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2010 ILDA Career Achievement
Award recipient:
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Lothar Bopp founded and leads one of the major players in the laser show industry. It is a company which is active in more than 65 countries and which is called by independent market analysts, like the economic scientist Prof. Dr. Hermann Simon, the market leader in its industry. With over 100 ILDA Awards his company leads the all-time ranking list of the industry’s most important award. No other company ever received more ILDA Awards than his team. With the first two letters of his first name and his last name, he formed the name of the company: LOBO. With his name he stands worldwide for excellence in both, high-end laser show equipment and show production services, be it for permanent installations or for shows on a rental basis. LOBO is one of the industry’s driving forces, an innovation motor, a creative think tank as well as origin and model for many other companies which entered the market much later. Lothar Bopp opened many new markets for the whole industry and lifted the appeal of lasers among entertainment professionals on a new level. LOBO has an astonishing
fan base, not just among laser freaks but also among competitors. Even
one of Lothar Bopp’s toughest competitors, Rüdiger Müller, founder of
tarm had nothing but praise for LOBO company: "I know the market unlike
hardly any other. In my opinion, no other company is fit to hold a
candle to LOBO in the area of show laser technology." No doubt; without
Lothar Bopp’s uncompromising commitment to technical perfection and
unconventional approaches, the laser industry would be different today. Acceptance speech
My dear friends from ILDA: I deeply regret that I cannot be with you on this impressive ship this year. Actually I went through dramatic moments over the last weeks and I also had some serious surgery, which does not allow any kind of air travel for some weeks now. Fortunately the docs did a really good job and I am very happy to tell you that it will be just a matter of a few weeks until I will also able to travel and work as ever before. When staying in hospital for several weeks, you look back on your life from more distance. And I am really glad and grateful to tell that obviously not many things went wrong. Receiving the Career Achievement Award as ILDA’s highest honor is something very special in this situation. Probably there could not have been any better moment in my life to receive such an important Award. On the occasion of receiving this Award I want to thank you and those who supported me throughout my whole life: At all times I had the chance to have fantastic people around me: Be it my wife and my family, be it our employees working with extreme passion on every job or be it our clients, many of them supporting us for many decades now. Most of you might know our shows from the ILDA Awards or trade shows. Over and over again our designers have proven that lasers are more than flickering line art and flashy beams in the air, but a powerful means evoking emotions and creating dreams of light - unlike any other medium. With their help we opened markets for all of us in the industry, which frowned upon lasers in the beginning. But surprisingly not many of you know that doing shows is just a rather small fraction of our business. Primarily we still are manufacturer of laser systems and at least we always try to provide an extraordinary value for the money of our clients. I am not sure if there is a second laser company in the world, developing and manufacturing such an extraordinary wide range of products for laser display purposes. Some innovations, each of us takes for granted today, originated from the LOBO labs many years ago. Some of you know that we have been the first to provide an off-the-shelf solution for mutli-color laser shows or multi-processor realtime control systems. But only few will know, how LOBO innovations continuously inspired and penetrated the industry. Be it just such simple things to display multiple graphics simultaneously with just one scanner,… …or to have something some people call today "projection zones"… ….or to be able to target effect mirrors by means of scanners instead of opto-mechanics. This year was probably one of the most innovative years ever in the 28 years of our existence. No LOBO product ever before received so many important Awards of most different kinds than the new sparks laser projector family. With the optical system of this product, we could show that the actual brightness of a laser projector not primarily depends on its output power rather than on its beam characteristics. That’s the reason why even the smallest sparks laser can be significantly brighter than all those projectors stacking more and more lasers just to get out more light. More brightness at lower investment is one of the many deciding secrets behind this innovation. Honestly it was a hard job, convincing people that not output power but brightness makes the difference. But today we are very proud that this new approach even succeeded in markets, we have not been so present before, such as for example Japan or even Iran. And who knows, perhaps one of you will be the first to take this product over the big pond... The development of products like these is one of many possible answers of how to shape the future of our radically changing industry. I am also glad to see that with the “ILDA Professional Program”, the industry's leading trade association shows, that most of us believe that excellence and professionalism will be the only key which leads us into a promising future, ensuring the revenue, all of us need to continue to fascinate millions of spectators with our magical light. I am extraordinarily proud to receive this ‘Award of the Awards’ today. I hope you will have a fantastic time onboard and already today I am looking forward to welcoming you at LOBO in 2013.
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