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Sarah Morgan on the TechVancouver stage

Sarah Morgan

Founder & CEO, Nano-Lit Technologies

HardwareVancouverOn TechVancouver stages since 2018

Sarah Morgan founded Nano-Lit Technologies, which retrofits existing light fixtures with quantum-dot film so office and care-home lighting shifts colour temperature across the day the way daylight does. An industrial designer who came out of the fashion industry, she has run companies in New York, Glasgow, Amsterdam and Vancouver.

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First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Sarah

In their words

success is not a course well set, it's withstanding enough failure to then succeed

TechVancouver, Apr 2018 · watch at 03:19

coming out with something too early is just as bad as coming out with something too late, but if you're paddling when the wave comes then you're going to be ok

TechVancouver, Apr 2018 · watch at 13:22
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Quick answers

What is Sarah Morgan known for?

Founding Nano-Lit Technologies, the Vancouver company that uses quantum dots to make LED lighting track the sun's colour across the day, retrofitted into fixtures that already exist.

What was her TechTO talk about?

Resilience, at TechVancouver in April 2018. She worked through the ten traits Time attributes to resilient people and said plainly which ones she had failed at, including hiring, firing and keeping up physical fitness.

What does Nano-Lit's product do?

It replaces the diffuser in an existing LED fixture with quantum-dot film, so the same housing can shift colour temperature through the day to support a healthy circadian rhythm.

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