This year, the Conference will focus on ageing of healthy skin across life stages and highlight the fact that our skin starts ageing from birth with ever-changing needs. Scientific research has recognised that there are different ‘tipping points’ in terms of skin biology; understanding these across specific stages of life helps navigate the prevention and treatment of ageing signs to enable and inspire new ideas for product development in skincare.
The two days of conferences will be structured around four sessions.

Session 1: The Science of Skin Ageing Across Life Stages

• Keynote: Inflammaging in human photo-exposed skin: Early onset of senescence and imbalanced epidermal homeostasis across the decades
-> Dr John Oblong, Principal Scientist, Procter & Gamble, US
• Keynote: Skin Microbiome and Ageing
-> Dr Michael Hoptroff, Senior R&D Manager, Unilever, UK
• To a personalised and inclusive anti-ageing experience: leveraging AI-automated assessment of facial signs and their respective weights on human perception
-> Dr Frederic Flament, Global Head of Claims Science - Evaluation Intelligence at L’Oréal, France
• Ex vivo layer-by-layer analysis of mechanics and microstructure of the ageing dermis
-> Dr Barbara Lynch, L’Oréal Research and Innovation, Advanced Research, France
• Keynote: The cliff edge: What does the menopause mean for our ageing skin?
-> Prof Rachel Watson, Professor of Cutaneous Science, University of Manchester, UK

Session 2: New Concepts and Technology Approaches in Functional Skincare

• Multidirectional activity of bakuchiol against cellular mechanisms of facial ageing: comparison to the gold standard retinol
-> Dr Anika Blümke, Research Scientist R&D Beiersdorf, Germany
• The future of antioxidant technologies: probiotics and selective post-biotics
-> Dr Bernhard Paetzold, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder, S-Biomedic, Belgium
• Menopausal impacts on skin are not inevitable, strategies to reduce signs and discomfort
-> Dr Richard Leroux, Scientific and Technology Manager, Sederma, France
• Anti-ageing strategies - What’s next?
-> Dr Bhaven Chavan, Research and Technology Manager, Croda Europe Ltd, UK
• Keynote: What does the future hold for the science and technology of aging?
-> Dr Samantha Samaras, Global Vice President Science & Technology, Beauty and Personal Care R&D Unilever, US

Session 3: Consumer Trends, Advertising and Claims

• Age Progression: Preventative & Reparative Skincare for Every Generation
-> Deanna Utroske, Beauty Industry Thought Leader, US
• The Evolution of Ageing: What We’ll Be Doing in 2032!
-> Dr Gaby Prinsloo, Medical Director, International Institute for Anti-Ageing (iiaa), UK
• Skin as an organ of communication through the aging process: speculations on impact of cosmetic science
-> Dr Gopi K. Menon, Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor, U. Cincinnati, Honorary member, Centre for Dermal Research, Rutgers University, US
• Anti-Ageing claims through life: regulatory landscape, innovation, and good practice
-> Dr Floriana Vincis, Global Claims Manager, No7 Beauty Company, UK
• Changing trends in skincare claims over last two decades and a look to the future
-> Dr Jack Ferguson, Skinnovation Ltd, UK

Session 4: Assessing the benefits of anti-ageing skincare

• Dermal Ageing: Assessment of Collagen, Elastin and AGE in vivo
-> Stephan Bielfeldt, proDERM Institute for Applied Dermatological Research GmbH, Germany
• Towards data-driven quantification of skin ageing: micro-sampling and reflectance confocal microscopy
-> Professor Tarl Prow, Director, Skin Research Centre, University of York, UK
• A user-friendly skin microbiome patch to best predict skin age through genomics
-> Dr Oliver Worsley, CEO & Co-Founder Sequential Skin, US/UK
• Skin Analysis: Is the Future Catching Us? The impact of science on consumer decisions
-> Professor Mark Birch-Machin, Professor of Molecular Dermatology and Faculty Dean of Business Development, University of Newcastle, UK
• Keynote: Ageing, so what?
-> Professor Paul Matts, Procter & Gamble, US/UK

Further information
• See the 8th Anti-Ageing Skin Care Conference website