Awards Event
Winners were announced at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA on February 19, 2009, for the first annual Next Generation Luminaires competition recognizing excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for general illumination, white light in commercial lighting applications. Special thanks to NGL judges Frank Florentine, Naomi Miller, and Stefan Graf as well as steering committee member Dan Blitzer for helping with the award presentations.
 Michael Krueger from Beta Lighting accepts the award for the LED Linear pendant in the emerging products category. |
 Ron Content from Go Lighting Technologies accepts two awards for his products in the emerging products category. |
 Joe Manning and Alex Guerrero from Amerlux Lighting accept awards for the Cylindrix II LED and Evoke 2.9 products in the market-ready category. |
 Kevin Downling from Phillips Color Kinetics accepts awards for three products in the market-ready category: eW® Downlight SM Powercore, eW® Cove Powercore, and eW® Profile Powercore. |
 Ken Czech accepts the award for Lightolier's Calculite LED Downlight in the market-ready category. |
 Mark McClear from Cree LED Lighting accepts awards for the LR4, LR6, and LR24 products in the market-ready category. |
 Joe Gullo from GE Lighting accepts a best-in-class award for GE's Immersion™ LED Jewelry Display Case Lighting entry in the market-ready category. |
 Clayton Alexander, Nate Quan, and Holland Alexander from Journee Lighting accept the best-in-class award for the AZARA LED luminaire in the market-ready category. |