Eve Gaut
Eve is the founder of Parrot PR and Marketing, a creative marketing agency working across a range of sectors. A highly motivated, successful and experienced marketing and PR professional, Eve has built up an enviable reputation.
Having worked primarily in the specification industry for more than 15 years, her expertise has been proven in a variety of roles, across numerous disciplines and with leading brands.
As well as leading a dynamic team of other marketing professionals at Parrot PR and Marketing, Eve remains operational and works closely with her clients personally overseeing all activity. She offers consultancy services and training to some of the biggest names in lighting, technology and the specification sector. Eve also runs a mentorship programme, supporting marketing, sales and business development professionals looking to further their career.
In addition to her directorship and day-to-day work at Parrot, Eve is a strong advocate for women in the lighting industry and was recently nominated for a Women in Lighting award. She champions equality across the sector, participating in, speaking at, and promoting industry events and campaigns. Eve oozes passion and creativity and prides herself on bringing fun to her work. In Eve’s own words “No day is the same, and No day is boring”.
Sarah Dodsworth
Sarah Dodsworth is a Founding Partner of creative consultancy Ekho Studio, established in 2021 as a fresh force in design, looking to shape how people live, work and play for the better. The consultancy’s work has already been shortlisted for 15 creative awards, of which it has won 7 to date, including ‘Best Small Studio’ at the London Design Awards 2022 and the ‘Breakthrough Talent Award’ at the FX Awards 2023.
Sarah is a workspace specialist, a BCO North panellist and awards judge and also lectures and leads workshops in Interior Architecture at Leeds Beckett University. In 2024, she was named as one of Insider North West’s ’42 Under 42’, focusing on ‘the best of the region’s emerging talent.’ Her work and views on ways of working, wellbeing, lighting design and sustainability have been published in media titles such as FX, MIX Interiors, WORKS Magazine, Designer, DARC and Material Source.
Dan Griffiths
Dan Griffiths is a dedicated member of the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) in the role of Technical Operations Manager. He is bringing his expertise and enthusiasm for the lighting industry to the organisation. Committed to collaboration and progress, Dan actively participates in LIA initiatives that promote best practices, innovation, and the positive impact of lighting on people and the environment.
With over 14 years of lighting industry experience, Dan is a creative professional with a unique blend of product design and lighting design expertise. With a background in lighting controls and commissioning, he leverages his understanding of user experience, aesthetics, and technical knowledge to help members provide the best lighting solutions. Dan is passionate about optical design and photometry and looks to bring a greater focus to the industry on the importance of photometry.
Leveraging his in-depth knowledge of lighting technologies and applications to support the organisation's mission. He plays a key role in developing industry standards, educational resources, and advocacy efforts related to photometry, dark skies, smart lighting systems and sustainability. Dan's commitment to advancing the technical landscape of the lighting industry ensures that LIA members have access to the latest information and best practices.
Penta Light
We design and produce high-quality light fittings, with a contemporary design. In the course of our history, we have interpreted the ideas of sought-after and never predictable designers, transforming their vision into objects in which formal beauty meets functional utility. While remaining faithful to our origins, we experiment with new solutions and we are able to enrich our tradition with new expressive and aesthetic codes, with a special new attention to smart building needs.
Castaldi
Castaldi has been innovating since 1938.
In its over 80 years of history, it has totally reinvented the lighting sector, introducing the concept of architectural lighting half of a century ahead of its time. As a pioneer of technical solutions designed to enhance rather than simply light up external spaces and architectures, Castaldi seeks to improve the spaces in which we spend our time. A market leader internationally, Castaldi offers a wide range of high performance products with a refined design and avant-garde technology.
Auralis
Auralis is the first integrated industrial hub in the lighting field.
Auralis is an all-Italian reality that satisfies all kinds of lighting needs, whether its indoor or outdoor technical solutions, residential and contract projects, contemporary design collections or just great classics. A unique, vertical and comprehensive group of excellence which defines a new era in the lighting sector through a strong drive for technological innovation, the pursuit for beauty, and a clear mission aimed at promoting the culture of light as a tool to improve the quality of people’s lives.
Auralis supports man’s innate need for beauty, for building wonders without setting limits, except that of imagination. For such reason, it supports architects and lighting designers to create all-round lighting solutions by working alongside customers and partners with a sales and assistance network that spans in more than 95 countries worldwide.
DTS
DTS Lighting has successfully expanded its product range to include the architectural sector, broadening its lighting solutions beyond the entertainment industry. In the architectural context, lighting plays a crucial role in enhancing buildings, monuments, facades, and urban spaces — creating captivating atmospheres and highlighting architectural details. Whether for indoor, outdoor, or underwater installations, DTS brings projects to life with a wide range of innovative and reliable products.
VICE
VICE is the product of more than 60 years of engineering and industrial experience poured into an uncompromised approach to functional design. Resulting in high-end LED lighting systems developed to inspire lighting designers, surprise specifiers and satisfy end users. Every single product is the result of cutting-edge research and development, reflecting the company’s continuous quest for innovation and perfection.
Forum Lighting
The Forum Lighting team is composed of passionate lighting professionals who recognise the need to change the way we view every lighting project. Our mission is to meet our clients' expectations, not with a single product, but through a diverse range of premium brands that align with our values. We deliver prestige design and technology to commercial, hospitality, retail and residential projects. At Forum Lighting we understand the importance of a holistic approach, offering an incredible brand, design and delivery service with smart and sustainable solutions covering technical, commercial and decorative lighting. This expertise is our unique advantage.
Why limit discussions to linear lights in isolation when you could discuss the entire scheme with the same degree of complexity and understanding? Forum provides multi brand LED technology and smart monitoring systems Forum Lighting provides multi brand LED technology and smart monitoring systems that reduce energy consumption and enhance the performance and longevity of the luminaire asset whilst reducing manual emergency tests and health checks.
We have also developed a proprietary smart building platform – Forum Hub - giving the end user full remote luminaire data access and controllability. This is cutting-edge LED technology and monitoring that reduces energy consumption and enhances the performance and longevity of lighting assets.