We are thrilled to invite you to an inspiring full-day of connection and conversation at the Women in Entertainment Lighting x Ayrton session in Paris on November 25th.
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:
Travel and accommodation costs are at the participants’ own expense. However, we’d be happy to recommend several hotels located near Ayrton HQ to help you plan your stay comfortably and conveniently.
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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
In a 30-year career at Disneyland Paris, Tracy Eck has served in a variety of roles. Art director since 2011, she is responsible for maintaining the creative vision, relevancy, and storytelling in the park today. She works with a talented team on animation, special effects, graphics, interior, landscape design, audio and lighting design. She and the team partner with entertainment, marketing, operations, maintenance, food and beverage, and merchandise to bring new magic to the park.
Eck is a highly accomplished lighting designer whose work can be seen across the resort’s two theme parks, including on the refurbished Autopia attraction at Disneyland Park. She joined the Imagineers designing and building Disneyland Resort Paris in 1990 and was named the Lighting Dimensions International Lighting Designer of the Year in 2002 for her work in Walt Disney Studios Park. She was also named a TEA Master in 2020.
She holds a BA in French Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin where she fell in love with contemporary French Theatre. After completing an internship at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg, she studied Theatre Design in the University of Michigan Master of Fine Arts Program and spent her pre-Imagineering career between theatres in New York and France.
“What I love also about working at Imagineering here at Disneyland Paris, is that it really has allowed me to combine my American roots with my love of French culture and French theatre,” Eck said. “And it’s a very fulfilling experience.”
“Lighting design, as a discipline, has evolved significantly since I started at Disneyland Paris,” she added. “I have seen lighting go from halogen to metal halide and fluorescent to LED technology. Each light source has its own qualities, it’s like having a new paintbrush or a new set of paints each time. So it’s a lot of fun to change and evolve each time with the tools that are available.”
Source: https://blooloop.com/theme-park/influencer/tracy-eck/
Sooner Rae Routhier is a 2X Parnelli, Live Design Achievement, Live Production Summit Pinnacle, and multi Top Dog award winning Designer. Her work has been viewed by millions all around the world and has appeared on major screens such as Jimmy Fallon, The AMA’s, The Ellen Show, The Voice and The Billboard Music Awards. She has developed, produced and helped create some of entertainment’s most recognizable performance moments for some of today’s most celebrated headlining artists including, Coldplay, Panic at the Disco, The Weeknd, KISS, Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Rhianna, Pentatonix, Jay-Z, Halsey, Motley Crue, G-Eazy, Muse, Alessia Cara and Depeche Mode.
Sooner’s story began in 1999 where she worked as a lighting technician and lighting director for Rainbow Concert Productions while attending Emerson College in Boston. She launched her career as a Lighting Designer for the rock band Chevelle and In 2007 Sooner teamed up with legendary production manager Robert Long to form SRae Productions. While growing SRae Productions, Sooner was also able to cultivate new creative talent that emulated the team’s strong creative visions. Sooner and the SRae team joined forces with World-Renowned Composer Ramin Djawadi and together in a Live Nation / HBO partnership brought the world of Westeros to life and launched the “Game of Thrones – Live Concert Experience.”
Routhier’s newest venture, Sooner Rae Creative, launched in 2019 and her work has continued with projects including Lighting Design for Coldplay’s Music Of the Spheres World Tour, Panic at the Disco’s Viva Las Vengeance Tour and Wang Feng’s Unfollow Tour. She has also created full show design for Evanescence, Vance Joy, Trivium, and The Lumineers and art direction for the band Ghost.
Sooner has not only made her mark in the entertainment industry, but she has also become a respected leader in her field and along with her colleagues helped pave the modern landscape of entertainment lighting, design, and production.
In 2020, the live entertainment industry came to a very abrupt halt due to the onslaught of the COVID 19 pandemic. Sooner teamed up with several industry peers to form EVEN – an organization that seeks to create a more diverse and inclusive live events industry through outreach, training, mentorship, networking and job placement.
More about Sooner:
https://soonerrae.com/
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