Speaking Experience

White House Council on the Aging. “Lighting and the Visual Environment for Senior Living: Daylighting to the Rescue!” September 2005.
IIDEX NeoCon Conference and Expo 2005. “Lighting Bloopers”, Toronto Canada, September 2005.
Food Marketing Institute Conference 2005, Montreal Canada. “Fiberoptics are OUT. LEDs are IN! The New Fashions in Lighting.” September 2005.
Living Stones Conference, Archdiocese of Albany. “Lifting Spirits to God: Lighting a Church for Worship”, August 2005.
Jornada Internacional de Iluminacion, Mexico City, Mexico. Invited speaker: “Lighting for People and their Future World”, July 2005.
LightFair International 2005, New York City. “Healing Environments”, presented with Leslie North. Presented again at SMUD Lighting Technology Center, Sacramento CA, November 2005.
LightFair International 2005, New York City. “Daylighting and Electric Lighting Integration”, presented with Dorene Maniccia. Presented again at Pacific Energy Center, November 2005.
AIA Conference Expo 2005. “Lighting for Computer Screens and People”, Las Vegas NV, May 2005
IESNA Boston Section workshop, Danvers MA. “IESNA RP-1: Office Lighting”, March 2005. Presented also for Nashville TN IES Section, May 2005.
Better Buildings by Design Conference, sponsored by Efficiency Vermont. “Lighting Bloopers” and “Light and Dark – The New Drugs”, Burlington VT February 2005.
OsramSYLVANIA LightPoint, Danvers MA. Chief presenter in three-day Lighting Design and Application course. Course given one to three times per year, 1994-2005.
NYSERDA Energy in Schools Conference, Albany NY. “Energy and Design”, November 2004.
Columbia University Business School “Net Impact” Seminar, “Can All Buildings become Green Buildings?”, November 2004.
NYSERDA “Energy in Schools” Conference, “Lighting and Daylighting: Energy and Design”, November 2004.
Keynote Address at the opening of the Casa dei Risvegli (House of Reawakening), Center for Coma Research, University of Bologna, Italy. “Light and Dark: The New Drugs”, October 2004.
IESNA Annual Conference 2004, Tampa FL, “Office Lighting: Recommended Practice 1”.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Lighting Technology Center workshop, July 2004. “Lighting Bloopers” and “Light and Dark: The New Drugs”.
LightFair International 2004, Las Vegas, “Naomi Miller on the Aging Eye”, half-day workshop.
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) Annual Conference March 2004, Boston. “Trading Electric Light for Daylight—the Design and Commisioning of Successful Daylighting Controls Systems”, presented with Dorene Maniccia.
IALD Annual Conference 2004, Vancouver, “Light and Dark: The New Drugs”.
World Light Show 2003, Milan, “The Most Recent Results of Research into the Physiological and Psychological Aspects of Light”.
LightFair 2003, New York City: “Working the Shadows”.
“Vision, Visibility, and Lighting Quality”, “Human Factors in Lighting”, and “Lighting for the Aging Eye”, day-long Workshops sponsored by the ASID, University of Minnesota College of Human Ecology, and the IIDA in Minneapolis, January 2003.
Food Marketing Institute 2002 Energy and Technical Services Conference: “Strategies for a Super Efficient Store: Lighting”, September 2002.
LightFair 2002, San Francisco: “Hot News and How-To’s on Lighting Quality”, presented with Dr. Peter Boyce and Hayden McKay.
Intertech Energy Efficient Lighting Systems Conference Seminar: “Fundamentals of Lighting Quality and Energy Efficiency”, Tucson AZ, February 2002.
Building Solutions 2002: “Energy Efficiency: What Works and What Doesn’t?” Burlington VT, February 2002.
IESNA Southeast Michigan Section meeting: “Lighting for the Aging Eye”, Detroit MI, November 2002.
IALD Annual Conference: “Sustainability and Lighting Design”. Co-presenter with Nancy Clanton, Philadelphia PA, November 2001.
IESNA Annual Conference: “Performance and the Spectrum – What’s the Color of Your Lumens… Green or Blue?” Ottawa, Canada, August 2001. Co-presenters Dr. Peter Boyce, Dr. Sam Berman, and Brian Leibel.
IESNA Regional Conference, Beacon of Light 2001: Providing Lighting Quality in Offices“, Boston MA, June 2001.
International Dark Sky Association (IDA) Conference keynote speaker: “Sparkle, Safety, or Glare?” Tucson AZ, March 2001. (Talk also given to several IESNA Section meetings.)
IESNA Street and Area Lighting Conference: “Photometric Frustrations of Specifying Decorative Streetlighting”, September 2000
IESNA Annual Conference, July 2000, Washington DC: “IESNA Handbook Chapter 10: Quality of the Visual Environment” with Terry McGowan
NeoCon 2000, Chicago: “Office Lighting: Providing Lighting Quality”, June 2000
LightFair International, New York, NY. “Glare!”, May 2000
Fiberoptics Institute, Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer. Presentation: “Lighting Design with Fiberoptics”, September 1999.
IES Annual Conference, New Orleans: “Energy Efficiency vs. Quality of the Visual Environment”, August 1999
Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) Quadrennium Conference in Warsaw, June 1999. Keynote speaker. Topic: Lighting Quality.
Invited speaker at University of Colorado at Boulder, Architectural Engineering class retreat, April 1999. Presented lighting quality issues and my recent lighting design work.
IES Salt Lake City Section invited speaker: “Lighting Quality”. May 1999.
IES Milwaukee Section invited speaker: “Lighting Quality”. May 1999.
LightFair International, San Francisco CA. “Lighting For Special Needs”, joint presentation with Dr. Peter Boyce, May 1999.
IES New York Section presentation, “Lighting for Health Care Facilities”, April 1999.
IES Minneapolis Section presentation: “Lighting Quality Workshop”, March 1999.
Invited speaker to International Conference on Nordicity (a term which describes special issues faced by northern countries) in Quebec City, Canada, February 1999. Topic: Light, Human Behaviour, and Environmental Quality.
Build Boston workshop, “Ergonomic Lighting and...Office Lighting”, November 1998.
Invited participant, Roundtable on Fiberoptics. Sponsored by Lighting Dimensions Magazine. October 1998.
Seattle Lighting Design Lab, “Lessons We Have Learned in Office Lighting”, July 1998.
LightFair International, Las Vegas, NV. Lighting Quality Workshop. Conducted one-day CEU course, May 1998.
IES Section Meetings, Houston and Dallas TX. “Lessons We Have Learned in Office Lighting”, March 1998.
IES Section Meeting, Cleveland OH. “Sneak Preview of the new lighting quality chapter of the IES Handbook”, February 1998.
WILD (Women in Lighting Design) meeting in October 1997. Presentation on DELTA Lighting Case Studies.
IES Section Meeting, Boston MA. “Lighting Research Updates: Illuminance Quantity and Quality.” April 1997.
Designers Lighting Forum of New York. “What Works and What Doesn’t”. February 1997.
ASID New York Upstate/Canada East Chapter. “Quality of Life and Light”. Chief presenter of one-day CEU workshop, February 1997.
Ottawa City Lights, Ottawa Canada, October 1996. Speaker on new developments in outdoor lighting.
Academy of Lighting Design; Orlando, Houston, San Diego, 1996. Presented two-day seminars in each city on Energy Issues and Office Lighting.
LightFair International, San Francisco, May 1996. Speaker for two programs: “Enough Energy Savings Already: A Post Occupancy Evaluation”, and “Darkness Visible: Lamps in Exterior Applications” with Dr. Mark Rea.
OsramSYLVANIA LightPoint, Danvers MA. Speaker at Lighting Quality Symposium, March 1996.
Lighting Arizona ‘95. “DELTA Case Studies: Lessons We Have Learned.” May 1995.
Designers Lighting Forum of New York, September 1994. “As Time Goes By: The physiological and psychological lighting problems (and solutions) for the aging eye.” Presented with Howard Brandston.
General Electric Lighting Institute, Cleveland OH, 1994-1995. Speaker on residential lighting design, and project reviewer for Residential Lighting course.
LightFair, New York City NY. “Lighting for the Aging Eye”. May 1991.
Pan Pacific Lighting Exposition, 1986. Conducted workshop on Office Lighting with David Malman.

(AIA) American Institute of Architects
(ASID) American Society Of Interior Designers
(IES) Illuminating Engineering Society
(IALD) International Association of Lighting Designers
(IIDA) International Illumination Design Awards, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
(IIDEX) International Interior Design Exposition
(NYSERDA) New York State Energy Research and Development Authority