The award-winning Australasian conference and exhibition for road lighting authorities and professionals will be held in Sydney on 2-3 November this year.
Public Lighting 2016 will focus on developing lighting infrastructure as an energy efficient platform for smart city development, but will broaden its scope to include all public lighting, such as park and sports field lighting.
Spearheaded by IPWEA together with management consultancy Strategic Lighting Partners Ltd (SLP) the conference builds on two successful Road Lighting conferences held in Auckland in 2014 and 2015 that introduced almost 500 attendees from the public lighting sector to the advantages of LED street lighting.
Managing Director of SLP Godfrey Bridger says he is delighted to join IPWEA in a joint venture to bring the conference to Sydney.
IPWEA CEO Robert Fuller says: “It is clear that the two previous road lighting conferences organised by SLP were highly praised by attendees, trade show exhibitors and sponsors, so IPWEA is pleased to leverage our expertise together with SLP to make the Sydney conference an outstanding event for the sector.”
The inaugural Road Lighting 2014 conference and exhibition was the Special Event winner at the 2014 Public Relations Institute of NZ (PRINZ) Awards. Attendees overwhelmingly rated both the 2014 and 2015 conferences as "excellent" and an event they would attend again.
“LED lighting technical development is growing rapidly worldwide. It’s now time to examine developments in public lighting such as parks, reserves and sports field lighting in addition to road lighting and so that’s why we are calling the Sydney conference Public Lighting 2016,” says SLP director Bryan King.
The 2016 conference will feature an international line-up of speakers to examine how cities are joining the “LED revolution” not only to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve road safety, but also to move towards the Smart City concept – a centrally-controlled, efficient, digital lighting infrastructure that can be adapted to respond to prevailing traffic and weather conditions and that can be used as ‘real estate’ for mobile networks and other income-generating services.