GILE 2025 strengthens global lighting sector through trade, technology, and design

GILE 2025, set for June 9-12, will highlight cutting-edge lighting solutions under the theme “Light for Life”, with 3,188 exhibitors spread across 250,000 sqm. The expo, which is co-located with GEBT, addresses the impact of lighting on lifestyle, health, and technology through over 100 handpicked programmes.

From June 9 to 12, GILE 2025, with the theme “Light for Life”, will take place in Areas A and B of the China Import and Export Fair Complex. The expo will run concurrently with Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology (GEBT), encompassing a total area of 250,000 sqm and featuring 3,188 exhibitors displaying the most recent innovations in lighting. This year’s theme is “Light-enhanced Living”, which examines various lighting applications in a variety of industries.

Each hall has a specific theme: Hall 6.1 will mirror the show’s theme, “Light for Life”, presenting new lighting applications in everyday life. Hall 8.1 focuses on visual displays in cultural tourism, demonstrating how lighting improves the appeal of this industry. Hall 3.2 investigates advanced applications of light in smart agriculture, while Hall 9.2 focuses on intelligent lighting and health ecosystems, which address the impact of light on human health and related intelligent solutions. Hall 10.1 features the Trendy Living Home Lighting Design Hall and the Luce e Design Aesthetic Design Hall, which set the trends in home lighting design.

Additionally, lighting solutions for architectural, road, and landscape lighting, as well as cultural and tourism venues, will be showcased in Halls 1.1 to 5.1 and 7.1. Equipment, materials, lighting accessories, electrical components, chips, packaging, modules, full-spectrum solutions, and power drive technologies will be on display in Halls 1.2 to 4.2 of the exhibition. Halls 9.1, 10.2 to 11.2, 9.3 to 10.3, and 11.1 to 13.1 will showcase breakthroughs in commercial and residential lighting, introducing products and concepts linked to lighting sources, intelligent lighting, and ornamental design.

GILE’s extensive and precise exhibition plan seeks to offer an integrated platform for presentation, communication, and collaboration, assisting the lighting sector in reaching a new level of development.

Launch of “illuminnovation lab”: A new era of light-enhanced living
GILE and Guangzhou Alighting IoT & Technology Co. Ltd. inaugurated the “illuminnovation lab” in April with a “Lifestyle Aesthetics and Trendy Spaces” event in Zhongshan, China, which focused on lighting aesthetics and unique lighting concepts. In May, the second event, “Good House, Good Lighting”, looked at health-focused “lighting formulas” and emotional “lighting values”.

GILE will hold more than 100 unique sessions, providing possibilities for the lighting industry to expand and combine resources in trade, design, e-commerce, branding, and worldwide reach. These activities are divided into five primary categories to encourage creativity and collaboration.

Design Engineering Channel: “illuminnovation lab”
During the event, the “illuminnovation lab” focuses on four sectors: hotels, business spaces, wellness, and residential environments, customising lighting design to each sector’s specific requirements. Here are the main highlights:

Hotel Lab
Focus: Lighting designed to enhance visitor experiences and create unique atmospheres in hotel settings.
• On June 9 (Hall 6.1, Booth A01), attend Light Space Symbiosis: Empowering Hotel Design and Envisioning the Future.
• On June 10, attend Lighting the Future: Innovation Trends in Hotel Lighting Design.

Commercial Space Lab
Focuses on using lighting to affect customer emotions and behaviours.
• 9 June (Hall 6.1, Booth J01): Deconstructing Youth-centric Commerce.
• 9 June (Hall 6.1, Booth G10): Commercial Lighting Reinvented.

Home Space Lab
Focus: The impact of lighting on aesthetics, ambience, and emotional well-being.

• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth J01): Light + Healthy Homes Conference 2025
• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth B05): Quality of Life
• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth A01): Light – Home Symbiosis: Exploring the Infinite Possibilities of Future Home Life
• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth J01): Light and Shadow New Ecology: The Emotional and Commercial Value of Pan-Home Exhibition Spaces

Wellness Lab
Focus: Advancing data-driven “light health” applications for physiological and psychological well-being.

• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth J01): Light Healing Coexistence – Smart Care for the Future
• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth B05): Light × Co-Living: Rental Housing Lighting Upgrades Conference
• 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth H97): Good House – Healthy Building, Healthy Lighting
• 11 June (Hall 6.1, Booth H97): Inspiration Discussion 

Design & engineering channels
These forums and conferences explore the intersection of lighting with design, architecture, and culture, highlighting both international and local innovation.

• 9 – 11 June (Hall 10.1, Booth E26): Luce e Design International Aesthetics Forum
• 9 – 12 June (Hall 8.1, Area A): Cultural and Tourism Visual Conference
• 9 – 10 June (Room 2): Asia Lighting Art Forum by AALD

Commercial channels
These events focus on market recognition, business matchmaking, and distributor development, strengthening the industry’s commercial foundation.

• 9 June (Hall 9.2, Booth A73): 2025 National Top 100 Commercial Space Engineering Service Providers Award Ceremony
• 9 June (Hall 6.1, Booth B05): Matchmaking Private Meeting: Engineering Lighting Manufacturers
• 10 June (Hall 9.2, Booth A73): Seeking 100 Next-Gen Distributors and Launch of the 2025 “Top 100 List”
• 10 June (Hall 10.2, Booth G10): GILE Collaborates with the Lighting Community
•  9 – 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth B05): Emerging City Distributors Conference

E-commerce and new media channels
These sessions highlight digital transformation, marketing innovation, and the evolving role of e-commerce in the lighting industry.

• 9 June (Hall 6.1, Booth H97): “Thousands of Lights — Lighting Renovation Project” 
• 9 – 10 June (Hall 6.1, Booth H97): Yang’s Lighting Events
  • Yang’s – New Media – New Marketing Power
  • Yang’s Aesthetics of Life – Lamps and Lighting
  • Yang’s – New Media Goes Global

Cutting-edge technology
Featuring forums and summits on smart agriculture, display technologies, energy storage, and AI, these events drive industry leadership in emerging technology.

• 9 – 11 June (Meeting Rooms 3 & 4, Area A): Guangya Digital Intelligence Forum in Agriculture
• 10 – 11 June (Hall 4.2): 2025 LED Display Application Analysis and MLED Commercialisation Summit
• 10 June (Hall 13.2): 2025 Global User-Side Energy Storage Industry Value Summit
• 11 June (Hall 9.2, Booth A73): Seminar on Opportunities and Challenges in the Semiconductor Lighting Industry in the Age of AI

Brand announcements
These events celebrate industry achievements and milestones, setting benchmarks for quality and innovation.

Alighting Award
The 13th Alighting Award Ceremony and Forum (“Light + AI”) will recognise global innovation in goods, design, and engineering.

Opening Ceremony and Brand Announcement Conference for GILE 2025
Celebrating 30 years of industry evolution, reflecting on market advances in landscape, industrial, and medical lighting, and reaffirming the industry’s long-standing objective.

Lucia Wong, General Manager of Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, commented on the exhibition’s considerable step forward: For 30 years, GILE has reflected the growth of the lighting industry and demonstrated the dedication of lighting professionals. Moving forward, we will continue to organise the ‘illuminnovation lab’ across the country with renewed enthusiasm and a strong commitment to our goals. We aim to promote a vibrant lighting industry, inject new energy into its development, and create a better lighting environment for everyone. Let us move forward together towards a brighter future for the lighting industry.”

The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology will run concurrently. Both exhibits are part of Messe Frankfurt’s Light + Building Technology fairs, which include the biennial ‘Light + Building’ event. The next edition will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 8-13, 2026.

Messe Frankfurt hosts many Asian trade events for the light and building technology industries, including Shanghai Intelligent Building Technology, Shanghai Smart Home Technology, and China Parking. The company’s lighting and building technology trade exhibitions also serve the markets of Argentina, India, Turkey, the UAE, and the United States.

For more details, visit: https://light-building.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/profile/global.html