LEDucation achieves another record breaking year with a 20% increase in attendees!

March 27, 2012 - PRLog -- The Designers Lighting Forum of New York is proud to announce that LEDucation 6 accomplished its most successful event to date with a record breaking crowd of over 2,000 attendees.  Attendees from across North American and Europe gathered at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 21st to learn and experience the latest development in solid state lighting in one of the industry’s most talked about, single day lighting educational expositions. With extended exhibitor hours and an expanded exhibit hall, LEDucation 6 provided attendees the opportunity to view the latest innovations, technology and products from a sold out exhibit hall of 92+ leading manufacturers from across the world.  LEDucation 6 also provided an insightful and informative educational program of four CEU programs lead by some of the industry’s most prolific talents.

“We had a feeling that this year’s event was going to surpass our expectations when we had over 1,200 advance online registrations,” commented Peggy Mehan, Event Co-Chair and one of the original committee members.  “We are grateful for the many exhibitors and sponsors that continue to support this event year after year and are ecstatic to see our attendance continue to rise each and every year.”

Dedicated to advancing the education of the lighting community, LEDucation offered attendees key updates and glimpses into the future of the industry. Educational seminars were conducted by some of the industry’s most leading authorities and gave attendees a chance to catch up on the latest advancements in solid state technology and controls. Attendees enjoyed seminars from industry leading professionals including: Naomi Miller- PNNL; Alex Baker - Energy Star; Nelson Jenkins - Lumen Architecture; Renee Cooley – Cooley Monato Studio; Sean Hennessy – Hennessy Design; Ruth Mellergaard – GRID/3 International; Chad Stalker – Philips Lumileds; Craig Fox – ETC Architectural; Gilles Abrahamse – eldoLED; John Gebbie – Barbizon Lighting; Gabe Gulliams – Buro Happold; Ethan Biery – Lutron; and Sleiman Zogheib - Redwood.  

From the inception of the event in 2007, the volunteer committee aspires to bring a regional event to the Lighting industry that provided both an educational forum that gives the design, education and engineering community the opportunity to speak directly with a variety of manufacturers about the latest technologies and products and to also gain valuable educational credits with the accredited seminars.  Plans for LEDucation 7 are well underway and the date and location will be announced at a later date.

LEDucation and the DLFNY would like to acknowledge the support of the following:
•   Architectural Lighting Magazine and AL LED – Official media sponsor
•   Barbizon & ETC Architectural - Providing event presentation lighting
•   Levy Lighting for designing and providing the breezeway lighting effects
•   Amerlux Global Lighting Solutions -  Flower sponsors
•   Mark Plavin/Metro Area Sales – Program Literature
•   Beverage Sponsors:
o   io Lighting
o   Osram SYLVANIA
o   SORAA
o   Specialty Lighting Industries Inc.
o   T-Opto

Exhibitors:
a*light
AAMSCO Lighting Inc.
Acclaim Lighting
Acuity Brands
Aleddra Lighting  
Altman Lighting Inc.
Amerlux Global Ltg Solutions
Arrow Electronics
Axis Lighting
Barbizon Lighting Co.
Bartco Lighting Inc.
BK Lighting/Teka Illumination  
Boca Flasher
Bulbtronics
Coloronix
Contrast Lighting
Cooper Lighting
Eclipse Lighting Inc
EcoSense Lighting
Edison Price Lighting
Pure Edge Lighting
Efficient-Tec International, LLC
Electrix Inc
eLuxnet USA
ERCO Lighting Inc
ETC Architectural
EUREKA LIGHTING
Feelux Lighting Inc.
Focal Point
Forum Lighting Inc.
GE Lighting Solutions
GM Lighting
GVA Lighting, Inc.
HessAmerica
Hunza Lighting USA
i2Systems
iLight Technologies
IlluminEarth
Illumitex Inc.
Insight Lighting
Intense Lighting
Inter-Lux
io Lighting
Jesco Lighting
JoBe Lighting
Juno Lighting Group-Schneider Electric
Kurt Versen
Ledtronics Inc
LED Linear
LED Source
Leucos USA
Lightabilities
Lighting Science Group  
Lighting Services Inc
LightWild / Lusio Solid State Lighting
Linear Lighting Corp
lites on west soho. LLC
Liton Lighting
LSI Industries  
Lucifer Lighting  
Lumenpulse
Lumenton Lighting
Lumetta Inc
Luminis
Lutron Electonics
MaxLite
MP Lighting
Nichia Corporation
Osram Sylvania
Pathway Lighting
Philips Color Kinetics
Philips Lighting
PHOSTER INDUSTRIES
Pure Edge Lighting
Redwood Systems
Satco Products, Inc.
Selux Corporation
Silescent Lighting Corp
SLV Lighting N.A.
Solais Lighting Inc.
Solavanti Lighting
Specialty Lighting Ind.
Spectrum Lighting
Spot on Lighting
Sternberg Lighting
Tech Lighting
Tempo Industries
Times Square Lighting
T-Opto
Tokistar Lighting, Inc.
TPR Industries
Traxon Technologies: e:cue Lighting
USAI, LLC
Visa Lighting
Visual Lighting Technologies
Vode Lighting
WAC Lighting
Waldman Lighting
Winona Lighting
Xicato
Zaneen Lighting

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The Designers Lighting Forum of New York is committed to exploring and presenting the power of lighting in design. Founded in 1934, the Designers Lighting Forum is a not-for-profit organization, led by a volunteer Board of Managers and sustained by member dues and the generous support of our corporate sponsors. They enthusiastically provide designers, architects, manufacturers and their representatives, contractors, educators, and students the opportunity to meet and experience the wonder of lighting in New York City and beyond. The DLFNY also supports formal lighting education through contributions to local universities and design schools, as well as national funds.