complementing the popular monthly feature in Lux magazine, our team looks at some of the UK’s worst lighting installations that we’ve featured over the year and asks: What on earth were they thinking?!
  • Heroes and Villains Team Lux and friends name those who are pushing lighting forward (and those who should be on lighting’s naughty step), culminating in a vote for the greatest hero – and the worst villain.
  • The Big Interview Everyone wants to hear the views of the most influential people in the lighting industry. Where’s it headed? We’ll get answers in these exclusive one-on-one interviews with audience participation.
  • Product Demos You don’t learn that much about a product by the advertisements. Which is why we’ve compiled a list of the most interesting kit – and asked the manufacturers to come and tell us in person.
  • Dragons’ Den YIn this ever-popular format based on the massively successful BBC television programme, entrepreneurs pitch their innovative lighting ideas to our panel of seasoned industry professionals.
    Who’ll get the thumbs up, and who’ll be told to think again?

50 hours of free talks and debates

Don’t forget there’s no fewer than FIVE theatres, all with their own programme of events, talks and discussions:

· be inspired by the best low-energy projects in the EcoLight conference
· get the low-down from leading lighting designers in the Design Clinic
· learn about funding with soft loans and tax breaks in the Financing Clinic
· Watch demos of exciting kit such as next generation LEDs
· A whole theatre of CPD session to top up your points
· Get the latest reg updates and keep your finger on the pulse in the Tech Theatre

All this and more – updates coming soon!

Light Fight

We’ve teamed up with those hipsters of illumination, the Light Collective, to create one of the year’s most ambitious events: Light Fight.

Light Fight will pit teams from the UK’s top lighting design practices against each other in a competition that will test their artistic, scientific, technical and design knowledge and abilities.

It takes place on the evening of the first day of the show, in the Lux Arena on the floor of the exhibition. It will be hosted by Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton of the Lighting Collective in their inimitable style.

More kit, more exhibitors, more big-brands

The LuxLive exhibition just keeps on getting bigger and better. This year there will be well over a 100 of the lighting world’s biggest names exhibiting, including Philips, GE, Helvar, Holophane, Thorlux, Projection and Cooper to name but a few.

Late Opening

Struggling for time? Worry not, LuxLive 2013 will have its door wide open until 9pm on the first day – Wednesday 20 November. So, there’s no excuse for not attending and, better still, plenty of reasons to attend! Exhibitors will be hosting drinks parties, Light Fight will be kicking off and the programme of lively interactive sessions will continue to the bitter end. What’s not to love?

 

13 Nov