Here is a highlight collection of Brad Koerner’s future-envisioning presentations focused on the digital innovations in the built environment. Enjoy!

2026 – Immersive Digital Experiences X Retail Media Networks

A panel discussion concept that I initiated and moderated with Michael Schneider of Volvox Labs and Monika Lindquist of Vertiseit. The future of many retail and hospitality experiences will be the fusion of immersive digital experiences with retail media networks, and this panel explored why the two need each other to fully flourish.

2024 – The Luxury of Digital Walls

A presentation looking towards the future of creating immersive digital experiences for luxury residential and hospitality applications. I delivered this presentation at CEDIA in Denver, at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles and at the Ideaworks showroom in London. I recorded the London event with a group of interior designers (so enjoy it for the thought leadership, not my amateur video production skills).

2022 – Every Surface a Screen: Now What?

A keynote I delivered at Integrated Systems Europe during the Smart Buildings Conference, intended to help the audience broaden their perceptions of architectural-scale digital displays from mere “digital signage” to more thoughtful implementation of immersive digital experiences.

2022 – Specifying a Brighter Future

A keynote on sustainable product design I presented at the IALD Enlighten Conference in Palm Springs. The presentation was incredibly well received but unfortunately not recorded, so I laid my voiceover over the slide deck.

2020 – Six Disruptive Trends in Lighting

I was originally asked to write a piece looking at architectural lighting trends for the next decade as part of the IESNA Visionary Challenge, Beyond 2030 project. I wrote “Six Trends…” and shared it as a in-depth podcast episode for the smart building media site Memoori.

2020 – The DC Powered Building

For half a year, I worked with a founder focused on DC-power systems for retail applications. He unfortunately ran out of funding, but I took the knowledge I learned and delivered this keynote address to the Smart Buildings Conference at Integrated Systems Europe. This presentation in particular has been very popular in the very niche world of DC-power startups, a sort of “call to arms” for transforming basic building infrastructure.

2019 – Revelations and Resonance

This was a side project I did as a competition entry, summarizing and exploring my long-running interest in ambient communications for immersive digital experiences.

2016 – Luminous Patterns

Luminous Patterns was a corporate venture I conceived, pitched, developed and led for 4 years at Philips Lighting. This video was an early internal marketing piece we made, using only a few product prototypes we had built so far at that point.

2015 – Embedded Lighting

Further supporting my Luminous Patterns corporate venture, I pitched the concept of “embedded lighting” and how that will become a huge new category fusing lighting into architectural finish systems. I pitched the same story countless times internally within the company, at conferences and tradeshows, and for various media pieces. This was one of the few recordings I made of the early presentation, during a day of hosting local Dutch designers.