David Scott-Maxwell is Research & Development Manager at Forge Europa and is responsible for all the company’s LED Component and LED Applications innovation and development. 

 David has spent the last 6 years in the LED industry but has previously worked in a wide variety of manufacturing industries including 8 years in laser mastering for optical discs, 6 years in subcontract electronics design and 3 years in semiconductor processing equipment design.  He is a professional Electronics Engineer with a varied background in hardware and software design but is a strong advocate of engineering design from first principles, whatever the discipline.  This philosophy has helped establish a multidisciplinary engineering team at Forge Europa that is equipped with the wide range of skills required to design professional LED-based products.

David is also a member of the LED Working Group at the Lighting Association.

David will be presenting in the closing conference session on the following:

LEDS: the safest ever form of lighting?

• What is ‘lighting safety’? 
• Reviewing eye safety / electrical safety / mechanical safety / other forms
• LED vs The Rest!

For more information about the other speakers in this session, see the conference programme page