GILE (Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition) 2023 launches nine major circles, establishing a diversified application market

Under the theme "Light + Future", GILE (Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition) 2023 moves forward with the industry in hope, seizing opportunities, driving innovative development, and shaping trends. Facing new business and lifestyle models, many lighting companies have achieved positive results in technologies and applications laid out over many years, ready to share their fruits with various industries.

As a bellwether for the lighting industry, GILE provides a preferred platform for information exchange and procurement for the global lighting industry. The 28th edition will be held from June 9 to 12, 2023, in Areas A, B, and D of the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, gathering over 2,600 exhibitors. With six key focuses and nine major circle activities, it presents the "Light + Future" blueprint to the global lighting industry.

In 2023, the lighting industry welcomes a new atmosphere. While the industry scale continues to expand, it is also upgrading towards high-quality transformation. The B2B sector achieves integration, while the B2C sector moves towards personalization, injecting more cross-border fusion resources, as well as personalized luminaires and scene designs into the lighting industry. Looking to the future, GILE is committed to building an exchange platform for the industry, promoting sales and business cooperation, and providing cross-border exchange opportunities and forward-looking information for the industry, enabling practitioners to rethink how to stimulate innovation vitality, drive further iterative development, and further unleash the value and power of light.

Regarding the new trends in the industry, Mr. Hu Zhongshun, General Manager of Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co., Ltd., stated: "2023 is a starting point for the industry's 'renewal'. Major trends such as new infrastructure, the night-time economy, dual circulation, the stay-at-home economy, the post-pandemic era, carbon neutrality, and new energy bring more opportunities to the lighting industry. Facing these new opportunities, lighting professionals need to employ new thinking in product planning. Lighting is no longer just about functional illumination, but rather interconnected lighting systems and personalized scenarios and luminaires."

Opportunities and challenges always coexist. Consumers born in the 2000s and 1990s have become a very important main force, rapidly occupying the lighting market. They pursue technological aesthetics, immersive experiences, and independent self-expression, bringing new challenges to design. The industry needs to adopt new designs (experience scenario design), new technologies (optical communication Li-Fi, light imaging technology, light health technology, interconnected overall solutions, etc.), new marketing strategies (service and technical marketing), and new channels (online-offline integration) to cater to new consumption patterns. I believe that lighting professionals will embark on a more exciting new track in the future."

Establishing the "Light + Future" All-Platform – Concurrent Events Launch Nine Light Application Circles to Help the Industry Find Business Opportunities

In 2023, GILE will jointly establish the "Light + Future" all-platform with Guangzhou Aladdin IoT Network Technology Co., Ltd. The event will link nine light application circles to promote industry exchange and cooperation, including:

City: Smart streetlight and urban construction circle

This circle covers municipal management, engineering construction, engineering design, urban road lighting management departments, urban road lighting solution providers, landscape lighting solution providers, and other fields.

Discussion hotspot: Future cities

• Building ecological cities – Three-life spaces (ecological, production, and living spaces)

• Low-carbon pilot cities – Using low-carbon industry to boost high-quality economic development

• Building smart cities – Achieving "dual carbon" goals through urban digital transformation

Concurrent events to be held in Halls 10.2 and 19.1 include:

• Multi-party dialogue on urban development circles

• Light + Energy “Carbon” Quest for the Future: Dual Carbon-Driven New Energy Lighting Innovation Conference

• Forum on the Development of New Smart City Lighting under the “Dual Carbon” Strategy

• Forum on Innovative Development of Smart Cities and Street Light Industry

Architecture: Low-Carbon Healthy Building Ecosystem

This ecosystem covers urban planning, urban management, developers, architects, engineers, construction companies, interior design, lighting design, solution providers, and other fields.

Hot Topic: Future Architecture

• Healthy Living – Digital transformation brings immense imaginative space to architecture. Today, it includes not only energy saving, water conservation, and material efficiency, but also the concept of health. The concept of architecture has become broader, more inclusive, and more resilient.

• Digital Architecture – Innovative digital technologies merge with the traditional construction industry, forming a new ecosystem of digital architecture platforms.

• Positive Energy Buildings – In the future, buildings will evolve from low-energy buildings to zero-carbon buildings, negative-carbon buildings, and positive energy buildings.

Concurrent events held in Hall 10.2 include:

• Illuminating the Future, Building Healthy Living Spaces Together

Home: Multi-dimensional Home Living Circles

该圈层涵盖家装圈、智能照明圈、设计圈等领域。

Hot Topics: The Future of Home Living

• A New Era of Intelligence – The New Wave from "Fully Furnished" to "Smart Furnished"

• The "Home" Economy Era – The Home Industry Embraces a "Quality-Oriented" Transformation

• The "Metaverse" Craze – Imagining the "Future Metaverse Home" of Human Living Spaces

Concurrent events to be held in Halls 9.2, 10.2 and 10.3 include:

• Future Smart Home · Residential Design Trends Forum

• Mainless Lighting and Innovative Design Development Forum

• 2023 Smart Home Digital Intelligence Marketing Innovation Conference

• Large Residence Design — New Thinking, New Materials, New Technology Outlook

• 2023 Greater Bay Area Human Habitat Space Innovation Technology Forum

• Light + Multi-dimensional Home Living Forum

Health & Wellness: Yi’an Health and Wellness Industry Circle

This circle covers health and wellness real estate, associations of elderly care service industries, elderly care institutions, medical and health services, project developers, lighting environment design experts, architectural designers, solution providers, and other fields.

Hot topics: The future of health and wellness

• Health and wellness services — How to design “age-friendly” spatial lighting environments?

• Technology empowers the health and wellness market: Is age-friendly lighting poised for great potential?

Parallel events to be held in Hall 9.2 during the exhibition include:

• [Collaboration · Symbiosis · New Opportunities] 2023 Smart Health and Age-Friendly Lighting Forum

Commercial Spaces: Spatial Design Community

This community covers real estate developers, hotels, retail, catering, land planners, architects, interior designers, lighting designers, spatial designers, and other fields.

Hot Topics: The Future of Commercial Spaces

• Retail & F&B, Hospitality + Cultural Tourism, Malls + Shopping Centers

• Urban Renewal, Urban (Transport TOD) Hubs

• Metaverse for Commercial Spaces – Creating New Value

• X+Accommodation Model – Hotels + Trendy Play, A New Soul for Accommodation Space IP

• IP Commercialization Trend – “No IP, No Business”

• Scenario-based Shopping – Commercial Space Design for Immersive Experiences

Concurrent events to be held in Halls 9.2 and 10.2 include:

• “Illuminating the Future, Unleashing Design” – 2023 Forum on Trends in Spatial Design and Lighting Art

• Forum on New Scenarios for Smart Lighting and Designer Development

• Inspiration and Debate: Is Design Art or Technology?

• “Language of Light Space — Commercial Lighting Design Forum”

Campus: Education Sector

This sector covers school owners, education systems, visual medicine, psychological medicine, spatial design, lighting design, digital education integration, smart campus integrators, lighting solution providers, and other fields.

Discussion Hotspot: Future Campus

• Future Education—Integration of Education, Space, and Curriculum

• Construction of Future Education Learning Spaces—High-dimensional, Open, and Integrated Learning Scenarios

• New Ecosystem for Smart Education—Coordination of Lighting Environment and Multimedia Digital Education

• Impact of Lighting Environment on Visual Health and Psychology of Children and Adolescents

Concurrent events to be held in Hall 10.3 include:

• 2023 Youth Learning Space Lighting Environment Forum

Aquaculture: Biological Lighting Sphere

This sphere covers plant science, aquaculture applications, industry supply chain import and export, lighting spectrum research, solution providers, and material and power supply solution providers.

Discussion Hotspot: Future of Aquaculture

• Photovoltaic Agriculture and Healthy Lighting – Modern “Agriculture” and New “Health”

• Agricultural Revolution – Smart Agriculture Changing the Future of Food

• Livestock Lighting and Aquaculture Lighting – Empowering Industry Growth and Efficiency

• Research on Plant Spectrum Formulas – Cultivation of Edible Vegetables, Medicinal Plants, Rare Varieties in Laboratories, etc.

Concurrent events to be held in Hall 2.1 include:

• 2023 International Forum on Bio-Optics and Smart Agriculture Industry

Cultural Tourism: Pan-Tourism Ecosystem

This ecosystem covers relevant government departments for urban tourism, culture, and publicity; tourism planning and research; tourism operators; scenic area and commercial real estate owners; directors; artists; lighting design; animation programming; cultural IPs; solution providers; and engineering contractors.

Hot Topic: Future of Cultural Tourism

• Construction and operation of digital cultural tourism projects — Cities at all levels, in response to the implementation of the national cultural digitization strategy, will promote the transformation and upgrading of existing sectors such as tourism performances, cultural heritage tourism, and immersive experiences, fostering new integrated business formats.

• Light expression of cultural IPs — In accordance with the deployment requirements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism, we must adhere to shaping tourism with culture and highlighting culture through tourism, making the excavation of cultural IPs the core driving point for launching cultural tourism projects.

• Metaverse virtual-real interaction—The interplay between the virtual and real in the metaverse, such as AR light shows in various regions, has become one of the important means for the metaverse to empower urban cultural tourism.

Concurrent events to be held in Hall 4.1 include:

• Forum on High-Quality Innovative Development of New Cultural Tourism Night Tours

Sports: Ecosystem for Sports Venue Space Design

This ecosystem covers relevant government departments for urban sports and culture, venue owners, sports real estate, architectural design institutes, lighting designers, directors, solution providers, contractors, and other fields.

Hot Topic: Future of Sports

• National Fitness – Construction of Embedded Sports Facilities

• Smart Sports Venues – Fusion of reality and virtuality, stunning audio-visual-light experiences, interactive technology experiences, and diversified interactive spaces combining sports, culture, and technology

• “Sports+” Complex – A comprehensive sports service complex integrating sports activities, shopping and entertainment, sports consumption, industry incubation, and health and wellness

• Opening and closing ceremony performances and venues for large-scale events, complemented by landscape and landmark architectural lighting effects

Concurrent events to be held in Hall 4.1 during the exhibition include:

• [Light + Sports]: 2023 China Smart Sports Venue Lighting Summit Forum

In addition to application-focused events, the 2023 exhibition will also host multiple niche events in lighting technology, design, and sales channels, including:

"Light + Intelligence" Niche – Held in Halls 9.2, 10.2, and 10.3

• Smart Lighting Cross-Industry Ecosystem Development Forum

• DALI Innovation and Development Forum

• Matter Development Forum

• PLC Smart Lighting Industry Development Forum

• Smart Lighting New Supply Chain Development Forum

• Smart Lighting Innovation and Development Forum

• 2023 Aladdin Magic Lamp Award · Digital Intelligence Achievement Ceremony and Future Development Forum for Whole-House Intelligence

Industry and Dealer Circle – Held in Halls 4.1, 10.2 and Conference Rooms in Area A

• 2023 [Light + Future] Circle and Corporate Launch Conference

• 2023 "Top 100 List" and "Top 100 Dealers" Nationwide Release

• 2023 Seminar on High-Quality Development of Lighting Manufacturers

• 2023 Aladdin Lamp Awards Ceremony and [Light + Future] Brand Innovation Conference

• Cross-Strait Contemporary Lighting Forum: [Dialogue between Contemporary Lighting Technology and Humanistic Life]

• The 10th China LED Pioneer Conference and Annual Meeting of the Semiconductor Lighting Technology and Application Professional Committee of the China Illuminating Engineering Society

Design Circle – Halls 10.2, 18.1 and Meeting Rooms in Area A

• “Light + Future” Design Circle Exchange Meeting

• Design Power — Discussing Multi-party Collaboration in Projects

• The 19th Asian Lighting Art Forum 2023

• East Meet West (The VLDC community)

Mr. Hu added, "At present, while facing challenges, new opportunities are also emerging. The industry needs to continue to utilize lighting actively, enhance the value of light, and explore broader 'frontiers.' I hope that every lighting professional can find a development direction suitable for them and create their own future."

GILE is held concurrently with Guangzhou International Building Electrical Technology Exhibition. The parent exhibition of both is "Light + Building — International Trade Fair for Lighting and Building Technology" in Frankfurt, Germany, which is held every two years. The next edition will take place from March 3 to 8, 2024.

In addition to the above exhibitions, Messe Frankfurt's building technology and lighting exhibition series in China also includes the Shanghai International Smart Building Exhibition and the Shanghai International Smart Home Exhibition. The company's building technology and lighting exhibition series also covers markets such as Thailand, Argentina, the UAE, and India.

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