Meeting Your Lighting Educational and Marketing Needs

The Lighting Agora is a consortium of independent award-winning lighting designers, consultants, and educators, who all share the knowledge, passion, and empathy to deliver to our clients the foremost lighting education, marketing, web design, guest speakers, lighting controls integration, luminaire design, municipal exterior lighting guidance, NCQLP exam prep and technical editing.

The “Agora” or “meeting place” first found in the works of Homer, is an open space which served as the meeting place where citizens could meet and exchange goods, services, and knowledge. It is the place where Socrates, Aristocles son of Ariston (Plato), Aristotle, and Alexander the Great learned, earned and returned.

It was a place that encouraged discussion, discord, debate, and agreement. It was a place where dreams and ideas were developed, tempered, and delivered.

Lighting Education Consulting

Lighting Education Consulting

The Lighting Agora has the industry experts to design, develop and deliver the highest quality in Lighting Education.

Managed Lighting Webinars

Managed Lighting Webinars

Outsource the management of your virtual events, webcasts, & webinars to streamline your lighting education requirements.

Lighting Industry Marketing & Research

Lighting Industry Marketing & Research

Led by seasoned marketing professionals from the lighting industry, we offer a wide range of services to help you realize your marketing vision.

Lighting Design Consultants

Lighting Design Consultants

Our experts have extensive, award-winning experience in virtually all lighting applications.

Our independent award-winning lighting consultants can use our expertise to collaborate with you to meet all your lighting education, webinar, marketing, research, and website design requirements. Our empathetic approach ensures that we listen to your specific needs and meet your requirements.

Meet Our Experts

With hundreds of years of experience in the lighting industry the colleagues at The Lighting Agora are positioned and have the lighting expertise to supply you with the pinnacle of lighting education, marketing, web design, guest speakers, lighting controls integration, luminaire design, municipal exterior lighting guidance, NCQLP exam prep and technical editing.

Meg Smith

Meg Smith

Delivering the right light, at the right time, at the right place…for you! Meg Smith is a user-centered

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Michael N. Maltezos; ASCE, MCIE, MIES

Michael N. Maltezos; ASCE, MCIE, MIES

Formerly Director/Specialist, Public Sector Systems & Services for Signify Lighting Co. Michael possesses a wealth of knowledge from

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Shii-Anna Mudie

Shii-Anna Mudie

Shii-Anna Mudie is a highly experienced technical consultant who is dedicated to advancing sustainability efforts, especially in environmental

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Ted Konnerth, PhD

Ted Konnerth, PhD

Ted Konnerth has over 40 years of Lighting industry experience. His professional background can be best summarized: Education:

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Robert Soler

Robert Soler

Robert Soler is the Founder and Chief Scientist of BIOS Lighting.  Prior to BIOS, his most prominent work

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Derek Porter, IALD, MIES

Derek Porter, IALD, MIES

Derek Porter is a Principal and Owner of Derek Porter Studio and Associate Professor of Lighting Design at

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Rob Lanteigne

Rob Lanteigne

Meet Robert Lanteigne, the visionary master lighting designer renowned for his exceptional expertise and artistic flair in custom

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Chris Wolgamott CEM, CDSM

Chris Wolgamott CEM, CDSM

For over 25 years Chris Wolgamott has worked in the utility business in the Pacific Northwest, as a

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Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP

Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP

Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP is a veteran lighting industry journalist, educator, and consultant. Currently, he is lighting columnist

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David K Warfel

David K Warfel

David Warfel is an overly sensitive, marginally materialistic, pseudo-tree-hugging Midwestern farm boy turned lighting designer.  He’s been either

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John V. Keating CSP

John V. Keating CSP

John is a professional controls specialist with many years of diversified controls experience including appliance controls, commercial controls,

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Shirley Coyle, LC

Shirley Coyle, LC

Shirley is a recognized lighting industry leader with deep experience and connections in the North American lighting community,

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Rebecca Hadley-Catter, LC, LEED AP

Rebecca Hadley-Catter, LC, LEED AP

Rebecca Hadley-Catter, LC, LEED AP Rebecca managed the SOURCE Lighting Education Center for over 17 years. In this

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Mark Lien LC, CLEP, CLMC, HBDP, LEED AP

Mark Lien LC, CLEP, CLMC, HBDP, LEED AP

Mark Lien is a world renown expert in the lighting field. Mark has designed interior and exterior lighting

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Jane Slade, MID, LC, IES

Jane Slade, MID, LC, IES

Jane Slade, MID, LC, IES is the Specification Sales Manager for Speclines in Massachusetts, a lighting manufacturer’s representative

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Dawn De Grazio, LC, IES Member Emeritus

Dawn De Grazio, LC, IES Member Emeritus

Dawn De Grazio, LC, IES Member Emeritus Over the course of a long career in lighting (since 1986),

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Randy Gananathan

Randy Gananathan

Randy Gananathan is a globally experienced industry guru and businessman who has lived and worked in the US,

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Bob Parks, LC

Bob Parks, LC

Bob Parks is an IES member, Lighting Certified (LC), Community Friendly Lighting Certified (CFLC) and an ecological lighting

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Leni Schwendinger

Leni Schwendinger

Leni Schwendinger is a published, award-winning authority on issues of city lighting, with worldwide experience creating illuminated environments.

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C. Webster Marsh, CLCP

C. Webster Marsh, CLCP

C. Webster Marsh, CLCP   C. Webster Marsh is the owner of Penumbra Controls, where he provides lighting

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Julie Johnson, LC

Julie Johnson, LC

Julie Johnson, LC is the Owner and Lead Lighting Designer for LiteSeeker Studio, LLC, which specializes in architectural

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Jason Livingston, LC

Jason Livingston, LC

Jason Livingston is the principal of Studio T+L, which has dual specialties of architectural lighting design and theatre

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Tony Esposito, PhD

Tony Esposito, PhD

Tony is the Founder and Head Research Scientist of Lighting Research Solutions, a lighting consultancy providing services in

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Mark Roush, FIES, LC, M.Arch

Mark Roush, FIES, LC, M.Arch

Mark Roush is principle of  Experience Light – a 15-year consultancy in marketing and education focused on customer

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Don Peifer, MArchSc

Don Peifer, MArchSc

Don began his career in lighting as a designer for film and fashion. He designed the lighting for

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Mary Beth Gotti, LC

Mary Beth Gotti, LC

Mary Beth Gotti, LC   Mary Beth was the Manager of the GE Lighting Institute in Cleveland, Ohio

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Peter Brown, LC

Peter Brown, LC

Peter Brown, LC   With thirty-five years in the commercial & industrial (C&I) USA lighting industry, Mr. Brown

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Meiling Fong, MSc

Meiling Fong, MSc

Meiling is a marketing professional passionate about building ethical and sustainable businesses, and the founder of Blueboxfish Research

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Gerry Cornwell, LC

Gerry Cornwell, LC

Gerry Cornwell, LC, (B.A. Hnrs, Brock University) is one of Canada’s leading lighting designers and educators. His expertise

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Dan Blitzer, FIES, LC

Dan Blitzer, FIES, LC

Dan Blitzer is Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, founded in 1993. The firm provides consulting services in

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Shane Skwarek

Shane Skwarek

Shane Skwarek is the Owner and Chief Technologist of S-FX.com Small Business Solutions. An avid technology buff, Shane

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Tom Butters, LC

Tom Butters, LC

Tom Butters LC, – Founder and Executive Director of The Lighting Agora/Executive Director National Lighting Bureau   Tom

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