💡 Beauty Accelerate is returning LIVE to the East Coast March 12-13, 2025 at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, New Jersey, featuring expert talks from newsmaker brands and innovation thought leaders, networking opportunities, and a boutique exhibition of concept products and services from leading ingredient, packaging and contract/turnkey manufacturing partners. 👉🏽 Registration is now open.
Dhaval Bhanusali, MD, FAAD, has joined the speaker lineup of Beauty Accelerate 2025, lending his extensive medical and R&D expertise to the expert panel discussion, "Dermocosmetics and Science-based Beauty."
➡️The session will focus on the boom in expert-backed, high-performance and efficacy-forward beauty innovation, providing a look at where innovation will go next.
Bhanusali is a dermatologist who practices at Hudson Dermatology and Laser Surgery, where he serves a bevy of celebrity clients.
The dermatologist has also made a name for himself by helping to drive beauty product innovation, earning the nickname "King of Formulation." Key projects include:
- formulating Fast Beauty Co., Amazon’s first skin care line
- formulating 86 Elm, a project from Martha Stewart, as well as an upcoming launch from the lifestyle guru
- serving as dermatologist-in-residence for Hailey Bieber's Rhode,
- consulting for brands such as P&G, Neutrogena, Skin Ceuticals, EltaMD and Skin Medica
Most recently, Kenvue Inc.'s Neutrogena partnered with Bhanusali and fellow celebrity derm Muneeb Shah, DO, to foster the brand's engagement with derms, drive R&D/product innovation, and engage consumers and influencers.
About Dhaval Bhanusali, MD, FAAD
In his career, Dr. Bhanusali has built numerous digital health companies in hopes to better the world. While in residency, he launched Health Digital, a company Forbes said could “Revolutionize health care innovation.” Subsequently he built HairStim Labs, a company Cosmopolitan tapped as one of their favorite options for receding hairlines, Skin Medicinals, a platform featured in Allure and Business insider to improve the access of medications and save healthcare hundreds of millions of dollars, and most recently AIRE Health, a platform meant ot reestablish Dermatologists at the center of skincare. He also serves as an advisor in Ephemeral (a tattoo startup working to create non-permanent cancer tattoos), Folllica bio, and other various ventures.
Most importantly, Dr. B continues to practice at his office in Hudson Yards (Hudson Dermatology & Laser Surgery) where he serves his patients. Called “the office of the future” by Haute Living and “The Destination for beauty Innovation” by Forbes, his dermatologic work and pro-bono efforts have been featured in outlets like People magazine, Daily Mail, ABC News, Fox, and more.
About Beauty Accelerate 2025
In an environment of consumer uncertainty, market saturation and rapid technological shifts in R&D and marketing, beauty is at an inflection point.
That’s why Beauty Accelerate 2025: Future-proofing Beauty will deliver insights from industry- and category-leading experts and brands, offering practical strategies for product and brand development, marketing, and consumer engagement to deliver growth that lasts.
- Dates: March 12-13, 2025
- Location: Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, New Jersey
By uniting the best minds in marketing, R&D and data, this year's event will deliver actionable insights and strategies for brand success in 2025 and beyond.
From expanding the beautyspan with regenerative and longevity-focused innovation to engaging Gen Alpha and Gen Z consumers, this year’s event will provide a 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed in beauty in 2025 and beyond.
Key themes will include:
- Engaging Gen Alpha & Gen Z
- Longevity & (p)rejuvenation: maximizing the beautyspan
- The efficacy imperative: proof is not optional
- Delivering value: insights for demanding consumers across categories
- Obsession-worthy cosmetic packaging: design x function x sustainability
- What the latest data tells us about what’s next in beauty
- Beauty innovations to capture white space
3 Reasons to Attend Beauty Accelerate 2025
🤯This year’s event is tapping newsmaker brands, R&D technical experts and beauty leaders to present actionable takeaways for brands of every scale and across every beauty category.
🧪 In addition, Beauty Accelerate’s Innovator Talks and boutique exhibition will highlight the latest concept products, ingredients, packaging, technologies and services to drive future product development, R&D, marketing and retail success.
🍸 To bring it all together, Beauty Accelerate 2025 will provide ample networking opportunities, from lunches to a closing cocktail reception to the C&T Allē Awards, an evening honoring the best in R&D and brand innovation.
👀More details, including featured speakers, program details and tickets, are coming soon; stay tuned.
