ISA General Assembly 2016 was held on Nov. 15 at Beijing International Conference Center, in Beijing, China with more than 70 participants.
The meeting was moderated by Mr. Carlos Lee, the member of ISA Council of Management.
Madam Wu Ling, the president of ISA, delivered the welcome address.
Section 1: Working Reports
Prof. Guoqi Zhang, the co-chair of ISA Board of Advisors, professor of Delft University of Technology gave a brief report on the 8th ISA Executive Member Meeting.
The 8th ISA Executive Member Meeting made the following decisions included to adopt Mr. Siegfried Luger, the President of Luger Research Institute as the member of ISA BOA.
-The Supplement of the member of BOA
- The Global Lighting Forum in 2017
- ISA Global SSL Industrial Report 2017
- The Extension of the incumbent Chairman and the term of the TCS Chairmanship
- ISA Add Value
- The Payment of the Membership Fee
The Secretary General of ISA, reported the meeting of ISA work including the organization and support to ISA TCS Work, ISA industry report of 2015-2016, six meetings (in China, Russia, Brazil, Austria, and India), three new members, two SSL awards, and the plan of next year.
Mr. Alex Baker, Chair of ISA TCS, briefed the progress of TCS works in 2016 (TCS8,TCS9) to the ISA members and experts.
Dr. Norman Bardsley introduced the ISA Global SSL Industry Report 2015-2016.
Section 2: The Way Forword
Mr. Frank Hohn, Vice President of Osram, gave a presentation of “The Tendency and Opportunity of LED Industry”.
Ms. Ye Feng, Senior Director of Open Innovation, Philips Lighting China & Asia gave a presentation of "Lighting & IoT”.
Section 3: ISA Awards
3.1. Introducation of the Global SSL Showcase Top 100
Porf. Warren Julian on behalf of the Jury panel introduced the Award of Outstanding Achievement for Global SSL Development and the winners in 2016 are prof. Russell Dean Dupuis and prof. Harald Haas.
Prof. Istvan Barsony, member of ISA Board of Advisors, professor of Hungarian Acadeny of Science, and director of Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, on behalf of ISA, announced the winners of the award of the Global SSL Showcase Top100 in 2016.
Representatives from the organizations whose project had won the TOP 100 award received the award certificates.
The winners are:
1. Harbin Grand Theater Building Lighting (Outdoor)
(TORYO International Lighting Design Center,
Beijing Dongfangfuhai Lighting Engineering Design Limited Company)
2. Beijing Poly International Plaza Lighting Engineering
(Haoersai Lighting Group Co., Ltd.)
3. Underground car park in BOE OFFICE LED project + Indoor Navigation
(BOE Power Supply Tech Co., Ltd.,
GREAT-AIM Visible Light Communication Tech Co., Ltd.)
4. Sky SOHO Shanghai
(LEOX Design Partnership)
5. Human Centric Lighting. Reference Project in Nizhniy Novgorod
(LLC《lighting Technologies IGG》, Russia)
6. Wuhan Two Rivers and Four Riversides
(Shenzhen Kindalt Lighting Ltd., OSRAM Lighting Solutions,
Tsinghua Holdings Habitat Development Lighting Institute Co., Ltd.)
7. LED Energy Conservation and Smart Renovation Project for Road Lighting in Binjiang District, Hangzhou City
(Zhejiang Insigma United Engineering Co., Ltd.)
8. Township of Fuling Area Base LED Lighting
(Chongqing Bangqiao Science& Technology Co., Ltd.)
9. The North and South Accessional Lighting Project and Futian Comprehensive Metro Station Lighting Project in Shenzhen City
(Sichuan Sunfor Light Co., Architectural Design Institute of Shenzhen University,
Guangdong Yuan Tian Engineering Co., Ltd.)
10. North Aixihu Road Silicon Substrate LED Smart Lighting Project
(Lattice Power (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd, CECEP Lattice Lighting Co., Ltd.)
11. Lighting Construction Detailed Planning Design for Key Areas in Yanqing County
(Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.)
12. KIC Shanghai
(LEOX Design Partnership)
13. EESL Project, Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India
(Surya Roshini Limited, India)
14. “Beautiful Mianyang” Urban Lighting Project
(Sichuan Jiuzhou Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.)
3.2 Award ceremony for the Award of Outstanding Achievements for Global SSL Development
The award ceremony of AOA was held on the afternoon of Nov. 15 during the opening session of 13th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (SSLCHINA 2016). Prof. Warren Julian, member of Council of Management, emeritus professor of University of Sydney, introduced the two laureates of this award.
The first laureate is prof. Russell Dean Dupuis, and he is a professor of Georgia Institute of Technology, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Dr. Jianlin CAO, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, handed over the award medals and certificates to Prof. Russell Dupuis.
Prof. Russell Dupuis gave his award acceptance speech impromptu.
The second laureate is prof. Harald Haas, and he is a professor of University of Edinburgh, and is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pure LiFi Ltd as well as the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Center at the University of Edinburgh.
Prof. Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2014, handed over the award medals and certificates to Prof. Harald Haas.
Prof. Harald Haas gave his award acceptance speech impromptu.
3.3 Membership certificate ceremony for new ISA members
The Membership Certificate Ceremony for new ISA Members was held on Nov. 15 during ISA 2016 General Assembly.
There are 3 new members joined ISA this year and members of ISA Council of Management delivered the Certificate of Membership to the 3 new members.
1. Illuminating Engineering Association of Thailand (TIEA) (Thailand)
2. China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS) (China)
3. SHENAN GROUP (China)
The group photo of part of the participants to the ISA 2016 General Assembly.