LUXURY, BEAUTY & LONGEVITY SUMMIT Redefining Luxury in Longevity & Beauty

April 16-17, Paris

Pullman Hotel Paris Montparnasse

For leaders building science-led, longevity-driven premium brands, this summit delivers strategic insight, across keynotes, panels, retail, and investor sessions, on turning innovation into lasting growth and relevance.

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For Founders & Executives
(brands, clinics, retail):

  • Learn how to scale science-backed, purpose-driven brands globally.

  • Discover new growth channels,  from clinics to e-commerce.

  • Build towards consumer demand for longevity, prevention, and personalization.

  • Network with investors, retail partners, and ingredient/tech providers.

For Sponsors
(market research, ingredients, services, tech, clinic solutions):

  • Get in front of decision-makers: CEOs, founders, VP, CMOs.

  • Position your service as the enabler for brand success.

  • Be integrated into curated sessions, not just expo booths.

Day 1 – Thursday, April 16, 2026

18:00 - Networking reception

Welcome drinks for all participants

The New Face of Luxury: From Beatuy to Longevity Kick off with purposeful networking and curated introductions among senior executives, founders, scientists, tech innovators, investors and wellness leaders.

  • Vania Lacascade, Global Brand President, Lancôme

Day 2 – Friday, April 17, 2026

OPENING & CONTEXT

A highly curated, intimate exhibition featuring a limited number of next-generation beauty, wellness, and longevity brands. From biotech-driven skincare and advanced supplements to diagnostic tools and science-backed premium concepts, each brand will host a dedicated tabletop presentation designed for focused, high-level conversations.

The exhibition opens at 8:00 AM and is accessible during networking breaks and lunch. This is not a large-scale trade show. It is a selective showcase of innovation, designed for meaningful dialogue and strategic discovery.

Explore the future of science and luxury.

Different generations decode luxury through very different lenses – from heritage to transparency to self-optimisation. This session explores how brands adapt without losing coherence.

This session clearly signals cross-tier innovation:
Skin longevity strategies now include: supplements, wearables, fragrance, textiles, devices.
Luxury brands integrate them to enhance mystique.
Premium brands integrate them to enhance performance credibility.
Different storytelling. Same biology.

  • Arnaud Auger – Director & Deputy Head, C.Lab, Cathay Innovation

This conversation expands beyond luxury.
The real tension:

  • Does heavy science elevate desirability?
  • Or does it commoditise it?

For prestige brands, science builds aspiration. For premium brands, science builds authority.
Different starting points. Same battlefield.

  • Andrea DiNunzio, General Manager, Ultra-Luxury Skincare and Fragrance, Coty
  • Virginie Couturaud, Scientific Communication Director, Parfums Christian Dior
  • Arnaud Autret, Investment Director Europe, L’Oreal BOLD
  • Facilitator: G. Philippe Papadimitriou, Founder & Cosmetic Consultant, Cosystems

A data-led look at where luxury spending is accelerating, where it’s slowing, and what categories are redefining value globally. Signals over hype, numbers over narratives.

  • Fflur Roberts, Global Head of Luxury, Euromonitor International

Luxury beauty is no longer defined by excess. It is defined by control, optimisation, and time.

  • Why longevity is becoming a new status symbol across categories.
  • How science and healthspan are changing brand positioning.
  • The convergence of luxury, premium, and clinical brands around credibility rather than just heritage.
  • How value is shifting from rarity to optimisation and long-term performance.

Longevity is not a segment. It is a structural repositioning of beauty.

  • Facilitator: Charlotte Calvet Granet, Longevity Strategy Advisor & Co-Founder, Longevity Culture Club
  • Gérôme Guiot, Director,  Strategic Initiatives,  LVMH
  • Dr Nathalie Mobargha, MD, PhD, Board-certified Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon, Orthopedic Surgeon
  • Xavier Ormancey, Head of Consumer Goods Fragrance Division EMEA, MANE

11:00 – Networking Break

SCIENCE, HEALTH & CREDIBILITY

  • Emmanuelle Bassmann,  Founder of In-Trend bringing their latest discoveries from China. 

Co-presented with Prof. Zhe Wang

 

While most skincare brands validate perception, very few validate biology. As longevity science enters the beauty space, the shift is moving toward what we choose to measure, from oxidative protein damage to collagen preservation. This talk explores how formulation and brand philosophy change when skin is treated as biology rather than just a surface.  Susie Willis, Founder and CEO of The Biology of Beauty, by Romilly Wilde, goes beyond traditional rules of engagement and dives into evidence-based claims.

  • Susie Willis, Founder & CEO, Romilly Wilde

Longevity clinics, personalised nutrition, diagnostics. What used to sit in ultra-high-net-worth environments is now influencing:

  • Dermatology brands
  • Professional skincare
  • Advanced DTC brands

The clinic model is no longer exclusive; it’s becoming a blueprint for distribution.

  • Renee Fitton, MS RD – Vice President of B2B Sales & Growth, L-Nutra
  • Dr. Peiwen Sun, Chief R&D and Innovation Officer, Proya Cosmetics
  • Dr Christine Pfeiffer, Medical Director, Longevity Center Switzerland 
  • Facilitator: Kelly Kovack, Founder & CEO, BeautyMatter
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12:40 – Networking Lunch

BRAND, GENERATIONS & CULTURE

Luxury is no longer defined by a single age group or a single capital. From Gen Z biohackers in Asia to health-optimising consumers aged 60+ in Europe and the Middle East, longevity is being interpreted and valued very differently across markets. This session explores who is truly building authority in this new landscape, and how brands can command prestige across generations without losing cultural relevance.

Facilitator: Chloé de Ruffray, Foresight Consultant and Co-Founder, Longevity Culture Club

  • Yasmine Zemrani, Consumer Insights & Strategy, LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics
  • Dao Nguyen, Founder, Essenzia By Dao 
  • Esther Moisy-Kirschbaum, Head of Content, Magma & Oblique Forecasting

RETAIL, EXPERIENCE & DISTRIBUTION

If longevity becomes the new prestige signal:

  • Do you need a flagship?
  • Or clinical endorsement?
  • Or Amazon authority?
  • Or TikTok dominance?

Premium brands are challenging luxury not with marble floors, but with measurable proof.

  • Terezija Gerbus Antolić, Sales Manager, Arbelle

How Octane AI and groa° turned a DTC brand’s quiz into a compounding revenue engine

  • Emma Powell, Founder & CEO groa°
  • Heidi Henneman, Co-Founder & CMO, groa°
  • Aoife Teague,  Director of Partnerships, Octane AI
  • Polly Barnfield OBE – Founder and CEO, Maybe* 

15:10 – Networking Break

CAPITAL & INVESTMENTS

Investors are no longer asking: “Is it luxury?”
They’re asking: Is it defensible? Is it clinically credible? Is it scalable across channels?
Premium science-backed brands are increasingly competing directly with luxury for capital, talent, and distribution.

  • Joël Palix, Founder, Palix Unlimited
  • Facilitator:Zsolt Farkas, Founder, Evolut

FORMULATION & REALITY

For decades, luxury skincare was defined by price, rarity, and storytelling.
But as beauty moves closer to health, prevention, and longevity, the meaning of luxury is changing.
If skincare becomes a tool for biological maintenance, the question is no longer mass vs luxury,
it is whether access to better science, better ingredients, and better information becomes the new privilege.
Consumers are more educated, more curious, and less willing to trust claims without understanding what is inside the jar.
Transparency, mechanisms, and measurable results are starting to matter as much as brand heritage.
This panel explores how longevity science and ingredient transparency are redefining value in skincare.

We will discuss:

  • Can skincare still be luxury when it becomes part of health?
  • Is the new luxury access to better science – sooner than others?
  • How transparency is changing consumer expectations.
  • The difference between real innovation and storytelling.
  • Why emotion and desirability still matter in a science-driven market.
  • How brands protect their positioning as biology begins to define value.

In a world where knowledge is no longer reserved for scientists, the brands that win will not only inspire desire, they will earn trust.

  • Tule Park, Co-Founder & CEO, SkinDiligent
  • Catherine Rochat – CEO, CRB Cosmetics
  • Gregory Gazagne,  director, Telostim, CEO IDEC Therapeutic
  • Facilitator: Anna Vovchok, Chief Strategy and Brand Officer,  Ponce Aurora
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AI STRATEGY & CLOSING

Most companies know they need AI, but few know how to turn ideas into real, in-market results. In this workshop, Chaz Giles (Co-Founder & CEO, Alida Labs) and Dr. Troels Marstrand (Co-Founder & CTO, Alida Labs) guide participants through a practical, founder-style approach to identifying high-impact AI use cases, prioritising them, and building an execution roadmap that works inside real business constraints. Expect a highly interactive session with practical examples, mini case studies, and a step-by-step breakdown of how any brand can unlock meaningful value from AI within months, not years.

  • Chaz Giles, Co-Founder & CEO, Alida Labs
  • Dr. Troels Marstrand, Co-Founder & CTO, Alida Labs

18:00 – Closing Remarks.

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