What Do We Know About Connected Lighting System Failures?

Ruth Taylor currently serves as a project manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where she has managed the Next Generation Lighting Systems (NGLS) Program for the U.S. Department of Energy since 2008. She spends much of her time sharing the results and recommendations from the ongoing evaluations at the indoor and outdoor NGLS living labs where connected lighting systems are installed in realistic settings and evaluated by team of lighting experts from around the country.

Dan Blitzer is Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, a 28-year consultancy in lighting, marketing, and education. He brings 40 years of experience to issues of lighting technology and application, energy effectiveness and sustainability, as well as lighting education. Dan has developed and conducted lighting education for Signify as principal faculty at its Lighting Application Center from 2003-19, and for the American Lighting Association, the Building Energy Exchange, the IES, and various commercial clients. Dan has written seminars and guides to energy effective lighting, remote and face-to-face training materials, guides for the NCQLP exam, and the video and printed history of the Lightolier company. Most recently, he wrote the new IES Introduction to Lighting online learning course. Dan serves on the Steering Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy's Next Generation Lighting Systems design competition. He is a board member and past president of the Designer’s Lighting Forum of New York, a director and Treasurer of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, and the primary interviewer for the IESNYC History Project. Dan is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society. He is Lighting Certified. Dan holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and resides in New York City.