January 2025

IESNYC Events

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing everyone in our community peace, prosperity, and endless moments of joy! May 2025 be as illuminating as your ideas and as rewarding as your hard work.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2025 Lumen Awards

Extended Deadline January 17, 2025

The IESNYC looks forward to celebrating excellence, professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design and invites you to submit your most outstanding projects to the 2025 Lumen Awards. NEW: Due to high demand, we expanded our territories to extend submission eligibility to Nassau and Suffolk as well as Fairfield, CT and the Northern NJ counties of Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Hudson and Union. This is your opportunity to channel your creativity and innovation into submissions that truly reflect your expertise and passion for lighting. LEARN MORE
Save the Date: The Lumen Gala will be held Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, NYC

Announcements

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2025 IESNYC Student Lighting Competition

The IESNYC invites students from New York City Art and Design schools to participate in a city-wide design competition. The 2025 challenge, "A Sight for Sore Eyes" challenges students to share an eyesore experience and construct a three-dimensional study to solve the visual discomfort of viewers. Students enrolled in design, engineering or architecture programs at colleges or universities in the five boroughs of New York City or the New York counties of the former Mid-Hudson Section are eligible to submit, regardless of residency. LEARN MORE

Join Us in Illuminating a Radiant Future

Become a 2025 IESNYC Sponsor

We are excited to invite you to join IESNYC in our journey toward a “Radiant Future,” where light continues to illuminate not just our physical spaces, but also the very fabric of human health and well-being. As we step into 2025, we look forward to advancing the conversation on lighting’s role in health and well-being with our 2025 campaign spokesperson Dr. Mariana G. Figueiro from the Light and Health Research Center at Mount Sinai. MORE

Spotlight on Diversity

Mariposa Social: Jessie Grillo Represents with Humor and Drive

Jessie Grillo
Senior Sales Manager, Diversified New York

As a Hispanic lighting professional, Jessie Grillo brings determination, adaptability, and an innate ability to connect with others. As a volunteer, she’s determined to give back to the community that nurtured her. MORE

Job Opportunities + Member News

Other Events

IES Webinar: Listen Up: Three Considerations for Acoustic Materials with Integrated Lighting

January 9, 2025. Learn why acoustics matter more than even to the effective design of commercial spaces, analogies between lighting and acoustics (health, quality, and technical terms), and what to watch out for when specifying acoustic materials. More

IES25: The Lighting Conference Call for Presentations Open

Deadline: January 23 for Hands-On Workshops and Speaker Sessions
Deadline: February 27 for Research Track and Posters
IES25 call for presentations is now open. Join the Conference August 21-23, 2025 in Anaheim, CA as a speaker for conference sessions, pre-conference workshops, conference papers, technical papers, or posters. More

Call for Presentations: 2025 IES Street & Area Lighting Conference

Deadline: January 30, 2025. Submissions for consideration for the 2025 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference in New Orleans, LA, are now being accepted. SALC appeals to a broad spectrum of attendees, primarily focusing on improving outdoor lighting. More

Registration Open for LEDucation 2025

March 18–19, 2025. New York Hilton Midtown, NYC. Register today for the 2025 Trade Show and Conference—the ultimate marketplace and educational platform for lighting innovations. Virtual Sessions will be held March 13-14. More