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FROM AMBITION TO EXECUTION

build a Strategic Technology Playbook

Beauty Independent’s Tech*AI Summit is the first event in beauty devoted to applying technology and AI across the entire value chain—from product innovation to sales and marketing to business management—pairing a clear look ahead with hands-on application now.

see how ai + tech can be applied across the value chain.

Cutting-edge tech demos.

Real world success stories.

SPEAKERS

  • Kick off the day with coffee, conversation, and early access to the Demonstration Area. Attendees can meet with vetted tech and AI partners, view live demos, and begin comparing solutions built for beauty and wellness—all before the program begins.

  • This opening presentation demystifies artificial intelligence—what it is, how it works, and how it is being used in practice today. Designed for beauty leaders at every level of AI fluency, it establishes a clear foundation for understanding AI as it moves from experimentation to core business infrastructure.

  • AI is reshaping how beauty brands innovate, engage consumers, and scale. This panel explores how artificial intelligence is being applied across the beauty value chain, where brands are seeing real impact today, and how shifting consumer expectations are accelerating adoption.

THE
Agenda

PRODUCT INNOVATION

  • The Good Face Project is a beauty technology company transforming product development and ingredient transparency through its AI-powered ingredient intelligence platform. By combining one of the industry’s most comprehensive ingredient databases with data science and machine learning, The Good Face Project helps brands research, formulate, and evaluate products with greater speed, safety, and confidence. The platform supports smarter decision-making across R&D, compliance, and consumer communication in skincare, haircare, and personal care.

  • AI is transforming how beauty products are developed—from ingredient sourcing to manufacturing and beyond. This panel explores how technology is accelerating innovation, efficiency, and sustainability across the product lifecycle.

SALES & MARKETING

  • Inference Beauty® (formerly Skin Match Technology) is a Switzerland-based AI and software company focused exclusively on the beauty industry. Its beauty-industry-focused AI empowers B2B clients to deliver tailored, interactive consumer experiences across every touchpoint. Inference Beauty helps beauty brands and retailers turn complex product and ingredient data into transparent, personalized product discovery across skincare, haircare, makeup, fragrance, and body care.

  • Nines is a brand-trained AI content and commerce platform for fashion, beauty, and jewelry. It combines human creative direction with AI image production to deliver on-brand visuals across marketing, e-commerce and clienteling — faster and more efficiently,  with greater creative consistency. Configured to reflect each brand’s visual language, Nines produces imagery through a human-guided process that ensures every asset feels considered, consistent, and unmistakably on brand.

  • Statusphere is a creator seeding and social commerce platform that helps brands turn products into authentic, trackable creator content at scale. By combining AI-driven creator matching, automated product seeding, and performance tracking, Statusphere enables brands to generate high-quality UGC and measurable social impact without the complexity of traditional influencer programs. The platform helps brands build always-on creator ecosystems that drive discovery, trust, and conversion across social channels.

  • The Demonstration Area remains open during lunch, creating space to continue peer-level conversations while exploring live demos and stress-testing solutions.

  • AI is reshaping how beauty brands market, sell, and scale. This panel explores the tools and strategies driving personalization, performance, and growth across sales and marketing.

BUSINESS OPERATIONS

  • Cin7 is a global software company providing cloud-based inventory and order management solutions that help product businesses streamline operations, unify stock across channels, and scale with confidence. Its platform integrates inventory control, warehouse workflows, point-of-sale, e-commerce, and third-party logistics to give real-time visibility and automation across sales, fulfillment, and reporting. Cin7 serves retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and omnichannel sellers worldwide, turning complex inventory processes into connected, efficient workflows for sustainable growth.

  • Drivepoint is the strategic finance platform for scaling consumer brands. Designed for modern operators, Drivepoint brings together financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning to help teams understand performance, anticipate outcomes, and make smarter decisions as they grow. The platform turns complex financial and operational data into clear, forward-looking insights that support disciplined, sustainable scale.

  • Glimpse is an AI-powered deductions management platform that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands automate and streamline the complex process of retail deductions, dispute invalid claims, recover lost revenue, and improve cash flow. By consolidating retail data into a centralized system and deploying intelligent AI agents, Glimpse reduces manual work, accelerates accounting workflows, and drives greater financial clarity for growing brands. Trusted by hundreds of consumer brands, Glimpse combines advanced automation with deep industry expertise to help teams reclaim time and revenue they’d otherwise write off.

  • AI is transforming the business of beauty. This panel explores how predictive tools and automation are improving forecasting, inventory, returns, and customer support—turning operations into a strategic advantage.

Why Tech*AI? Why Now?

Today’s beauty landscape is more complex, competitive and digitally-connected than ever—requiring brand builders to leverage technology for capital efficiency, differentiation, and rapid innovation. As AI moves from novelty to necessity, brands must learn how to make strategic, high-impact investments in these new technologies—or risk falling behind. Despite excitement around AI’s ability to fast-track growth, many brands remain stuck, unsure where to start or how to scale.

Beauty Independent’s Tech*AI Summit is the first event dedicated to turning ambition into execution.

Proprietary research and candid case studies provide the clear roadmaps needed to make informed decisions about technology and AI investments for growth. Join brand leaders, product innovators, and technology pioneers for a full day of peer learning, best-in-class content, and unparalleled networking—designed to fast-track AI integration and deliver measurable business value in today’s high-stakes market.

Are you a technology or ai company with relevant innovations to share?

Contact us today.

The venue

Convene 360 Madison Avenue

360 Madison Ave.

New York, NY 10017

February 9, 2026 | 8am to 5pm

 

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