Your Ultimate Beauty and Wellness Conference
Beauty Connect LA offers unparalleled visibility, bringing together the most influential leaders, disruptors, and rising brands in beauty. Through premium branding and meaningful engagement opportunities, build lasting partnerships, spark impactful conversations, and showcase your solutions at the forefront of beauty industry evolution.
Audience Insights
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Of brands are actively evaluating new partnerships
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Of brands are actively seeking capital investment
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Are exploring influencer marketing, tech, and distribution solutions
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Are actively exploring tech, AI, and e-commerce innovation
Why You Need to Be There
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Showcase Your Expertise & SolutionsPosition your brand as a thought leader and trusted partner. Share your innovations with a room full of beauty and wellness decision-makers actively sourcing new technologies, services, and collaborators.
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Boost Your Brand VisibilityStrengthen your market presence and stay top of mind with beauty and wellness leaders. Tap into a powerful network of 50,000+ industry professionals and elevate your brand among the innovators shaping the future of beauty.
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Build High-Value RelationshipsGrow your network of current and future clients across the beauty and wellness ecosystem. Forge meaningful connections that lead to lasting partnerships and real business opportunities.
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Learn from Industry LeadersGain insider insight into what top beauty and wellness brands are developing. Benchmark your offerings, spot emerging trends, and stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving market.
Be Part of the Action
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Thought LeadershipShowcase your game-changing expertise and practical know-how to an audience of 750+ beauty industry leaders, innovators, and decision-makers.
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Branding and MarketingMaximize your impact and position your brand as a leading industry partner through high-visibility touchpoints online and onsite.
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Networking and Business DevelopmentFrom drinks receptions to private dinners, go beyond business as usual to build deeper connections with your top target companies.
What Your Peers Have to Say

"Beauty Connect does an amazing job at recruiting, inspiring, and bringing people together"

"Beauty connect provides community for the industry so that we can all thrive and excel together"

"All the right people from the top beauty companies in one space. Can’t ask for more!"

"This is a place where we get to interact and hear directly from the voices of our customers, and engage with future partners and customers."

"Engaging with an industry that you're working in and having boots on the ground is very important for me. I love learning about my clients and their pathways."
2025 Partners
Headline Ingredients Partner
Croda Beauty
Website: https://www.crodabeauty.com/en-gb
At Croda Beauty, we’re innovating for a beautiful world, one experience at a time. With a commitment to innovation, we craft sustainable high-performance ingredients that redefine beauty standards, set trends and surpass expectations. Our dedication to excellence and innovation drives us to develop ingredients that not only meet evolving consumer needs but exceed them.
With cutting-edge technology and capabilities in functional ingredients, actives and botanicals, along with our extensive formulation expertise, we can help you stand out in a competitive market and build an enduring brand in the global beauty industry.
Headline Distribution Partner
QuickBox
Website: https://www.quickbox.com/
QuickBox revolutionizes e-commerce fulfillment using innovative reporting technology, a committed client services team, and superior order processing skills. With fulfillment centers in Carson, CA, Denver, CO, Atlanta, GA, and Wayne, NJ, QuickBox allows your brand to reach customers quickly, reducing inventory errors and shipping delays. Our locations offer tailor-made warehousing solutions, ensuring reliable and economical order fulfillment, inventory management, and shipping. Expect enhanced productivity and streamlined operations with QuickBox.
Headline Technology Partner
Platinum Partners
Cascadia Capital
Website: www.cascadiacapital.com
Cascadia Capital is an independent investment bank providing middle-market entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses with merger and acquisition advice, capital raising and strategic advisory services. For nearly two decades, the firm has strived to deliver the best outcomes for its clients by leveraging its extensive transaction experience, deep domain expertise and commitment to building long-term relationships. Cascadia is a pure advisory firm and is not conflicted by trading, lending, research or cross-selling business.
Pacvue
Website: https://pacvue.com/
Pacvue is the leading commerce acceleration platform that integrates retail media, commerce management and measurement. The company’s first-to-market platform drives incrementality, profitability and market share for brands, while turning insights into actionable recommendations. Backed by a global team of experts, Pacvue works with over 70,000 brands and agencies across 95+ retailers worldwide including Amazon, Walmart, Target and Instacart. With the incorporation of Pacvue’s enterprise solution with Helium 10 for SMBs, Pacvue is now the most comprehensive commerce and retail media platform available in the market. Founded in 2018, their global presence includes locations in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, London, Shanghai and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.pacvue.com.
Gold Partners
Alhena Ai
Website: https://alhena.ai/
Alhena AI helps retail brands transform customer experience into a growth engine with its Shopping & Support Concierge. Our proprietary hallucination‑free AI delivers fast, accurate and brand-aligned interactions across the customer journey from pre-purchase discovery to post-purchase support. The core Shopping Assistant delivers conversational search, personalized product picks, and checkout nudges that lift conversion up to 4× and boost AOV 30%. Meanwhile, our Support Agent resolves 80 % of tickets autonomously, cutting costs while protecting CSAT. Trusted by category leaders, Alhena’s turnkey APIs and integrations help you launch revenue‑driving AI in days, not weeks.
Baker Tilly
Website: https://www.mossadams.com/home
Moss Adams and Baker Tilly have joined forces to redefine accounting, tax, and advisory services for the middle market. United, we bring a legacy and commitment to helping our clients embrace what’s next.
With more than 11,000 professionals in 90-plus locations nationally, our reach and resources fuel our ability to bring deep industry insights, bold thinking, and holistic solutions that serve our clients’ unique needs.
At Baker Tilly, we unlock the power of possibility for businesses ready to move forward. Discover more at: mossadams.com.
Cosmetic Group USA
Website: https://www.cosmeticgroupusa.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Flex
Website: https://www.withflex.com/
Flex is the HSA/FSA payments infrastructure powering enterprise health and wellness brands. Built for modern omnichannel retailers, Flex makes it simple for businesses to accept pre-tax health dollars online, in-store, and across subscription programs without the operational headaches.
Every year, Americans have access to more than $150B in HSA and FSA funds, but much of it goes unused due to friction in the payment process. Flex changes that by enabling brands to capture this untapped spending power while boosting average order value by up to 50% without adding new acquisition channels.
Whether it is managing mixed-eligibility carts, processing recurring payments, or instantly generating Letters of Medical Necessity for eligible products, Flex handles the complexity so your team can focus on growth. Our platform integrates seamlessly into your existing tech stack and supports everything from checkout to compliance, ensuring a smooth experience for both retailers and customers.
With Flex, consumers can finally use their health dollars the way they want on products that support recovery, performance, and overall well-being. For retailers, it is a low-lift, high-impact way to increase revenue, improve customer satisfaction, and stand out in a competitive market.
Flex makes health and wellness more accessible, one transaction at a time.
GoodKind Co
Website: https://www.goodkindco.com/
Based in Austin, Texas Goodkind is a leading manufacturer of clean and green beauty products. While we specialize in natural deodorant, skin and facial care products, the number one thing we do is build trust. Trust that we’re always going to tell you the truth about your formulation, trust that we’re going to make your products the way we say we will, trust that we’re going to deliver on time, and trust that we’re going to become your favorite business partner. Because without trust, none of the rest really matters.
Headkount
Website: https://headkount.com/
With a people-first mindset and speed as its superpower, Headkount helps indie and established beauty brands scale nationally into brick and mortar—without the burden of fixed overhead.
Lady Burd
Website: https://www.ladyburd.com/
Lady Burd has been manufacturing cosmetics, skin care, and personal care for over 50 years. With that comes an innate depth and breadth of experience that you wont find elsewhere. Family owned for three generations, Lady Burd treats all our customers and employees like an extension of our own family.
Over 50 years ago, Roberta Burd founded Lady Burd during a time when women entrepreneurs were an extreme rarity. Roberta found that it wasn’t easy or accessible for women to launch their own businesses, and she vowed to make a difference. For this reason, Lady Burd has kept its MOQs the lowest in the industry since inception. With only $150, you can start your own beauty brand and start turning your dreams into a reality.
While we pride ourselves on our ability to create small batch sizes for our customers just starting out, we’re also experienced with manufacturing for bigger brands. For years, we’ve helped our largest customers fulfill orders for big box retailers, brand name stores, and helped keep their supply flowing for their bustling eCommerce businesses. Here at Lady Burd, we do it all!
Lady Burd offers multiple turnkey services from logo and label design, to helping your brand get their products into PR Boxes. We can even help our customers source custom packaging and custom ingredients to include in their custom formulations.
Let us help you make your dreams become a reality!
MetaNovas
Website: http://www.metanovas.com/
Metanovas Biotech is a VC-backed early-stage startup utilizing AI and knowledge graphs to develop bioactive ingredients for consumer health products. Metanovas owns proprietary NLP techniques to construct high-quality knowledge graphs from the sea of biomedical literature and develops state-of-the-art deep learning models to discover and design consumer health products with clinical efficacy. Metanovas is the winner of the 2023 L’Oréal Big Bang Competition and has served clients from leading pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and dietary supplement companies. Metanovas currently has multiple novel ingredient pipelines under development, spanning areas of scalp health, skin aging, and microbiome modulation.
Norman Consultants
Website: https://normanconsultants.com/
Norman Consultants is a leading boutique Executive Search firm at the crossroads of Consumer and Technology, combining the strategic rigor of a top 10 firm with the agility and high-touch of a boutique. We collaborate with brands that are shaping the future, from skilled artisans and forward-thinking visionaries to pioneering innovators and discerning investors. Our expertise lies in identifying and placing exceptional leadership capable of driving transformative change, backed by a track record of tangible success.
Mintel
Website: https://www.mintel.com/
As a market intelligence agency, our understanding of consumers, innovation and global markets gives our clients the clarity to act and the confidence to lead.
With over 50 years of expertise and millions of data points, we fuse the real-world understanding of Mintel’s experts with cutting-edge technology to uncover patterns and predict the future.
Next starts here.
Omi
Website: https://omi.so/
Omi is a virtual photo studio that enables brands to create product photos and videos in minutes using 3D technology and generative AI, eliminating the need for physical photoshoots. Over 1,000 brands, including Clarins and Nestlé, leverage Omi to cut photo production costs while significantly enhancing performance across eCommerce, CRM, Social Media and Retail channels.
SuperOrdinary
Website: https://superordinary.co/
SuperOrdinary is the leading global growth partner and e-commerce accelerator connecting brands, creators, and consumers everywhere. SuperOrdinary is the go-to partner for facilitating sustainable global expansion for today's most exciting consumer brands and creators.
SuperOrdinary’s worldwide team of social commerce and marketplace experts help brands and creators establish influence, scale global sales channels, and build communities throughout the world. Superordinary works with over 250 of today’s leading consumer brands and has a network of over 65,000 creators globally. SuperOrdinary has offices and live-streaming studios in Shanghai and Los Angeles.
Validated Claim Support
Website: https://validatedcs.com/
Validated Claim Support is a founder owned and operated clinical research company that bridges the gap between objective, statistically significant clinical data and marketing ready assets. We specialize in industry leading before and after photography and compelling consumer facing before and after photography to promote product performance.
We understand what makes your brand unique, and we’re FDA Registered and Inspected and QVC/HSN approved. Our mission is to provide the highest level of customer service available industry wide, with no exceptions.
We promise to provide Ethical, Accurate, and Transparent service, and truly partner with you to help you achieve both your clinical and marketing needs.
Don’t just state your claims. . . Validate them! Let us help you give your customers a reason to believe in your products.
Event Partners
AUTAJON WEST COAST
Website: https://www.autajon.com/en/index.html
Autajon Packaging West Coast designs and manufactures folding carton packaging for the US market. Our locations allow us to provide over 50 years of award-winning experience in innovative folding carton design and manufacturing experience in the cosmetic industry.
Our ISO 9001 Certification guarantees that our products and services meet high quality standards. Autajon is recognized among the top 5% with an EcoVadis Gold rating and FSC certification, demonstrating our commitment to sustainability through tangible, impactful actions.
With over 40 global facilities, we have the capability to scale your packaging needs at exponential and competitive rates. As a leading innovator in the Folding Carton Industry, we pride ourselves on offering excellent customer service, timely deliveries, and a dedicated design team to develop custom solutions for all your packaging needs!
Your partnership with Autajon empowers you to scale your brand locally and worldwide with access to our global beauty network and luxury packaging expertise!
FP Labs
Website: https://fplabs.com/
FP Labs is the preferred contract manufacturer for many leading beauty and personal care companies. We offer comprehensive solutions for contract manufacturing, including research and development, formulation, blending and filling, decorating, and retail-ready packaging. Together with our container business, Federal Package, we provide everything a brand needs, from custom branded containers to product pack-outs.
Media Partners
Base Beauty Creative Agency
Website: https://www.basebeauty.com/
Base Beauty Creative Agency is the leading integrated marketing & creative agency harnessing the power of data-driven creativity across earned, owned & paid media. We work with brands you admire to reach business growth outcomes, by building trust, relevancy and loyalty with the consumer. Based in New York City, Base Beauty is celebrating 18 years in business, always working exclusively in the beauty, wellness and personal care industries.
Global Cosmetic Industry
Website: https://www.gcimagazine.com/
Global Cosmetic Industry is the industry resource for beauty and personal care business and retail insights, trends, market data, ingredients, packaging and best practices for driving innovative products & brands. Brand owners, marketers, executives and product developers worldwide rely on Global Cosmetic Industry to help them work faster, smarter and better.
Returning Partners
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Alphawave Semi 2023 Interview
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Lemurian Labs 2023 Interview
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Brainchip 2023 Interview
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Neuchips 2023 Interview
Neuchips have rejoined the 2024 AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit as gold partners. Check out this interview from the 2023 summit to glimpse into Kinny Chen's industry insights and Neuchips' overall summit experience.
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2023 Exhibition Highlights
