Thursday 22 November

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ForumLED 2012 Conferences Program in PDF format

Plenary opening

- Welcome speech
Jean Pierre FRANCESCHETTI, President CDO Organisation

- The European Lighting Industry at a Crossroad – Challenges, Opportunities, Organization
Jürgen Sturm (ELC-CELMA)

- How component manufacturers can help drive adoption of LEDs in Lighting
Matthijs VON WITTE (Molex – Netherlands) – Conferences sponsor

Overview of the LEDs Market Trends

Chairman: Frederico GALLUZZI (Staff Editoriale – Italy)

The LED lighting market is a high growth market but its adoption by consumers remains uneven across countries and products. This session is going to overview the world market trends and its outlooks.

- LEDs Present and Future
Jamie FOX (IMS research – United Kingdom)

- The Worldwide Market For LED Luminaires
Aurelio VOLPE (CSIL – Italy)

- The LEDs Korean market
Alexandra LEE HANSSON (PTG – Korea)

Networking coffee break and time for visiting the exhibition

European Union Green Paper “Lighting the future” & new EU Regulations for LEDs

Chairman: Stéphanie MITTELHAM (CELMA – Belgium)

Partened by CELMA, this session offers you to learn more about the European Union initiatives regarding LEDs lighting and to hear about consequences and involvements for European LED lighting industries.

- What’s on the European Horizon for Solid State Lighting?
Thomas SKORDAS (European Commission, DG Connect- Greece)

- The European Lighting Industry answer to the EU SSL Green Paper “lighting the future”
André TEN BLOEMENDAL (CELMA-ELC – Netherland)

- EcoDesign regulations and Energy Labelling for lighting
Andras TOTH (European Commission, DG Energy – Hungary)

- Impacts of the new EU EcoDesign and Energy Labelling Regulations for the European Lighting Industry
Lars STÜHLEN (CELMA-ELC – Deutchland)

Business lunch and time for visiting the exhibition

Standardisation of LEDs : Global Challenges

Chairman: Christophe MARTINSONS (CSTB – France)

Review of standardisation and normalization programs for LEDs lighting. This topic is more than ever important and is a major issue for regulation and market development.

- Opportunities and Challenges of LED Uptake
Jan DENNEMAN (Global Lighting Association – Netherland)

- IEC’s International Standards for lighting
Ted GLENNY (IEC* TC 34 – United Kingdom)

- International initiatives for harmonizing photometric test procedures of LEDs
Peter BLATTNER (METAS** – Switzerland)

* International Electrotechnique Commission
** Federal Office of Metrology

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LEDs Lighting Applications in specifics environnements and specifics LEDs lighting applications

Chairman: Joël THOMÉ (Lighting Cluster – France)

LEDs lighting technologies are increasingly used and are now able to do more than spreading light. This session will guide you deep into specifics use of LEDs lighting in hightly demanding environments.

- What drove the first multimodal transport in the world to move to LED lighting?
Gil RIEMENSCHNEIDER (RATP* – France)

- LED Tunnel Lighting
Eric PREMAT (CETU** – France)

- Is Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology the future for Communications Systems?
Soroush HONARY (Visilink – United Kingdom)

* Paris transport authority
** French Tunnel Research Centre

Networking Coffee break and time for visiting the exhibition

What’s up with OLEDs lighting ?

Chairman: Carlos LEE (EPIC – Belgium )

OLEDs technology have a bright future ahead on the lighting market and its applications, but where are we now ? Which applications are really mature ?

- LEDs & OLEDs: The new paradigm for illumination.
Ed VAN DEN KIEBOOM (Plastic Electronics Special Interest Group – Netherland)

- Flexible Active Matrix OLED displays
Paul HEREMANS (IMEC* – Belgium)

* Institute of microelectronics and components

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The LEDs lighting Life Cycle

Chairman: Liisa HANOLEN (Aalto University – Finland)

The increasingly use of LEDs lighting leads to the question of the future of products and, more specially, their overall impact on the environment from the manufacture of the chip to the end of life of the lighting device and his recycling.

- Life-cycle of solid-state lighting products, the experience of CSTB
Christophe MARTINSONS (CSTB* – France)

- Problematics of analysing the environmental impacts of LED light sources
Leena TÄHKÄMÖ (Aalto University – Finland)

- Led for lighting: what’s up after few thousand hour ON?
Laurent MASSOL (LED Engineering development)

* Scientific and Technical Centre for Building

LEDs lighting impacts on organisms

Chairman: George ZISSIS (LAPLACE – France)

Health risks related to LEDs lighting are discus! But what is the real impact of LEDs lighting on organism, its physiology and metabolism? This session will develop lines of thought.

- Quality of luminous environment in healthcare buildings: potentials concerned with new technologies
Valerio LO VERSO (Politecnico – Italy)

- The state-of-the-art Operating Room LED lighting
Jean Pierre BREYSSE  (Maquet S.A.S – France)

- Applying LEDs and mesopic design in outdoor lighting
Liisa HANOLEN (Aalto University – Finland)

- Horticultural LED lighting
Paulo PINHO (Aalto University – Finland)

- The effects of Light on the biological circadian clock and non-visual functions
Claude GRONFIER (INSERM* – France)

* National Institute of Health and Medical Research

Business Lunch and time for visiting the exhibition

LEDs technologies opportunities

Chairman: Jean Yves DUBOZ (CNRS* – France)

LED lighting technology changes and new development opportunities appear. The objective of this session is to explore the latest advances in technology, each speaker is a specialist and will introduce his current research, his point of view and his latest results.

- Challenges and Opportunities in LED lighting
Benoît BATAILLOU (Philips Lighting – France)

- Internal quantum efficiency of high brightness LEDs
Dr. Ulrich SCHWARZ (FRAUNHOFER IAS – Germany)

- GaN on Silicum for General Lighting
Alois KROST (OTTO-VON-GUERICKE UNIVERSITY MAGDEBURG – Germany)

- Advanced Sapphire Substrate Technology for III-Nitride Epitaxy for LEDs
Hideo AIDA (Namiki Precision Jewel Co LTD – Japan)

* French national center for scientific reaserch

Coffee break and time for visiting the exhibition

The use of LEDs lighting in cities historical areas and the Venice city case

Chairman: Alexandre COLOMBANI (LUCI* Association – France)

LEDs lighting are more and more use to highlight our cities. A special thinking about LED lighting for historical areas is essential as it shows in this session by the Venice City case.

- LED lighting quality for monuments and historical areas
Ruggero GUANELLA (GMS STUDIO – Italy)

- The using of LEDs lighting in the city of Venice
Alessandro MAGGIONI (City of Venice – Italy)

* Light urban community international

Closing speech

- ForumLED Europe 2012: congress conclusion
Jean Pierre FRANCESCHETTI (CDO Organisation – France)