Thursday, August 28, 2025
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET
What’s this webinar about?
As urban populations increase due to the influx of people seeking educational opportunities, job prospects, and higher living standards, city planners and operators are increasingly turning to new technologies to make their cities smarter and more livable.
Since lighting is critical infrastructure that impacts every part of urban life, upgrading a city’s lights to connected LED is one of the smartest investments you can make. It can also help a city make progress toward achieving its wider objectives in terms of economy, sustainability, and equity.
Join us to discover how easily you can deploy a smart street lighting system and start enjoying the benefits, including increased safety, nicer public spaces, and greater civic pride.
Learning objectives:
Som Shekar
Global Product Manager,
Signify
Yong Liang is the City Segment Manager in the Public Segment Team at Signify Professional Business, overseeing global propositions for Cities, Road & Street Systems & Services. He directs the strategy, portfolio, and roadmap for Smart City initiatives, supported by a team of product managers, developers, and system experts located across Europe, India, China, and the Americas. With 24 years in the lighting industry, he is now in his 15th year at Signify, having held various roles in sales, product management, business development, and business management.
Yong Liang began at Signify in business development for road & street lighting controls, later expanding to product management for outdoor products such as sports, flood, urban, and façade lighting, and eventually becoming the Global Segment Manager. Before joining Signify, he was the general manager of a Danish company specializing in smart metering and streetlight control systems for Asia Pacific, and he spent 8 years at General Electric Lighting as regional sales and product manager for all lighting products.
Som Shekar (Som) serves as the Global Product Manager for the Public Segment Team at Signify Professional Business. In this role, he oversees the Cities, Road & Street Systems & Services portfolio. Som has been instrumental in the successful introduction of connected streetlight systems to the market and has managed multiple product portfolios with long-term roadmaps. He has also handled platform and lifecycle management in a challenging environment that is transitioning from a product-centric to a system-centric business model. With two decades of experience in the software industry.
Som has spent the last 11 years at Signify, where he has held various roles in research and development as well as product management. He initially joined Signify as part of the Mobile Excellence Team for Office and Industry before moving into product management for outdoor products such as Interact City RF Mesh. Prior to his tenure at Signify, Som served as the Project Validation Lead in the Nokia Mobile Phones Division in India.
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