Upcoming events to pre-empt Wharton School Publishing book on luxury and High End

A number of activities were planned -with the active support of Philips Design-, to promote the forthcoming publication of our Wharton book on luxury and High End. Because the book will not be launched in retail until the end of this year, the choice was made to initiate and / or to contribute to a number of qualified -and fun!- panels in the conference circuits.

After the first speaking engagement with Prof. Jem Bendell and NetImpact in Geneva, this is the current schedule of activities in planning:

September, the 24th, Montreal, Canada

ESOMAR 2008 Congress, Panel: "Luxury and Research"

Panelists: 

Paul Nunes, Executive Research Fellow, Accenture, and Author, Harvard Business School Press

Wolfgang Schaefer, Chief Strategy Officer, SelectNY, Berlin / London / Geneva / Dubai / NYC

Scott Williams, Chief Marketing Officer, Morgans Hotels, New York

Philip Verhagen, Director, Umbra / U+, Toronto

Moderator: Marco Bevolo

Second half of October, TBD, Parma, Italy

"Sense of Luxury" Fair, Panel: "Luxury and Culture

Panelist: Marco Bevolo

November, the 17th, Istanbul, Turkey

ESOMAR "Opposites Attract: Creative Industry and Research converge" workshop

Faculty: Simon Wilson, Director, The Hasley Group, UK, Marco Bevolo

This workshop might be replicated before the end of the year at the ESOMAR Brand Forum in Paris, France.

December, the 18th, Moscow, Russia

Eventica "Global Luxury Forum"

I will have the pleasure to join Lieran Stubbings, talented event director, in her Advisory Board, to contribute to the program and eventually join some of the sessions, TBD.

There will be more events and activities planned in the next weeks: check out this space regularly, if interested, and yes, I do hope you will be interested enough to join me on any of the above!