UK - With two successful Showlight events and eight years of managing the event's volunteer organising committee, Ian Dow has passed his chairman's baton to John Allen of Northern Light.

Allen has been a member of the Showlight committee since the 2001 event in Edinburgh and his responsibilities have included organising both the visits programme and the conference dinner, the signature event where diners move from one table to another during the course of the evening, ensuring everyone meets someone new - and providing a memorable experience into the bargain!

The next Showlight takes place in 2017; both the main sponsor and the host country have yet to be decided but, says John Allen, "Following the success of Showlight 2013 in Cesky Krumlov, there is already great interest

Israel - Wireless Solution Sweden AB recently teamed up with Israel distributor LED Lighting Solutions Ltd to provide W-DMX technology to the new highway entrance to Eilat City in Israel. Eilat is Israel's southernmost city, a busy port and popular tourist resort located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Aqaba.

Lighting designer Kobi Rozental specified 80 W-DMX units to deliver wireless DMX to colour changing streetlamps along the main highway leading to the city, at a distance of approximately 1 km (.6 miles). The streetlamps change colour in a chase, leading the way

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd received a great reception to cutting-edge new technologies showcased on their stand at PLASA London 2013 from the many brands the company distributes exclusively in the UK and certain international territories. "This year's show was the biggest and best yet for AC-ET," says the company. Key lighting, video, rigging and audio product innovations were represented from AC-ET's portfolio of over 200 premium brands and four specialist sales divisions.

There was a great reception to the worldwide launch of the new Vision LED family

USA - As one of the largest music festivals held in Colorado, the annual Country Jam features four days of performances by some of country music's hottest stars. With a 2013 festival headlined by Montgomery Gentry, Miranda Lambert, Kid Rock and Rascal Flatts, the event once again lived up to its reputation as one of the premier festivals in country music.

Before the award-winning artists could take the stage, it was longtime festival provider StagePro who oversaw the creation of all the production elements which included an all Vari-Lite automated lighting rig complete with 12 VL3015L

UK - Kent- based Eclipse Presentations created a stunning production design and supplied the full technical package to realize it for the 2013 Attitude Awards staged at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Hosted by Matt Lucas and produced by Attitude, the award-winning gay magazine in association with Virgin Holidays, the glamour and the glitz was in full flow.

Eclipse's production manager Andrea Witt and project manager Nikhil Shah worked closely with Attitude's show producer Annie Bracken and Seasoned Events to ensure that everything ran like clockwork on the nigh

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