Jason Harcup, Unilever, Global VP Personal Care Research and R&D Prestige Division, on the Personalised Beauty Summit USA 2019 
Why Attend
Personalization has spearheaded the beauty industry with innovations in AI, AR, 3D Printing, Formulation, Smart Devices and even DNA Analysis. The tech evolution, desire for customized products / services / experiences, as well as the inherent and ever more important role of data in our lives, are driving this movement.
77% of consumers have chosen, recommended or paid more for a brand that provides a personalized service or experience (Forrester, 2019). ‘The beauty industry is valued at $532b, which means that so much more can be done in terms of personalization. There is a huge opportunity for brands and retailers to make more money and enhance customer experience’ (Philips, 2019).
In this fiercely competitive market, personalization technology is the key to completely transforming customer engagement, brand loyalty, data-driven recommendations and customer experiences. With personalization aiding everything from formulation and product development to advertising and customer experience, now is the time to update your strategy.
The Personalized Beauty Summit brings together the innovative change-makers and market leaders in the technology and beauty industry for 2-days of unmissable learning on the evolution of tech innovation. Join us in going beyond “gimmicky” personalization tools and delving into how you can personalize haircare, cosmetics, skincare and how to create personalized experiences in-store, online and at home - ultimately helping you become a digital first beauty company.
INDUSTRY LEADING SPEAKERS
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Alexander Nick
Michael Haddad
Raymon uit de Bulten
Kate Kenner
Zahir Dossa
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.
Tony Fotherby
Kailu Guan
Fiona Co Chan
Youthforia was developed by Fiona Co Chan in 2021.The idea for Youthforia came about right when COVID hit. Perhaps it was the inability to go out and see people, but Fiona kept coming back to this idea that the best part of wearing makeup is going out with your friends and sometimes that means forgetting to take your makeup off. She really wanted makeup that was good for your skin, so good you could sleep in it. Prior to Youthforia, Fiona worked in tech where she traveled to some of the most polluted cities in the world - and realized her normal skincare and makeup routine weren’t working. It became very important for her to formulate with ingredients that safeguard from environmental aggressors.During the development of Youthforia, Fiona slept in all of the lab samples (and recruited her husband to sleep in them too) and woke up with much better skin. It completely changed her beauty routine philosophy - makeup is an extension of skincare. And sleeping in lab samples is a huge part of the Youthforia testing process. Above all, we love caring for your skin - we truly believe that makeup should be good for your skin.
Ming Zhao
William Lee
William Lee is CEO and co-founder of EpigenCare Inc., a new consumer epigenetics company that recently debuted its personalized skincare solution SKINTELLI. He has over 10 years of experience in the biotechnology sector and is also a shareholder and senior executive of EpiGentek, a reagent and services provider for epigenetic research. In his spare time, he enjoys writing music and hiking a scenic trail. William graduated from New York University with honors and obtained his MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
Maurice van Steensel
Eleanor Jones
Marcin Pilarz is a co-founder and CEO at Talkin’ Things. Graduated in Financial Engineering; experienced in Finance, Sales, IT, ICT and IoT. He is a product architect at Talkin’ Things, overseeing all product development and design of the company's smart packaging solutions.
Thomas Serval
A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and of the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (Ensae), Thomas is a “serial entrepreneur” and a visionary leader. He co-founded Baracoda in 2000, a new generation French industrial group that designs and manufactures connected objects.
Founded in 2017, CareOS, a Baracoda Company, is a privacy-by-design, intuitive open platform that works naturally into your care, beauty and health rituals. It makes the best possible use of time you spend in front of a mirror to improve your well-being by organizing and enhancing information from any connected device, digital service and CareOS’ own AI.
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.
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.
Nicole Hollis
Elsa Jungman
Mingxun Wang
Wil Schoenmakers MSc
Sindhya Valloppillil
Sindhya is currently the CEO & Founder of a stealth-mode beauty personalization startup. Previously, she was Co-founder & CEO of SkinGenie, the world's first beauty tech company offering AI & DNA-based personalization. Sindhya is an award-winning marketing, strategy & innovations beauty executive with 20 years of experience working at top global beauty companies such as L'Oreal, L Brands, J&J and Zirh. She has also worked as an Adjunct Marketing Professor at Berkeley College. She is currently a Venture Partner for NextGen Venture Partners, an Advisor to the Ember Company, Shadoka Ventures and the Global Wellness Institute. Her writing about the beauty and consumer startup ecosystem has been published in Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, Business of Fashion, Pando Daily, and AlleyWatch. She recently published a whitepaper on the Bull & Bear Case for Personalization in BeautyMatter.
Atima Lui
Wayne Liu
Mr. Liu is the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Perfect Corp.
Mr. Liu has been in his current position since June 2015. He has built the ground work for Perfect by recruiting key talent, establishing partnership with beauty brands, retailers such as L’Oréal, Estee Lauder, Target and other highly inferential organizations.
Prior to Perfect Corp, Mr. Liu joined Perfect’s parent company CyberLink in 2009. He was responsible for key partner development, sales strategy and business growth. He grew several multi-million dollars global OEM accounts and managed heavy weight industrial partners for such as Lenovo, Intel, Qualcomm, Time Warner., Comcast, DirecTV …
Mr. Liu has worked in various engineering and marketing management position at Intel, Broadcom and NVIDIA before joining Cyberlink.
Mr. Liu graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in June 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his Masters of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University in June 1994. After receiving Master Degree, he continued pursuing advanced study by attending Electrical Engineering Ph.D. program at University of Southern California. Later, in order to learned more business knowledge, he earned his MBA Degree in Finance from Santa Clara University in June 2011.
Danielle Lay
Michelle Belcic
Michelle is the VP of Brand Strategy at leading visual marketing platform Dash Hudson. A veteran of the tech space, she honed her marketing chops launching brands like Uber in France, and was thrilled to join Dash Hudson last year whose AI-fueled image technology helps brands like Sephora, Kylie Cosmetics, and Estee Lauder unlock their optimal performance level on Instagram. Her passion is helping marketing teams use real-time data to understand which images will convert mere followers, to loyal fans.
Sarah Kundst
6 Reasons why you need to attend
1. New Market Opportunities: Draft your 2020 plans for commercial success by implementing new technologies into your current product offerings.
2. Commercial Opportunities: Understand your consumers through data and form strategic partnerships with beauty tech distributors.
3. Vision & Strategy: Learn how cutting-edge beauty companies will lead to the next stage of growth for your company.
4. Industry Trends: Recognise the major consumer trends reshaping the beauty and personal care landscape, and identify the actions needed to expand your current portfolio, differentiate your product lines and gain market share.
5. Data, Data, Data: Integrate modern technological advances such as smart-diagnostic devices and self-learning algorithms into the consumers journey, to enable large-scale data collection and analysis of individual consumer metrics.
6. Apply Purpose-led Technology: Cut through the hyperbole and invest in real-life, practical applications of new technology that will transform your customer interactions.
APPLY FOR THE INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT WITH
Showcasing the most innovative companies in beauty.
Are you a beauty innovator developing the latest cutting-edge solution for Beauty & Personal Care? In the spotlight with P&G is a unique opportunity to showcase your ideas, perfect your pitch and potentially secure a partnership with P&G.
You will have 10 minutes to pitch privately in from of P&G Skin, Hair and Personal Care team on 18th February 2020.
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DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2020
WHO YOU WILL MEET
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INTERDEPENDENT BEAUTY / TECH BRANDS50%
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MULTINATIONAL TECH/BEAUTY/PERSONAL CARE40%
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VENDORS/SERVICE PROVIDERS/INGREDIENT MANUFACTURERS5%
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RETAILERS5%
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Venue
Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, 299 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105-3123
The Personalized Beauty Summit will be taking place in Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, 299 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105-3123
We are pleased to offer a special bedroom rate of $309 + tax per night to our attendees.
Start Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
End Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Last Day to Book: Thursday, January 30, 2020
In order to make a reservation, book online or please call Marriott reservations at 1 (800) 321-2211 or (415) 947-0700 and quote Kisaco Research and the Personalized Beauty summit
Don't just take our word for it...
"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
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