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More Showlight 2025 speaker videos available

Showlight has started the new year with the release of two more speaker videos from Showlight 2025, featuring Bryan Raven with “Not the End of the World” and David Gray with “Creating Light Without Electricity and an 828 m Facelift, 14 Years On”.

Climate change and sustainability are hot topics these days and high on the agenda for our industry. Inspired by Hannah Ritchie’s book “Not the End of the World”, Bryan Raven chooses a more positive and optimistic view of the battle against climate change and the wider sustainability topic with examples taken from his experiences with White Light and working with organisers in the live events sector.

Since stepping back from White Light and d&b in early 2024, Raven has been working as an independent consultant as well as a number of organisations like PLASA, ABTT and Theatre Green Book on sustainability issues and Power of Events on advocacy for the wider events industry.

David Gray takes us on a journey through fictitious worlds where the original IP has no “electricity”, introducing us to custom character fixtures created for “Smurfs”, “HTTYD”, “Kung Fu Panda” and “Shrek”, and closing with the story of the 1000 exterior strobe Burj Khalifa installation, construction challenges - and watching it still going after fourteen years.

A highly experienced Project Director with a career in themed entertainment spanning over 34 years and five continents, Gray has an ability to work across cultures and industries. Notable projects include the large scale systems integration for the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, themed projects including Disneyland Paris, Motiongate (Dubai) and Genting Highlands (Malaysia) balanced with Teatro La Fenice (Venice) and Royal Opera House (London).

Having recently moved to Montreal, Gray is dedicating his time mentoring young people on his area of expertise and supporting his daughter who has launched a creative workshop for artistic play in London.

These videos are part of a series of periodic releases, with more Speaker presentation videos going live as we move towards the next Showlight. You can get a taste of this perennial lighting networking event by viewing the showreel and some of the Speaker presentation videos from 2025 on the Showlight website: https://www.showlight.org/videos.

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