Jay Goodman, Apres Illumination
March 19, 2025
9:30 am - 10:30 am EST
Credits TBD
Introductory
The sun’s energy is almost as critical for life as air and water yet unfortunately we now spend over 92% of our lives indoors. What have we learned about what we need from the sun, and what have we learned about living under LEDs in the last decade? The invention of the blue led was groundbreaking enough for Dr. Nakamura to win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2011 the Department of Energy awarded the L-prize to Philips for a really cool LED replacement for a 60W bulb and then Billion of dollars of incentives ensued. The testing for the L-prize was extensive for light output, color temperature, color rendering, life expectancy… but what about spectral interaction with those living under the light??
Learning Objectives
- Understand the balance of the sun’s spectrum
- Understand the ratio of visual energy to non-visual energy of the sun’s spectrum
- Understand the basics of how sunlight effects circadian rhythms, sleep, immunity, recovery, and hormonal balance.
- Understand the basics of how phosphor converted white LEDs are disrupting circadian rhythms and sleep.
Speaker
In the last decade, Jay has been immersed and has made extraordinary strides in his pursuit to mimic sunlight indoors. It's a perfect storm, of new technology in LED chips, phosphors and controls, combined with almost weekly peer reviewed, published papers validating the connection between the sun and our sleep, health, recovery, and immunity
A 30 year lighting industry entrepreneur, his time has always been spent commercializing the latest technology in lighting.
He started in the 1980s commercializing energy saving ballasts and lamps and migrating to where new technology enabled new markets—from the 90's retrofitting hotel guest-rooms, to manufacturing CFLs, and from 2000s manufacturing fluorescent high-bays to an early entry to the LED revolution with his patented, energy saving, LED down lights.