Welcome to the personalized beauty global series
Personalization is shaking up the beauty industry and driving innovations in beauty tech like never before. It’s not enough anymore to ask the consumer which fragrance they want. Across beauty and personal care women and men want products that are completely personalized to them from product development to personalized customer experience.
This level of personalization of both products and customer experience is essential in gaining your consumer’s trust, loyalty and preventing cart abandonment. Consumers are starting to move away from brand affinities so now is the perfect time to make yourself stand out from the pack and cement your space in the beauty market.
With personalization, the possibilities are endless! Join us Face to Face in San Francisco at The Personalized Beauty Summit to gain the industry insights to spark your creativity and meet the partners to help you move from making recommendations to a completely personalized experience.
See you in San Francisco March 30th and 31st
Are you an innovative start-up developing the latest cutting-edge solution within Beauty & Personal Care?
This is a unique opportunity to showcase your ideas, perfect your pitch and meet investors and future potential partners!
12 of the most up-and-coming beauty and tech brands will be handpicked by our renowned selection committee to pitch their brands on the main stage for 5 minutes in a quick-fire round of presentations followed by a Q&A
with our distinguished judging panel.
What are you waiting for? Apply now if you are a start-up in:
- Technology*
- Services*
- Skincare
- Haircare
- Personal care
- Cosmetics
- Formulation*
- AI*
- Customer experience*
*within Beauty/Personal Care
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
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WHAT WILL I GET AS A FINALIST?
Exposure: Pre- and post-event marketing content pieces with finalists will be shared with our database of 30,000+ beauty, personal care technology executives.
Main stage spotlight: You will be given the opportunity to showcase your products to seasoned strategic M&A scouts, venture capital and private equity investors.
One of the 12 Finalists will win the Audience Choice Award and a free ticket to the next Personalized Beauty Summit or any of our other Beauty/Personal Care events.
Being selected as a finalist does not automatically grant you access to the event. Please note that all finalists must purchase their ticket to attend the Personalized Beauty Summit in San Francisco.
Speakers
Darren Adams
Darren Adams, Global Director for Digital Propositions at Unilever, leads the development and long-term evolution of the digital propositions team within Unilever. The team is focused on the digital transformation of the organization as it relates to consumer facing propositions, across the three divisions, including Home Care, Beauty and Personal Care and Food and Refreshment. His global team based in China, India, Netherlands and the US are leading the way in building new digital services and digital business models and the inherent assets and technologies required to deliver this.
Darren joined Unilever in 2021, and prior to Unilever spent several years with Philips in the Netherlands and US as the Managing Director – Strategy, Marketing and Operations, within the Philips Ventures team. He was responsible for the creation of the Philips HealthWorks group and its inherent acceleration and investment programs, which established a large portfolio of start-ups and solutions as well as successful collaborations across the business.
Prior to Philips Darren has held numerous Leadership roles across the globe in organizations that have spanned Online and eCommerce, Mobile Technology, Telecommunications, Banking and Insurance and Health. In these various roles Darren’s focus has been on the creation of new businesses, market expansion and digital transformation. A prime example was the creation of an ecommerce mobile telecommunications services business that generated $250M in revenue after two years.
Additionally, Darren has been the founder of several startups, predominantly SaaS based businesses which have had successful exits. As an investor and executive team member he has seen several other startups through multiple rounds of funding.
Darren holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (Economics and Marketing) from Deakin University and an MBA from the Australian Institute of Business.
Darren is currently based in Boston where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Agustina Sartori
Agustina Sartori is the Sr.Director Innovation Experiences & Innovation Fund at Ulta Beauty and the founder & CEO at GlamST, an augmented reality (AR) technology company. The digital innovation team at Ulta Beauty works to create best-in-class guest experiences that underscore the beauty retailers’ leadership and deep understanding of consumer habits and desires. Sartori joined Ulta Beauty after the company’s 2018 acquisition of GlamST to help develop AR experiences that combine augmented reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies such as GLAMLab. A San Francisco resident, Agustina is originally from Uruguay where she received her Telematics Engineering degree from the University of Montevideo. Throughout her career, she has successfully raised significant capital as an Endeavor entrepreneur, has worked with 500 Startups, Plug and Play, ANII and Startup Chile and with world-class brands such as Ulta Beauty, L’Oreal, Estee Lauder, Dufry, Clarins and Neiman Marcus, among others.
Roxanne Ong
Roxanne Ong is the Head of Beauty Tech, Strategy & Education of the Digital Transformation Office at the Shiseido Group. Roxanne is responsible for the strategic development and delivery of innovations and technology that enables Consumer Engagement in the digital age. As Head of Education, Roxanne is also responsible for driving change in People and Organization as part of Shiseido’s Digital Transformation journey.
A 20-plus year veteran of the digital space, Roxanne’s diverse professional experiences spans global corporations, tech start-ups and global consultancies across the beauty, education, travel, automotive and retail categories. She has held management positions across the CRM, Loyalty, Commerce, Branding disciplines at Estee Lauder Corporation, W Hotels, Ogilvy One, Hailo (now MyTaxi) and General Assembly.
Juliana Durack
Allie Mcilvaine
Allie has been working on marketing strategy for beauty advertisers at Meta for 2.5 years. Prior to Meta she was an Industrial Engineer for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, consulting with various business leaders on projects to improve the Guest experience. She has a passion for analytics, data and maximizing efficiency to help businesses grow and achieve their goals. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her fiancé and German Shepard puppy, Truffle.
Dana Lucas
Dana is the Director of Partnerships and Product at the Good Face Project, the industry’s fastest growing AI-powered ingredient transparency and innovation platform for Cosmetics and Personal Care. Dana specializes in translating demonstrated problems into products through human centered design, and by leveraging her background in business development, marketing, and applied design. Dana holds a BS in Marketing from Tulane University and an MPS in Design Management & Communications from Georgetown University.
Barbara Paldus
Canadian-born of Czech parents, raised in both Europe and Canada, fluent in five languages with a Ph.D. from Stanford University (U.S.), Dr. Barbara Paldus considers herself a global citizen. As a scientist, she believes in data and biotechnology. Codex Beauty was conceived from a need to deliver high-efficacy, clinically proven skincare collections that defy the mainstream with plant-based biotech ingredients.
Barb is also an investor, entrepreneur, and inventor has been awarded 40 U.S. patents and numerous prizes in science. She spent two decades leading innovation in spectroscopy, telecommunications, and biotechnology. By 34, she had founded two Silicon Valley companies that, among many breakthroughs, paved the way for carbon cycle/natural gas pipeline monitoring (Picarro), and accessible vaccine/cancer therapeutic manufacturing (Finesse Solutions, acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2017). Today, several COVID-19 vaccines are manufactured in equipment that her company Finesse developed and brought to market.
Chaz Giles
A problem solver, Chaz has been on all sides of innovation working for Fortune 500 brands, a startup Founder, and VC.
A self professed skincare geek, Chaz founded Revea in 2020 to transform skincare to be truly inclusive, rooted in integrity, and made precisely for you. As the world’s first precision skincare company, Revea uses advanced diagnostics and bioinformatics to cut through the traditional trial and error and deliver custom treatments formulated for your root cause and optimized for your skin physiology.
Most recently, Chaz led External Innovation at the Estee Lauder Companies. Previously, Chaz founded, MomTrusted, to solve a critical problem in early education and care. Prior to that, Chaz invested in early stage companies at CitiVentures after starting his career at Procter & Gamble where he helped create one of P&G’s billion dollar brands.
Chaz resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, daughter, and son. He is a fitness enthusiast and feeds his competitive side with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu while attempting to find balance with an embarrassingly comical version of yoga.
Andrea Duffy
Mimi Ghosh
Mimi Ghosh is a client executive in the Technology & Disruptive Commerce Group at JPMorgan Chase. Mimi covers high-growth companies within the consumer and technology sectors. She is responsible for client management and business development. As part of her role, Mimi provides treasury, credit, payment processing, F/X, liquidity and strategic capital structure solutions to clients. Previously, she worked for Morgan Stanley in its Global Capital Markets Division and Raymond James in its Investment Banking Division. She has completed transactions for a combined value of $55bn+.
Mimi received a BA in from Columbia University and currently resides in New York City.
Frank Schwanke
Dr. Frank Schwanke, PhD in Chemistry, has been driving innovation in skin & personal care for more than 21 years. During his career, he developed various NPDs in different categories like Face, Sun, Hair Care and make-up, explored new technologies with external partners and ran a large number of early innovation and prototyping initiatives. Leading the regional R&D innovation hub for the Americas, located in Mexico, gave him a broad perspective on different markets, consumers and technologies. Since 2020, he is heading the topic of personalization at Beiersdorf being the manager of the company’s personalization accelerator, a cross-functional entrepreneurial team, that focuses on offering personalized solutions. Already in 2021, the personalization accelerator created O.W.N, a face care brand that offers truly individualized products.
Ekta Chopra
Sabrina Noorani
Sabrina was born and raised in East Africa and moved to Miami, FL with her family when she was eight years old. A graduate of The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Sabrina achieved a Bachelor of Science of Finance and Information Systems, with a minor in Mathematics. She is recognized as one of the very few female derivatives traders at NYSE and later, on the founding team for the institutional desk at the now illustrious Citadel hedge fund.In 2017, a debilitating skin allergy led her to launch ClearForMe. With this powerful tool, she hopes to encourage clear beauty education and change how products with ingredient labels are presented to consumers today.
Claire Chang
About igniteXL Ventures
igniteXL Venturs is a Silicon Valley-based global seed fund investing in game-changing entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology, beauty and wellness. With the advancement of technology and the rise of conscious consumers who demand authenticity, sustainability, transparency, and inclusivity, the wellness industry is undergoing digital and cultural transformation. And that transformation represents excellent investment opportunities to investors with high margins, recurring and engaged customers, with attractive exit opportunities.
About Claire Chang
Having immigrated from Korea to the US when she was 12 years old, Claire is bilingual and bicultural, which has always given her the unique perspective of being both an insider and outsider able to bridge different perspectives. Combining her passions for connecting people and helping them realize their dreams, Claire launched a global accelerator in 2014 which impacted over 200 Korean startups' ability to expand to the US market. In 2018, Claire launched SVBeautyTech, the first-ever independent beauty-tech accelerator, to provide a cohort of mostly female beauty-tech founders access to the Silicon Valley resources previously enjoyed almost exclusively by male, locally networked tech entrepreneurs. Leveraging her global accelerator network and broad brand connections, Claire is excited to work with passionate innovators and disruptors working at the intersection of technology, beauty & wellness.
Colin O'Sullivan
Colin O’Sullivan joined the Deepverge team as Chief Information Officer (CIO) following the acquisition of Rinocloud Ltd. Colin is responsible for creating an information technology strategy targeted at the Deepverge growth opportunities. Colin is a global, talented, results-driven Technology leader with versatile, cross-platform experience in Digital Strategy, Medical and Science Applications, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Computing, Mobile Enablement, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, IT Operations, Customer Experience and DevOps for diverse client industries.
Colin earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Cork Institute of Technology. As an undergraduate Colin demonstrated his early passion for technology with the winning of web design awards while leading his own digital agency Keynet Ltd. Colin went on to earn a Master of Science degree at Trinity College Dublin specialising in Ubiquitous Computing and Distributed Systems.
Colin relocated to Sydney Australia to take up strategic technology roles with responsibilities across the Asia Pacific region in a wide number of industries including Medical, Travel, Education and Science.
More recently as the Group Chief Information Officer at the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Colin developed the technology strategy for both the membership organisation, publishing and commercial subsidiaries across Australia. Returning to Ireland from Australia Colin took up the role of Chief Information Officer at Rinocloud Ltd. Colin was responsible for development of the new product strategies with a focus on scientific data Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms. With over a decade of experience in Executive Management roles across the globe and over 20 years experience delivering innovative technology solutions Colin has now brought his skills to the Deepverge Senior Management team.
Danielle Lay
David Caballero-Lima
David received his undergraduate degree in Biology and his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Universidad de Extremadura in Spain. David took postdoctoral research positions at the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester, with both roles focusing on studying human/pathogen interaction via tissue models and obtaining a greater understanding in the regulation of the cell cycle and vesicle transportation during morphological changes. In addition he was involved in the development of point-of-care diagnostic devices for diseases such as fungal and bacterial keratitis and novel antifungal discovery.
David was initially Services Manager at Labskin, responsible for all microbiology work and service projects, bringing his 18 years’ experience working with microbiology and host-pathogen interactions.
As Head of R&D, David now leads the research department, focusing on the development of new methods for studying the native skin microflora, prebiotic, probiotics and antimicrobial effects of ingredients and formulation for pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical studies. He is also the scientific lead for the development of Labskin new consumers service; Skin Trust Club, a new concept of personalised skin care based on the analysis of the skin microbiome. David is a key collaborator on international research bids, as a peer with leading international experts from academia and industry.
Dean DeBaise
Dean DeBiase
Faculty Member & Podcast Host, Kellogg/Northwestern
Executive Chairman, Revieve
Dean DeBiase is a Silicon Valley Serial CEO, with a reputation for successfully rebooting companies and guiding them through expansion, turnaround, roll-up, spin-out, divestiture, MBO, SPAC, M&A, and IPO phases—in the metagaming, media, beauty, retail, ecommerce, services and technology sectors.
Recently named “Growth Guru” by Inc. Dean is a best-selling author and public speaker, Host of The Reboot Chronicles Podcast and Faculty Member at Kellogg School of Management, Forbes Contributor and Advisor at the NSF, and Executive Chairman of Revieve. As CEO of Reboot Partners, he invests in and co-operates emerging growth companies—and also enables startups and Fortune 1000’s to co-create through The Dancing with Startups Program.
Dean was recently Chairman of ÄKTA - acquired by Salesforce (CRM), CEO of Autoweb (AWEB) - taken public and acquired by Autobytel (ABTL), CEO of Imagination Network/WorldPlay Entertainment - acquired by Verizon, CEO of TNS Media - acquired by WPP, CEO of Entertainment.com - an MBO acquisition, CEO of Free Drive - acquired by Verizon, and CEO of CatchTV - acquired by Liberty Media (FWONA). Dean has also been an operating executive and CEO of Fortune 500 subsidiaries, including FedEx (FDX), AT&T (T), AOL (VZ), WPP (WPP.L), Western Union (WU), Anixter (AXE), Arris (ARRS) and LG Electronics (LGLD).
He has served on public, private, Family-Enterprise, CVC, PE and VC boards, and is currently a board member at Revieve, PBC Linear and Manna Tree. Previously he was a lead-director of Donlen Corporation acquired by Hertz.com (HTZ), Excelligence (LRNS) - taken public and sold to private equity, Amway Ventures, Centerpost - acquired by West.com (WSTC), and Akoo - acquired by RMG Networks (RMGN).
You can connect with Dean at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/followdean/
Delise Martire
Delise Martiré is the Director of Product Development at Veracity Selfcare where she leads the strategic vision and innovation for the development of hormonally safe and optimized skincare and wellness products. Her experience includes technology scouting for innovative ingredients across hair, face, and body categories; forming external research partnerships with biotech companies and university research centers; assessing white space opportunities; product marketing; and new product development. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Cosmetic Science.
Duncan Smith
Heading up Sagentia Innovation’s global Consumer division, Duncan has a wealth of experience with brands in the personal care & beauty, consumer health, beverages and retail sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. He’s worked with Colgate-Palmolive, L’Oréal, Philips, GSK, ABInBev, Hitachi and Ocado amongst many others. With a background in consumer electronics R&D and manufacture, he is particularly focussed on blending physical and digital technologies to enable new consumer experiences that drive growth for brands. Duncan’s favorite consumer device is the Bialetti Moka – the perfect combination of timeless design, excellent physics and theatrical consumer experience.
Elsa Jungman
Dr. Elsa Jungman has a Ph.D. in Skin Delivery and began her career working in Research and Development for L’Oreal in Paris. In 2015 she moved to San Francisco and has worked with several biotech and skincare companies such as AOBiome. She is an expert for the Clean Beauty Council at Credo Beauty and mentors/consults with local small companies. Today, she is the founder and CEO of ELSI Skin Health, a science-backed and clean skincare startup.
Grace Choi
Hannah Pham
Hasti Nazem
Hasti is part of the founding team of Kindra, leading product development and education. Kindra is developing innovative estrogen-free solutions targeting the top pain points of the 34+ symptoms of menopause. With nearly 10 years of experience at the intersection of life sciences, health and wellness, and consumer brand building, Hasti integrates targeted product formulation development with cutting edge technical advancements. Her deep scientific communications experience helps to empower consumers to better understand their health, and bridge gaps often overlooked in women's health. Hasti's work has been featured in has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes.com, (O) Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Women's Health Magazine, and in healthcare public affairs and pharmaceutical trade association publications.
Jana Bobosikova
Jay Hack
Jay Hack is the VP of Business Intelligence at FemTec Health. With two machine learning patents and over twelve years building intelligent data systems, Jay is an expert in data science, artificial intelligence, and their application in consumer digital products. His operational experience spans from recruiting, fundraising and company building to hands-on application of machine learning research and constructing data systems operating at the scale of fortune 500 companies.
Prior to joining FemTec via an acquisition, Jay was the CEO and cofounder of Mira AI, an AI-powered digital beauty shopping platform backed by, among others, Founders Fund, Emily Weiss and Unilever Ventures. Jay previously graduated with a B.S. in computer science (AI concentration) from Stanford, ran a data science consulting firm in college with over $200k revenue, and built applied machine learning systems at Palantir for clients across six countries and five industries. With two machine learning patents and over twelve years building intelligent data systems, Jay is an expert in artificial intelligence and its application in consumer digital products. His operational experience spans from recruiting, fundraising and company building to hands-on application of machine learning research and constructing data systems operating at the scale of fortune 500 companies.
Kimberly Capone
Marcelo Lu
Marcelo Lu serves as Senior Vice President, Care Chemicals North America at BASF Corporation. He assumed this role in January 2021, overseeing eight manufacturing sites, four laboratories, and a team of over 650 people that serve our customers. In this role, Marcelo leads the strategic and operational performance of the Care Chemicals business that serves customers in the Home Care, Personal Care, Agrochemical Additives and Industrial markets. Key responsibilities include customer relationships, operational excellence and innovation and collaborating with teams globally to meet the needs of the North American market. Marcelo joined BASF in 2006 and has held various commercial and general management positions in Germany, Hong Kong, Canada and the U.S. Marcelo then held regional business management positions in Asia in the textile, packaging and automotive markets. Prior to BASF, Marcelo held several consulting positions at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. He is a Steering Committee member for Commercial and Sales PDP Program and the P&G NA Customer Network Executive Sponsor. Before joining Care Chemicals North America, Marcelo served as Managing Director of BASF Canada. In this role, he put a spotlight on BASF as a sustainability leader in Canada, through driving thought leadership, promoting a circular economy and advocating innovation, digitalization and smart regulation for sustainable solutions in Canadian business. Marcelo holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) and executive education from INSEAD. Marcelo is passionate about archery, swimming, spinning and traveling. In his free time, he enjoys the company of his daughter and son and is trying to be a fun dad
Melissa Hago
Ming Zhao
Raya Khanin
Raya Khanin is a cofounder and Chief Science Officer of LifeNome, an award winning personalization wellness company. Lifenome has recently been recognized as one of only 20 digital startups in the world to get a "Strong Positive" outlook assessment from Lux Research, recognizing the distinction of our science and technology rigor and the significant opportunities in the precision wellness market.
Inspired by the paradigm shift from “one size fits all” to Precision Medicine, Raya envisages similar changes in nutrition, beauty and wellness. Raya’s mission is to bring advances of Genomics Sciences and Artificial Intelligence to the nutrition and wellness industries to enable personalization of products and services based on an individual's biology and lifestyle. Raya holds a PhD in Computational Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and has over 20 years of experience working at leading Academic Institutions as well as startups.
Sabrina Noorani
Sabrina was born and raised in East Africa and moved to Miami, FL with her family when she was eight years old. A graduate of The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Sabrina achieved a Bachelor of Science of Finance and Information Systems, with a minor in Mathematics. She is recognized as one of the very few female derivatives traders at NYSE and later, on the founding team for the institutional desk at the now illustrious Citadel hedge fund.In 2017, a debilitating skin allergy led her to launch ClearForMe. With this powerful tool, she hopes to encourage clear beauty education and change how products with ingredient labels are presented to consumers today.
Sergio Rattner
Sergio founded FitSkin to revolutionize the way beauty products are sold both online + offline. FitSkin combines sophisticated optics, AI, and great UI/UX design to make it easy to buy skincare, haircare, and color cosmetics products.
Sergio launched and successfully exited two prior startups: Autologic (a pre-Google search engine for car buying) and iPorta (an interactive healthcare media platform).
Sergio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an Honors BASc. in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Japanese from the University of Toronto.
Simon Driscoll
Simon Driscoll pivoted from a career in television where he led content personalisation for European streamers Sky TV and Channel 4 to create his own skincare line UXB. UXB specialises in formulating natural skincare targeted to different skin types.
Stefan Mazy
Stefan Mazy is considered the pioneer of the consumer skin genomics industry with SkinDNA® – the worlds first direct-to-consumer skin genetic test. After taking the test, his algorithms help provide users with the most suitable and unbiased ingredients, supplements and professional treatment modalities based on their unique SkinDNA® profile rather than guess work.
Over a decade since inception, SkinDNA® kits are sold in more than 20 countries.
In addition, Stefan’s proprietary and award-winning technology powers more than 70 per cent of all DNA skin health tests for cosmetic and skincare brands around the world; and his company holds one of the largest derma genetics / lifestyle interaction databases.
Stefan has received global recognition for his innovation and contribution to the cosmetic and biotechnology industries, as well as for its efforts in promoting Australian technology worldwide. His years of research boiled down to this one key finding: your DNA has a major influence upon your skin health and the way your skin will age.
Stefan is using his decades of research into the genomic insights of skin aging to collaborate with leading Australian university, University of NSW, and globally recognised research facility, The Garvin Institute, to continue to revolutionise the way in which genetics can inform skincare practices.
He fundamentally believes that;
1. The key to success is passion
2. Make education exhilarating.
3. We can all have healthier skin for longer
Wendy Wallner
Wendy is Senior Vice President at Ipsos, a top global research company. She has over 25 years of experience beginning with P&G in brand management, followed by positions at Nielsen, and others.
She has led research practices for North American businesses in Retail, Restaurant, Fashion, Travel industries. She joined IPSOS, a top global research company, in 2018 to hold positions in Market Strategy, Innovation and UX.
She is currently leading client relationships across key retailers. In this client officer position, Wendy acts as an advocate for clients and brings the best possible solutions and experts together to solve client business issues.
At Ipsos, we are passionately curious about Society, Markets and People.
We strive to provide true understanding and make our changing world easier to navigate.
Xin Chung
I'm a serial founder who builds innovative, scalable, useful startups that make a dent in the universe.
My startups strive for beautiful design, intuitive user experience, and inspired storytelling.
Recent concentrations include Web3, Federated identities, Deep Learning (GAN), Spatial Compute, and Beauty Technologies.
I've past lives at Microsoft, Sony, and SquareEnix pioneering 3D animation for MMO, mobile games, and visual effects.
Zahir Dossa
Natalie Eden
Carlos Aragon
Carlos has been with Ipsos since 2012, managing a variety of custom and tracking programs in mystery shopping, customer experience, and brand health for clients in the technology, telecom, financial services, retail, and automotive sectors.
Carlos leads a team of experienced research consultants who seek to maximize the business impact and influence of their clients.
Ryan Sasaki
Ryan is Vice President of Product at Dash Hudson. Ryan works with the Product Management, Design, and Engineering teams to ensure our product evolves to align with the needs and desired outcomes of the world’s leading brands. Ryan has spent 20 years in Product Management building SaaS Analytics and Insights Solutions for B2B Partners.
AGENDA SNEAK PEEK
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| PANEL: How Technology and Data can Transform or Create New Revenue Opportunities | Personalizing products requires a sophisticated level of tech both in hardware and software. AI and tech are driving personalization, sampling, loyalty, rewards promotions which are all key to successful direct to consumer selling. Join industry leaders as they dive into using technology and data to create better consumer experiences and products that drive new business models and revenue. Speakers include: Chaz Giles, Founder and CEO, Revea; Simon Driscoll, Founder, UXB Skincare; Marcelo Lu, Senior Vice President Care Chemicals, BASF and Duncan Smith, Managing Partner, Consumer Sagentia Innovation. |
| PRESENTATION: Scaling up Personalized Beauty | Scaling up personalized beauty outside of choosing the 8 most common formulas is a challenge for most brands. How can you scale up without losing some of the personalization? Hear from leading brands and discover how they were able to scale whilst ensuring they maintain personalization to allow you to succeed in this market. Speaker: Zahir Dossa, Co-Founder & CEO, Function of Beauty. |
| PANEL: Customizing the Customer Experience - Retail vs Ecommerce | In store, the inability to track consumers in real life limits your ability to personalized experience in store compared to online. Join the leading brands and retailers as the outline the future of instore experiences and ecommerce. Speakers include: Augustina Sartori, Director Augmented Reality, Digital Innovation, Ulta Beauty; Jay Hack, Co-Founder and CEO, Mira Beauty; Ekta Chopra, Chief Digital Officer, e.l.f; Stephanie Mansolf, Senior Director of Business Development, Perfect Corp; Grace Choi, Founder and CEO, Mink Inc. |
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- Combating the updates to IOS14 and changes in cookies and bringing down your customer acquisition costs with Facebook
- Personalizing the customer experience in store and online by discovering the latest innovations from leading brands including Ulta Beauty, Mira Beauty, e.l.f. and Perfect Corp
- Improving your algorithms to make the most effective personalized recommendation by discovering how you can easily build and scale a database with Proven Skincare
- Meeting consumer demand from personal care and the rising male market with the Beauty Matching Engine and NEA
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Alibaba
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Launched in 2014, Tmall Global (www.tmall.hk) is Alibaba Group’s dedicated channel for cross-border e-commerce. Tmall Global provides a premium shopping experience for the increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers that are in search of top-quality global branded products. Tmall Global is China’s largest cross-border B2C online marketplace, and allows brands and retailers without operations in China to build virtual storefronts and ship products into China from their home countries. Today, there are more than 29,000 brands from 87 countries and regions across 5800 categories on Tmall Global.
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OceanX
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OceanX is a technology-first fulfillment provider for industry-leading brands like Glossier, SkinMedia, Proactiv, and more to help scale fulfillment operations with a suite of DTC, B2B, and Amazon 3P services. These services include a modern fulfillment-as-a-service solution, a real-time business intelligence platform, and a dedicated customer success team. With a 99.5% same-day ship, two-day nationwide shipping coverage, 99.8%+ order accuracy, access to top-tier postage rates, and the ability to capture over 3,000 eCommerce orders per minute – OceanX has set the bar for what a premier solution provider should offer clients.
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Skin Trust Club
Website: https://www.skintrustclub.com/
Labskin is a world-leading platform that has been producing lab-grown human skin for 15 years and using it to test cosmetic and skin health products for the world’s leading brands. Labskin is the only commercially available full thickness human skin model that naturally mimics the skin's microbiome.
In 2021, we launched Skin Trust Club which combined our deep science knowledge with our AI expertise in solving an unmet consumer need. Skin Trust Clun is a skin health tracking app that provides personalised skin care suggestions based on testing your unique skin microbiome.
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Beiersdorf
Website: https://www.beiersdorf.com/
Beiersdorf AG is a global skin care company based in Hamburg, Germany. The company has more than 130 years of skin care experience and is known for its innovative and high-quality products. Throughout the history Beiersdorf has built trust by staying close to their consumers and developing innovative skin care brands that are tailored to the consumers’ needs. Beiersdorf's globally most famous brand is NIVEA. In more than 45 countries NIVEA is the market leader in the skin care segment. Other names in its successful international brand portfolio include Eucerin, La Prairie, Labello, 8X4, and Hansaplast.
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Dash Hudson
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Dash Hudson was founded in 2015 with the mission to empower brands to deepen engagement through photos and videos. Today, the global leader in social marketing software helps companies like Condé Nast, Apple, and Unilever unlock their creative superpowers and elevate their strategies at the speed of social. Dash Hudson takes it to the next level by predicting the performance of photos and videos, analyzing trends, and accelerating brand growth across social media, entertainment, and e-commerce marketing channels.
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Perfect Corp
Website: https://www.perfectcorp.com/business/beauty-tech-forum-master-class
With over 850 million downloads globally, Perfect Corporation is dedicated to transforming how consumers, content creators and beauty brands interact together through AI and AR technologies. Our experienced team of engineers and beauty aficionados are pushing the frontiers of technology to create the beauty platform of the future – a fluid environment where individuals express themselves, learn the latest about fashion and beauty, and enjoy instant access to the products from their favorite brands.
Higher Education Skincare
Website: https://highereducationskincare.com/
Dermatologist tested and approved, targeted solution skincare for your main skin concerns. Higher Education Skincare is formulated specifically for younger generations. Building healthy habits with clean, safe, & healthy skincare. Every single product combines the best of science and nature; paraben-free, gluten-free, never tasted on animals, and vegan. We pride ourselves on providing product education, high quality ingredients and always being honest about what's in our products, what is not, where the ingredients come from and the benefits they provide. We also believe it is vital to help preserve the beauty of nature and use recycled materials for our packaging.
BASF
Website: https://www.carecreations.basf.com/
About the Care Chemicals division at BASF
The BASF division Care Chemicals offers a broad range of ingredients for personal care, hygiene, home care, industrial & institutional cleaning, and technical applications. We are the global leading supplier for the cosmetics industry as well as the detergents and cleaners industry, and support our customers with innovative and sustainable products, solutions and concepts. The division’s high-performance product portfolio includes surfactants, emulsifiers, polymers, emollients, chelating agents, cosmetic active ingredients and UV filters. Superabsorbent polymers developed for the full spectrum of hygiene applications complete the range. We have production and development sites in all regions and are expanding our presence in emerging markets. Further information is available online at www.care-chemical.basf.com.
About BASF
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The more than 115,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into five segments: Chemicals, Performance Products, Functional Materials & Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas. BASF generated sales of €64.5 billion in 2017. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (BAS). Further information at www.basf.com.
Sagentia Innovation
Website: www.sagentiainnovation.com
Sagentia Innovation provides independent advisory and leading-edge product development services focused on science and technology initiatives. Working across the medical, industrial, chemicals and energy, food and beverage, and consumer sectors, Sagentia Innovation works with a broad range of companies from some of the world’s leading and best-known brands, to start-up disruptors, new to the market. It is part of Science Group (AIM:SAG), which has more than ten offices globally, two UK-based dedicated R&D innovation centres and more than 400 employees. Other Science Group companies include Leatherhead Food Research, TSG Consulting and Frontier Smart Technologies.
Ipsos
Website: https://www.ipsos.com/en
Ipsos is one of the world’s leading independent market research companies controlled and managed by research professionals. Founded in France in 1975, Ipsos has grown into a global research group with a presence in 89 countries. Ipsos researchers assess market potential and interpret market trends. They develop and build brands. They help clients build long-term relationships with their customers. They test advertising and study audience responses to various media and they measure public opinion around the globe. Simply put, Ipsos knows people. As one of the most innovative market research companies in the world we are constantly evolving to deliver a total understanding of people, society and the markets we all trade in.
ClearForMe
Website: https://clearforme.com/
ClearForMe is a platform that offers ingredient information for retailers and brands. With over 1.2 million ingredients, ClearForMe provides its +300 partners, user-friendly ingredient education, filter, and search capabilities rooted in transparency and personalization. ClearForMe provides a simple plug-and-play API to make ingredients clickable, searchable, and shoppable. Instead of a generic, one-size-fits-all recommendation, ClearForMe’s smart product discovery tool uses Machine Learning to recommend personalized products, deepening the partners’ end- customers’ digital experience with their brand. ClearForMe is backed by an innovative team of dermatologists, technologists, and database experts who are involved in building ClearForMe® and serve as advisors.
Revieve
Website: https://www.revieve.com/
With headquarters in Chicago and Helsinki, Revieve's commercial-grade technology drives tangible business value for its partners by creating consumer-powered experiences across touchpoints—from online and in-app to in-store screens and social platforms.
Revieve is the preferred partner to brands and retailers worldwide to deliver a digitally-driven, personalized brand experience, leveraging scalable technologies in AI & AR. The company's proprietary technology is the Revieve Digital Health-Beauty-Wellness Platform, which features easy-to-use self-diagnostic modules that personalize search and shopping experiences by delivering consumers targeted products, services, and treatments.
Media Partner
Fashion Snoops
Website: https://www.fashionsnoops.com/
FS is a global trend forecasting agency helping leading consumer-facing brands around the world unlock innovation and propel growth. Through a combination of human and artificial intelligence, we analyze cultural shifts and interpret detected patterns in order to surface trend-driven business opportunities.
Latinas in Beauty
Website: https://www.instagram.com/latinasinbeautyofficial
A network for Latinas in the Beauty industry.
Partner With Us
Based on your objectives, we can create bespoke packages designed specifically for you – from presenting your expertise on the main stage, to hosting a private dinner. You can partner with us showcase your brand and make valuable new connections. Opportunities predominantly lie in 3 main categories: Thought Leadership, Branding & Networking.
To discuss your objectives and partnership opportunities please contact [email protected].
Interested in a media partnership?
We'd love to hear from you and how we can support one another to connect with the industry. Contact [email protected]
OUR 2022 VENUE
Venue
JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square, 515 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Click here to book your room at the discounted price of $245*
Alternatively, you can call the JW Marriott San Francisco at 800-2280-9290 to make your booking and state code “Kisaco Research Personalized Beauty Summit” to receive the discounted rate.
*The room rate is per room, per night. Hotel room rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes, currently 14% Occupancy Tax + 2.25% SFTID (SF Assessment Fee) + $1.00 CA Tourism Fee, per room, per night, in effect at the time of check out.
Last day to book to receive your discount: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
NB: Discounted rate available from Tuesday, March 29, 2022 through Thursday, March 31, 2022
Please consider:
- If a guest is fully vaccinated they are not required to wear their masks indoors.
- If a guest is unvaccinated they must wear their mask indoors.
TESTIMONIALS
"What a stimulating event! A really well curated set of speakers ranging end-to-end from commercial opportunity to scientific and technical capability and market execution. Some very insightful case studies. We also loved the session of new tech pitches – great stuff!"
Jason Harcup, Global VP Personal Care Research and R&D Prestige Division, Unilever
"Events like this are incredibly important, with the advancements in AI, AR and all the technology that we see, it’s never been more relevant. It give us an amazing platform where we can all come together and share our ideas and listen to all the opportunities that are happening in the industry."
Bruce Teitelbaum, CEO, RPG IMX
"Each presentation was great in drawing inspiration for personalisation strategies to bring back and execute."
Max See, Testing & Personalisation, Sephora
"We’re seeing people from prestige brands, cosmetics, technology, AI and that respresents the massive change in the landscape of how we interact with our consumer and it requires all of us accross our different diciplines to stay competitive."
Clint Carnell, CEO, Hydrafacial
"This is a specialised summit, which I think brings a lot of added value to a lot more players so we can have deep talks within personalisation – discussing the challenges and realities of it in business."
Zahir Dossa, Co-Founder & CEO, Function of Beauty
"This event is really important because it brings together the gate keepers and the thought leaders in the industry, so it’s really exciting to be surrounded by so many smart people that are experts in their field."
Adam Gam, Chief Marketing Officer, Perfect Corp
About Kisaco Research
Kisaco Research produces, designs and hosts B2B industry conferences, exhibitions and communities – focused on a specialized selection of topic areas.
Meet industry peers that will help build a career-changing network for life.
Learn from the mistakes of your peers as much as their successes—ambitious industry stalwarts who are happy to share not just what has made them successful so far but also their plans for future proofing their companies.
Note down the inspired insight that will form the foundation for future strategies and roadmaps, both at our events and through our online communities.
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