Andra Poon
Andra Poon is a Senior Architect at WilkinsonEyre with extensive experience delivering complex transport, infrastructure and mixed-use projects. She has worked on major rail and station developments, including the early design phases of Old Oak Common Station, and is currently part of the team working on Grand Central Station. Her experience in large-scale transport infrastructure and people-focused design brings valuable insight into the future of connected urban environments.
Willie Duggan
Willie Duggan is a lighting designer, Chartered Engineer and Managing Director of Willie Duggan Lighting, working at the intersection of light, human health and the built environment. A third-generation lighting designer with a Master’s in Light & Lighting from UCL, Willie is passionate about challenging how we understand and design light, drawing on medicine, biology and nature. Recent international speaking engagements include Enlighten Europe, LIGHT25 London and IALD Enlighten Americas in Austin, where he presents alongside circadian scientist Dr Martin Moore-Ede
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.
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.
Zerlina Hughes
Zerlina founded Studio ZNA, in 2006, and has over 30 years’ not only in the fields of architecture and design, but across theatre, opera and film. Early in her career, she worked as an assistant to film director Mike Leigh on ‘Naked’, ‘Career Girls’ and ‘Secrets and Lies’. Zerlina was also lighting design consultant in London for Warner Bros’ ‘Batman Begins’ . Her designs for performance include projects at the National Theatre, in London’s West End, on New York Broadway and for The Sydney Opera House. In opera and dance, Zerlina has worked extensively across Europe – and particularly in France, Italy, Denmark and Sweden.
She founded her studio in order to build a team of specialists who could offer a unique combination of technical, creative and cultural knowledge and design illumination. The practice is highly collaborative and values clarity and communication in its team-based approach, ensuring its high standards of creativity are seamlessly integrated alongside the work of architects, designers and artists. The studio uses light as a narrative tool to illuminate the journey of a space or building in both a sensory and practical luminous rendering .The studio’s creativity is backed by technical rigour and a willingness to be hands-on and flexible; a pragmatic grounding honed by Zerlina from working with the ever-changing needs of live art.
The studio has excelled delivering award winning lighting schemes across the cultural sector nationally and internationally. Be this the most renowned exhibitions such as the sell out Gabrille Chanel, Fashion Manifesto or Schiaperlli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A, to sensitive historical refurbishments reimagining famed institutions such as the Courtauld Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and British Museum, to bespoke new build museums and galleries such as new V&A East Museum, David Bowie Centre at V&A Storehouse, Brooke Dockyard Museum in Malaysia and the immersive Hans Christan Anderson Museum in Denmark to name a selection
Zerlina speaks regularly on best practice in lighting, featured at Futurebuild , Light ’23, as well as for the DARC Talks programme, Women in Lighting, the Museums Association and at the London School of Economics in previous years. In 2024, Zerlina was a mentor on the Silhouette Awards Mentorship Scheme, as well as representing the industry as part of an initiative by The South London Careers Hub, to empower young people aspiring to work in the creative sector. She has spoken and is a supporter Women in Lighting (WIL) as well as being a professional member of IALD.
The studio continues to develop and excel in their lighting craft. In 2026 Zerlina and her talented team are working on esteemed projects in Jordan, Netherlands, Malaysia, Norway, USA and India, as well as the reimagining of the Wallace Collection, Courtauld Institute, V&A fashion Gallery and Korea Gallery in London and the new Fashion Museum Bath. Zerlina is also lighting the sell out production, Lear with Sir Ian McKellen at the new Yard Theatre and Ordinary Courage, dance piece at Saddlers Wells East.
Paul Shoosmith
Paul Shoosmith of Light Forms, has worked in architectural lighting specification and project sales for more than 25 years, across four companies. Having worked on projects across every continent - ranging from airport lounges to large workplaces, as well as hotels and retail roll outs, Paul has worked from concept to delivery on-site and has always worked to support clients with their ideas and concepts, making them work practically, as well as aesthetically.
"I love the lighting industry," said Paul. "It has been very good to me over the years and allowed me to meet some incredibly talented people and work on genuinely world class projects."
Krishna Mistry
Krishna Mistry has been working within the lighting industry for over 12 years and in 2020 set up her own independent lighting design consultancy, Mistry Lighting.
Krishna has worked across all sectors of design and some her notable projects include Tottenham Stadium, Tattu Edinburgh and over 25 Nando’s across the UK.
She is extremely passionate about lighting and occasionally gives talks at the university of Portsmouth sharing her knowledge of lighting from the place where she graduated as an interior designer.