Constant analysis of plans and working on layouts may seem redundant, but think about how much time a professional baseball player spends in a batting cage…it’s important to continue honing your craft and looking at things in different ways…we will work through a few rooms of a residential project but with different design styles to change the lighting approach within the same floor plan…
Those that have attended Peter’s courses in the past often take them again and again as their seems to always be something that you are either hearing for the “first” time or its value shines brighter.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
Peter Romaniello, IALD Presenter and Lead Instructor
Catch a streamlined approach to the basic building blocks of better lighting.
Lighting is a highly technical field packed with confusing acronyms, deep scientific concepts, and enough boring terms to sap the enthusiasm of even the most excited lighting geeks…but it doesn’t have to be. In this fast-paced fundamentals course, David will expertly guide you through the fog of acronyms like CBCP and IPRGC, demystify lighting basics, and explore how our eyes are awesome and our brains just mess it all up. In the end, you’ll be better equipped to talk shop with builders, source the right product from manufacturers, and help your customers live better lives.
Perfect for anyone new to the category, those looking for a refresher on the basics, or more experienced professionals looking to change the way the understand light.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
A continuation of Part 1:
Constant analysis of plans and working on layouts may seem redundant, but think about how much time a professional baseball player spends in a batting cage…it’s important to continue honing your craft and looking at things in different ways…we will work through a few rooms of a residential project but with different design styles to change the lighting approach within the same floor plan…
Those that have attended Peter’s courses in the past often take them again and again as their seems to always be something that you are either hearing for the “first” time or its value shines brighter.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
Peter Romaniello, IALD Presenter and Lead Instructor
Learn a second language of light to bypass the competition and deliver a better experience.
The lighting industry today could be described as the proverbial dumpster fire- and that means there are plenty of ways of we can mess it up. But the chaos around us also presents an incredible opportunity to disrupt, improve, and capitalize on lighting while delivering a better experience for our customers. Join David for a walk through budget-bending case studies, frank discussions of key competitors, vendor lineup strategies, and proven sales strategies that can grow your business rapidly.
Perfect for sales professionals, business leaders, and anyone involved in the selling or procuring of lighting fixtures.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
Declaw the Seven Deadly Sins of lighting layout with design solutions that earn you sainthood.
Selling a better downlight will only scratch the surface of the lighting category opportunity. To reach your potential, you’ll need to put those lights in different places so they do different things…and wow your customers in the process. David will expand his popular Seven Deadly Sins approach to everything that is wrong with today’s lighting plans and pair it with solutions that will differentiate your approach to lighting plans. No one can train you to be a lighting designer in two hours…but this session will get you started.
Ideal for anyone who needs to look at lighting plans, point out the flaws, and suggest alternatives that, incidentally, will require more fixtures at higher price points.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
Landscape lighting is both an art and a science. This presentation introduces attendees to all the elements we need to consider for designing a landscape lighting system. Within many approaches, we always need to consider safety and security. Landscape lighting can produce both through an aesthetic design. There is always a fine line that disrupts the enjoyment of landscape lighting when glare, luminous cohesion, and, brightness balance are not considered. Jan will present the basics on both sides of the spectrum to give you the range of concerns landscape lighting needs to provide a successful night scene.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
Explore the looming death of the beloved dimmer and celebrate the future of controls.
We all love dimmers…but once upon a time we all loved our landlines too. Every scientific and technological advance of the last twenty years is leading in one direction: the death of large panelized systems. Fortunately, there is no need to panic, as the future is well under control. David will take you through the cold hard logic of the dimmer’s rise and fall and look outside of the integration industry for clues to where controls are headed. Along the way, you’ll pick up new ways to talk about controls with your customers and even some ideas for setting the perfect scene in your projects.
Perfect for anyone who still thinks panelized lighting has a future or those who want to look towards the future of lighting control, and those who want to gain new controls sales strategies.
Session Cost $0 – Included with Registration
The 2nd Annual Lighting Conference Exclusively for the
Custom Integration Industry
Online Registration Ends Friday @
Midnight – Onsite $300
Lighting, lighting and only lighting. Lightapalooza 2023 includes Lighting Fundamentals Training, Lighting Design Workshops, Expert Panel Discussions and Manufacturer Training Sessions. Additionally, 12 hours of Show Floor over two days featuring Lighting Related Manufacturers who have embraced and partnered with Custom Integration Firms.
Lightapalooza provides a unique opportunity for the top Custom Integrators and Lighting segment manufacturers to gather and engage over three days with the subject and conversations strictly around the emerging lighting category. Connect during breakfast, lunch, cocktail hour, dinner and later at the bar with the industry’s leaders and experts in the residential custom installation channel.
For CI companies that are embracing lighting as a new category or those CI firms who have been providing design and lighting fixtures on their projects for sometime, everyone will benefit from the education, expert panel discussions and manufacturer sessions…and equally powerful…idea sharing with your peers. Lightapalooza provides the perfect launch for your companies success and growth in the lighting category in 2023 .
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Amer Maleh is the VP of Sales-Strategic Accounts at Delta Light Group North America and has been in the architectural lighting industry for over 17 years.
He started his career as a lighting designer at L’Observatoire International working with award winning architectural firms such as Ghery Partners, Atelier Jean Nouvel, and Steven Holl.
In 2010 Maleh opened his own lighting firm in New York City to work on multiple project typologies with a focus on high-end residences.
He has since held many leadership roles in the industry including design, manufacturing, sales, sourcing, and distribution.
From 2019 to 2021 Maleh was the Global Director of Sourcing and Supply Chain of Lighting at WeWork before returning to manufacturing and design, joining Delta Light in 2022.
With a background in Electrical Engineering, Maleh holds master’s degrees in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and Architectural Lighting from Parsons the New School of Design.
Maleh served as a lighting guest critic at Pratt, New York School of Interior Design, and Parsons, where he also taught as a part time lecturer in the MFA program from 2010 to 2015.
Maleh has been awarded an IES Illumination Award and has been featured in both LD+A and Architectural Lighting magazines.
Janet Lennox Moyer, IALD, internationally known lighting designer has received many design awards, judged lighting competitions, been published extensively & taught all over the world since serving as teaching assistant for her undergraduate lighting course at MSU. Jan taught landscape lighting at UC Berkeley and Rutgers University in the Landscape Continuing Education departments during the 1980-1990s.
Ms. Moyer’s practice included interior, commercial/residential lighting. Her emphasis shifted to landscape lighting in 1983. Projects include landscape lighting of Levi Plaza,SF, the Detroit Civic Center, Pierce Transit, Tacoma, Washington incorporating a 200 foot long ‘Waterwall’; interior lighting at the Skywalker Ranch, a palace in Abu Dhabi; interior/landscape lighting at the Far Niente Winery, a resort in Safaga, Egypt; several areas of the Chicago Botanic Gardens & the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin, a Palm Aboretum and Conservatory in Northern California, Special residential properties across the nation.
Jan is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, originally published in 1992 by John Wiley and Sons, now in it’s 3rd edition with expanded information on documentation, garden evolution an extensive drawing appendix, and how the disruptive technology LED changes landscape lighting and how to plan for the future.
Jan’s new book The Art of Landscape Lighting, released April 8, 2022 with over 800 color photos/detail drawings explains Jans’ thinking/planning to respond to project needs and challenges covering her 45 years of design.
In 2010, Jan Founded the International Landscape Lighting Institute, an educational 501(c)(3) Public Charity that holds 5-day, 5-night intensive courses. Each day includes morning lectures, afternoon workshop sessions, and evening mockups. ILLI teams have designed and installed five permanent landscape lighting exhibition in the USA and Tokamachi, Japan.
Jan is committed to sharing her knowledge and striving to raise the bar for the landscape lighting industry.
Peter has over 20 years of experience in both architectural and theatrical lighting design. His company, Conceptual Lighting, LLC, is a diverse architectural lighting design firm that develops lighting systems for a variety of commercial and residential spaces. Houses of worship, restaurants, educational facilities, health care facilities, and exterior landscape lighting are all common project types handled by the firm. The small size of the firm assures attention to detail and a personal commitment to each project. Peter Romaniello’s theatrical lighting design background allows for an approach to lighting that is both aesthetically pleasing and technologically correct.
David Warfel is founding designer of Light Can Help You, author, and educator at the crossroads of architecture, light, and integration. He is former head of the graduate lighting design program at the University of Illinois.
David’s company, online at lightcanhelpyou.com, built the revolutionary Signature Custom Lighting Design service to be an affordable, easy, and highly professional option for lighting design. The LCHY team partners with custom integrators nationwide to help them grow in lighting fixture sales and navigate the complex and rapidly changing world of light.
His design credits range from projects at Carnegie Hall and Las Vegas’ Luxor to Chicago’s Hyde Park Arts Center and multiple themed spaces for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. His work and writing have been featured in Technology Design, Fine Homebuilding, Lighting Australia, and multiple times on Houzz.com. David blogs at languageoflight.blog and lives in Madison, WI.
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Check back to this page often as Lightapalooza 2023 is catching the attention, almost daily, from premium architectural lighting fixture brands, natural and artificial lighting control companies, along with related solutions and services who have recognized the new opportunities that only the custom integrator market channel can bring them.
Lightapalooza 2023 will be even better than the inaugural Lightapalooza 2022…I promise!
Lightapalooza 2023
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