The lighting community gathered this week at the Metropolitan Pavilion for NYControlled 2025, the trade show dedicated exclusively to lighting controls.
Presented by the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) and the Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY), the event drew a highly engaged audience representing every part of the controls ecosystem—from manufacturers and specifiers to integrators, engineers, and educators.
The Lighting Controls Academy was proud to play a big part in this year’s event with a pre-show hands-on lighting controls workshop presented by LCA Education Manager C. Webster Marsh, a seminar launching the Design Express series of sequence of operations templates, and a booth connecting directly with the lighting controls design community.
NYControlled continues to prove that the strength of a trade show lies not in its size but in its substance. The 2025 edition was defined by meaningful, high-value conversations that led to genuine business connections. Exhibitors praised the event for enabling deep engagement—time to talk, understand, and collaborate with attendees eager to learn and explore what’s new in lighting controls. The intentionally intimate format allows discussions to move beyond introductions to shared problem-solving, where professionals exchange ideas on interoperability, commissioning, and the evolving role of controls in sustainable, intelligent design.
Now in its third year, NYControlled has established itself as a platform shaped by the needs of the controls community. Each edition is deliberately refined—with expanded learning formats, extended exhibit hours, and curated participation from manufacturers whose products drive the conversation forward. The 2025 edition once again demonstrated NYControlled’s distinctive atmosphere—one where attendees can see, test, and discuss technology in an environment that prioritizes clarity over noise.
Below are images taken at the sold-out pre-show hands-on workshop, where attendees learned lighting controls design and best practices before working directly with systems presented by participating manufacturers.
Stay tuned for 2026!
Photo by Yoelit Hiebert, PLC Multipoint
Photo by Yoelit Hiebert, PLC Multipoint
Photo by Yoelit Hiebert, PLC Multipoint
Photo by Yoelit Hiebert, PLC Multipoint
