Yan Ren-Butcher, RAYN | Mike McGrew, Rayn Growing Systems
Virtual
ThursdayMarch 14, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST
Credits TBD
Introductory
This presentation will address how horticultural lighting applies to architectural spaces in today’s modern buildings and the type of light that should be used—followed by an introduction to fundamental photobiology for advanced learning purpose.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand how horticultural lighting applies to architectural spaces in today’s modern buildings and the type of light that should be used
- Recognize the major things to consider when planning indoor plants
- Differentiate plantings for décor versus harvest and Evaluate and specify different LED solutions for horticultural lighting
- Understand how horticultural lighting layouts are produced
Speakers
Mike McGrew
CEA Regional Sales Manager
Rayn Growing System
Mike has been in the Horticultural Lighting and LED sector for 10 years. He’s been involved with over 250 Facility Buildouts across the United States.
Yan Ren-Butcher
Senior Plant Scientist
RAYN
Yan Ren-Butcher, Ph.D., is a Technical Sales Plant Scientist at RAYN Growing Systems (parent company-ETC). After earning her Ph.D. in Horticulture Science from Texas A&M University in 2011, Yan began her professional career as a Plant Scientist at Phillips Research, the lighting company. In addition to managing various research projects with universities, she co-published the results of multiple studies in peer-reviewed journals. In 2015, she started a Product Manager role at Hubbell Lighting to facilitate photobiology findings into new product developments. Afterwards, she shifted back to the scientific world and served as Director of Horticulture Science at Illumitex, a leading LED horticultural lighting company, until August 2019. Her job focused primarily on providing horticultural LED lighting educational trainings and scientific contents for marketing materials (such as white papers, grower guides and blogs), leading product trials, collaborating with research institutions and universities, as well as providing sales support to customers/growers. She represented previous companies as a member of several standard development committees. With her years of work experience in horticultural lighting for controlled environmental agriculture (CEA), she joined an indoor vertical farming company, 80 Acres Farms, from 2021 to 2022 as a Plant Scientist, to lead multiple research projects helping improve grow recipes in several leafy green crops.
Yan possesses countless years of experience, focusing largely on helping to bridge the knowledge gap between lighting and horticulture to ensure her customers understand the value of lighting technology to discover the right lighting solutions for their applications. She also enjoyed being a conference speaker / guest lecturer to teach fundamental or advanced level classes to illustrate effects of light on plant growth and development as well as LED applications in Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA).