Dan Blitzer

Background

About Dan Blitzer

Dan Blitzer, Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, brings over 40 years of experience to issues of lighting application, energy effectiveness and sustainability. The Practical Lighting Workshop is a 30-year old consultancy providing strategy, marketing, communication, and training services for the lighting industry. The chief deliverables are a wide range of face-to-face and written communication; over the last thirty years, these have include six guides to energy-effective lighting, numerous lighting courses and AIA-certified presentations, five editions of the Residential Lighting Handbook for the American Lighting Association, and The First Hundred Years, a history of the Lightolier company. Dan currently serves on the Steering Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy's Next Generation Lighting Systems program (since 2008) and is an active member of The Lighting Agora (since 2021). He is a board member and past president of the Designer’s Lighting Forum of New York, a Fellow of the IESNA (in 2016), a long-time director and Treasurer of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, and is Lighting Certified.