Headline Sponsor                 Media Partner

Showlight Sponsors

Showlight would not be possible without the generosity of our sponsors.
We would like to thank and welcome Robert Juliat as our Headline Sponsor for Showlight 2025. 

Headline Sponsor
Robert Juliat

Founded in 1919, Robert Juliat is a three generation, independent, 100% family-run French company, and the oldest existing manufacturer of high-quality lighting equipment for theatres, opera houses, events, TV and architectural applications. RJ is internationally recognised for outstanding quality, superb optics, ergonomic perfection, and mechanical excellence in all its stage lighting, with many award-winning products to its name, including several followspots, the Dalis 860 LED cyclorama fixture, and SpotMe, the bespoke 3D position tracking for followspots.

Throughout its long history of breakthrough products, RJ has always designed not just for lighting designers, but also for the technicians who work with its luminaires, and brings its passion for lighting to creating the finest lanterns in the world. Robert Juliat luminaires are designed and made in France.
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Diamond Sponsor
Ayrton

Ayrton is all about innovation, technology and industrial design.
Based south of Paris, France, Ayrton specialises in developing industry-leading intelligent LED and laser lighting solutions that give designers, specifiers and rental houses a real alternative to metal halide. 
Ayrton’s R&D department boasts some of the finest experts in mechanical, electronic, optical and software engineering, who translate new technology and avant-garde development concepts into unique and original products which have garnered many awards.
Recent introductions include a full range of profile and wash luminaires for every application and size of venue, including Cobra, Rivale, Kyalami and Nando 502 in addition to industry stalwarts Domino, Huracán, Perseo, Diablo, Zonda 9 and more
Ayrton leads the way in increasing efficiency, lowering power consumption and reducing waste without compromising the lighting artist’s vision.

Platinum Sponsor
Chauvet Professional

Headquartered in South Florida with offices and operations across the US and subsidiaries in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, and Mexico, CHAUVET Professional offers innovative professional lighting fixtures for the production and touring market as well as permanent installation in theatres, hospitality venues, houses of worship, cruise ships, clubs, broadcast and architainment applications.
Launched in 2010, CHAUVET Professional's commitment to continuous improvement has driven their success in the industry and established the company as a forward-looking choice for Lighting Designers, offering a carefully focused selection of products that open new design possibilities by overcoming technical, budgetary, and creative challenges.
From the Ovation Rêve family that offers the brightest multi-colour and full-spectrum white theatrical fixtures, to the Maverick Storm range of IP65-rated moving heads built to dominate the largest arenas, COLORado PXL battens that can be found on the largest tours, and STRIKE blinders and strobes that light up audiences around the world, CHAUVET Professional engineers passion for lighting into every product.

Platinum Sponsor
Claypaky

Claypaky is a worldwide reference brand in the professional lighting industry. Claypaky lights are used in top productions in the theatre, television, live events, the fashion world, fairs and exhibitions.

Platinum Sponsor
Elation Professional

At Elation, we represent the elite in the lighting industry. We design and manufacture a comprehensive range of best-in-class entertainment lighting products valued by production/rental houses and lighting designers the world over. Our dedication to extraordinary quality and creative solutions has established us as a go-to choice for professionals. With a storied legacy that extends over three decades, our influence spans across iconic stages and cutting-edge venues around the globe.
Elation is about people and has always been a customer-focused company. We work hard to not only listen but also act on and respond to market demands and customer needs. This vision to bring innovative yet practical solutions to the entertainment market based on clients’ needs and requirements has helped to develop our reputation as a receptive and responsive manufacturer.
Based in California with European offices in The Netherlands and facilities in Florida and Mexico City, Elation maintains distribution via a worldwide dealer network. We also offer an advanced line of lighting control products through Obsidian Control Systems, as well as a full range of dependable specialty effects called Magmatic. 
www.elationlighting.com
www.elationlighting.eu

Platinum Sponsor
ETC

ETC is a global leader in the manufacture of lighting fixtures, controls, and rigging systems for entertainment, architectural, and commercial spaces. Founded in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1975, ETC began with the passionate belief that there was a better way to make a lighting control console. A small group of university students challenged themselves by creating a microprocessor-based console that out-performed other boards on the market at the time. That entrepreneurial spirit grew into an award-winning business that now employs over 1200 people in offices around the world. Since its beginning, ETC has earned an industry reputation for unmatched technical and customer service. The company’s renowned service department offers 24-hour phone support every day of the year. ETC counts thousands of customers worldwide including theaters, restaurants, schools, performing arts centers, television studios, houses of worship, casinos, museums, hotels, theme parks, sporting arenas, cruise ships, and opera houses. In 2023, ETC expanded its employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) giving 100% of the company to its employees. This solidifies ETC’s future as a privately owned company. To learn more about ETC and our history of innovation, visit our website. www.etcconnect.com

Platinum Sponsor
MA Lighting

MA Lighting International as master distributor is responsible for worldwide sales, support and marketing of the professional lighting control solutions of MA Lighting Technology. The current product range offers the grandMA3 series including system and network solutions. In the past MA has become well known for its MA Network Switch, the grandMA2, grandMA and dot2 series.
Today, MA Lighting is respected for its technical knowledge and has achieved a unique international reputation for its operational philosophy. The company offers several decades of experience and strictly follows a professional user-centric approach, getting as close as possible to the market via its own international offices and support centers in the UK, North America, Latin America, the Middle East/India, Asia Pacific and Scandinavia/Eastern Europe/Russia – supported by a world-wide distribution and service network.

Platinum Sponsor
Robe

Global manufacturer of professional lighting technology catering to concerts, theaters, TV studios, exhibitions, events, and architectural lighting solutions, with its headquarters located in Czech Republic. 
Since its establishment in 1994, Robe Lighting has successfully positioned itself as a world leader in the development of lighting technology for professional applications. Today, the company boasts a diverse workforce of over 900 employees, primarily situated in manufacturing facilities in Valašské Mezirici and Karvina.
Robe's cutting-edge lighting products are distributed to more than 100 countries worldwide, leaving an indelible mark on the most significant cultural and sporting events. From powering renowned concert tours of globally acclaimed bands and artists to illuminating prestigious sports ceremonies and captivating TV shows and studios, as well as gracing iconic architectural wonders.
Unwavering stability and excellence are synonymous with the Robe brand in the entertainment industry. Quality assurance is embedded throughout the manufacturing process, as a significant portion of the components is meticulously produced in-house, ensuring stringent quality control. 
Robe remains committed to pushing the boundaries of lighting innovation, thus cementing its position as a preeminent force in the global professional lighting industry. As the world continues to evolve, Robe will be at the forefront, illuminating creativity, experiences, and emotions, one beam of light at a time.

Platinum Sponsor
Starway

Based close to Paris, Starway is the French manufacturer of professional light equipment. Thanks to a skilled and experienced team, we offer intelligent solutions for the entertainment and architectural industry. Our mission is to provide service quality and reliable fixtures in accordance with our customers' needs and the demand of the market.

Palladium Sponsor
Cameo

Cameo is the lighting technology brand of the renowned Adam Hall Group, offering smart, high-quality, and reliable solutions for stage, entertainment, and architectural applications. Trusted by professionals in over 100 countries, our expanding product range includes everything from moving heads and static lights to outdoor solutions, lighting effects, and more. Engineered in Germany, Cameo products are designed to be user-friendly, giving lighting professionals more time to focus on creativity. Our community, whom we proudly call 'Lumen Beings,' share our passion for the transformative power of light. We believe that empowering creativity today will help shape a brighter future for all.

Palladium Sponsor
Face

FACE (Foundation for Audiovisual Commerce & Engineering) is a multi-brand AV distributor based in Belgium, serving Europe and beyond. We provide solutions for the Professional AV and MI market, creating audio-visual experiences for theme parks, corporate spaces, museums, theatres, and stages. 
FACE PRO serves system integrators, theatres, cultural centres, rental companies, resellers, broadcasters, and consultants. Representing over 20 industry-leading brands, we offer technical support, system engineering, product training, demos and more.
With more than 30 years of expertise, our team is ready to help bring your audio-visual projects to life.

Gold Sponsor
Avolites

Avolites (a Robe company) is a British high-performance technology developer and manufacturer of leading state-of-the-art visual canvas (lighting control) consoles, media servers, and networking products for the entertainment industry; all designed, developed and built in the UK. Synonymous with quality, reliability and technical innovation, Avolites' products are specifically designed to be as powerful yet intuitive as possible. The company's products have been instrumental in the success of some of the biggest events in history and continue to be used on some of the biggest tours, stages, festivals, corporate events and cutting edge installs around the world. www.avolites.com

Gold Sponsor
PRG

PRG is the world's leading technology provider within the entertainment and events industry. Our mission is to bring together the power of our people with our production and rental expertise to deliver unforgettable events. 
PRG has the largest inventory of production equipment for hire and offers a complete 360-degree range of services to clients within the live events industry. These include music touring and festivals, TV & Film, Theatre, Sports and E-sports and Corporate live events.  
Our clients rely on PRG's innovation, experience and in-depth expertise in video, lighting, rigging, staging, and automation to bring their creative visions to life.

Silver Sponsor
3LR Lighting

3LR Lighting Ltd is a specialist UK company representing leading international manufacturers of architectural lighting & control equipment. Our experts help to increase brand exposure into new market areas, drawing on a wealth of industry experience, and delivering all levels of service from demonstrations to providing full lighting and control specification. The company was formed with a driving passion of ‘lighting by emotion’ and is named after the third light receptor which is our emotional connection to light. We regularly work in theatres, concert halls, spheres, theme parks, museums, experiential experience and cruise ships.

Silver Sponsor
Ambersphere

At Ambersphere Solutions, we provide premium quality entertainment lighting products from our partners Astera, Ayrton, MA Lighting, and zactrack. We offer a range of services including sales, support, and training. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff are always on hand to assist, delivering exceptional service and expertise in every interaction. For more information visit our website.

Silver Sponsor
Christie Lites

Christie Lites provides an international network of locations with trained and motivated staff delivering lighting and rigging services with reliability, consistency, safety and efficiency.
We are successful at what we do by fostering and maintaining high level relationships within the lighting design community powered by a culture of teamwork, customer focus and accountability.

Silver Sponsor
Martin

Formed in Denmark in 1987 Martin Professional strive to be the obvious choice for the global professional entertainment and architectural lighting market. Since our founding our teams have constantly provided trendsetting solutions and design through technology and innovation and always guarantee trusted performance, quality and a great return on investment.
Peace-of-mind for our customers is the key to our design principles. 
With design teams in our “home” of Aarhus, Denmark and in China, and a dedicated manufacturing plant in Pecs, Hungary for the MAC range of products Martin continues under the Harman ownership go from strength to strength.

Silver Sponsor
Schnick-Schnack-Systems GmbH

Schnick-Schnack-Systems produces individual, ready-to-use lighting solutions consisting of premium quality LED modules and lights and controls for a wide range of tasks. The company is focused exclusively on professional users, in particular, television studios, architects, system integrators and event companies.
Quality is paramount at the Cologne-based production line which upholds the latest standards not only in the selection of components and constant quality control during the manufacturing process, but also the constant improvement and new development of the product range. Our hardware and software developers strive to make lighting technology consistently better in order to establish the company as a technology leader and fulfill orders efficiently and on time.

Silver Sponsor
Vari-Lite

Leveraging a rich legacy of innovation pioneering the entertainment industry’s most iconic lighting solutions, Vari-Lite offers an end-to-end portfolio of advanced, energy-efficient LED luminaires, data, architectural control, consoles, and power solutions that the world’s top lighting designers and consultants rely on to create unforgettable looks that amaze. This includes spectacular rock and roll shows, sporting events, moving dramatic performances, spiritual worship experiences, and memorable film and TV productions - at venues large and small. 
Originators of the first modern moving head fixture for entertainment, our products have earned three Grammy awards, numerous patents and industry awards, and the devotion and respect of designers around the world. Our advanced, reliable, and intuitive solutions enable lighting designers to realize their creative vision.

Silver Sponsor
zactrack

zactrack International is the master distributor responsible for worldwide sales and marketing of zactrack Lighting Technologies' professional tracking solutions. zactrack offers innovative automated tracking systems that can track people and moving objects with high accuracy. The technology can be used in theatres and on stages, at events and trade shows, in films and television.
The company has many years of experience and has implemented many high-profile international projects. Service and support are provided through a worldwide distribution network.

Media Partner
LSi

LSi is the most-read publication serving entertainment & presentation technology markets. Its wide-ranging coverage is read by industry professionals in 114 countries worldwide.
Familiar to thousands of entertainment technology professionals worldwide, LSi offers the best coverage of entertainment technology in all its forms, including theatre, live touring, clubs, themed venues, corporate events and presentations, as well as technical reviews of the products and in-depth profiles of the people and companies who make it all possible.

Supported by
PLASA

PLASA is the leading membership body for those who supply technologies and services to the event and entertainment industries. 
The association supports its members across business, skills and technical, and offers a range of training and certification pathways including the National Rigging Certificate (NRC). Each service is developed to ensure members can set the bar high for quality and safety across each sector. 
PLASA’s commercial divisions play a crucial role in supporting membership services: the market-leading LSi and LSA magazines cover the latest projects and products, while PLASA Show and PLASA Focus Leeds continue to be key dates in the global industry calendar. 

Want to get involved?
If you would like to be a Showlight sponsor, we would love to hear from you. 

For details of sponsorship opportunities for Showlight 2025 email sponsorship@showlight.org 
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