COSMETIC VALLEY invites you to a working group on artificial intelligence, following the innovation commission: “digitalization” and as part of our Loire Valley Data Hub actions.

International competition, the need to be agile and accelerate product launches, responding as closely as possible to consumer needs, and the importance of business competitiveness are all posing major challenges to the French cosmetics industry today, prompting it to reinvent its design, production and marketing models.

It is in this context that artificial intelligence emerges as a structuring lever. It does not just provide one-off solutions: it allows industrial responses to be aligned with the sector's innovation challenges.

📅 On Thursday, November 6, 2025, we are organizing with eleven strategy an exclusive pre-restitution of the study “Perspectives on AI within the cosmetics industry”.

📍 Meet at: 5 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75016 Paris, from 8:30 a.m.

On the program for this morning:

• 9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.: Presentation of the lessons learned from the current study, AI use cases across the entire cosmetics value chain and a medium-term projection.

• 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Industry and non-industry inspirations.

• 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.: Workshop: Defining priority themes for collective work around the use of AI within our sector

This meeting will be an opportunity to highlight your contributions, to exchange ideas between data and AI decision-makers, and to encourage cross-fertilization between players in the sector.

Please note that places are limited.

We would be delighted to have you join us for this moment of exchange and collective reflection, which will mark a key step in the structuring of the sector around AI.

👉 Please confirm your attendance before October 16th via this form:

Are you a startup, a research center, or a company looking for new opportunities? The must-attend event of the fall season is back: the 4th edition of the “Develop Your Innovation” webinar!

Next meeting: Friday, October 3, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. , live on COSMETIC VALLEY LIVE.

✨ This innovative bimonthly format, organized every first Friday of the month (except in exceptional circumstances), offers you a dive into the heart of cosmetic innovation.

On the program:

• Presentation of innovative French and international projects, seeking partners (startups, laboratories, companies)

• Numerous innovation topics covered: digital solutions, bio-sourced ingredients, innovative packaging, formulation technologies, equipment and processes, etc.

• Identification of current calls for projects to boost and finance your developments

• Presentation of COSMETIC VALLEY support tools to finance your innovation initiatives

If your expertise matches the needs of the projects presented, you can be put in touch with the project leaders!

An exclusive meeting to launch new collaborations, reserved for COSMETIC VALLEY members.

For 20 years, COSMETIC VALLEY has supported the development of innovation in the French cosmetics industry. Indeed, research and innovation are essential levers for strengthening the industry's international competitiveness.

📖 To highlight the collaborative approaches of the French cosmetics industry, Cosmetic Valley has coordinated a book presenting the technical developments and innovation topics that have contributed to the transformations of the last 20 years. More than 50 companies and research laboratories participated in the development of this book "Cosmetic Innovations, Achievements and Perspectives"

Their projects illustrate the major challenges of the sector around 6 key themes:

• Cosmetic development & evaluation

• Impact of cosmetics on humans and the environment

• New industrial technologies

• Digitalization

• Organic sourcing

• Sustainable development

Researchers, manufacturers, brands or students: everyone will be able to find inspiration, discoveries and reflection around the innovation that shapes the excellence of French cosmetics.

✨ This book is available from September 15, 2025 at the IFSCC congress in Cannes , and on the platform.

An English version will be available in digital format.

Cosmetic Valley invites you to participate in a working group dedicated to cosmetic innovation, organized in partnership with PUI CY.

Are you interested in formulation and galenics to create new textures and modes of application, in bioactives and encapsulation to develop high-performance ingredients and optimize their delivery, in biological and sensory tests to measure efficacy and perception, or in characterization, imaging and photonics to explore new methods of analyzing skin and products?

👉 This working group is for you!

Goals :

• Create a national community of academic and industrial experts around these themes

• Identify common needs and define the tools to be developed to stimulate innovation

• Promote public/private exchanges and the emergence of collaborative projects

Agenda :

• Presentation of the founding actors (PUI, CY University, EBI, Synchrotron SOLEIL, ISIPCA)

• A look back at the industry's expectations already identified

• Discussions on priorities and actions to be implemented

📅 Friday, September 26, 2025

🕙 10am – 12:30pm

📍 L'Orme des Merisiers, Departmental 128, 91190 Saint-Aubin

📩 Registration required by return email to: agoubert@cosmetic-valley.com

Save the Date: Technochallenge – September 23, 2025 in Orléans

Theme: Use of biotechnology for the production of active ingredients and excipients with high potential

Faced with the scarcity and high cost of certain raw materials, and solutions often available in small quantities, manufacturers are looking for innovative ways to secure and optimize their supplies.
Could biotechnology, and in particular the use of microorganisms, represent an effective response to produce locally, reduce the environmental footprint and improve resource management?

Program (in person only) :
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m .: Welcome
10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m .: Introduction and presentation of the problem
10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m .: Thematic presentations

Intervention 1 : The importance of scaling up and industrial transposition for the production of new alternative raw materials.
Intervention 2 : Presentation by BBV researchers

11:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m .: Coffee meeting – Discuss and challenge the use of biotechnology to rethink raw material supplies, from production to sustainable management.

Would you like to learn more about the opportunities offered by biotechnology? Do you want to identify new local, sustainable, and competitive solutions?
Register now to participate in the Technochallenge!

Cosmetic Valley invites you to take part in a working group dedicated to the theme " Development and Evaluation of Cosmetic Products ", organized in partnership with the PUI CY .

Friday, September 26, 2025
From 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
📍 L'Orme des Merisiers, Departmental 128, 91190 Saint-Aubin

🎯Objectives of the working group:

• Create a national community of industrial and academic experts on this topic

• Identify common needs and define the tools to be developed to stimulate industrial innovation

• Promote public/private exchanges to bring about collaborative research projects

🗓️Agenda:

• Presentation of the group's founding members (PUI, CY University, EBI, Synchrotron SOLEIL, ISIPCA)

• Review of the industry's expectations already identified

• Discussions on priorities and actions to be taken

📩 Registration required by return email to: agoubert@cosmetic-valley.com