Mallory Huron is the Director of Beauty & Wellness at Future Snoops, a global trend forecasting agency. Huron is passionate about beauty, wellness, and ingredient trends, working with the Future Snoops Beauty & Wellness team to identify key shifts, craft thematic reports, and highlight macro conversations, ensuring that all forecasting is rooted in cultural relevancy. Prior to Future Snoops, Huron worked with makeup artist and travel entrepreneur Stephanie Flor for the Around the World Beauty brand. Huron has been featured in Dazed Digital, Cosmetics Business, Business of Fashion, Beauty Independent, The Strategist, Vogue, Coveteur, Harper’s Bazaar, Glossy, and more, presents regularly around the world at major industry trade shows and events, and is a regular contributor to Global Cosmetic News’ In Conversation With podcast series.

Anel Puzic is General Manager for Southeast Asia at FOREO, a global leader in beauty tech innovation. Based in Singapore, he has spent nearly 12 years navigating the brand’s expansion across some of the world’s most complex and fast-moving markets. With   deep expertise in emerging Asia consumer behavior, e-commerce, and cross-regional retail strategy, Anel brings a uniquely global perspective — connecting the innovation signals coming out of Asia with commercial strategies that work at scale worldwide.

Alain Dijkstra is the founder and CEO of Nuon Medical, bringing over 20 years of expertise to the intersection of medical devices and beauty tech. A multidisciplinary entrepreneur and prolific inventor, Dijkstra pioneers light therapy, microcurrents, and active smart packaging systems, masterfully bridging clinical-grade engineering execution with luxury cosmetics to shape the future of skincare.

Leading Vagheggi since 1997, Valeria Cavalcante has strengthened the company’s phytocosmetic identity, promoting a transparent, responsible, and people-oriented brand. Under her leadership, Vagheggi has developed professional skincare products for beauty salons and SPAs in Italy and internationally. A member of the Board of Directors of Cosmetica Italia, she sees phytocosmetics as an authentic vision of beauty.