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ArchLight Summit Event: Lighting’s Newest Tradeshow

Dallas Market Center has announced the launch of a new lighting expo and educational platform in September 2021 aimed at the architectural, specification and design communities.

The first ArchLight Summit will take place September 21-22, 2021, in the Dallas Trade Mart, already home to the permanent marketplace for the semi-annual Lightovation, the largest residential lighting show in North America.

Both days will include a full slate of seminars and panel discussions offering architects, lighting designers, specifiers and interior designers timely and accredited sessions to keep them abreast of evolving lighting issues and solutions. A $50 fee will allow attendees access to all education and hospitality events.

Admittance into the concurrent exhibition will be complimentary for trade professionals. Temporary exhibits will feature hundreds of lighting brands to enable comprehensive sourcing for a variety of projects and applications in the built environment.

Participating Lightovation exhibitors with relevant products for the specification community will also be able to leverage their showrooms for this event with scheduled receptions and tours.

The ArchLight Summit will be colocated with Dallas Design Week, providing additional CEU and networking opportunities for interior designers on site at Dallas Market Center.

Dallas Market Center is already the busiest open-daily design center in the United States, welcoming 200,000 attendees throughout the year and hosting regular shows in the lighting, home and design industries. Existing architectural lighting resources on campus and a robust local specification community prompted the development of the ArchLight Summit, which will broaden offerings to include non-residential brands in addition to those already present that straddle residential and commercial markets.

While the event is targeted to draw a regional attendance base, the city’s central location and accessibility is also conducive to a broader geographic reach.

“Anyone seeking to learn about the latest lighting trends and technologies will have that opportunity at the ArchLight Summit,” says Laura Van Zeyl, Vice President of Lighting Technology Development and Marketing at Dallas Market Center. “Lightovation has already established Dallas as the home of lighting in the residential channel. This event will offer a more comprehensive representation of lighting solutions, plus educational opportunities to keep lighting professionals at the top of their game.”

Visit www.ArchLightSummit.com for more information, with live registration to follow on the same site.

Photo: Kuzco Lighting displays its award-winning Magellan pendant, which debuted in January 2020 in the company’s Lightovation showroom at Dallas Market Center.