In June 2026, during the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE), Good Light Group / Good Light Group Asia will join hands with international scientists, standards organizations, lighting designers, healthy building ecosystem partners, and companies across the LED and lighting industry chain to jointly advance deLightED Talk Asia 2026 and a series of in-depth Focus Groups.
This is more than just a forum.
It is more like a collective question for the lighting industry:
Now that LED lighting has become highly mature, and competition in efficacy, pricing, channels, and smart controls is increasingly homogenized, where does the true value of the next-generation lighting industry really lie?
Should we continue discussing higher efficacy, lower cost, and more complex controls?
Or should we return to the human perspective and discuss how light affects:
- Visual comfort
- Circadian rhythm
- Sleep
- Emotion
- Recovery
- Focus and learning
- Work performance
- Spatial experience
- Building and asset value
This is exactly why we proposed the Good Light Wake-up Call.
Good light should not merely be a slogan.
Good light should be designable.
Good light should be measurable.
Good light should be verifiable.
Good light should also become essential infrastructure for the next generation of buildings, spaces, and the lighting industry.
From Main Forum to Action Day: Bringing Healthy Light Toward an Actionable Industry Consensus
This year’s deLightED Talk Asia will unfold around a clear central framework:
Science – Standards – Solutions – Design – Verification – Owner Value
科学 – 标准 – 解决方案 – 设计 – 验证 – 业主价值
What we aim to discuss is not merely the term “healthy lighting,” but how it can truly enter industry workflows:
- How scientific foundations are understood
- How standard language is established
- How LEDs, luminaires, controls, sensing, and software can work together
- How designers translate science into spatial experience
- How measurement and verification are integrated into delivery and operations
- How owners can recognize clear, understandable investment value
- How healthy light can move from demonstration scenarios toward broader application
This event will include both a main forum and a series of Focus Groups.
The main forum will focus on international perspectives, scientific foundations, standards frameworks, scenario value, and industry direction. The Focus Groups will operate in smaller-scale, higher-density formats to enable in-depth discussions, working groups, pilot demonstrations, and industry collaboration.
The agenda is still being continuously refined. Final schedules, speaker participation formats, and session arrangements will be further adjusted based on international guest travel schedules, partner confirmations, and GILE onsite planning.
Confirmed and Featured Speaker Lineup
deLightED Talk Asia is bringing together key participants from Good Light Group, GLGA, international standards organizations, research institutions, the lighting design community, healthy building ecosystems, and the broader LED and lighting industry chain.
Below are some of the speakers who are confirmed, have confirmed participation formats, or are currently in coordination. Final attendance formats, speaking roles, and session assignments will be defined in the official finalized agenda.
International Experts and Institutional Representatives
Jan Denneman
Key Initiator of Good Light Group and Senior Leader in the International Lighting Industry
Jan Denneman is one of the key initiators of Good Light Group and a long-standing international advocate for shifting lighting from purely visual illumination toward human-centric, healthy light environments.
He has long focused on how lighting can evolve from “helping people see” to “supporting human life, health, and performance.” In this event, Jan will participate via recorded presentation, providing an international perspective and a call to action for deLightED Talk Asia and the Good Light Wake-up Call initiative.
Rob Lucas
Internationally Recognized Expert in Light and Circadian Rhythm Research
Rob Lucas is an internationally recognized expert in light and circadian rhythm research, with significant academic contributions in non-visual light effects, melanopic / α-opic metrics, and the physiological impact of light on the human body.
His participation will help the industry develop a more rigorous understanding that:
Lighting should not be limited to lux and CCT alone.
Future healthy lighting must further consider the relationships between spectrum, timing, spatial distribution, viewing direction, and human physiological response.
Marijke Gordijn
Core Member of Good Light Group and Expert in Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Research
Marijke Gordijn has long been engaged in research on sleep, circadian rhythms, and light environments, and is a core member of Good Light Group.
Her research background provides important insights for healthcare, wellness, sleep therapy centers, healthy residential projects, and hotel sleep environments. Her participation will also help further define the scientific boundaries of healthy light in sleep and recovery contexts.
Oliver Stefani
Researcher at Hochschule Luzern, Focused on Real-World Light Exposure
Oliver Stefani from Hochschule Luzern in Switzerland focuses on light exposure in real working and living environments.
From the perspective of field measurements and real spatial conditions, he helps the industry address a frequently overlooked issue:
Many working environments are actually darker than commonly assumed.
This has important implications for office, education, healthcare, wellness, and 24-hour lighting design.
Kevan Shaw
Key Figure in International Lighting Design and Contributor to the IALD HCL White Paper
Kevan Shaw is a major figure in the international lighting design community and a contributor to the IALD HCL White Paper.
His participation will help designers, owners, and manufacturers understand:
How healthy lighting principles can be translated into real design practice, rather than remaining at the level of scientific terminology or market concepts.
Jeff Miller
Former IALD President and International Lighting Design and Industry Observer
Jeff Miller is a former IALD President and an influential voice in international lighting design and industry observation.
He has long focused on how designers connect science, standards, products, and real spatial experience. His participation will support the formation of a “designer action consensus” in this event.
Kei Haraguchi / NICHIA
Representative of a Leading Global LED Technology Company
NICHIA, as one of the world’s leading LED technology companies, plays a key role in LED packaging, spectral technology, circadian-supportive lighting, and lighting innovation.
Kei Haraguchi’s participation will provide important insight into how the LED industry can support next-generation healthy lighting.
Future healthy light cannot rely solely on luminaires or control systems; it must begin at the LED and light-source level, building comprehensive spectral data, light quality metrics, and application models.
Anne Berends / SUNLED
Representative of a Healthy Lighting Company Focused on Near-Infrared and Spectral Innovation
SUNLED focuses on near-infrared, spectral innovation, and specialized lighting applications. Its flagship product SunBooster received a TIME 2025 Best Inventions Special Mention and the 2026 iF Design Award.
The near-infrared lighting applications represented by SunBooster further expand industry thinking:
Healthy light is not limited to visible illumination; it may extend into broader natural spectra, indoor lifestyles, and health technologies.
IWBI / WELL Ecosystem Representatives
Richard Zhang and Zoe Xia will participate in this event.
IWBI Vice President Richard Zhang and scientist Zoe Xia will join the program.
WELL standards and healthy buildings are becoming a key global language for upgrading real estate, workplaces, and corporate environments. Their participation will help translate healthy light into:
- Building asset value
- Operational value
- User experience value
- Verifiable healthy building strategies
Delos / Living Lab Ecosystem Representative
Tori Ren will represent Delos in this event.
Delos scientist Tori Ren will participate in the program.
Living Lab provides an important experimental and validation framework for healthy buildings and healthy lighting. Building credible case studies through observable, recordable, and verifiable data will be a key topic of this year’s discussions.
Amardeep Dugar
IES Representative and Co-Founder of VLDC
Amardeep Dugar will participate as an IES representative. He is also a co-founder of VLDC and has long been active in international lighting design, standards, and public building ecosystems.
His participation will help advance healthy lighting discussions from professional discourse toward broader considerations of public buildings, public health, and industry standards.
Domestic Experts and Industry Representatives
In addition to international guests, deLightED Talk Asia will also bring together leading experts and practitioners in China who are deeply engaged in healthy lighting, architectural lighting, healthcare lighting, educational lighting, lighting validation, and industry applications.
Their participation will help connect the event with real market needs across schools, offices, residential projects, hotels, hospitals, wellness centers, and sleep clinics, as well as standards, products, design, validation, and engineering implementation.
Professor Lin Yandan
Professor at Fudan University, Leading Expert in Healthy Lighting and Light Environment Research
Professor Lin Yandan has long worked in lighting, visual health, light environment, and human factors research, and is one of China’s leading academic experts in healthy lighting.
In this event, she will focus on healthy residential environments, “good housing,” home lighting conditions, and real-world residential light quality.
When “good housing” is no longer defined only by layout, materials, smart systems, and aesthetics, how can lighting become a foundational component of residential health?
How can we establish a truly implementable framework for healthy residential lighting—from design and standards to validation, occupancy, and long-term operation?
This will be one of the key topics of the event.
Dai Qi
Expert in Educational Lighting and Learning Space Light Environments
Dai Qi has long focused on educational lighting, learning environments, visual health, and improving school lighting conditions.
Education is one of the most important public application areas for healthy lighting. Classroom lighting should go beyond simply “being bright,” and instead consider visual comfort, attention, and circadian support across different times, tasks, and spatial positions.
In this event, he will discuss design, standards, validation, and operational strategies for healthy lighting in education with designers, schools, manufacturers, and standards bodies.
Zheng Hongcheng
EEG / Light Environment Validation and Multimodal Measurement Practitioner
Zheng Hongcheng focuses on EEG, brain activity, light environment validation, and human response measurement.
To bring healthy lighting into real engineering and market applications, it cannot rely solely on concepts or subjective perception. It must be supported by light environment data, physiological signals, subjective scales, and task-based evaluation.
He will contribute to discussions and demonstrations involving EEG, HRV, wearable devices, and lighting measurement, helping the industry understand that:
The next stage of healthy lighting is not only about design, but also about validation.
Dr. Zhao Hongyi
Medical Environment Lighting Practice Representative
Dr. Zhao Hongyi will contribute from the perspective of medical environments, including hospitals, wellness centers, sleep clinics, and care facilities.
Medical and healthcare lighting differs from general commercial lighting. It must meet safety, regulatory, and functional requirements, while also addressing the real needs of patients, caregivers, elderly users, and medical staff in terms of circadian rhythm, emotion, sleep, recovery, and operational efficiency.
His participation will help move healthy lighting from a broad wellness concept toward more rigorous medical and healthcare applications.
In addition, a number of speakers and participants from Chinese domestic standards organizations, lighting companies, testing and validation institutions, design firms, medical and wellness application scenarios, real estate developers, and smart control and software platforms are currently being confirmed.
We aim to ensure that deLightED Talk Asia is not only an international exchange platform, but also becomes an important starting point for collective action within China’s healthy lighting industry.
Why Is Cross-Industry Participation Necessary Now?
Over the past two decades, the LED lighting industry has undergone a major efficiency revolution.
From incandescent lamps and fluorescent lighting to LED technology, significant improvements in luminous efficacy, energy-saving retrofits, intelligent control systems, and supply chain maturity have driven rapid industry growth.
However, the industry is now facing a new reality:
- Pure efficiency-based competition is approaching a structural ceiling
- Lighting products and specifications are becoming increasingly commoditized
- Price competition is compressing industry margins
- Smart lighting often remains at the level of “control-driven gimmicks”
- There are many claims around healthy lighting, but relatively few verifiable cases
- Owners are willing to invest in health, comfort, and experience, but require credible evidence
- Designers need tools, manufacturers need data, and owners need outcomes
For these reasons, healthy lighting can no longer be addressed by a single company, a single product category, or a single standard framework.
It requires a complete ecosystem:
- Scientists define the problem.
- Standards organizations establish a shared language.
- LED and luminaire manufacturers provide reliable spectral performance and product capabilities.
- Control systems enable time-based logic, scene control, and personalization.
- Design software builds spatial and human-factor models.
- Designers translate scientific knowledge into spatial experience.
- Measurement and validation tools provide evidence.
- Owners and operators convert outcomes into real value.
This is exactly what deLightED Talk Asia aims to advance.
June 11: Good Light Wake-up Call – Full Industry Chain Action Day
A key design of this event is to designate June 11 as the Good Light Wake-up Call Full Industry Chain Action Day.
On June 9–10, the main forum will establish the overarching direction across science, standards, design, validation, and owner value.
On June 11, the focus will shift toward bringing together international experts, designers, standards organizations, LED manufacturers, lighting companies, control platform providers, software companies, measurement and validation partners, and building owners to jointly address one central question:
What should we do next?
Key discussion topics include:
HCL-ready IES Profile
Should future IES profiles evolve beyond traditional photometric data files and be upgraded into a more comprehensive data foundation that includes spectral information, CIE S 026 metrics, EDI / DER, as well as temporal, spatial, and human-factor modeling?
This could become a key step enabling healthy lighting to truly integrate into design software, control systems, procurement acceptance, and facility operation and maintenance processes.
DALI, Koolux, DIALux, and Control Platforms
As lighting data moves beyond lux and CCT, how should design software, control platforms, LMS / BMS systems, and the DALI ecosystem evolve and interoperate?
How can spatial models and human-factor models be meaningfully integrated into real-world engineering practice?
Industry Chain Responsibilities Across LEDs, Luminaires, Controls, Sensing, and Measurement
Healthy lighting cannot be achieved by any single product category alone.
LEDs, luminaires, control systems, sensing technologies, software platforms, and measurement and validation tools must all redefine their roles within the next generation of healthy lighting systems.
IALD HCL White Paper and Designer Action Consensus
Healthy lighting should not remain solely within scientific discourse; it must also become a design methodology that designers can understand, communicate, and implement.
Building on international white papers and design practice, the goal is to further develop a design action consensus tailored to the Asian market.
Good Light Wake-up Call: Full Industry Chain Action Consensus
Ultimately, the aim is to connect science, standards, design, manufacturing, control systems, software, validation, and owner value into an integrated ecosystem, forming the basis for future working groups, pilot projects, and collaborative industry initiatives.
Sponsorship Partners: This Is Not Just Brand Exposure—It Is Entry Into the Core of the Next-Generation Lighting Agenda
We are currently inviting industry partners to support deLightED Talk Asia 2026.
We particularly welcome participation from the following types of companies and organizations:
- LED package and light source manufacturers
- Lighting brands and integrated system solution providers
- Smart control, DALI, LMS / BMS, and platform-based companies
- Design software, simulation software, and digital tool developers
- Measurement, sensing, EEG / HRV, wearable, and validation technology providers
- Healthy building, WELL, ESG, and space operation organizations
- Hospitality, residential, office, healthcare, and education sector stakeholders
- Real estate developers, building owners, design institutes, and consulting firms
- Organizations interested in healthy lighting standards, models, pilot projects, and international collaboration
Sponsoring deLightED Talk Asia is not simply about gaining exhibition exposure.
More importantly, sponsors will have the opportunity to enter an emerging central hub of industry discourse shaping the next generation of lighting.
Sponsorship Value: From Exposure to Deep Connection and Ecosystem Co-Creation
1. Dialogue with international experts, standards bodies, and industry leaders
Sponsors will have the opportunity to engage directly with GLG / GLGA, international scientists, standards organizations, designers, building owners, and stakeholders across the lighting value chain.
This form of engagement goes beyond attending presentations—it involves participation in genuine small-group, high-intensity, in-depth discussions.
2. Building brand leadership in the healthy lighting agenda
Healthy lighting is moving from a conceptual stage into one defined by validation, designability, and operational implementation.
Early participation increases the opportunity to establish recognition, credibility, and influence within the industry.
3. Access to high-quality Focus Groups and closed-door exchanges
Compared with conventional exhibition exposure, Focus Groups are better suited for executive-level dialogue, partnership matching, project discovery, and the co-development of pilot scenarios.
4. Integration with the main forum, HCL showcase, and ecosystem sessions
Sponsors can integrate participation across main-stage presentations, exhibition areas, product and system demonstrations, and in-depth meetings—forming a coherent and multi-layered communication and engagement cycle.
5. Opportunities for working groups and pilot projects
deLightED Talk Asia is not a standalone event. It represents the starting point for GLGA working groups, standards development discussions, scenario-based demonstrations, and long-term industry collaboration.
6. Access to owners, designers, standards bodies, and ecosystem partners
Whether entering high-end residential, hospitality, office, education, or healthcare and wellness sectors, or seeking collaboration with designers, WELL AP professionals, developers, control system providers, and software platforms, sponsorship enables more efficient access to key decision-making ecosystems.
What Kind of Companies We Aim to Support
We are not simply looking for “logo sponsorship.”
We are looking for partners who are genuinely willing to co-build the next generation of the healthy lighting ecosystem.
If you are a LED company, we would like to explore with you:
How spectral data, along with EDI / DER metrics, can be meaningfully integrated into product development and design workflows.
If you are a luminaire manufacturer, we would like to explore with you:
How to evolve from selling lighting fixtures to delivering verifiable spatial light environments.
If you are a control system company, we would like to explore with you:
How lighting control can move beyond dimming and color tuning, and instead actively support human time, activity, and physiological states.
If you are a design software or digital platform provider, we would like to explore with you:
How healthy lighting can move from conceptual discussion into spatial simulation, design decision-making, and operational feedback loops.
f you are a developer, hotel operator, office operator, or healthcare/wellness owner, we would like to explore with you:
How healthy lighting can be translated into asset value, user experience, and verifiable operational outcomes.
If you are a designer or consultant, we would like to explore with you:
How scientific evidence and standards can be transformed into spatial design that is both compelling, evidence-based, and commercially meaningful.
This Is an Industry Dialogue, and an Invitation to Action
deLightED Talk Asia 2026 aims to communicate a simple but important message:
The next phase of growth in the lighting industry will not come primarily from higher efficiency, lower cost, or more advanced smart control.
It is more likely to emerge from:
- a renewed understanding of human needs
- a redefinition of spatial value
- a reconstruction of lighting environment data
- a reintegration of design, validation, and operational systems
- and the establishment of a shared language across the entire value chain
Good light should not be defined merely as “visually comfortable.”
Good light should be scientifically explainable.
Good light should be describable through standards.
Good light should be designable.
Good light should be verifiable in real environments.
Good light should become a new form of infrastructure—one that owners are willing to invest in, users can clearly perceive, and the industry can continuously build value upon.
This is the meaning of the Good Light Wake-up Call.
Participation & Sponsorship Enquiries
Engagement opportunities for deLightED Talk Asia @ GILE 2026—including the main forum, Focus Groups, HCL showcases, closed-door sessions, and sponsorship collaboration packages—are currently open for discussion.
As speaker schedules, program design, and partner arrangements are still being actively finalized, the final agenda and participation formats will be confirmed in subsequent official releases.
Organizations and companies interested in participation, sponsorship, co-development of working groups, or proposing pilot demonstration projects are welcome to contact the GLGA / event team.
Let us work together to move “Good Light” beyond a concept—toward an industry practice that is designable, verifiable, and implementable at scale.
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