Keynote speeches by industry leaders Wu Changjiang, Tang Guoqing, Lin Jiliang, and more! This AI Lighting Forum is packed with highlights.

On May 13, 2026, the 2026 Ningbo International Lighting Exhibition grandly opened at the Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center. As a flagship event integrating new product displays, business matchmaking, and trend discussions for the lighting industry, this exhibition gathered nearly 2,000 supply chain enterprises, focusing on core directions such as intelligence, health, green energy, and global expansion, comprehensively showcasing industry innovation achievements.

As a major concurrent event of the exhibition, the forum "Connecting Everything with Intelligence, Illuminating the Future – Innovation in Health Intelligence and Outdoor Lighting Driven by AI"was successfully held on May 13, marking a key node where the global lighting industry deeply integrates with AI and IoT, shifting from incremental competition to breakthroughs in existing markets, and advancing from functional lighting to healthy intelligent upgrades, thereby clarifying directions and injecting momentum for high-quality industry development.

This forum was jointly organized by the Zhejiang Lighting Electrical Association and the Ningbo Lighting Electrical Industry Association, undertaken by China Light Network Media and Shanghai Yisheng Exhibition Service Co., Ltd., co-organized by the Shanghai Lighting Electrical Industry Association, the Changzhou Lighting Electrical Association, and the Gaoyou Luminaire Association, and received strong support from Shenzhen Feiyetai Electronics Co., Ltd. Leaders from industry associations, experts from research institutes, representatives from testing and certification agencies, and elites from supply chain enterprises gathered together to engage in in-depth exchanges on topics such as AI empowerment, healthy light environments, outdoor lighting upgrades, alignment with international standards, product innovation, and business model transformation. The forum was hosted by Hong Bing, Editor-in-Chief of China Light Network Media.

Ling Yingming, Honorary Chairman of the Zhejiang Lighting Electrical Appliance Association, warmly welcomed the attendees in his address. He pointed out that the lighting industry is leaping from traditional functional lighting to intelligent health and life sciences, with AI and IoT technologies redefining the value of light. As a golden business card of manufacturing, Zhejiang's lighting industry boasts a complete supply chain and significant export advantages, standing at the forefront of technological change. The association will continue to promote technical exchange, joint standard research, market expansion, and industrial synergy, helping Zhejiang lighting lead the global race.

Zhu Guozhen, President of the Ningbo Lighting Electrical Appliance Industry Association, stated in his address that the holding of this forum helps promote the comprehensive upgrade of lighting from "illuminating space" to "serving people." She indicated that Ningbo lighting, relying on the innovation vitality of SMEs and advantages in outdoor lighting industry, is seizing opportunities in AI and green lighting. The industry association will actively promote cross-border cooperation, guiding the industry to take intelligence as wings, health as the core, and green as the foundation, jointly illuminating a better future.

Tang Guoqing, Vice Chairman of the China Illuminating Engineering Society and Executive General Manager of MLS Co., Ltd., kicked off the feast of ideas with the topic "2026, Ten New Stories of LED." He believes that full spectrum and healthy lighting will become the core direction of industry development, and the lighting industry is moving towards a new stage of "on-demand customization, health first." He also introduced the scientific advantages of "phosphor-free lighting" in visual comfort and color perception. He pointed out that the lighting industry needs to base itself on independent technological innovation, break through core material and patent barriers, and advocate for Chinese lighting to establish cultural confidence, build a new quality lighting theoretical system, and promote the transformation of the industry towards high-end and green development with new quality productive forces.

Wu Changjiang, founder of NVC / NVC Lighting, brought profound reflections to entrepreneurs facing the dilemma of "involution" in his sharing session titled "New Possibilities for China's Lighting Industry." With his deep industry insights, he bluntly stated that the core of current industry involution stems from factors such as the market shifting from incremental to stock, mature LED technology extending replacement cycles, and severe overcapacity in the industry. Facing this situation, he pointed out that companies' difficulty in scaling up is "not because there are no opportunities in the industry, but because their own operational thinking needs to break through." To this end, he proposed a dual breakthrough path of "product" and "model." For example, regarding products, he urged companies to open their minds to "big health," actively exploring blue ocean markets such as "beauty phototherapy," "sleep-aid lighting," and auxiliary treatment lighting for chronic diseases. Regarding models, addressing the pain points of scattered resources and weak competitiveness among SMEs, he proposed abandoning the idea of fighting alone, integrating high-quality enterprises in niche fields, and jointly building an industrial ecosystem platform with "ecosystem co-construction and professional division of labor." He finally won resonance from the audience with the call, "Rather than each lighting a lamp in the dark, it is better to illuminate the night together."

Dr. Yao Hua, founder of Ziguan Technology, proposed the core concept of "Three No's and Three Yes's" for healthy light, establishing the bottom line of photobiological safety with "no harm, no irritation, no interference," covering full-dimensional risk prevention and control such as blue light, glare, and flicker, and creating a situational ecological light environment with "direction, rhythm, and temperature," combining AI perception and automatic adjustment technology to adapt the light environment to the human flow state, promoting the industrialization of healthy lighting from concept to practice, and also sharing practical implementations of smart scene lighting. She proposed that AI and humans should collaborate and divide labor in smart scene lighting, with AI ensuring the precision and reliability of standardized execution, while humans focus on endowing the light environment with irreplaceable emotion and meaning.

Lin Jiliang, founder of the Light Formula Research Institute, systematically expounded on the core logic of lighting extending from visual effects to non-visual physiological impacts in his speech "Between Visual and Non-Visual: How Lighting Truly Returns to 'Human-Centric'". He emphasized the necessity of establishing measurable and verifiable light dose models and adopting next-generation optical metrics such as Melanopic Equivalent Daylight Illuminance (EDI) to guide design. He called on the industry to abandon single-parameter marketing, shifting focus from "luminaire parameters" to delivering "spatial outcomes," truly understanding the relationship between people, space, time, and activities, thereby achieving an essential return to the value of lighting.

Ding Qinhua, former Second-Level Inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Greening and City Appearance, combined years of management experience to deeply analyze the challenges and opportunities in the lighting industry against the backdrop of urban renewal. He pointed out that the "bundled" implementation of projects and changes in capital recovery cycles are practical challenges currently faced by enterprises, while areas such as building the night economy, complete community construction, and age-friendly renovations contain opportunities in niche markets. He urged promoting lighting from engineering support to a core carrier for improving urban livelihoods, ecological restoration, and cultural heritage. He suggested that enterprises strengthen risk control and fund management, cultivate niche markets, seize the trillion-level market opportunities of urban renewal with full-cycle service capabilities, and transform from product sellers to "EPC+O" comprehensive service providers to cope with changes.

Dr. Huang Feng, Chairman of the DALI Alliance China Focus Group and the Zhaga Consortium China Group, shared the two major standard systems of DALI and Zhaga under the theme "Embracing International Standards, Connecting Global Markets". The DALI Alliance has completely solved the interoperability problem of smart lighting devices by formulating unified international standardization protocols, while the Zhaga standard fully aligns with IEC international standards, creating sustainable circular lighting through modular and replaceable designs. He also demonstrated the widespread global application of DALI and Zhaga standards with detailed data, citing Chinese project cases such as the Bosch R&D base in Suzhou that won DALI awards, empirically proving that adopting open and unified international standards is the only way for products to win high-end markets and realize interoperability value, providing a clear technical roadmap for enterprises going global.

Li Yiping, Deputy General Manager of Shenzhen Feiyetai Electronics Co., Ltd., showcased hardcore strength in the industrial lighting field in his report "Research on Product Applications in Segmented Industrial Lighting Scenarios". He introduced Feiyetai's series of products, including high-efficacy smart high-bay lights, specialized lights for high and low temperatures, and corrosion-resistant floodlights, covering all scenarios such as industrial and mining, cold storage, sports venues, and transportation hubs. Through comparison tables, he quantified the energy saving rate of up to 68.8% for high-efficacy smart industrial and mining lights in warehouse scenarios; and introduced special luminaires that can work stably in -50°C cold storage and 100°C high-temperature workshops. He also shared actual cases such as JD Cold Chain, verifying the stability and energy-saving benefits of products in extreme environments, highlighting the core competitiveness brought by product innovation and whole industry chain layout in segmented tracks.

Du Ligang, founder of Beansmile, brought forward-looking insights to overseas enterprises with his speech "Brand Exposure Infrastructure in the AI Era, Reshaping Corporate Digital Portals in the GEO Era". He first pointed out that the search behavior of overseas buyers has undergone fundamental changes, with decision-makers turning to AI tools to find suppliers, meaning that if a company is not cited by AI, it is "invisible in the AI era". The core solution he proposed is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), enabling corporate websites to be AI-readable, citable, and recommendable, significantly boosting brand exposure and precise conversion overseas. He shared the GEO infrastructure websites delivered by his company for corporate clients that are open to AI crawlers, and demonstrated effectiveness with the case of serving Jianzhong Consulting. He concluded that search traffic is being redistributed, and companies that complete GEO transformation first will establish significant first-mover advantage barriers within the next 6-12 months.

Dr. Wen Jianhua, Chief Operating Officer of Manlux, delivered a keynote titled "Smart Connectivity for All Things, Healthy Lighting—Low Blue Light Leading the New Future of Outdoor Lighting." Citing policies from the UK, Brazil, and other countries, he explained that low blue light has become the compliance baseline for global outdoor lighting. He highlighted their Eco-Amber low blue light outdoor lighting solution, which uses patented spectrum technology to achieve an ultra-low color temperature of 1800K-2700K while reducing the blue light ratio to as low as 1%, maintaining high luminous efficacy. Compliant with the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) certification standards, it combines regulatory compliance, ecological friendliness, and commercial viability, and has been implemented in ecologically sensitive areas and healthy community lighting projects in multiple countries . .

Song Yi, Vice President of the International WELL Building Institute (China), systematically interpreted how the WELL standard translates health demands into specific indicators for the built environment in her sharing session titled "WELL Health Building Standard Empowers the Lighting Industry Upgrade." She detailed provisions under the "Light" concept, such as circadian rhythm design and glare control, and introduced the "Works with WELL" product certification program, which provides authoritative health endorsement for lighting products. She also listed fiscal subsidy policies for WELL-certified projects in multiple domestic cities, offering lighting companies a clear commercial channel to enhance product added value, align with international green building systems, and participate in high-quality construction projects. Combining case studies of landmark projects at home and abroad, she demonstrated the integrated application of the WELL standard and lighting products, providing a model for the commercial implementation of healthy lighting.

Zhou Weijun, Chief Information Officer of Guangdong Juhao Lighting Electric Co., Ltd., shared the digital transformation practices of traditional brand enterprises under the theme "Gathering Digital Intelligence, Co-building Ecosystem." He proposed that competition among lighting companies has shifted from product parameters to light environment delivery capabilities. Juhao has built a resilient channel of "online traffic acquisition + central mall system + offline experience service," forming a "two lines, one entity" structure, and leveraged AI digital human matrices to empower dealers to create localized content. This successfully transformed offline stores from cost centers into data-driven local service centers, achieving a business model evolution from "selling lamps" to "providing light health environment solutions," and constructing an industrial ecosystem where manufacturers, dealers, and local service providers coexist synergistically.

At the conclusion of the forum, Hong Bing, Editor-in-Chief of China Light Media, provided the summary. He stated that the forum's agenda was substantial and its viewpoints forward-looking, not only deeply exploring frontier trends such as AI and health but also showcasing comprehensive innovative practices ranging from light source technology, standard protocols, and product design to channel models and brand globalization. It multi-dimensionally depicted the future landscape of the lighting industry driven by AI, bringing valuable inspiration to attendees and providing a practical guide for the lighting industry to grasp certainty amidst change and create new value through smart connectivity.