HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 22 October 2023 – Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the 25th Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) and the 8th Hong Kong International Outdoor and Tech Light Expo will be held on 27-30 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and 26-29 October at AsiaWorld-Expo respectively. Under the theme “Light up Every Opportunity”, the twin lighting shows gather more than 3,000 exhibitors from 37 countries and regions, presenting buyers with an extensive array of the latest products and solutions.
Debut “Connected Lighting” Zone at the Autumn Lighting Fair
The 25th Autumn Lighting Fair this year introduces the Connected Lighting Zone, highlighting smart and IoT-enabled lighting solutions from more than 20 renowned international companies and brands, including Leedarson, Midea, Snappy, Quectel, as well as members of DALI Alliance and Shanghai Pudong Intelligent Lighting Association. Highlighted products include:
Smart Linear Strip Light (Shenzhen Dimi Lighting Co Ltd)
The Smart Linear Strip Light boasts a long lifespan of over 50,000 hours and provides 90+ minutes of emergency illumination. Its scenic technology offers a variety of selectable scenes that can be conveniently saved for future use. The Strip Light features a patented Smart Sensor with a plug-in design, enabling daylight sensor control. Furthermore, users can easily manage the lighting through the Tuya app and Bluetooth connectivity, enhancing the overall user experience.
Introducing the Matter-enabled Smart LED Light Bulb with WiFi App Control and Timer Function. Easily manage your lighting, allowing you to turn lights on or off, adjust brightness, set color temperature, and schedule routines from anywhere. The bulb is compatible with Alexa and Google Home, enabling voice control for ultimate convenience. With 16 million colors, 2700K-6500K adjustability, and power equivalent to a 60W halogen while saving 85% on electricity, this RGBW E27 LED light bulb offers versatile illumination for any occasion. Preset scenes and group control options make it easy to create the perfect atmosphere. Enjoy flicker-free, customizable lighting with the Matter-enabled Smart LED Bulb.
As a leading solution provider in the smart home market, Quectel offers a comprehensive one-stop Matter solution that addresses technical and service challenges for manufacturers across five key aspects: modules, apps, platforms, certifications, and production. By tackling pain points at each of these levels, Quectel’s comprehensive solution accelerates the development and market readiness of Matter-compatible home products for manufacturers. Through the provision of full-chain technical services, Quectel ensures that customers enjoy a more stable, seamless, secure, and multifunctional smart device connectivity experience.
Power Supply for Intelligent Control (Ningbo Snappy Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.)
The Intelligent Control Series offers a range of advanced dimming options, such as 3-1 dimming and triac dimming. The series is also compatible with various lighting control system, such as DALI 2.0, Zigbee, and Casambi, making it ideal for hotels, home furniture, bedrooms, shopping malls, and office buildings.
Other zones include Hall of Aurora, Residential Lighting, LED Lighting, Smart Lighting & Solutions, Commercial Lighting, and LED Essentials.
Connected Lighting Forum Unveils Industry Trends
The Connected Lighting Forum will be held on 27 to 28 October at HKCEC. The session themed “Unlocking New Realms in Connected Lighting” features Ms. Mona Xiong, a Board Member & Marketing Committee Member of Connectivity Standards Alliance, to discuss how “Matter” revolutionises smart homes and bridging the lighting industry to the connectivity landscape. Experts from leading academia and professional organizations also discuss how habitat lighting, AIoT-enabled human-centric architecture, and smart system integration foster well-being, in the “Smart Lighting for Healthy Living” session.
Outdoor Lighting and Tech Light Expo Spotlights Sustainable Lighting Design
The concurrent Hong Kong International Outdoor and Tech Light Expo, will be held from 26 – 29 October at the AsiaWorld-Expo. Exhibits are categorised into zones, including Exterior Lighting Solutions and Systems, Horticultural Lighting, Innobuild, Outdoor Advertising Lighting, Outdoor and Public Lighting as well as Technical and Professional Lighting to facilitate a plethora of business opportunities for buyers and exhibitors alike. The “A Greener Future in Hong Kong: Sustainable Urban Design and Energy Solutions” seminar will also be held.
The fairs will be held in EXHIBITION+ hybrid model, complemented by the “Click2Match”, an online smart business matching platform that will operate from 19 October to 6 November, providing a convenient and efficient platform for traders to connect. In addition, the fairs will introduce the “Scan2Match” which enables offline-to-online connections. By using the HKTDC Marketplace App, buyers can scan the dedicated QR codes of exhibitors to bookmark their favorite exhibitors, browse product information, view e-floor plans, and chat with exhibitors even after the fair to continue the sourcing journey.
Stakeholder mapping, analysis, engagement and communication needs to be detailed to avoid business losses or even worse, a crisis. How can you do this effectively to prevent failure? ...
Data-driven business decisions have never been as crucial, especially in this era. MGBF leverages off, technology, experience and market presence to aid businesses in making accurate decisions. ...
MGBF provides comprehensive strategic advice and results-focused solutions to solve clients' problems in business-government relations so they can focus on their core business. ...
A critical business challenge is meeting the right decision-makers and potential buyers through the best channel and platform. How will you improve your business competency? ...
A series of networking sessions with various business associations and trade organisations exploring high-value opportunities for business leaders and entrepreneurs looking to build the relationships that matter.
This integrated event will include a forum, dedicated business matching, site visits, a gala dinner and golf. The focus will be on regional food security issues and trends in the context of the supply chain, agriculture technology and trade regulations and policies.
The ASEAN two-wheeler market represents more than 25 per cent of the global market and growing exponentially. What are the business opportunities for Malaysia especially in the context of mobility, ESG and supply chain?
MGBF is hosting a networking session focusing on building a resilient future for critical industries as part of the networking series leading up to ASEAN's Food Security Nexus 2023.
Last week SPM results came out, 373,974 aspirants who have been waiting patiently over the last few months would now know their fate. Some 10,109 have received all A’s, the golden standard of academic success and the ticket to those looking to study the “more advanced” subjects in university. Proudly, […]
The classic knee-jerk reaction is to say, fire the coach, change the leadership of associations, and reduce the funding till they start performing better. This kind of negative reinforcement may work for kindergarten children, but we are dealing with high-performance adults – individuals much further along in their psychological and […]
Since its earliest tea plantations in 1929, Cameron Highlands has grown to become a key player in the agricultural landscape of Malaysia, producing 40 per cent of all vegetables grown. Despite Malaysia shifting its economic focus away from agriculture, the industry remains imperative for food security and the livelihoods of […]
Although at first glance the travel industry and the agricultural sector appear to have nothing in common, they actually share more than meets the eye. The economic benefits of tourism to the agricultural sector can be multiplied several times over. “Tourism brings the end consumers closer to the source, which […]
The Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) recently held a high-level roundtable themed ‘Designing the Future of the Digital Economy’, attended by industry leaders and business associations. The guest of honour was Yang Berhormat Syerleena Abdul Rashid, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bukit Bendera in Penang. The MP’s Special Session […]
The Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) will be hosting a roundtable on ‘Designing the Future of the Digital Economy’ on 23 February 2023. It is the culmination of the first three MGBF Exclusive Roundtable Series titled ‘The Evolving Threat Matrix in the Digital Economy’ held throughout 2022. According to the […]
The Founding Chairman of the Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF), Nordin Abdullah, today spoke on Bernama TV’s leading English talk show, The Brief, hosted by Jessy Chahal, on the topic of a stable political reality and what that means for the Malaysian economy. Nordin said, “The first thing that it […]
More than 1,100 years ago, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was developing the mathematical formulas that we know today as algorithms which now have become so intertwined with the business fortunes of global media giants and the very fabric of geopolitics. A series of recent high level international reports have revealed […]
KSK Land has been recognised by the Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) for its role in attracting high net-worth individuals to Malaysia post-pandemic. The first challenge in investor attraction is “selling” the country. In the context of Asia, Malaysia is competing with some very established investment destinations. The second […]
Malaysia, in particular Kuala Lumpur, continues to position itself as a regional centre to do business, educate a family and enjoy a global lifestyle. One company, KSK Land, has taken the lead in positioning itself and the city of Kuala Lumpur as a property investment destination for the global citizen […]
The upcoming budget represents an opportunity to build resilience in the critical sectors that will form the backbone of the country’s future-facing economic ambitions. This however needs to be achieved in the context of managing the community sectors most impacted by COVID-19 over the past two years. The Keluarga Malaysia (Malaysian Family) […]
Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) has moved to support the creative economy as the overall economy moves into a recovery phase following the COVID19 pandemic. As a step in the direction of normalcy, the MGBF has agreed to host the art exhibition “I Know You’re Somewhere So Far” by one […]
Congratulations to Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob for taking up the mantle of the ninth prime minister of Malaysia. There is nothing normal about the situation; it could not have been scripted but it has kept the spectrum of media, mainstream and social, gripped. The first order of business for […]
In a stirring speech to the nation, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. stamped his brand of leadership on the presidency, in his first act as the 46th president of the United State of America, it signaled several shifts. Perhaps the weather was foreboding with snow falling before the ceremony that […]
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 July 2022 – As the global economy continues to deal with unprecedented levels of disruption caused by the pandemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the convergence of energy security and food security issues has become a front-of-mind issue faced by policy makers and consumers alike. […]
KUALA LUMPUR, 23 June 2022 — Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) ties up with scoutAsia to ensure that businesses are equipped with deeper regional insights. The past two years has seen a massive shift in the way businesses are conducted with digitisation, digitalisation and automation continuously being adopted to improve […]
KUALA LUMPUR, 25 May 2022 – The Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF)’s exclusive roundtable on ‘Security Concerns in Critical Value Chains’ was held in a hybrid setting yesterday at the Eastin Hotel Kuala Lumpur. The guest of honour was Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Rafidah Aziz, former minister of […]
We live in the age of crisis. At the heart of any crisis is the threat of rapid change. Change too deep or too wide that the current coping mechanisms for an individual, corporation or government are unable to remain resilient. An unwelcome paradigm shift, like the proverbial spider, that […]
The Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) has released a report following the roundtable on ‘Digital Resilience in the Corporate Sector’, which was recently held in Kuala Lumpur. In attendance as guest of honour was Deputy Minister of Communications and Multimedia, Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin. The report recommended several critical development […]