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8 October 2026: RELUX Feature Innovations & their Beneficial Impact for Lighting Designers with Karim Daoudi
22 October 2026: Time to Step into the LYT (Light Years Theory) with Akshara Vyas
12 November 2026: Lighting the Experience: A 7-Step Creative Journey to Transform Spaces with Jeronimo Rios Sanchez
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Welcome to the BHA School of Lighting Enlightened Community
Our series of industry accredited live webinars have been developed to share lighting industry knowledge with architects, electrical engineers, interior designers, lighting designers & lighting professionals.
Stay informed with our vast range of interesting topics from the world of lighting such as, interior and exterior lighting design, light products, design techniques, lighting controls, standards & compliance, light pollution & dark sky advocacy, software and more…
After each webinar attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance which can be used to claim your CPD credits from your professional organisation.
Meet our support partner: The Virtual Lighting Design Community & sign up for free membership at https://vld.community/.
Cost: Free of Charge
Date: 8 October 2026
Time: 6pm – 7pm SAST (UTC+2)
Presenter: Karim Daoudi, Key Account Manager & Head of Training at RELUX Informatik AG
About: This webinar explores how the RELUX Real Time Renderer, combined with the extensive range of pCon furniture, materials, and textures, enables lighting designers to produce highly realistic and compelling project visualisations. Participants will discover how to transform lighting concepts into immersive presentations that clearly communicate design intent and enhance client engagement.
The session also showcases RELUX’s latest AI powered design tools, designed to streamline workflows and improve efficiency. The innovative 2D to 3D PDF feature converts existing floor plans into fully usable 3D planning environments, eliminating the need for time consuming manual room modelling and significantly accelerating the design process.
In addition, attendees will be introduced to AI Image Generation, a powerful feature that converts RELUX lighting calculations into high quality, photorealistic visualisations with only a few clicks. This enables designers to quickly explore multiple design options, create realistic scenarios, and develop impactful presentations with greater speed and flexibility.
Join us to discover how the combination of lighting design, advanced visualisation, and artificial intelligence is transforming professional lighting planning, making it faster, more efficient, and more visually impressive than ever before.
Presenter Bio: Karim Daoudi is a passionate lighting professional and recognised expert in the field of light and lighting. He currently serves as Key Account Manager and Head of Training at RELUX, where he combines technical expertise with a commitment to education and professional development.
Karim began his career after earning a Dipl-Wirtschaftsingenieur (FH) in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration from HTWK Leipzig, Germany. He subsequently held a variety of roles within the lighting industry, gaining valuable experience across both technical and commercial disciplines.
Driven by a passion for lighting design, Karim went on to complete a Master’s Degree in Architectural Lighting Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Technology, Business and Design in Wismar, Germany. His academic and professional journey has given him a unique blend of engineering knowledge, design expertise, and business insight.
With more than ten years of experience in teaching and training lighting professionals in software based lighting design, Karim is dedicated to delivering world class training programmes that empower users, enhance technical competence, and consistently exceed expectations.
Cost: Free of Charge
Date: 22 October 2026
Time: 6pm – 7pm SAST (UTC+2)
Presenter: Akshara Vyas, Lighting Design & Founder of Light Years Theory
About: This session will introduce Light Years Theory, a digital infrastructure built for the global lighting community, bringing together the people, knowledge, conversations, opportunities and industry activity that shape the profession within one connected ecosystem.
We’ll take you through a curated walkthrough of the platform, exploring its different spaces and capabilities, from professional conversations and industry intelligence to technical knowledge, opportunities, recognition, products and specialist resources. The session will offer a closer look at how these layers come together to support the realities of contemporary lighting practice.
Most importantly, we’ll explore how you can participate and contribute to the ecosystem. From creating your professional presence and connecting with the community to sharing knowledge, contributing to conversations, showcasing your work, discovering opportunities and engaging with the wider industry, this session will show you how to make Light Years Theory part of your professional journey.
Get acquainted with LYT and shine your star at https://lightyearstheory.com/
Presenter Bio: Akshara Vyas is a lighting designer and the founder of Light Years Theory, whose work explores light as both an architectural tool and an artistic medium. Her approach is shaped by a Master’s education from the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) and grounded in a strong understanding of sustainable design, informing a thoughtful and future-facing perspective on how light shapes space and experience.
With professional experience spanning multiple sectors and geographies, her work reflects a global sensibility alongside a deep sensitivity to context, culture and place.
Her work represents a contemporary approach to lighting: concept-led, interdisciplinary and rooted in authorship rather than convention.
Cost: Free of Charge
Date: 12 November 2026
Time: 6pm – 7pm SAST (UTC+2)
Presenter: Jeronimo Rios Sanchez, Lighting Designer, Electronic Engineer & Automation Specialist at EPM Group
About: Join Jero Rios for a 45-minute deep dive into the heart of lighting design. Drawing on more than 20 years of crafting exterior architectural, urban, heritage, and ephemeral spaces, Jero breaks down his creative process into seven interconnected steps.
Through a curated selection of real-world projects across different scales, you’ll explore how technical constraints and regulations aren’t roadblocks, but catalysts for creativity. You’ll discover how other disciplines can elevate a design, and how engineering can seamlessly serve the artistic vision. Each case study brings its own challenges and solutions, proving there is no single “copy-paste” formula for designing with light.
Finally, this session isn’t just about making a lighting system work. It’s about crafting spaces where people feel connected, comfortable, and inspired: spaces they truly want to remember.
Presenter Bio: Jero Rios is a lighting designer, electronic engineer, and automation specialist who has dedicated more than 20 years to exterior architectural, urban, heritage, interactive, and ephemeral lighting projects. He serves as a link between the artistic and technical worlds: his work seeks to put engineering, control, and regulations at the service of creative intent and of the people who inhabit each space.
At EPM Group, Medellín’s public utility company, he led the Christmas Lighting electronics lab and the team responsible for the innovation, design, and control of the Christmas Lighting Festival in Medellín. He also developed and led the technical guidelines for the Medellín Lighting Master Plan and represented the city and EPM Group in the international LUCI network (Lighting Urban Community International).
He has designed urban, decorative, architectural, and heritage lighting systems for clients in Colombia and Canada. While in Canada, he had the opportunity to learn from and work alongside great designers and creatives at Mulvey & Banani Lighting in Toronto. His background also includes a strong academic foundation: he completed a Diploma in Lighting Design with an emphasis on RETILAP, Colombia’s lighting regulation, at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Colombia, and a remote Diploma in Exterior Architectural Lighting at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) in Rosario, Argentina. He has also taught as a professor in the Lighting Design Diploma program at the Universidad de Antioquia and Principles of Electronic Engineering at the Institución Universitaria de Envigado.
He currently continues his path with EPM Group, where he combines design, engineering, and the fabrication of custom lighting products for heritage architectural lighting projects.
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More about BHA School of Lighting’s support partner: The Virtual Lighting Design Community is a global virtual network that empowers, inspires and educates the lighting design community. Always better together!
A place where we can exchange views on a variety of issues, share our knowledge and insights and informed debates on emerging topics. Vld.community is a virtual platform that will facilitate new ways of thinking and connecting innovative ideas that address global lighting issues.
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CPD Activity Accreditations
BHA School of Lighting’s Webinars are accredited by the South African Institute of Architecture (SAIA), the South African Institute of Architectural Technologists (SAIAT) & the Consulting Engineers of South Africa (CESA).
- South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) – Category 3 CPD Activity – 0.1 CPD credits per webinar (SACAP members eligible)
- South African Institute of Architectural Technologists (SAIAT) – Category 3 CPD Activity – 0.1 CPD credits per webinar
- Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) – Category 3 CPD Activity – 0.1 CPD credits per webinar (ECSA affiliate organisation)