Keynote Neri Oxman of Sony Corporation and MIT Media Lab will share her perspective in a fascinating keynote presentation at LIGHTFAIR^® International 2018.  She is an award-winning designer whose work combines art and science.  Her work reveals a future with the intersection of technology and nature.  LIGHTFAIR takes place in Chicago at McCormick Place May 6 – 10, 2018 (Pre-Conference LIGHTFAIR Institute^®: May 6 – 7; Trade Show & Conference: May 8 – 10) and registration opens on February 6.

Architect, designer and inventor Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor.  She is also the Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab.  At MIT, she founded and currently directs the Mediated Matter design research group.  During her Monday, May 7 keynote luncheon address "Innovation in Design," attendees will discover the broad spectrum of Oxman's forward-thinking work.  This keynote is sponsored by EATON. 

The research her team conducts combines computational design, digital fabrication, materials science and synthetic biology.  They use the knowledge in applications from micro scale to building scale.  Oxman states that “her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired or engineered by Nature and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies.”

Visit LIGHTFAIR.COM/conference/keynotes for additional information about the LIGHTFAIR International 2018 Keynotes and Impact Speakers.

For LIGHTFAIR International 2018, the Pre-Conference program will take place from Sunday, May 6 – Monday, May 7 and the LFI Trade Show and Conference will run from Tuesday, May 8 – Thursday, May 10. For more information about LIGHTFAIR International, please visit LIGHTFAIR.COM.