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🏙️ Your EA26 Day 2 Sessions + Speakers 🏙️

Enlighten Americas 2026 continues with a full day of sessions on Saturday, October 17!

Our agenda includes:

💡 “Celestial Park: When Light Becomes the Story”
✨ Kyle Arnold
✨ Dan Dansby
✨ Kyllene Jones
✨ Megan Murphy McLeod

💡 “Forced Perspectives: Lighting Design Between Perception and the Image”
✨ Dan Weissman, IALD, CLD
✨ Srushti Totadri, IALD

💡 “Light and Sound: Creative Allies or Enemies?”
✨ Anna Sbokou, IALD, CLD

💡 “AI-Driven Visual Thinking for Lighting Design”
✨ Randy Fisher, IALD, CLD

💡 “From Design to Delivery: Partnering for Lighting Success”
✨ Joel Furmanek
✨ John Jacobsen, IALD
✨ Emily Klingensmith, IALD, CLD
✨ Chris Prezas

💡 “Beyond the Primitive Hut: Campfire, Light, and the Architecture of Systems”
✨ Katie Czub, IALD

💡 “More Than Meets the Eye: The Expanding Role of Lighting Designers”
✨ Dave Pfund, IALD
✨ Michael Royer

💡 “Light is Biological: A Medical Scientist and Lighting Designer Reframe Lighting Practice”
✨ Wilie Duggan
✨ Dr. Martin Moore-Ede

💡 “Managing Up: Speaking Up and Building Relationships with Your Managers”
✨ Whitni Irving

💡 “Controls as a Creative Tool: What Architectural Lighting Can Learn from Entertainment Design”
✨ Chris Leffel, IALD

Sign up today for EA26 — join us in Austin this October for another unmissable Enlighten experience!

🔗 Link in bio to register!

Texas-sized decision ahead 🤠 We’ve got three pin concepts for and we want your input. Swipe through all three, then cast your vote in the poll below — the winning design will be made real for Enlighten Americas 2026 this October.

📍 Austin, Texas | Oct 15–17, 2026 | Register now — link in bio

🌆 Your EA26 Day 1 Sessions + Speakers 🌆

Enlighten Americas 2026 features a lineup of expert-led sessions taking place across our three days in Austin, Texas.

Kicking off Friday, October 16, our agenda includes:

💡 “Painting Darkness”
✨ Derek Porter, IALD, CLD
✨ Nikitha Naredla

💡 “Designing Lighting for a Net Zero Carbon Project: What Exactly Does it Mean and How to Do It”
✨ Jamie Devenger
✨ Ella Mills, IALD
✨ Leela Shanker

💡 “Why Grow? Rethinking Scale, Stability, and Impact in the AEC Industry”
✨ Ken Douglas, IALD, CLD
✨ Carrie Hawley, IALD
✨ Beth Nilsen

💡 “The Illuminated Surface: Rethinking Light as a Material Experience”
✨ Erika Baffico

💡 “Elevating Projects Through Inspired Lighting Details”
✨ Randy Burkett, FIALD, CLD

💡 “Beyond the Buzz: Ethics of AI in Lighting Practice”
✨ Glenn Shrum, IALD, CLD

Sign up today for EA26 — these sessions are just a taste of what’s ahead, from professional development seminars to panels, roundtables, and workshops. Join us in Austin this October for another unmissable Enlighten experience!

🔗 Link in bio to register!

The Call for Abstracts is officially open for Light + Intelligent Building North America 2027! 💡

LIBNA is looking for industry experts to share practical insights, emerging technologies, and real-world applications across lighting, controls, software, automation, and integrated building systems. If you have a story, solution, or innovation worth sharing, this is your platform.

📅 Abstracts due August 31, 2026
📍 Las Vegas, NV | March 15–18, 2027

Link in bio to submit. Share your expertise — help shape what’s next.

🔦 YOU Pick the Theme for Chase the Dark 2026! 🔦

It’s that time again — help us choose the theme for this year’s global Chase the Dark celebration! Each year, IALD Regions and Chapters (plus individuals and groups worldwide) get creative with light around a shared theme, and share their work with .

This year, we’ve got three contenders — cast your vote in our poll.

1️⃣ Shape Shifting — Optical illusions and forced perspective
2️⃣ Unexpected Light — Finding beauty in overlooked objects, ordinary places, and surprising events
3️⃣ Bejeweled — A refraction experience: how light moves, slows, and changes direction

Vote for your favorite today and we’ll announce the winning theme soon!