When budgets tighten, lighting design often comes under pressure—but value engineering doesn’t have to mean sacrificing quality. In this session, we’ll explore practical strategies for adjusting designs in ways that respect client budgets while still delivering beautiful, functional results. We’ll look at common approaches for reducing costs without undermining the project, and highlight the pitfalls that can leave clients disappointed or compromise the long-term value of the lighting system. Through examples and discussion, you’ll gain insight into how to make smart trade-offs, preserve design integrity, and keep clients happy even when tough choices are required. Walk away with a framework for turning budget challenges into opportunities for creative problem-solving and client trust-building.

David Warfel of Light Can Help You and Dennis Jaques of Maverick Lite join forces to share a wealth of tips, tricks, and procedures for aiming, adjusting, and fine-tuning light fixtures throughout the home. Design and installation are important, but the final tweaks of optics, accessories, aiming, and tuning can push a project from good to great. Leave this session with a list of what to do in this critical commissioning step.

Did you know that Light Can Help You is several businesses combined into one? You may know us for lighting training and education, or perhaps you know we are the leading lighting design team in the custom integration space. But Light Can Help You is also a sales enablement team, supporting dealers in many aspects of the lighting category. Come find out about awesome website assets, online chat support, trade partner CEUs, dealer discussions, amazing pitch decks, and so much more you can use to accelerate your lighting business. 

Lighting placement, product selection, and control integration are only the first brushstrokes of Lighting Design. The true magic begins when light itself becomes an experience during scene programming. 

Join David Warfel and Greg Barrett, to discover how thoughtful lighting scenes transforms the way people live and feel in their homes. In this one-hour session, we will explore both the art and the science of creating dynamic lighting scenes for every space in a home. You’ll learn how to layer light with the right intensities, select color temperatures that support daily rhythms, and how to elegantly utilize saturated colors to evoke specific moods. From morning routines to evening relaxation, this course shows custom integrators how to design scenes that enhance comfort, wellness, and wonder in every home.

Excitement is building for the next evolution of the lighting revolution, and Light Can Help You is building incredible tools to help you up your game. Learn about LDX, the groundbreaking education and experience program and CLIO, the curated online communities, both designed to build competence and confidence in everything from lighting design to deployment to picking just the right fixture. Get in the know and get early access to upcoming releases.

Fixture cut sheets are full of valuable information—but they can also be overwhelming to read, especially for those newer to lighting design. In this interactive session, we’ll walk through cut sheets for a variety of fixture types and use them to build a complete product code for a sample project. Along the way, you’ll gain practical tips for identifying the details that matter most, learn how to avoid common pitfalls, and build confidence in working with manufacturers’ documentation. Whether you’re new to the industry or have years of experience, you’ll leave with tools to make fixture selection and specification a little clearer, a little faster, and a lot less intimidating. 

What does great lighting design look like when it all comes together? In this session, we’ll take a closer look at a completed residential project that delivered beautiful results for the client and valuable lessons for the design and build team. You’ll hear how collaboration among the client, integrator, interior designer, architect, builder, and lighting designer shaped the process—and how the right products, decisions, and communication strategies helped overcome challenges along the way. By walking through real-world choices and outcomes, this session highlights not only the design itself but also the teamwork and problem-solving that made it possible. Attendees will leave with inspiration, practical insights, and ideas they can apply to their own future projects.