Sacha Abizadeh
Sacha Abizadeh is Growth Director and Lighting Advisor for Lighting & Energy Solutions at WSP and an award-winning lighting specialist. He works with clients across transport, aviation, public realm and major infrastructure projects, helping shape the future of cities and places through design, technology and innovation. As host and moderator, he brings together perspectives from architecture, landscape, lighting and local government to explore emerging challenges and opportunities in the built environment.
Ravi Lakhani
Ravi, co-founder & consultancy director at Verdera, is a technology enthusiast with a strong focus on emerging platforms that provide core value to users. As a leading designer of integrated digital buildings, Ravi specialises in guiding clients through the adoption of innovative solutions that enhance efficiency and user experience.
AURALIS
Auralis is the first integrated industrial hub in the lighting field.
Auralis is an all-Italian reality that satisfies all kinds of lighting needs, whether its indoor or outdoor technical solutions, residential and contract projects, contemporary design collections or just great classics. A unique, vertical and comprehensive group of excellence which defines a new era in the lighting sector through a strong drive for technological innovation, the pursuit for beauty, and a clear mission aimed at promoting the culture of light as a tool to improve the quality of people’s lives.
Auralis supports man’s innate need for beauty, for building wonders without setting limits, except that of imagination. For such reason, it supports architects and lighting designers to create all-round lighting solutions by working alongside customers and partners with a sales and assistance network that spans in more than 95 countries worldwide.
Jordi Rocasalbas
Jordi Rocasalbas is Innovation Manager at LEDS C4 and a Board Member at Carandini.
With over 20 years of experience in the lighting industry, he has built a career shaped by leadership, innovation and a strong commitment to quality. Throughout his professional journey, Jordi has contributed to the development of advanced lighting solutions at several renowned companies, establishing himself as a forward-thinking expert in the field.
Deeply committed to environmental responsibility, sustainability and circular design, he explores connected lighting solutions grounded in sustainable materials and practices. His work aims to enhance human well-being while protecting the environment and preserving the beauty of the night sky.
Jordi is passionate about promoting the value of high-quality lighting and fostering greater awareness of the positive impact of well-designed, sustainable light.
Jo Calver
Jo Calver is the Founder and Creative Director of Isla James Interiors and Isla James Lighting, where light is considered as fundamental to a space as its architecture, materials and form.
Since founding Isla James Interiors in 2015, Jo has developed a distinctive approach that brings interior architecture, interior design and architectural lighting together from the earliest stages of a project. Rather than treating lighting as a final layer, she considers light part of the material palette itself, something that shapes our perception of architecture, colour and texture, reveals artwork and detail, directs the eye and ultimately determines how a space feels.
Her work spans high-end residential and hospitality projects across the UK and abroad, including The Gate Hotel in London and The Store in Oxford, combining creative design thinking with a detailed understanding of architectural lighting, colour temperature, control, specification and the interaction between light and materials.
Alongside her project work, Jo is building a growing voice within the design industry around a more ambitious way of thinking about light. Through platforms including LiGHT and Clerkenwell Design Week, and through the evolution of Isla James Lighting and its educational programme, she is challenging the convention that lighting comes after the design - advocating instead for light to be considered from the very first creative decisions. Her ambition is to inspire designers to see light not simply as illumination, but as a powerful design material in its own right: capable of revealing architecture, heightening materiality, influencing wellbeing and transforming the way a space is experienced.
At the heart of Jo’s work is the belief that the most powerful interiors are not simply lit - they are shaped by light. When light is considered from the very beginning, it becomes more than illumination; it becomes architecture, atmosphere and experience.
Dr Shelley James
Dr Shelley James is an international lighting design consultant specialist in health and well-being, TedX speaker, author and member of the WELL Light Advisory team. She is also a visiting lecturer at UCL Bartlett and the Royal College of Art.
A social media campaign for teens about light during lock-down was translated into three languages and reached over 2.5 million worldwide and her TedX talk was in the top three most-watched in the world in the month after launch. She has written two books and now works with regulators and academics, manufacturers and developers, housing associations, clinicians, teachers and HR professionals all around the world to deliver practical, evidence-based solutions to harness the power of light to create healthy, productive and sustainable places to live and work.
Xander Cadisch
Xander Cadisch is Co-Owner of Phos and Founder of Light Tribe by Phos, working at the intersection of light, human biology, neuroscience, and the built environment.
He is the author of the international award-winning The Light Within Us, which reframes light as a biological input that shapes health, emotion, cognition, and performance, combining ancient biology with modern scientific research to explore how we design healthy environments for an indoor species.
Building on this work, Xander is developing a next-generation global framework for healthy lighting in the built environment, bringing together circadian science, photobiomodulation, neuroaesthetics, neuroarchitecture, spectral biology, and practical design application through global research, academic collaboration, and direct conversations with some of the world’s leading scientists, architects, designers, neuroscientists, and wellbeing pioneers.
He is also the creator and host of the In Light of It All, now in its third season, where internationally respected voices in science, design, and human performance help test, challenge, and refine this emerging framework in real time.
Internationally, Xander has presented his work across Europe, Asia, and North America at platforms including LEDucation, FIND, Darc Sessions, Surface Design Show, and Clerkenwell Design Week, while also lecturing master’s students in Oslo and universities across the UK.
His work also extends into policy and industry change. Xander has engaged with MPs and ministers at the House of Commons and serves on the Lighting Industry Association Government & Public Affairs Committee, helping protect the integrity of health-led, quality lighting standards within future UK legislation.
Recognised as a Forty Under 40 UK and Forty Under 40 Global lighting leader, his work and thinking have featured in House & Garden and HiddenWires.
Through Phos, he applies this philosophy to product. Built on more than 140 years of British engineering heritage, including historic precision engineering work for Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Jaguar Land Rover, Phos creates precision lighting instruments that combine engineering excellence with biological intent. The business is a recipient of the King's Award for Enterprise.
His core principle is simple. Light is not decoration. Light is biology. Light is a form of care.
DTS
DTS Lighting is an Italian company specializing in the design and manufacture of high-performance architectural and entertainment lighting solutions. With decades of expertise in LED technology and optical innovation, DTS develops products that combine outstanding performance, reliability, and elegant design to enhance indoor and outdoor environments.
The company's portfolio includes architectural luminaires, dynamic façade lighting, landscape solutions, and professional fixtures for theatres, television studios, live events, and cultural venues. Every product is engineered and manufactured in Italy, reflecting a strong commitment to quality, sustainability, and technological excellence.
Driven by continuous research and development, DTS integrates advanced optics, intelligent control systems, and energy-efficient technologies to meet the evolving needs of lighting designers, architects, and system integrators worldwide. Its solutions have been specified for prestigious projects across hospitality, retail, public spaces, heritage sites, and entertainment venues.
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