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ILDA Members can vote from June 5 through June 20 for two ILDA Award categories. We are sending out emails to ILDA Members with a link to the voting website.
The deadline for Members to click on the "Vote" button in their email, and to cast their vote, is 11:59 pm UTC on Tuesday June 20.
Click the links below for more information on the entries/nominees and on the voting process.
For the 2023 ILDA Laser Photography Award voting, there are 25 entries. Members can choose their favorites. The top three vote-getters will receive First, Second and Third Place.
A voting link for the Laser Photography ballot is emailed to all current 2023 Members in our database. This incudes Hobbyist and Student Members, and any Corporate Members' employees in the database.
2022 First Place, Laser Photography: ”Tesla Coil" by LOBO
For the 2023 ILDA Career Achievement Award voting, there are five nominees. Members can choose their favorite and vote that person for CAA.
Tim Walsh receives the 2014 ILDA Career Achievement Award from 2012 CAA recipient Tom Harman. A list of all past CAA recipients is here.
In 2017, ILDA honored Ivan Dryer by declaring his birthday, March 7, to be “International Laserist Day.” He was sent this plaque, to let him know how much he means to ILDA and laserists in general.
Ivan had been very ill at the time. His brother, David Dryer, presented it to him and told ILDA “Ivan had a big smile on his face when I showed him the plaque. That's the first smile in about a year!”
You can now register for the 2023 ILDA Beach Conference, Sept. 17-20 in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. The lowest Conference registration rate is valid through June 30, so register early!
Full details including a schedule and registration information is on the Conference page.
This page also lists the three types of hotel rooms available, and information on how to reserve your room. Remember to do so by August 16. After that date the hotel can release ILDA's rooms. This means either you might not get a room, or if you do, it will be more expensive than the ILDA Conference room rate.
In March 2023, the entertainment technology publication Mondo-DR published interview articles with five female members of ILDA:
LSO AND LASER OPERATOR COURSES JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2023
We have set up ILDA Laser Safety Officer (LSO) and Laser Operator courses for the following dates. Note that the full LSO course is nine hours long; the lower-cost Laser Operator course is the first 5 hours of the LSO course.
• Monday, June 12, 2023 10 am - 7 pm Eastern. IN PERSON at Robe Lighting in Davie, Florida (north of Miami). Cost for this course is higher than for online classes.
• Monday/Tuesday, June 19/20, 2023 online/Zoom. Full LSO course: June 19 5 pm - June 20 2 am Eastern. Laser Operator portion: June 19 5 pm - 10 pm Eastern.
• Friday, July 14, 2023 online/Zoom. Full LSO course: 1 pm - 10 pm Eastern. Laser Operator portion: 1 pm - 6 pm.
• Monday, August 14, 2023 online/Zoom. Full LSO course: 7 am - 4 pm Eastern; this is 1 pm - 10 pm Central European time. Laser Operator portion: 7 am - noon Eastern; this is 1 pm - 6 pm Central European time.
• (On Sunday Sept. 17 and Wed Sept. 19 there will be in-person laser safety classes at the ILDA Conference in North Carolina. See below for details.)
The date and time of an online LSO class can be changed if no one has yet signed up for a class. For example, if you are in a time zone far from US Eastern, we can change the hours so it fits your schedule. If you are interested in an online class but need a date or time change, contact ILDA. Once at least one person signs up, then the date and time will no longer be changed.
COST AND HOW TO SIGN UP
Detailed information on these courses is on the ILDA laser safety courses webpage.
The cost for an online/Zoom LSO course is $525 per person for ILDA Members, or $649 for non-members. This may be higher for in-person courses due to having to rent room space, travel, and other expenses.
The cost for an online/Zoom Laser Operator course is $295 per person for ILDA Members, or $495 for non-members. This may be higher for in-person courses.
To sign up for any course, visit our membership & event website's Events page.
ILDA is developing a standard for laser shows that the association would generally recognize as safe. The "Category A Laser Show Standard" includes requirements for simplified, lower-power shows with terminated beams.
The standard is currently being drafted. It is not yet approved or adopted. ILDA welcomes comments and suggestions. These are invited from anyone — Members, non-Members, regulators, safety experts, etc.
The draft document, plus a summary of the proposed requirements and discussion of what the Standard hopes to eventually accomplish, are on the Category A Laser Show Standard page.
The 2022 ILDA Conference in London has concluded. Above is a photo of Conference attendees on a November 5 tour of Hever Castle, home of Anne Boleyn.
Photo courtesy Nick Squire. Click on photo for larger version. (Depending on your browser, once the photo has loaded to the browser width, you may be able to click on the photo to see it even larger, at full 100% size.)
The 2022 ILDA Award winners were announced November 5, 2022, during the ILDA Conference in London (Dartford) UK, hosted by ER Productions. Here are the categories in which the entries competed:
Congratulations to all winners. A detailed list of all the award winners is at the 2022 Awards page.
A PDF booklet containing all the 2022 ILDA Award winners is now online. It contains a list of all the winners along with a description of each winning entry.
Videos of the First, Second and Third Place entries are available on YouTube. Links are below, in the list of winners. You can also go to the ILDA YouTube playlists for all Award-winning videos or for just the First Place winning videos.
If you want to get a quick overview of all of the winners, below is a video compilation of the 2022 Award winners. This 36-minute video contains short 15- to 60-second excerpts from the Award-winning entries.
To see videos from earlier years, back to 2015, click the gray bar below.
These are the ILDA Award compilation videos from 2015 to 2021. Each one is about 20-45 minutes long, and has the best shows from those years.
2021 ILDA Awards compilation
If you want to see the full-length 2021 winners as they were entered — up to 4 minutes maximum — you can go to the 2021 ILDA Awards playlist for all video winners (First, Second and Third Place), or just the playlist for only the First Place winners.
2020 ILDA Awards compilation
If you want to see the full-length 2020 winners as they were entered — up to 4 minutes maximum — you can go to the 2020 ILDA Awards playlist for all video winners (First, Second and Third Place), or just the playlist for only the First Place winners.
2019 ILDA Awards compilation
If you want to see the full-length 2019 winners as they were entered — up to 4 minutes maximum — you can go to the 2019 ILDA Awards playlist for all video winners (First, Second and Third Place), or just the playlist for only the First Place winners.
2018 ILDA Awards compilation
If you want to see the full-length 2018 winners as they were entered — up to 4 minutes maximum — you can go to the 2018 ILDA Awards playlist for all video winners (First, Second and Third Place), or just the playlist for only the First Place winners.
2017 ILDA Awards compilation
If you want to see the full-length 2017 winners as they were entered — up to 4 minutes maximum — you can go to the 2017 ILDA Awards playlist for all video winners (First, Second and Third Place), or just the playlist for only the First Place winners.
2016 ILDA Awards compilation
If you want to see the full-length 2016 winners as they were entered — up to 4 minutes maximum — you can go to the 2016 ILDA Awards playlist for all video winners (First, Second and Third Place).
ILDA Members receive a 10% discount on laser shows sold by Lasershow.biz. This is a platform for award-winning laser show designers around the world, to present and sell their work. Many of the shows themselves have won awards from ILDA and other groups.
When you register for an account at the website, click the ILDA Membership box if you are a Member. Later, when you go to purchase, Lasershow.biz will check your name against ILDA's online list of members and you'll get the 10% discount.
ILDA has now joined with the LIG Insurance Group to bring health care policies to our U.S. Members. This is an Association Health Program where LIG finds policies that meet your particular health care needs and desires (including extras such as dental and vision).
If you like your current health care insurance, that’s fine. But if you’d like to hear about alternatives that may save money and/or give increased coverage, you can now call 888-869-7142 or check out the the LIG ILDA Health Coverage page.
Sorry, the healthcare benefit is U.S. only because of U.S. laws. On the other hand, many of our ILDA-Member countries have health care systems with coverage that may be more comprehensive and/or more affordable than the U.S. employer-based system. And if any non-U.S. Members have information about similar association insurance programs in their countries, we would be glad to get details.
ILDA Members attending the 2018 Conference in Montréal
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