Panel Discussion
Megan Carroll, Carroll Consulting | Amy Nelson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Naomi Miller PNNL, FIES, FIALD, Naomi Miller Lighting Design
Wednesday
April 15, 2026
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
April 15, 2026
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
Credits LU | Elective TBD
Intermediate
Intersections: Technology’s impact and opportunity illuminating ancient art and objects in old infrastructure and new construction; converting from incandescent to LEDs in a world class cultural institution.
A general understanding of lighting and controls design and execution is recommended.
Learning Objectives
- Compatibility: attendees will learn the discerning criteria required to vet and qualify various manufacturers sources and components to ensure compatibility for flicker free dimming
- Co-existing: attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the exacting considerations required to specify a multitude of types across applications with competing hierarchy (i.e., daylight, conservation, ambient, budgetary, display, safety, wayfinding) in the same space
- Capital Expense: learn why slow is best to test; research; educate stakeholders; identify and focus on opportunities to positively impact the P&L
- Color Conundrum: we don’t see color. understand how the perfect source was flawed; how 21st century technology reveals, rivals, and confuses
Speakers
Megan Carroll
Principal
Carroll Consulting
Megan brings more than 30 years of marketing, sales, and management expertise within the lighting industry. She is the principal and owner of Carroll Consulting, following a distinguished career that includes serving as Strategic Marketing and Regional Sales Manager at LSI, as well as holding key leadership roles at Acuity Brands, Xicato, and Philips Lighting. Megan is also an accomplished speaker, having presented seminars and lectures at industry events such as LightFair, WILD, the IES Annual Conference, and Boston Lights.
She is a past president of the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City (IESNYC) and has served on numerous committees at the section and national level. Megan received the IESNYC Section Service Award in 2014, The Brilliance Award in 2024, and the Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2021.
Her leadership in the IES includes serving as IES Illumination Awards Chair, IES Annual Conference Committee Member, Marks Committee Member, and Chaired the 2018 and 2019 IES Annual Conference.
Megan is also a Founding Member of the New York Chapter of WILD (Women in Lighting Design) since it was established in the 1990’s.
Amy Nelson
Lighting Design Director
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Amy Nelson is the Design Manager of Lighting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has worked for the past 13 years. Currently, she oversees the design, installation, and maintenance of lighting across the institution. At the Met, she leads projects that balance innovation, sustainability, and conservation, most notably directing a museum-wide LED lighting upgrade, replacing legacy sources to reduce energy consumption while enhancing the visitor experience. Amy is an IES Member and Leed Green Certified. She holds a bachelors of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and a Masters in Interior Lighting from the New York School of Interior Design.
Naomi Miller
PNNL Research Scientist Emerita
Naomi Miller Lighting Design
Naomi Miller, PNNL, FIES, FIALD survived a very long career, first as an architectural lighting designer in San Francisco and Upstate New York, and then as a Senior Lighting Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She has Emerita status now, and seems to be failing retirement because she is driven to eradicate flicker and glare from LED lighting systems before her obituary is written. In 2023 she received the CIE Waldram Gold Pin for Outstanding Contributions in Applied Illuminating Engineering, and in 2024 received the IES Medal Award, their top technical award. She is both a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers.