The Luxury Venture Group (LVG) announces Bulgari’s Jean-Christophe Babin as the President of the Jury of the Luxury Innovation Awards 2021. The Awards take place at the Luxury Innovation Summit, an in-person and online event, at which Jean-Christophe Babin will deliver a special keynote to young entrepreneurs and leaders in the luxury space.
“It is vital for the luxury industry to explore not only the way forward for established brands but how start-ups and young entrepreneurs can build and grow their businesses,” says Jean-Christophe Babin, Group CEO, Bulgari. “While sales of major and established luxury brands have shown a strong post-pandemic recovery, we must not forget the next generation of luxury, and tomorrow’s creators, designers, and business leaders. The Luxury Innovation Summit and the Luxury Innovation Awards should be essential for anyone who cares about the future of luxury. I am excited to be involved in the Luxury Innovation Awards 2021 edition as the President of the Jury.”
Our own Brice Lechevalier, editor-in-chief of GMT Magazine, will be a member of the jury.
About the Luxury Innovation Awards
The Luxury Innovation Awards celebrate and showcase emerging brands and companies developing innovative solutions and products for the luxury world. We invite award submissions from all over the world. The winners and finalists would receive visibility and possible investments from the Luxury Venture Group and its network. The 2020 edition of the Awards saw 149 entries from 34 countries.
The award premiere is scheduled for 21 October 2021 at 15:30 CET at the Luxury Innovation Summit in Geneva and the award show will also be live-streamed. The second edition of the Luxury Innovation Awards will recognise 6 winners of the competition. One winner will be selected from each of the following six categories:
– Art and Culture;
– Watches, Jewellery, and Accessories;
– Fashion and Design;
– Lifestyle, Beauty and Travel;
– Responsibility and Sustainability;
– Technology, AI, Space, Data and Marketplace
About the Luxury Innovation Summit
The Luxury Innovation Summit is a business conference and networking event aimed at start-ups, established brands and houses, investors, industry observers, and creative figures from the global luxury community. Speakers include brand CEOs, Creative Directors, Industry Commentators, and Innovators.
Meeting safely and securely
The physical experience at the Luxury Innovation Summit is being designed with a health and safety front of mind. In-person attendance at the Summit and all associated social events is being organized following all relevant international and national guidelines relating to physical meetings and COVID-19. According to the latest development of the COVID-19 situation and to meet the hygiene guidelines from the Swiss government at that time, the agenda and format may be adopted. Attendance of the Luxury Innovation Summit is possible both in-person as well as digitally, with added flexibility.
About the Luxury Venture Group
The Luxury Venture Group (LVG) is a Swiss-based venture capital company focused on venture capital investment in startups from the luxury industry. Initiated in 2019, the LVG aims to establish itself as a world leader in venture capital investment for startups from the luxury and related industries. With the carefully selected and most promising startups from the industry, LVG uses the full power of its unique ecosystem to support its portfolio companies in their journey towards success. LVG’s network helps these startups grow and make them investment-ready for Series A and beyond and provides them with new investors / co-investors all along with the fund-raising phases.
