Featuring prominent speakers from all over the world, the 3rd Annual Australian Smart Lighting Summit will take place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 8-9, 2015.
As Australia’s premier forum for the discussion of smart lighting and upcoming street lighting opportunities and technologies, the event is endorsed by the City of Melbourne. It enables local government organisations and lighting designers to embrace smart lighting technologies within the realm of government and industrial design.
Hundreds of delegates from a wide range of municipality and public works will be attending, including the presence of lighting designers, architects, engineers, consultants and developers, to share ideas on how best to embrace smart lighting innovations and practices.
With the participation of over 40 councils from all over Australia, the Summit will also be attended by prominent energy providers, road and public works authorities, lighting engineers and designers.
Australia has witnessed a host of significant lighting projects in recent years with The Great South Coast Street Smart Lighting Program which has seen up to 7,500 street lights replaced with energy efficient lighting in residential streets across the South West Region, as well the upcoming Lighting The Regions project which plans to oversee the replacement of almost 23,000 council street lights to more energy efficient alternatives.
Architects and industrial designers are constantly trying to discover stylish and clever ways to adopt lighting into our lives that reflect on who we are as people while also keeping to proper energy efficiency.
Ian Dryden, senior industrial designer at the City of Melbourne, will be exploring the Implementation of City Lighting and how it reflects on our lives. His wonderful designs litter the landscape from the very amenities, news-stands and tram stops we experience on a daily basis within Melbourne.
The implementation of smart lighting brings with it greater safety and insight into the elegance of inclusive design. Leni Schwendinger, Associate Principal of Arup, will be presenting Night-time Lighting for Urban Spaces, exploring the ways in which light can be used to spark night skies.
Her intensive work into the sphere of design encompasses more than 20 years creating architectural and infrastructure environments all over the world.