MONDAY, JANUARY 29 | 1 PM - 5 PM
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 | 9 AM - 3 PM

FOR THE VISIONARY

A trade show for today’s professional beauty entrepreneur

To succeed in today’s complex and crowded market, beauty entrepreneurs need all the support they can get. At Uplink Expo, you will find suppliers who will empower you to execute your vision and you will meet the most accomplished professional entrepreneurs in the business who will inspire you to reach farther.

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Ticket Prices Starting At $99

You run a lean high-growth brand. You depend on outside support in almost every part of your business. Where do you find good suppliers? How do you vet them? Who has time for all this?!

Let us help.

Empowerment

At the Exhibition Hall of Uplink Expo, you will find a curation of best-in-class suppliers across the entire value chain.

No need to sift through a hundred booths just to come up empty-handed, every Uplink exhibitor has been verified by us to be:

Fully capable in their function
Specialized in beauty and wellness
Willing and eager to work with emerging brands

We did the sifting, you focus on sourcing.

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INSPIRATION

Leading a modern beauty and wellness brand is Challenging. Who are the credible voices who can help you better navigate your journey?

We know all of them.

Since 2017, Beauty Independent has been covering emerging brands and the founders and creators leading those brands—many of whom have now blossomed into major forces in our industry.

At the Conference Hall of Uplink Expo, we have gathered the most credible and accomplished beauty entrepreneurs in the industry for two days of candid discussions and shared learning.

Learn from the best. Find your community.

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CONFERENCE HALL

Agenda

DAY 1

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
What does it take to successfully launch a new brand in today’s hyper-competitive beauty market–what has changed and what is still the same?
PANELISTS
• Daniel Patrick Giles, Founder, Perfumehead
• Jeanine Lobel, Founder, Neen / Former Founder, Stila
• Christin Powell, Co-Founder & CEO, Kinship
• Wende Zomnir, Founder, Caliray / Co-Founder, Urban Decay
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
How do you efficiently deploy capital and resources to achieve profitable and sustainable growth while avoiding the dreaded “growth plateau”.
PANELISTS
• Randi Christiansen, Co-Founder, Nécessaire
• Amy Gordinier, Founder, Skinfix
• Hillary Peterson, Founder, True Botanicals
• Christina Zilber, Founder, Jouer
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
What is needed to professionalize a beauty brand into a scaled operation without sacrificing growth or losing key personnel.
PANELISTS
• Walter Faulstroh, Co-Founder & CEO, Hum Nutrition
• Colette Laxton, Co-Founder, The Inkey List
• Jill Scalamandre, CEO, Beekman 1802
• Andrew Silberstein, Founder, Solawave

DAY 2

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Exists are an important and often bittersweet moment for founders. We examine the ins and outs of running an exit process and discuss what happens once it's done.
PANELISTS
• Michal Berksi, Founder, Curlsmith
• Ju Rhyu, Co-Founder, Hero Cosmetics
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
DTC is critical to launching and growing a modern beauty brand. But it's also become complex, expensive and seemingly out of reach. How can founders realistically leverage DTC?
PANELISTS
• Katy Cottam, Founder & CEO, Luna Daly
• Kevin Gould, Founder, Glamnetic
• Dan Hodgdon, Founder, Vegamour
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Brands need retailers to grow and scale. But beauty retail is changing on while the cost and requirements of partnering with them continues to climb. How should founders approach retail.
PANELISTS
• Amy Liu, Founder & CEO, Tower 28
• Casey Georgeson, Founder & CEO, Saint Jane
• Greg Starkman, Founder & CEO, Innersense Organic Beauty
• Sandra Velasquez, Founder & CEO, Nopalera
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
What’s in store for 2024? What should brand leaders focus on and how can they best prepare for what is likely to be a rocky ride this year.
PANELISTS
• Sarah Jahnke, CEO, Homecourt
• Rachel Shelowitz, President, Lawless Beauty