Ilya Seglin
Managing Director, Investment Banking: Consumer, Retail & E-Commerce
Cascadia Capital
Use real-time consumer insights from social media to shape product development, marketing, and trend forecasting. Learn how brands use social listening to stay ahead and connect more deeply with their audience.
Annabel Norman
Managing Partner
Norman Consultants
Understand what the shifting priorities of strategics around formulation ownership mean for your brand & how intellectual property (IP) rights can impact your valuation.
Discover how coveted brands are expertly balancing continuous innovation with their core values and authentic identity. By embracing forward-thinking ideas, brands are securing their differentiation in this hyper-competitive market.
Aurelian Lis
CEO
Dermalogica
Aurelian Lis is the global CEO of Dermalogica, a subsidiary of Unilever Prestige. For over 30 years, Dermalogica has been committed to elevating the skin care industry through providing world-class education to professional skin therapists and salon owners, as well as cutting-edge, professional-grade products that deliver results. Dermalogica is a standalone company headquartered in Los Angeles and is sold worldwide. Since 2016 the company has embarked on a digital transformation that has redefined the brand to new consumers seeking healthy skin. Dermalogica’s FaceMapping® technology is just one of the many examples.
Danessa Myricks
Founder & CEO
Danessa Myricks
As a makeup artist, photographer, and entrepreneur, Danessa Myricks is one of the most influential leaders in the beauty industry and is widely credited for leading groundbreaking product development for some of the most popular brands before launching her own brand, Danessa Myricks Beauty, in 2015. Referred to as the “Willy Wonka of Beauty”, Myricks takes a revolutionary approach to product development resulting in award-winning, innovative, multi-use products like the Blurring Balm Powder, Colorfix, and the viral Lightwork Freedom Palette System, earning over 80 accolades and recognition from Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List, Allure Best of Beauty, and featured on TIME Magazine’s Closers List to name a few. As CEO, she continues to push boundaries, fostering a global community rooted in love, creativity, and inclusivity while connecting hearts and minds through beauty.
Ensure your beauty formulations are shelf-ready, going beyond efficacy to encompass crucial certifications and testing. Discover how to confidently position your products and craft compelling, marketable claims that augment your brand value with retailers and consumers alike.
Andrew Koenig
Senior Technical Advisor, R&D & Regulatory
Goodkind Co.
Romain Gaillard
Founder & CEO
The Detox Market
Romain is the founder and CEO of The Detox Market. In 2010, he opened The Detox Market on Abbot Kinney in Venice, CA, as a collaborative, short-term pop-up shop aimed at providing education regarding the benefits of green beauty while also exposing consumers to hard-to-find eco-friendly brands. After the positive response and several more pop-ups, he opened the West Hollywood flagship in 2011. As one of the first purveyors of natural beauty products, Romain’s focus has always been discovering and incubating new brands and showcasing the brand founders’ stories, which reflect his own passion for offering non-toxic beauty choices. Now North America’s leader in green beauty, The Detox Market has since expanded to seven locations throughout Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City, as well as several Beauty Corners in partnership with Café Gratitude, the plant-based restaurants in CA. The demand for the best in green beauty has also made the ecommerce shop www.thedetoxmarket.com a thriving platform, shipping worldwide.
Brian Ecclefield
Founder & Managing Director
Validated Claim Support
Jane Tervooren
Co-Founder and Director
Validated Claim Support
Leverage the science of the skin-brain connection and unlock formulas with topically applied, clinically tested, ingredients that influence emotional perception. Backed by emerging research and measurable testing methods, this innovation enables substantiated emotional claims - unlocking new potential in product positioning, consumer connection, and brand storytelling.
Noellie Astruc
Key Account Manager
Croda
Noellie Astruc holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry from CPE Lyon and a Business Master’s from INSA Toulouse, both in France. She began her career at L’Oréal’s Advanced Research and Innovation department, where she developed natural technologies for hair strengthening.
Guided by a strong passion for science, sustainability, and beauty innovation, Noellie has built a dynamic career in technical sales and business development. She started as a Technical Sales Engineer at Alban Muller, then went on to manage the full botanicals catalog as West Coast Business Development Manager at Croda. In her current role as Key Account Manager at Croda, she collaborates with leading global beauty brands and contract manufacturers to deliver innovative, high-performance, and sustainable ingredient solutions.
Throughout her career, Noellie has actively shared her expertise by speaking at various industry events. She is particularly passionate about neurocosmetics and next-generation beauty technologies, championing advancements at the intersection of science and skincare.