EE Times Group Presents the Digi-Key Virtual Symposium 'Lighting and System Design' to Educate Designers on Advances in Lighting Technologies - Now Available On Demand

CHICAGO, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- EE Times Group presented the Digi-Key Virtual Symposium "Lighting and System Design" on Thursday, August 26, 2010 from 11:00 AM through 6:00 PM EDT.  The virtual event was created to educate designers on the advances in lighting technologies.  UBM Studios, a leader in virtual events and virtual business solutions, provided the 3D platform for the event.  The event is now available on demand.

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The symposium is designed for experienced design engineers and procurement specialists, students, academia professionals and hobbyists.  

John Donovan, Editor/Publisher of Low Power Design, Patrick Mannion, Editorial Director, Design & products, EE Times Group and Bolaji Ojo, Business Editor of EE Times Group served as the virtual conference's co-chairs.

The keynote "Next Generation Lighting: HB LED Market Review" was presented by Vrinda Bhandarkar, Senior Market Research Analyst, Strategies Unlimited, who discussed the trends in the HB LED industry over the past ten years, market developments for HB LED applications including lighting as well as the five year market forecast for the different application areas.

The virtual event tracks and sessions include:  Today's Lighting Technologies; Lighting the Future; Solve My Lighting Problems: Ask the Experts; and Procurement Issues.  In addition, the event offered a series of scheduled chats to round out the technical program.

The event includes an Auditorium and Exhibit Hall with booths from Digi-Key, event sponsor; CREE, platinum sponsor; OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, gold sponsors; and DIODES, MicroChip and Tyco Electronics, silver sponsors.  The "Content Pavilion" is where the technical program houses a rich compendium of available content and resources from UBM EE Times Group, and platinum and gold event sponsors, including archived webinars, technical papers, design articles and teardowns.  In the Networking Lounge event attendees were able to chat with peers one-on-one or in group chats.  All presentations were immediately available on demand.

The virtual event drew 1,685 registrants and 763 live attendees.  Attendees spent an average of 1 hour 35 minutes in the environment.

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About EE Times Group (http://www.eetimesgroup.com/)

EE Times Group is the global leader in media and marketing solutions for the electronics industry.   EE Times Group delivers results for the key influencers and decision makers involved in the design, development and commercialization of technology through its market leading brands, peer communities and professional education services.   More than 1.1 million engineering professionals engage with EE Times Group brands which include EE Times, TechOnline, DesignLines and Embedded.com across the globe to accelerate technology sales. The international electronics community gathers at EE Times Group's market leading events such as the Embedded Systems Conferences, DesignCon and ARM Technology Conference to share, learn, discuss, and advance the critical issues and challenges facing the electronics industry. Additionally, EE Times Group provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation marketing, integrated media, custom solutions and research.  EE Times Group is part of UBM (UBM.L) a global provider of media and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

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