2023 GILE (Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition)
After undergoing large-scale structural adjustments and consolidation in the past few years, the lighting industry has ushered in a wave of transformation and upgrading. New growth points have emerged in the market, with smart lighting and Human centric lighting (HCL) becoming excellent breakthroughs for the industry. The rapid emergence of new lighting technologies, new scenario experiences, and cross-industry collaborations urgently requires more opportunities for display and market exposure.
GILE (Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition) is honored to have walked alongside the lighting industry, witnessing its vigorous rise, every upgrade and iteration of lighting technology, and the implementation and maturity of every concept. Seeking change amidst difficulties, the lighting industry has seen GILE follow its pace, actively preparing for each year's gathering with different themes, successfully providing a platform for brands to showcase and for business negotiations.
回首三载，我们与照明行业并肩前行，共话“当下之可为”、共创“未来之可期”、共担“新时代的担当”。在2023年，展会将夯实升级再出发，于6月9至12日在广州中国进出口商品交易会展馆A及B区举行，与业者共迎“光+未来”的崭新篇章。
"Light + Future" is the annual theme of GILE (Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition) 2023. The greatest challenge brought by the future is not the unknown, but whether we can think openly, dare to innovate continuously to formulate business plans, and find feasible paths to realize our imagination. The most imaginative aspect of "Light + Future" is the smart IoT, where the concepts of Internet of Everything, Metaverse, and new energy bring brand-new spatial visual immersive experiences to the lighting industry, and make luminous surfaces embedded with digital content more creative in design. The future of the lighting industry is full of imagination; practitioners actively break through from original innovation to application-oriented research, endowing light with more value and bringing a better "Light + Future". This new concept is like multiple equations, bringing infinite imagination to the industry:
· Light + Intelligence = Semiconductor Light Sources + Digital Capabilities (HCL + AI + IoT)
· Light + Healthy Environment = Visual Light + Psychological Light + Physiological Light
· Light + Biology = Biological Lighting
· Light + Art = Spatial Aesthetics + Lighting Installations
· Light + City = Cultural Tourism Night Economy + Urban and Rural Construction + People's Happiness + Physical and Mental Health
· Light + Sports = Intelligent Design + Gamified Scenarios
· Light + Energy = Energy saving + New Energy + Energy Storage + Clean Energy
Regarding the future of the industry, Mr. Hu Zhongshun, General Manager of Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co., Ltd., stated: "Companies will move forward through innovative applications, developing towards large-scale, extensive, and dense regional (Sales) channels, while also penetrating into small and beautiful niche segments. The future is always full of hope and change; practitioners may need to undergo changes in business models, intelligent transformation, and omni-channel integration. However, the unchanging core is the original passion for the industry, creating high-quality lighting products with love."
Optimize exhibition layout with six major themes — Explore new ideas for "Light + Future"
In 2023, GILE will join forces with the Guangzhou International Building Electrical Technology Exhibition (GEBT), occupying 18 exhibition halls at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, including Area A (Halls 1.1 to 5.1 and 1.2 to 5.2) and Area B (Halls 9.2 to 13.2 and 9.3 to 11.3). Area A will focus on cities, new energy, industry, light art, home and commercial applications, lighting production technology, packaging, optoelectronic technology, and related accessories; Area B will focus on the smart lighting supply chain, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), and diverse indoor scenarios and spatial design.
(Hall distribution map updated as of February 6, 2023)
Building on the 2022 exhibition, this year's GILE has further adjusted the hall layout, planning six major themes along the "Light + Future" development path: Smart New Era, Light Leading Future Life, Digital Space, Green Smart Livable Cities, Light Empowering Sports, and a "Zero Carbon" Future. Through more precise categorical layout, the exhibition will provide a comprehensive "Light + Future" communication platform for the industry, promoting efficient matching and business interactions between exhibitors and visitors.
Smart New Era – "Light + AIoT" Smart Health Low-Carbon Cross-Border Ecosystem Demonstration Hall Version 3.0 (Area B, Halls 9.2 to 11.2)
GILE has once again partnered with the Shanghai Pudong Smart Lighting Federation to organize the "Ecosystem Demonstration Hall Version 3.0", joining forces with GEBT. The exhibition area has increased to 30,000 square meters, spanning 3 halls (9.2 to 11.2), gathering over 150 brands. It extends from a one-stop display of interconnected and smart lighting ecosystems to the design and application end, including smart buildings and whole-home intelligence. Furthermore, the demonstration hall introduces the dual-carbon theme; intelligence is one of the paths to achieving dual carbon goals. From homes to businesses, from buildings to parks and then to cities, it can reduce overall energy consumption, carbon emissions, and operating costs, helping enterprises and cities achieve sustainable development. The demonstration hall will analyze how to enhance user experience while solving building energy efficiency from aspects such as energy supply, energy consumption, and operation management, thereby achieving a win-win situation for environmental protection and economic benefits. During the exhibition, the "Smart Ecosystem Exchange Conference" will be held, integrating "ecosystem + scenarios + technology + standards" into one display, complemented by forums and trade activities to promote exchange and cooperation within the ecosystem.
The "Light + AIoT" scenario brings new thinking to spatial design and applications. In 2023, GILE will transform Zone B into a Spatial Design and Application Area. In addition to the "Smart Healthy Low-Carbon Cross-Ecology Demonstration Pavilion" located in halls 9.2 to 11.2, the five major pavilions in Zone B (9.3, 10.3, 11.3, 12.2, and 13.2) will focus on showcasing light scenarios for residential and commercial spaces. A cross-disciplinary design and application conference will also be held concurrently to support the industry's cross-ecosystem development.
Light Leads Future Life – "Light + Biology" and "Light + Healthy Environment": Optoelectronic Technology and Biological Lighting
Pavilion (Zone A, Hall 2.1)
"Light + Healthy Environment": Optoelectronic Technology Pavilion
Light health is an important direction for the upgrade of the traditional lighting industry. The "Optoelectronic Technology Pavilion" focuses on showcasing core technologies and applications of light health, promoting Human centric lighting (HCL) and educational lighting solutions, including light rhythm, light code, light formula, light control, UV LED, visual displays based on rhythm factors, eye protection solutions, etc. During the exhibition, the " Health Innovation Technology Forum" will be held, featuring in-depth exchanges and discussions on topics such as "LED light sources and engineering applications of light health", "Healthy chip + intelligent core", and "How healthy light enters campuses". Themes include technology empowering a better life, light and human settlement health, innovative solutions for light health, research and standard discussions on healthy lighting based on visual function photobiological responses, high-efficacy full-spectrum solutions for healthy lighting, the impact of light on human rhythms and application research, how to create high-quality healthy light environments, and the rising trend and challenges of myopia among Chinese children and adolescents, deeply exploring key issues urgently needing resolution in the big health industry.
"Light + Biology": Biological Lighting Demonstration Pavilion
The "Biological Lighting Demonstration Pavilion Version 2.0" has expanded to 5,000 square meters, focusing on presenting the latest developments in biological lighting technology for agriculture. The upgraded zone aims to innovate and explore together with practitioners,助力 the establishment of agricultural big data, exploring the path for updating Chinese agricultural technology towards digitalization and intelligence. Through more cross-border technological cooperation, it improves the traceable food safety system to ensure the safety and value of agricultural products.
Digital Space – "Light + Art Aesthetics": Light Art Exhibition Version 3.0 (Hall A, Hall 4.1)
The Light Art Exhibition is jointly initiated by GILE and Guangzhou Aladdin IoT Network Technology Co., Ltd., inviting well-known design masters and luminaire brands in the industry to jointly create light art works with visual artistic value, cultural aesthetic value, and socio-economic value, so as to promote the innovative development of the light art industry and demonstrate the unique charm of light art design to the general public. "Light Art Exhibition Version 3.0" will take "Bathe in Light" as its theme, representing meeting while chasing light, walking bathed in light, and wherever the "eye" looks, there is hope. "Darkness has given us a pair of black eyes", let us seek light in the darkness, with greenery and light ahead. The Light Art Exhibition will join forces with designers, universities, and luminaire brands to jointly create light art, with exhibits covering art installations, lighting vignettes, digital art, visual art, and luminaire design. Each work embodies the love of lighting professionals, carefully designing colorful light and shadow to warm people's hearts. Light and shadow are an expression of the temperament of each city, and light art works can make the connection between the city and the public closer. At the same time, the "Light Art Exhibition Forum" will also be held, triggering audience reflection on the relationship between technological art and public space.
Green Smart Livable City – "Light + City" and "Light + Night Economy": Smart Streetlight and Cultural Tourism Night Tour Pavilion (Area A, Halls 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 and 5.2)
As the demand for urban smart development increases, smart poles and their underlying IoT technologies and intelligent control systems have become resource-rich infrastructure within cities, ushering in a construction boom. The Smart Streetlight Pavilion will join forces with numerous smart pole enterprises to present major exhibits, bringing the industry cutting-edge developments and innovation trends in the smart streetlight industry—such as intelligent dimming, efficient operation, "multi-pole integration, one pole for multiple uses," power supply provision, and serving as a key component of Internet of Vehicles systems. Concurrently, the "Smart Streetlight Ecosystem Exchange Conference" will be held to discuss the implementation of smart streetlight application scenarios.
In addition, China's night-time economy is driving the recovery of the landscape lighting industry. In 2023, GILE will collaborate with Guangzhou Aladdin IoT Network Technology Co., Ltd. to promote the "Cultural Tourism Night Tour Ecosystem Development Forum Version 3.0" and the "Cultural Tourism Night Tour Ecosystem Exhibition Hall", uniting seven major fields including owners, investors, content planning, scheme design, innovative products, engineering construction, and project operations. The event will showcase new business formats fostering cultural-tourism integration through high-end forums, promoting the formation of a new cultural-tourism lighting industry ecosystem and a digitalized new supply chain, giving birth to new business models for cultural-tourism development, improving the effective supply level of the cultural-tourism industry, and exploring new spaces for the development of the cultural-tourism industry.
Light Empowers Sports – "Light + Sports" (Zone A, Hall 5.2)
Guangdong Province, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Macao Special Administrative Region will host the 15th National Games in 2025, driving the integration of sports, industry, and culture in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In addition, the Guangdong Provincial Government has issued the "Guangdong Province National Fitness Implementation Plan (2021–2025)", making specific work deployments for building a higher-level public service system for national fitness. The sports industry will develop towards digitalization in the future, with new concepts such as digital technology gradually integrating into sports. For example, the lighting design of competition venues is particularly important for the stable performance of athletes, while also providing a better visual experience for spectators. In 2023, GILE will hold the "Sports Venue Lighting Black Tech Forum", exploring the future of digital integration in sports venues and the technological innovation and development of sports lighting.
"Zero Carbon" Future – "Light + New Energy": New Energy Pavilion (Zone A, Hall 5.2)
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China proposed the goal of achieving carbon neutrality before 2060, aiming to strengthen the safe, clean, low-carbon, and efficient transformation of the energy system. Fields such as photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, wind power, energy storage, prefabricated buildings, ultra-high voltage transmission, biodegradable plastics, and energy interconnection will become new drivers of socio-economic development. In 2023, GILE will create the " New Energy Pavilion" , incorporating displays of photovoltaics, wind power, energy storage, and charging piles, and complementing them with forum activities to explore the " Zero-Carbon" future from the perspectives of cities and buildings.
Mr. Hu added: "The future is already here; the sharp take the lead. GILE pursues not just companionship, but also joint practice with industry players to create opportunities. The 2023 exhibition will simultaneously launch nine light application circles (cities, buildings, home, hotels and commercial spaces, education, health and elderly care, aquaculture, cultural tourism and sports), creating an integrated exchange platform to jointly celebrate a better 'Light + Future'."