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Welcome Reception
Summit Day 1
Summit Day 2
The organisers reserve the right to change the programme and speakers without giving prior notice.
Guests are welcomed for an informal evening reception hosted in partnership with Geneva Tourism. This private gathering marks the opening of the Luxury Innovation Summit 2026 and brings together speakers, partners, jury members, and invited guests ahead of the main Summit program.
Opening remarks by Geneva Tourism, the Summit Chair, and Luxury Venture Group, setting the context for the 2026 edition and welcoming guests to Geneva.
The Welcome Reception concludes.
The organisers reserve the right to change the programme and speakers without giving prior notice.
Registration opens. Guests are welcomed with coffee, tea, and light refreshments before the opening sessions.
Opening remarks by Luxury Venture Group, the Summit Chair, institutional partners, and selected guests. The session introduces the 2026 theme: Proof Over Promise. The New Luxury Playbook.
The Credibility Economy: Why Luxury Must Prove More
A senior-level conversation on the new market reality for luxury, where brands need to prove value, trust, relevance, and business impact.
The CEO Reality Check: Growth, Desire and Discipline in Luxury
A curated conversation with senior leaders on the strategic shifts shaping luxury, from changing clients and pricing pressure to trust, distribution, technology, and long-term brand value.
Coffee, refreshments, and informal networking.
The Value Test: Can Luxury Still Defend Price?
A theme-led panel on how luxury brands prove value beyond price.
The discussion will explore product authority, service excellence, client lifetime value, pricing discipline, and the balance between desirability and accessibility.
What Works Now: A Case Study in Modern Luxury Innovation
A focused 25-minute session highlighting a company, founder, or brand initiative with measurable relevance to the Summit theme.
The Trust Test: Product Truth, Traceability and Brand Protection
A curated discussion on how luxury brands protect trust in a market shaped by resale, counterfeits, product passports, authentication, fraud, returns, and secondary market growth.
Lunch, curated networking, and selected 20-minute meetings arranged through the Summit platform.
Registered guests will be able to indicate what they are looking for, what they offer, and request meetings with selected participants. Dedicated tables and lounge areas will be available for focused business conversations.
Meeting slots are limited and subject to availability.
Inside the Innovation Agenda of Luxury Brands
A curated discussion with innovation leaders from luxury and premium brands on what they are prioritising now, what gets funded, what gets blocked, and how innovation teams prove value internally.
AI, Emotion, and the Future of Luxury Client Relationships
A focused session on how AI, data, and clienteling are reshaping luxury relationships while preserving the emotional and human qualities that define the sector.
The discussion will explore personalisation, client advisors, service rituals, loyalty, privacy, emotional intelligence, and the balance between technology and human connection.
What We Learned: Proof Over Promise in Practice
Closing reflections from the first day programme, with key takeaways from the discussions and a transition to the evening programme.
Guests arrive for the Luxury Innovation Awards 2026 ceremony, cocktail reception and gala dinner.
Recognition of selected companies, founders, innovators, and partners shaping the future of luxury.
A reception for award finalists, jury members, partners, speakers, and guests.
A seated evening dinner with curated networking, partner moments, and celebration.
The organisers reserve the right to change the programme and speakers without giving prior notice.
Guests are welcomed with coffee, tea, and light refreshments before the second day programme begins.
A short opening session to frame the second day of the Summit and connect the discussions back to the 2026 theme: Proof Over Promise. The New Luxury Playbook.
The Global View: Where Luxury Growth Comes From Next
A senior-level keynote on the next phase of luxury growth, with a focus on changing demand, market discipline, client expectations, and where future value will come from.
The Relevance Test: Winning the Next Luxury Client
A curated discussion on how luxury brands stay relevant across generations, cultures, and markets.
The session will explore Gen Z, Gen Alpha, creators, live commerce, new client expectations, and emerging market growth.
Coffee, refreshments, and informal networking.
The Bigger Picture: The Swiss Luxury Watch Industry
A high-level conversation with leading Swiss luxury watch brand CEOs on the future of Swiss watches, Swiss luxury, and Switzerland’s role in the changing global luxury market.
The discussion will explore how Swiss watchmaking is responding to shifts in client expectations, global demand, technology, craftsmanship, distribution, retail, resale, and long-term brand value.
Beauty, Wellness and Longevity: The New Luxury Growth Engine
A focused session on one of the fastest-growing areas of luxury, where beauty, wellness, health, science, hospitality, and personalisation are increasingly connected.
The discussion will explore premium beauty, longevity, skin health, wellness hospitality, high-performance treatments, and the role of trust in science-backed luxury.
Luxury Leadership Rewritten: What Leaders Need to Prove Next
A closing conversation on the redefinition of luxury leadership in a shifting global market, from financial performance and innovation to trust, culture, talent, technology, and human connection.
The session will also explore how women leaders and diverse leadership teams are shaping the future of luxury, bringing new perspectives to clients, culture, creativity, governance, relevance, and long-term value.
Final remarks from Luxury Venture Group and the Summit Chair.
The Summit concludes with a networking lunch for registered guests, speakers, partners, and invited participants.
