Program 2019

Prof. Elena Y. Kalnitskaya General Director of Peterhof Museum-Reserve, Doctor of cultural studies, St. Petersburg

Prof. Mikhail B. Piotrovsky Director of The State Hermitage Museum, Academician of RAN and RAKH, Doctor of historical sciences, St. Petersburg

Dr. Andrey Bondarchuk Chairman of the Committee for Energy and Engineering Support of the Government of St. Petersburg

Prof. Vladimir N. Vasilyev Rector of ITMO University, DSc, St. Petersburg

Dr. Natalia Bystriantseva Moderator, Head of CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Dr. Henrika Pihlajaniemi Lighting designer and researcher of the Oulu School of Architecture, Finland

Sergey Borovkov General Manager of Lighting Business Consulting company, Moscow

Dr. Andrey Bondarchuk Chairman of the Committee for Energy and Engineering Support of the Government of St. Petersburg

Andrey Ekonomov Head of the Technical Support of IoT Service of Vice-President for B2B and IoT innovations of ER-Telecom Holding, Moscow

Dr. Sergey Mityagin Director of the Institute of Design & Urban Studies at ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Ingmar Vitvitsky Moderator, Founder of Ingmar Architects bureau, Head of the ARCHCLUB in St. Petersburg

Alexei Moor Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of St. Petersburg

Sergei Mitelev Director of SPb GBU "Lensvet", St. Petersburg

Yuri Karpenko Deputy Director of "SAROS" company, St. Petersburg

Marina Silkina Associate Professor of the Design of Architectural Environment, Moscow Architectural Institute

Oleg Kruglov Head of the Research and Development Department of Vitrulux company, St. Petersburg

Ulyana Vinogradova Head of the Lighting Design Department of IntiLED company, St. Petersburg Famous lighting designer with more than 9 years of experience and more than 100 successful architectural, landscape and city lighting projects. Guest lecturer at ITMO University (St. Petersburg) and MPEI (Moscow). The winner of the "Light of Megapolis" contest (2012), "Russian Lighting Design" (2014, 2016). Member of the jury of the competitive program of the international festival "Night of Light in Gatchina". Participant in the Lantern Park project and Lux Helsinki festival of light (2018, 2019).

Dr. Henrika Pihlajaniemi Lighting designer and researcher of the Oulu School of Architecture, Finland Architect (M.Sc.), D.Sc. (Tech), lighting designer and researcher Henrika Pihlajaniemi lectures and teaches Architectural and Urban Lighting in the Oulu School of Architecture (OSA), University of Oulu. In 2016, she defended her doctoral thesis "Designing and experiencing adaptive lighting – Case studies with adaptation, interaction and participation". Recently, she has led “SenCity – Intelligent lighting as a service platform for innovative cities” project in OSA, where smart lighting solutions were piloted in six cities in Finland. She has also worked as a visiting researcher in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and in the Aalborg University Copenhagen, Lighting Design research group. Currently, she works in OSA as a post-doctoral researcher funded by the Academy of Finland leading several projects. Her research is related to intelligent lighting and well-being in learning and working environments, lighting education, and to the use of lighting to develop cities. Additionally, she works as a lighting design consultant in her architectural office (M3 Architects). Her completed lighting projects include intelligent and adaptive lighting, urban lighting, public buildings, dwellings, light art and luminaires. She and M3 Architects have received numerous prizes in national and international architectural and urban design competitions.

Dr. Natalia Bystriantseva Head of CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg Ph.D. in architecture, the Head of ITMO's International Master's Program in Lighting Design and Responsible Representative of ITMO’s working group on topic "Lighting environment" in the project office "Smart St. Petersburg". She has 10+ years of professional experience and worked on more than 20 research papers on Lighting Design. In 2014, Natalia Bystriantseva was awarded the National Award "Architecture and Design". She has managed applied research and development projects for the local authorities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Her work focuses on an integrated approach to the sustainable development of an urban lighting environment in a long-term perspective with the accent on the creation of concepts and analytical solutions that can be adapted to changes in an investment climate and the tasks of local authorities.

Prof. Sergei Stafeev Moderator, DSc., Professor at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering at ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Prof. Elena Y. Kalnitskaya General Director of Peterhof Museum-Reserve, Doctor of cultural studies, St. Petersburg

Dr. Amrita Bhattacharjee Researcher at the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

Edwin van der Heide Artist, composer and researcher, Netherlands

Dmitry Esakov Leading Eectronic Engineer of the Computer Technology Sector of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Dr. Lydia Adair Art-Director of the Center of Modern Technologies in Art "Art-Parking", St. Petersburg

Ekaterina Balakhnina Leading Lighting Designer of the Department of the Chief Power Engineer of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Denis Astakhov Experiential Director, Creative Multimedia Producer, Founder of Avocado Toast company, Moscow For more than 10 years, Denis has been managing teams of artists, designers and developers to deliver world-class cross-media projects in both live and digital environments. They include commissions for many well-known companies and international institutions, including Microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, P&G, Panasonic, Volvo, Samsung and others. By using his expertise and knowledge in immersive experiential design, creative technology, international management, and operations, he helps companies talk to their customers in emotionally powerful and visually impactful ways. As a next step in exploring the field of immersive communications, he founded Avocado Toast — a creative multimedia studio that strives to bring something unexpected to the audience by infusing spaces with design and technologies and immersing people into transformational stories.

Edwin van der Heide Artist, composer and researcher, Netherlands He extends musical composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. He has worked extensively with light as ‘spatial medium’. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the artwork. He has presented his work at renown museums, festivals, galleries and music venues as SMAK — Ghent, Ars Electronica Festival — Linz, Stedelijk Museum — Amsterdam, V2_'s DEAF — Rotterdam, ICC — Tokyo, NAMOC — Beijing, Transmediale — Berlin, SONAR — Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SFMOMA, FILE — Brazil, SONAMBIENTE — Berlin, Art Basel Parcours Night and Donaueschinger Musiktage. Besides running his own studio he is part-time lecturer and researcher at Leiden University (LIACS / Media Technology MSc programme) and was a lecturer (1995–2016) at, and co-head (2014–2016) of, the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He was Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (2009), won the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 for his entire body of work. He was an invited artist and guest professor at Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain in France for the year 2011–2012.

Ksenia Lankina Founder of lighting design studio YARKO-YARKO, Moscow

Dr. Aleksander Väljamäe Associate Professor at the School of Digital Technologies of Tallinn University, Estonia Aleksander Väljamäe received his PhD in at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2007 and is currently an associate professor in physiological computing at School of Digital Technologies at Tallinn University, Estonia. His current psychophysiology research concerns how audiovisual media influence humans on perceptual, cognitive and emotional levels, with particular stress on health/well-being and new applications (Brain-Computer Interfaces, neurocinema, neurotheatre). He actively participates in art and science projects, e.g., his technical directing of the "Multimodal Brain Orchestra" performance in 2009, Prague or directing neurotheatre performance "Demultiplexia" in 2017, Brussels. His latest neurocinema show is called DataWe produced for Join Research Center of EC. He is the author of over 30 journal articles and book chapters.

Dr. Antonina Puchkovskaya Moderator, Head of DH Lab at ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Dr. Maxim Khlopotov Moderator, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Info-communication Technologies at ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Gleb Abaev Director of the studio "Show Consulting", St. Petersburg

Prof. Vladimir P. Budak Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Lighting Engineering", Moscow

Dr. Elena Lekus Moderator, Associate Professor at CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Mitya Kharshak Academic Director of the Design Educational Program at the HSE University, St. Petersburg

Timur Salikhov Co-founder of branding agency Hyperbrands, Moscow

Andrey Punin Head of ARKI studio – kinetic architecture, St. Petersburg

Ildar Iakubov Artist, curator and educator, St. Petersburg

Dr. Natalia Bystriantseva Head of CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Ilia Smilga Head of the Project Laboratory at CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Valeria Lukinskaya Lighting Designer of CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg In 2016, Valeria Lukinskaya finished her Bachelor's degree at ITMO University's Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. In 2018, she graduated from ITMO University with a Master's degree in Lighting Design. In 2018, she started her professional career at ITMO University's International Master's Program in Lighting Design. She is coauthor of the discipline "Principles and Methods of Lighting Modelling". Valeria Lukinskaya's professional interests include lighting design, graphic design, and media art.

Daria Chirimisina Lighting Designer of CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg In 2016, Daria Chirimisina graduated from Samara State Technical University (Samara Polytech) with a degree in Design. In 2018, she graduated from ITMO University with a Master's degree in Lighting Design. In 2017, she was awarded the LIT Design Award envisioned to celebrate the creativity and innovation in the fields of lighting products and application. Daria started her professional career at ITMO University in 2018 as an engineer at the Faculty of Applied Optics and staff of the University's International Master's Program in Lighting Design. Her research interests include lighting design, media art, and emotional artificial intelligence.

Dr. Natalia Bystriantseva Moderator, Head of CLD ITMO University, St. Petersburg

Sergey Borovkov Moderator, General Manager of Lighting Business Consulting company, Moscow

Ivan Fedyanin Moderator, Founder of L1 GROUP, Moscow

Ksenia Lankina Founder of lighting design studio YARKO-YARKO, Moscow

Ulyana Vinogradova Head of the Lighting Design Department of IntiLED company, St. Petersburg

Rilov Sergey Head of the Development Department of SAROS company, St. Petersburg

Julia Zharkova General Director of the independent lighting design bureau KULTURA SVETA, Moscow

Dmitry Burov General Director of &light company, Moscow

Dr. Ivan Vasilev Project Manager of the company SvetoDesignProject, Moscow

Dmitry Nesmeyanov Commercial Director at L1 GROUP, Moscow

Oleg Popov Head of the Design and Architecture Department of Svetoproekt MSK BL Group, Moscow

Dr. Denis Makarov Director of the Business Development Department "Tochka Opory Promelektrosvet", Moscow