LEDs Magazine Special Report: SIL and The LED Show bring out the social (media) butterflies

LEDs Magazine selects the Top 10 Tweets from Strategies in Light & The LED Show. Find out what topics, tracks, and talks lit up our social media chatter.

LEDs Magazine Special Report: Strategies in Light and The LED Show bring out the social (media) butterflies

For the LEDs & Lighting Group at PennWell Corp., the year 2015 is off to a grand start with a series of firsts. For the first time, Strategies in Light shook up the speed-of-light city of Las Vegas. Also for the first time, movers and shakers in LEDs and enabling technologies and gurus of lighting design and specification were meeting simultaneously at the event, co-located with The LED Show. LEDs Magazine launched its Sapphire Awards, with the inaugural Gala being held and top innovation honors being handed out during the conference on Feb. 25, 2015. And finally, for the first time we went out of our way to open up the social media conversation surrounding the conference and exhibition to you, the audience: What were you learning? Who held you in thrall with their presentations? Where did some of the ideas shared at the show go too far? You brought us the most distinct perspective we could ask for, putting your own spin on what the programs and industry experts had to offer -- and where the biggest LED technology statements were being made. So we selected our Top 10 Tweeted controversies, quotes, and comments from event attendees and exhibitors, from amongst the hundreds who participated.

*Editor’s note: Selections were made at editor’s discretion from user content that referenced the hashtags #SILUSA, #TheLEDShow, and #SapphireAwards. Special thanks to digital audience marketing manager Stephanie O’Shea and social media marketing specialist Nick Erdogan for their contributions.

As several Twitter users noted, the conference advisory board made a timely selection in premiering the Smart Lighting Track this year. Back in October 2014, LEDs Magazine editor Maury Wright pointed out that companies known for software and networking are now shaking up the lighting market, using their own expertise to make devices communicate — as evidenced by a keynote given this year by Cisco’s Tony Shakib. Several attendees highlighted Shakib’s talk in particular and mentioned the “digital ceiling.” (Okay, who else had to look that up? Raise your hands!) LED lamps controlled via smartphones and tablets are only one small sample of the market. Connected lighting is on the rise and bringing with it a lot of opinions as to which protocol(s) will win out in the end. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to make lighting and other building systems even more intelligent — to the point of allowing human-centric lighting to be accessible in commercial buildings for an adjustable working or healthcare environment. This will create more demand for sensors, software controls, and perhaps most important, security measures. It’s redefining the language of the lighting industry, as Lux Magazine's Gordon Routledge (@gordonroutledge) observed.

Although the conference is over, the full Tagboard of social media surrounding the event is still active.Thanks for being a part of the conversation at Strategies in Light & The LED Show with LEDs Magazine. Keep talking back to us on Twitter @ledsmagazine!

LEDs Magazine Special Report: SIL and The LED Show bring out the social (media) butterflies

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