This session explores how longevity science, specifically measuring the epigenetic age of skin cells, can revolutionize cosmetics. We will translate this research into innovative product concepts targeting key aging factors like nutrient sensing and sleep to truly slow skin's biological aging process.
Biochemist/ Founder / Business Development Director (Mibelle Biochemistry, Switzerland)
This session delves into how epigenetic mechanisms regulate skin aging. Discover how environmental factors influence gene expression, impacting collagen, pigmentation, and inflammation. Learn about cutting-edge epigenetic skincare interventions and the future of personalized beauty solutions powered by AI-driven diagnostics and precision dermatology.
Co-Founder (Acaderma, USA)
General Manager, Corporate Affair (Beiersdorf, China)
Cosmetic and Laser Doctor (Frontiers, France)
This session discovers how plant cell technology is revolutionizing sustainable beauty. This session explores the cultivation of potent plant actives through biotechnology, ensuring high efficacy, supply consistency, and biodiversity conservation. Learn how these innovations are shaping the next generation of eco-conscious and ethically sourced cosmetic formulations.
Vice President of Research and Development (NBC, China)
This session delves into the latest physiological research on sensitive skin, exploring its neuroimmune mechanisms and barrier dysfunction. Discover new precision care strategies that target root causes—from microbiome-balancing actives to neurocosmetic solutions—enabling personalized, effective formulations for reactive skin types.
R&D General Manager (N.O.D Topia (Guangzhou) Biotechnology Co., Ltd, China)
This session explores how synthetic biology revolutionizes cosmetic ingredients through DNA design and AI-driven biofactories. Using hyaluronic acid and Tremella as cases, we showcase how this technology creates sustainable, high-purity "cell-grade" actives with greater efficacy, lower costs, and a reduced ecological footprint for next-generation skincare.
Engineer (Joint Innovation Center for Future Bio-cosmetics, China)
This session discovers a biotransformation technology based on self-developed enzymes to produce high-purity rare ginsenoside CK. Experiments have shown that it promotes the production of various collagen and other ECM-related proteins, and exhibits excellent mildness.
Chief Scientist (Guyu Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd)
In a region as complex and diverse as APAC, no company can succeed alone. This final panel focuses on the power of partnership. How can brands, suppliers, chemists, and regulatory bodies work together more effectively? We'll discuss successful models of collaboration that are driving innovation, smoothing market entry, and building a stronger, more cohesive beauty community across Asia.
Praesidium Member IFSCC (China Society of Cosmetic Chemists)
ISCC Representative (Indonesia SCC)
President (PSCS, Philippines)
President (SCCJ, Japan)
President (SCSS, Singapore)
This session explores how advanced drug delivery technologies overcome skin permeability barriers to boost anti-aging efficacy. Learn how encapsulation enhances solubility, stability, and targeted release of actives into deeper skin layers, significantly improving bioavailability and cellular uptake for superior results compared to conventional formulations.
Principal Investigator (National Engineering Research Center for Nanomedicine, China)
This session discovers a breakthrough in sun protection leveraging the skin microbiome. This session introduces a novel ingredient that activates S. epidermidis to produce bioelectricity, neutralizing ROS and reducing oxidative stress from UV exposure. Clinical results show significant improvements in pore appearance and collagen protection, heralding a new era in antioxidant technology.
Global Strategic Marketing Manager (Lubrizol Corporation, Japan/Australia)
This session delves Seletinoid, a fourth-generation retinoid, selectively targets RARγ to enhance skin repair. It demonstrates improved tolerability, restores collagen in photoaged skin, and accelerates wound healing. This novel compound represents a targeted, well-tolerated advancement in anti-aging technology.
Senior Researcher (Amorepacific, Korea)
This research report moves beyond traditional anti-aging to explore the rising "Healthy Aging" trend in Asia. Experts from Asia Cosme Lab will unveil cutting-edge ingredient innovations and technological advancements fuelling the well-aging movement. Discover how new formulations are being developed to meet the sophisticated demands of Asian consumers seeking holistic, preventative, and long-term beauty solutions.
Founder (ASIA COSME LAB, France)
Market Intelligence Director (ASIA COSME LAB, China)
This session explores how natural botanical extracts can holistically influence aging. By targeting the interconnected skin-brain axis, these wellness solutions offer a novel approach to aging well. They aim to simultaneously soothe visible skin concerns and promote a positive, resilient mind-state for comprehensive, inside-out vitality.
CEO (Specialty Natural Products, Thailand)
This session decodes the molecular mechanisms of age spots by examining melanocyte dynamics and their lifecycle. Discover breakthrough innovations that target hyperpigmentation at its source, offering scientifically advanced solutions for correcting and preventing age spots while promoting radiant, even-toned skin.
Researcher (Shiseido MIRAI Technology Institute, Japan)
Asia-Pacific stressors accelerate skin aging and neurogenic inflammation. This presentation introduces climate-adaptive dermo cosmetic actives targeting hallmarks of beauty: cellular senescence, proteostasis, and chronic inflammation. We advance skin longevity through sustainable climate tech: circular bio-based materials, waste reduction, and eco-conscious innovation.
Regional Director of Marketing (dsm-firmenich, Singapore)
This session explores the rising application of Chinese Herbal Medicine in cosmetics, driven by cultural confidence and domestic brand growth. Discover advanced extraction technologies that break plant cell walls for higher efficacy, and learn how full-link solutions—from raw material traceability to market claims—create innovative, culturally rooted products.
R&D Manager (Guangzhou Logicos Bio-tech, China)
This session discovers Whocite, a modern brightening solution inspired by classical wisdom. This session reveals how cutting-edge science validates and enhances traditional remedies, delivering proven efficacy and safety for even-toned, radiant skin. A perfect fusion of heritage and innovation for today’s skincare.
Deputy Director of Basic Research of R&D (Guangdong Ba Microbial Technology Co., LTD, China)
This session explores advanced analytical techniques—from chromatography to spectrometry—applied in TCM cosmetic research. Discover how modern methods validate the efficacy, safety, and consistency of traditional herbal ingredients, ensuring scientific rigor and enabling the development of high-performance, culturally inspired skincare products.
Technical Manager & Bio Team Leader (NAMI, Hong Kong)
This session explores integrated anti-aging solutions targeting the extracellular matrix (ECM) through glycobiology. Discover how sugar-based compounds enhance skin structure, hydration, and elasticity by optimizing ECM health, offering scientifically advanced approaches for comprehensive and lasting rejuvenation.
Head of Marketing Promotion Department (Bloomage BioTechnology, China)
This session reveals how Saccharomyces rice ferment filtrate delivers anti-aging benefits by positively modulating the skin microbiome and its metabolites. Discover how this natural ingredient enhances skin barrier function, improves elasticity, and promotes a more youthful complexion through bioactive regulation.
Front-line R&D Engineer (Mageline, China)
This session explores the fusion of traditional ginseng wisdom with modern cosmetic innovation. Discover how advanced extraction techniques unlock ginseng's active compounds for enhanced bioavailability, revitalizing skin energy, improving elasticity, and offering powerful anti-aging benefits in cutting-edge skincare formulations.
CTO (Global Cosmetics, China)
This session unveils an integrated computational, bioinformatic, and synthetic biology approach to revolutionize TCM-based cosmetic ingredients. Discover how this multidisciplinary strategy accelerates development, enhances efficacy and bioavailability, and enables sustainable biomanufacturing—bridging traditional wisdom with cutting-edge, data-driven innovation for intelligent skincare solutions.
Chief Scientist (TYRAN, China)
AromaWellness by CPL Aromas is a cutting-edge platform that explores the link between fragrance and emotional well-being. Using biosensors and technologies like EEG, heart rate monitoring, galvanic skin response, and facial expression analysis, it measures both unconscious and conscious reactions to scents. The initiative responds to rising wellness trends driven by stress, mental health awareness, and consumer demand for holistic, preventive care. Our AromaWellness programme enables us to create mood-enhancing fragrances with scientifically validated benefits. Certification and documentation are provided to clients, supporting product claims. The program includes tailored emotional testing and offers insights into happiness, alertness, relaxation, and positivity.
Senior Researcher (CPL Aromas, UK)
The science of cosmetic formulation is changing rapidly as advances in technology, ingredient research, and consumer expectations reshape how we create products to support healthy aging and well aging. This talk explores how traditional formulating methods have adapted to meet the needs of a longevity-focused beauty market, with an emphasis on the role of AI, biotechnology, and sustainable practices in developing products that protect, restore, and maintain skin and hair vitality over time. A historical overview will trace key innovations in healthy aging formulation, leading to a case study showing how a classic product can be reimagined for today’s consumers by integrating evidence-based actives, advanced delivery systems, and environmentally responsible sourcing. We’ll also examine emerging opportunities in microbiome-supportive products, green chemistry, and personalization to address diverse aging concerns. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to innovate in this rapidly growing and future-facing segment of the cosmetics industry.
Education Committee Chair of IFSCC (IFSCC, US)
Stay ahead as EU & UK cosmetics regulations evolve. Learn how to design compliant, future-ready formulations from the start — minimising costly reformulations, protecting your brand, and turning compliance into a competitive edge.
Director - Global Regulatory Compliance (Meiyume, UK)
Innovation Manager Croda International Plc (Hong Kong, China)
This session analyzes air care ingredient trends for room sprays in APAC. We review market data, benchmark innovative launches, and distinguish all-time favorite ingredients from newly trending ones. A dedicated olfactive analysis of Vietnam's market reveals unique local preferences, providing actionable insights for future formulation strategies in the region.
Regional Marketing Manager (SOZIO, Hong Kong)
*All speakers and sessions are subject to change.