We are thrilled to invite you – our valued partners, and your guests, to an inspiring full day of connection and conversation at the Women in Entertainment Lighting x Ayrton session in Paris on November 25th.
Bring your colleagues or guests — everyone is welcome to share in this unique experience!
Come meet and mingle with fellow lighting professionals, students, and creatives — and get inspired by four leading voices in the industry:
🎤 Anouk Wipprecht
🎤 Raphael Flint
🎤 Sooner Routhier
🎤 Tracy Eck
Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience, this is a chance to share stories, exchange ideas, and celebrate the women shaping the future of entertainment lighting.
✨ Let’s shine together — we can’t wait to see you in Paris at our new showroom!
To ensure we can adequately plan your venue and provide the best experience for all attendees,
we kindly ask you to register in advance.
Please note:
While we’re delighted to host you at the event, travel and accommodation costs are not covered. However, we’d be happy to recommend several hotels located near Ayrton HQ to help you plan your stay comfortably and conveniently.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you need suggestions or assistance with your travel arrangements — we’re here to help!
Strangely ahead of her time; Anouk combines the latest in science and technology to make fashion an experience that transcends mere appearances. Sensors embedded in the design monitor the space around the wearer, and body-sensors check in on stress levels as comfort or anxiety. Her Intel-Edison based ‘Spider Dress’ is an perfect example of this aesthetic, where sensors and moveable arms on the dress help to create an more defined boundary of personal space while employing a fierce style. “This robotic dress attacks when you come to close” she mentions. Facilitating and augmenting the interactions we have with ourselves and our surroundings in an bespoke manner. Other than handheld devices, Wipprecht researches how we can interface in new ways with the world around us through our wardrobe.
Partnering up with companies such as American multinational technology company INTEL, software producer Autodesk, internet giants Google and Microsoft, car brand AUDI, crystal creator Swarovski, and leading 3D printing innovators amongst others – she researches and develops how our future wardrobe would look as we continue to embed technology into what we wear.
She works/travels between San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and Amsterdam.
More about Anouk:
https://www.anoukwipprecht.nl
Photo: Courtesy of Anouk Wipprecht
Clara Daguin was born in France and grew up in California’s Silicon Valley. Fittingly, her approach draws from both of these formative contexts: a mix of savoir- faire and technology, embroidery and electronics, the organic and the artificial. She uses fashion as a vector for examining how technology evolves alongside the body, engaging with present circumstances and future realities: digitalization, dematerialization, surveillance.
Using light as a material, she leans into the esoteric: conjuring up energies and flows, externalising our invisible infrastructures, and alluding to the way our anatomies secretly operate beneath our clothes.
Clara Daguin created her eponymous label in 2017 after her participation in the Hyères International Fashion Festival. In addition to her own designs, she collaborates with artists, researchers and institutions — Google, Baccarat, Nike.
In 2023 she is the winner of the Grand Prix de la Création de la ville de Paris in the Fashion category, and goes on to win the Innovation Prize alongside the label Fabriqué à Paris.
She is based in Paris, France.
More about Clara: https://www.claradaguin.com/about 
Christina is a freelance Stage Lighting Designer based in Greece. She is a graduate of the Department of Theatre Studies, (Athens University, 2000) with a Master of Arts in Advanced Theatre Practice -strand of Lighting Design- obtained from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK, 2002). Her career path began right after her graduation from Central, working as an assistant lighting technician in the warehouse of a London based lighting rental company called Fourth Phase. These early years experiences made her commit to stage lighting. After 2 years in London, she came back to Greece and her professional development flourished working along with Emmy award winner lighting designer Eleftheria Deko. She enjoys both the technical and the artistic nature of light, to her it feels like these two are communicating vessels. Lighting is an art and a craft.
Women though, are mostly welcomed as artists but excluded from technical positions. Unfortunately, she is the only woman in Greece who has ever worked in a high-profile technical position in the field of stage lighting: for the past 2 years she was Head of the Lighting Department of the Hellenic Festival, one of the largest Theatre and Dance Festivals in Greece, hosting more than 70 performances over a period of 2 months.
She also finds very challenging the role of the educator: she teaches stage lighting design for beginners, designing workshops that offer both theoretical and hands-on experience.
More about Christina: https://womeninlighting.com/site/your-interviews/christina-thanasoula
Lauren King is the owner and principal designer of Little Lightning Strikes, a Los Angeles based design company. Her lighting design & programming focus is split between the concert industry and the broadcast industry in LA. She is looking forward to speaking on inclusivity, diversity and growth within the production community at this year’s LDI.
More about Lauren:
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