In Association With

Michel Dyens & Co. is a leading independent investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions in luxury, beauty, spirits and premium branded consumer goods worldwide. With headquarters in New York and Paris, Michel Dyens & Co. has closed numerous landmark deals in luxury and premium brands. Michel Dyens & Co. recently acted as exclusive financial advisor to the ultra-luxury fragrance brand Creed in the sale to BlackRock Long-Term Private Capital, as well as to the premium Korean skincare brand Dr. Jart+ in the sale to Estée Lauder and to the owners of the luxury By Kilian fragrance brand in the sale to Estée Lauder.

Platinum Sponsor

With an unrivaled portfolio of eight dynamic luxury brands, Marriott International is creating authentic, rare, and enriching experiences sought by today’s global luxurian. Spanning all corners of the world, Marriott International’s Luxury Group offers a boundless network of more than 520 landmark hotels and resorts in 70 countries and territories through The Ritz-Carlton, Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts, St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, EDITION, The Luxury Collection, JW Marriott, and W Hotels. From the world’s most iconic destinations to the ultimate undiscovered gems, the international hospitality leader’s collection of luxury brands is focused on elevating travel with highly contextualized, nuanced brand experiences that signal the future of luxury by allowing guests to indulge their passions while sparking personal growth. 

Gold Sponsor

frog is the reinvention & experience partner for the Eco-Digital Era™. Together with our clients, we innovate with purpose, using strategy, creativity, tech, data and AI to advance people and planet. We are dreamers and doers who are relentless about challenging the status quo to win hearts and move markets. As part of Capgemini Invent, we bring diverse skillsets to unleash growth, build superior experiences and create lasting impact at scale—fusing art and science to realize the future. 

Silver Sponsor

Chia Network built a better blockchain to drive real-world use and application. Founded by Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, Chia provides a secure, sustainable and regulatory compliant blockchain setting the standard for the infrastructure of digital currency and inclusive access to global, decentralized finance. Through the innovative Proof of Space and Time consensus algorithm, Chia Network’s public, open source blockchain leverages hard drive space to create the first new Nakamoto Consensus since Bitcoin in 2009. 

Silver Sponsor

Flexjet, a global leader in private aviation, first entered the fractional jet ownership market in 1995 and is about to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Flexjet offers fractional jet ownership and leasing and is the first in the world to be recognised as achieving the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s Industry Audit Standard, is the first and only company to be honored with 25 FAA Diamond Awards for Excellence, upholds an ARG/US Platinum Safety Rating, a 4AIR Bronze Sustainable Rating and is certified at Stage 2 with IS-BAO. Red Label by Flexjet, a market differentiator, features an ultra-modern fleet, flight crews dedicated to a single aircraft and the LXi Cabin Collection of interiors. To date there are nearly 50 different interior designs across its fleet, which includes the Embraer Phenom 300, Praetor 500 and 600, Bombardier Challenger 350/3500 and the Gulfstream G450 and G650. Flexjet’s European fleet includes the Embraer Praetor 600 and the Gulfstream G650. Flexjet’s helicopter division offers leases, helicopter cards and convenient interchange access for its aircraft Owners. Flexjet owns, operates and maintains its fleet of Sikorsky S-76 helicopters which boast 55,000 hours of safe flying certified by Wyvern and ARGUS and serving locations throughout the northeastern United States, United Kingdom and Florida. Flexjet is a member of the Directional Aviation family of companies.

Knowledge Sponsor

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place. For more information, please visit https://www.bcg.com/industries/retail/fashion-industry

Bronze Sponsor

American Express is a globally integrated payments company, providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. 

Learn more at americanexpress.com and connect with us on facebook.com/americanexpress, instagram.com/americanexpress, linkedin.com/company/american-express, and youtube.com/americanexpress.

Fragrance Partner

A made-in-Italy excellence, Integra Fragrances designs scent identities for the world’s leading brands by leveraging the power of smell to create unique, branded experiences. The company is specialized in the creation of bespoke fragrances able to translate the brand’s DNA into a custom sensorial experience, which makes customer journeys unique and unforgettable. This expertise, combined with an avant-garden scenting technology, an exceptional level of service, and decades of experience in the retail and HVAC design, allows Integra Fragrances to perfume brands and events with over 5000 remotely controlled devices installed worldwide. Awarded with the Italian National Award for Innovation in June 2022, Integra Fragrances is a Benefit Company that has recently obtained the Gender Equality Certification reaffirming its commitment to promoting an inclusive and equitable corporate culture.

Concierge Sponsor

Turisme de Barcelona represents a vibrant destination in the Mediterranean with an amazing lifestyle that Barcelonians love to share with our visitors. Barcelona is a city to live, to share authentic and unique experiences, a great place to invest, to study, and do research or to create a new business. It has the perfect combination of tradition and innovation in a great creative and very well-connected location.

The Barcelona Tourism Board promotes and raises the profile of the city as an international tourist destination by making its visitors aware of its culture and distinctiveness through an offer of authentic and unique experiences, and a big variety of partners and allies.  

It boosts the visitor economy and offers values that enable us to live and coexist in dynamic, sustainable, and responsible surroundings. Is committed to sustainable development goals criteria by strengthening its brand and the tangible and intangible returns generated by visitors. Brings the benefits of the visitor economy to the community. Encourages visitors from around the world to make the most of the destination. Attracts benchmark events to generate economic activity, boost productive sectors and create well-being for the citizens.

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