In Association With

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, Dyens & Co. has closed numerous landmark deals in luxury and premium brands. 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

Azimut|Benetti Group is the world's leading producer of superyachts, for 25 consecutive years at the top of the reference ranking for the sector, the Global Order Book edited by Boat International magazine. Founded in 1969 by Paolo Vitelli, the Group is a family business today led by Chair Giovanna Vitelli. With its brands - Azimut and Benetti - it is the Shipyard with the widest range of models on the market, more than 45 yachts and megayachts symbolising a new concept of luxury based on heritage, stylistic and technological innovation, collaborations with the best designers in the nautical and other sectors, and an extraordinary bond with its owners. With over 2,500 employees, six shipyards, and a network of 138 points of sale and service worldwide, Azimut|Benetti Group operates in the European, American, Middle Eastern and Asian markets. The path charted has always been consistent and pursued without compromise, combining steady, solid growth with an entrepreneurial philosophy aimed at the major themes of social and environmental sustainability.

Silver Sponsor

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally.

Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LATAM. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work® certification in several markets.

Sustainability is at the core of the Group’s strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.

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

Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business. Renowned and trusted for its expert live and online auctions, as well as its bespoke private sales, Christie’s offers a full portfolio of global services to its clients, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education. Christie’s has a physical presence in 46 countries, throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, with flagship international sales hubs in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. It also is the only international auction house authorized to hold sales in mainland China (Shanghai).

Silver Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

Essentialist. A world built by curious minds

We are a membership-based travel service driven by a global community of tastemakers and travel editors. Thanks to them and their deep understanding of what truly matters in every destination, our members enjoy thoughtfully planned and bespoke journeys that make travel more enriching and memorable, sparking their own curiosity to explore the world.

We feel a deep responsibility towards our members as we recognize they entrust us with one of their most valuable assets: their time. We honor that trust by learning how they like to spend it and then elevating it with travels shaped by curiosity and curated discovery far beyond the obvious.

We aim to make every journey wide in scope and rich in detail—layered with encounters that connect members not only to the place, but to the people there who embody the spirit of their craft and the essence of where they’re from. Through them, one experiences the forces that truly shape a destination’s character. 

Silver Sponsor

McArthurGlen Group, Europe’s leading owner, developer and manager of designer outlets, was founded by the Kaempfer Partners in 1993. The pioneer of designer outlet retailing in Europe, McArthurGlen has since developed 685,000 sq m of retail space. The company currently manages 25 designer outlets in 8 countries: Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, delivering total portfolio revenues of 5.5 billion euros a year.

The centres are home to the most sought-after luxury and premium brands, and offer nearly 100 million fashion-loving customers annually year-round savings in vibrant, open-air shopping environments.

In 2013, McArthurGlen became a joint venture between the Kaempfer Partners and Simon Property Group Co. (NYSE SPG), a global leader in the ownership of premium shopping, dining, entertainment and mixed-use destinations.

In April 2023 McArthurGlen opened its newest centre, Designer Outlet Paris-Giverny, serving the fashionable catchment to the west of Paris. Part of the ongoing expansion of the Group's portfolio will see new phases for its Vancouver, West Midlands, Málaga, Roosendaal and Castel Romano centres.

Silver Sponsor

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.

Silver 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.

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. 

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. 

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. To find out more and plan your stay in Barcelona please contact us here

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