Event Name Oct. 31 ~ Nov.2, 2010: Light Middle East
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Dates Oct.31, 2010 ~ Nov.2, 2010
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Light Middle Eastwill be on Oct. 31 ~ Nov.2, 2010 in Dubai, UAE.
Event
Light Middle East
Venue
Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dubai, UAE
Dates
Oct. 31 ~ Nov.2, 2010
Agenda
Light Middle East is the largest dedicated trade show and conference of its kind in the region. This three day conference will provide you with innovative product development, current design trends and invaluable technical know-how.
Day 1 - Green ME
Green Middle East: What Makes you Green?
Conference, supported by Sesam Business Consultants will feature keynote lighting speakers from the corporate sector and regional experts on energy efficient lighting who will present their sustainable lighting solutions with case studies for the GCC and Middle East region.
Speakers and topics confirmed to-date:
Ivar Krasinski, Principal/Design Director, Burt Hill, UAE
Architecture vs. light
  • An explanation of Photometric analysis and how it is used in the following: 
  • The reduction of glare 
  • The optimization of architectural facades to improve daylighting 
  • The optimization of lighting controls to optimize lighting conditions
Iain Macrae, Head of Global Lighting Application Management, Thorn Gulf, UAE
Sustainability analysis of lighting solutions
Beau McLellon, Beau McLellon Design, Portugal
The World’s Largest Chandelier Reflective Flow officially inaugurated in the Gulf; Sustainability need not affect Scale or Design
Alan J. Ruud, Chairman and CEO, Ruud Lighting Inc., USA
Mario Seneviratne, Managing Director, Green Technologies FZCO, UAE
Martin Valentine, MSLL PLDA, Lighting Expert, Municipal Infrastructure & Assets, Abu Dhabi Municipality, UAE
Abu Dhabi Lighting Strategy for the future of the Emirate
Armen Vartanian, Director, Ecoventures, UAE
Speaker TBD, Targetti Poulsen, UAE
Natural Light: An Exciting Challenge
Day 2 - Light Focus
Light Focus Conference: Innovation & Sustainability in Design
The Light Focus Conference supported by the Professional Lighting Design Association enables visiting architects, lighting designers, and specifiers to learn about the latest design applications and trends.
The Conference is run under the overall show theme Innovation & Sustainability in Design with the intended purpose to highlight the ongoing debates surrounding sustainability and focus on promoting enhanced awareness and knowledge about new lighting systems and technologies, how these integrate with current building methods and guidelines, and contribute to a more responsible future.

Conference Program - Monday, 1. November, 2010

9:00-9:30 - Conference Registration

9:30-09:45
Welcome address 
Joachim Ritter, FPLDA, Editor-in-Chief
Professional Lighting Design, Guetersloh, Germany
09:45-10:45
Defining low-carbon lighting

Martin Lupton
Collective Lighting, West Midlands, UK

10:45-11:00 - Coffee Break

Paul Marantz
11:00-12:00
Lean and Green: Lighting in the Next Age
Paul Marantz, FIALD, IES, LC
Fisher Marantz Stone, New York City, NY, USA
Kevan Shaw
12:00-13:00
Energy isn’t everything

Kevan Shaw, PLDA, IALD - KSLD
Kevan Shaw Lighting Design, Edinburgh, UK
 

13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break

Mark Major
14:00-15:00
Darken our Brightness – Light Master Planning in the Post-Kyoto Age

Mark Major, PLDA, IALD, RIBA
Speirs & Major Associates, London / Edinburgh, UK
 
Jonathan Speirs
15:00-16:00
Grand Mosque and Great Tower
The lighting design story of the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nayhan Mosque, Abu Dhabi and the Celebration Lighting for the Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Jonathan Speirs, PLDA, RIBA 
Speirs & Major Associates, London / Edinburgh, UK
 

16:00-16:30 -Coffee Break

 
16:30-17:30
Atlantis – a legend becomes a project

Paul Gregory 
Focus Lighting, New York City, NY/USA
Day 3 - Philips LED
The Philips educational LED and Exhibitor Experts' Forum
A Lighting Industry Powwow on Innovation & Sustainability in Design in the Gulf region
This Forum will give exhibiting companies the opportunity to educate the visitors on the show floor about their activities in the areas of innovative lighting control methods, user interface design controls, success factors and trends in LED lighting, dynamic lighting, and eco-friendly lighting solutions. The focus is specifically on innovations and solutions relevant to the Middle East region replacing traditional product demonstration presentations.
Reliability of leds: What is fact and What is fantasy
Rogier van der Heide, Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Eric Sanders. Lumileds division, Philips, Dubai, UAE
This session will be held twice throughout the day at the following times:
Session 1 - 10:30-11:30
Session 2 - 14:30-15:30
Contact
For more information please contact:
Senior Show Manager:
Jessica Minton
Email: jessica.minton@uae.messefrankfurt.com
Sales Manager
Syed Ali Akbar Zaidi
Mob +971 50 459 5711
Email: ali.akbar@uae.messefrankfurt.com 
Marketing Manager ( Conference )
Hilda Haghighi
Email: hilda.haghighi@uae.messefrankfurt.com 
Marketing Manager ( Exhibition )
Rakshit Kalayil Ramankutty
Mob + 971 50 7595101
 
PR Manager
Roisin Lillis
Mob + 971 50 6548389
Our contact details:
Epoc Messe Frankfurt GmbH
P.O. Box 26761, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Email:
light@uae.messefrankfurt.com
Website:
www.lightme.net
Telephone: + 971 4 338 0102
Fax: + 971 4 338 0041

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