Pre-Conference Seminars

Add to your conference experience by participating in one or both of our intensive, classroom-style pre-conference seminars:

Agenda at a Glance - Monday, October 25, 2010

Time	Location	Topic	Instructors	Price
8:30am - 12:00pm	Convention Center Room 20A	LED Lighting in the Marketplace	Daniel Blitzer, PRACTICAL LIGHTING WORKSHOP	$399
1:00 - 5:00pm	Convention Center Room 20A	Design for Reliability: Working Together to Create Robust SSL Systems	Kathryn Conway, LED CONSULTING Rudolph Hechfellner, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING Christian Jung, OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS Chad Stalker, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING Ralph Tuttle, CREE, INC.	$499
6:00	Exhibit Area	Welcome Reception		FREE

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Pre-Conference Seminar 1: LED Lighting in the Marketplace
Monday, October 25
8:30am - 12:00pm
Instructor: Daniel Blitzer, Principal, PRACTICAL LIGHTING WORKSHOP

Designed for both newcomers and people with experience, the workshop will provide the
audience with an understanding of how white light LED luminaires and replacement lamps
that are currently on the market compare to their conventional counterparts.
Session outline:
1. Introduction
2. Led luminaires:

• Downlighting
• Localized task lighting
• Wall accents and coves
• Outdoor

3. Led replacement lamps:

• Directional
• General service

4. Summary and Q&A

About the Instructor: Dan Blitzer, Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, brings 30 years of experience
to the issues of marketing, product technology, energy effectiveness and sustainability in lighting. The Practical Lighting Workshop is a consultancy providing strategy, marketing, communication, and training services for the lighting industry. Through The Practical Lighting Workshop, Dan serves as a principal faculty member at the Philips Lighting Application Center, working with specifiers, distributors, end users, and sellers in workshops ranging from fundamentals to application and selling techniques. He also provides training focused on energy-efficient lighting to the lighting industry, electrical distributors, end users, and public utilities, and serves as a continuing educator for the American Lighting Association. He is currently part of the Steering Committee of the Next Generation Luminaires design competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers. Dan is a member and current past president of the Designer's Lighting Forum of New York, a member of the IESNA, and the International Dark Skies Association, and a director of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. He is Lighting Certified, holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University, and lives in New York City.

 

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Pre-Conference Seminar 2: Design for Reliability: Working Together to Create Robust SSL Systems
Monday, October 25
1:00 - 5:00pm
Workshop leader: Kathryn Coway, Principal, LED CONSULTING
Workshop instructors:

• Rudolph Hechfellner, Applications Manager, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING
• Christian Jung, Quality Manager, OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS
• Chad Stalker, Regional Marketing Manager, Americas, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING
• Ralph Tuttle, Applications Engineering Manager, CREE, INC.
  

Tentative session outline:

• Introduction: Presenters and goals of the workshop (Kathryn Conway, LED CONSULTING)
  
• Introduction to reliability: terms and definitions; components; systems design for
  semiconductors (Chad Stalker, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING)
  
• The LED, the most robust component in the system: "gated" methods for ensuring
  quality; accelerated testing to predict lifetime performance; and thermal management
  for LEDs and systems (Christian Jung, OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS)
  
• LED reliability - what operating parameters have a direct effect on an LED's
  performance over time. How to scale the reliability characteristics of a single LED to a
  system with multiple LEDs (Rudolph Hechfellner, PHILIPS LUMILEDS LIGHTING)
  
• BREAK & DEMONSTRATIONS: participants are welcome to circulate amongst several
  demonstrations featuring modeling tool software, hands-on examples of failure
  analysis, and other resources offered by the presenters' companies (ALL)
  
• Best practices: balancing component requirements; LED lamps are systems, too;
  learning from past failures; tips for successful designs (Ralph Tuttle, CREE, INC.)
  
• Reliability can improve your business case: sustainable warranties,
  meeting new standards and the opportunity to profit financially from
  reliable systems (Chad Stalker)
  
• Q&A Panel (ALL)