The Social Media Event for Fashion & Luxury Goods
September 23rd 2013 in Paris
FLOW is the European Social Media conference exclusively dedicated to fashion and beauty companies. FLOW provides a place for those that shape tomorrow’s social web to meet with various brands. FLOW takes place every year in Paris, on the day before the start of the fashion week. Speakers
Reserve your seat soon as there are only 200 tickets available. The prices start at €790 and you can book your place online. Register
Flow is the unique destination in Europe where fashion & luxury digital experts meet the most influential companies in the social media sector. Flow brings together CEOs & founders of highly creative companies, digital experts, bloggers and designers.
Tony Wang Tony previously worked at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco where he was involved in its revenue, business development, product and international teams. Tony joined Twitter from Google, where he was Managing Counsel and supported the company's international expansion.
Omid Ashtari Omid Ashtari is focused on expanding the European footprint through strategic partnerships. Before joining Foursquare, Omid spent 7 years with Google, working with a broad range of clients and partners across the globe. Omid holds a bachelor's degree in European Business Administration from Cologne Business School. He is currently based in London, UK.
Amy Cole Amy Cole has joined Instagram as the 7th member of the team a year ago. Amy joined as the first member of the business operations team. She holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering and is a graduate of the Stanford School of Business. She’s been an avid Instagram user since February 2011 and lives in San Francisco, California.
Valentine Uhovski Valentine was born in Moscow and moved to New York in 1995. He has worked for the Russian and German edition of Interview magazine and freelanced for The Wall Street Journal. In his role at Tumblr, he tries to align new and relatively unheard of bloggers with large and established brands. Fashion is one of Tumblr’s biggest communities.
Céline Orjubin Céline Orjubin is the Associate Director responsible for the development of the My Little group and co-founder of Merci Alfred. With a team of 30 people, on a daily basis she thinks up new built-in formats for advertisers and new experiences for the My Little community (800,000 women). With a degree from the HEC business school, Céline worked at Morgan Stanley in London before joining My Little.
Philippe Von Borries Philippe is the founder of Refinery29, a fast-growing start-up at the intersection of media and commerce. R29 is the cornerstone of fashion, beauty, and shopping for a new generation. Combining addictive content and shopping opportunities, Refinery29 reaches over 3 million users every month.
Olivier Billon Olivier Billon, president and cofounder of Ykone (online fashion magazine and consultancy agency in social media strategy for fashion, beauty and luxury companies). Olivier is also the organizer of Flow.
Mark Kornfilt Mark Kornfilt is the cofounder of the famous video broadcasting service LiveStream. The platform’s clients roster includes media (USA Today, Associated Press) as well as production companies (Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, HBO).
Kevin Burg & Jamie Beck Kevin Burg began experimenting with the .gif format in this style in 2009 but it wasn't until he partnered with photographer Jamie Beck to cover New York fashion week that Cinemagraphs were born. Marrying original content photography with the desire to communicate more to the viewer birthed the cinemagraph process. To quote Coco Rocha "it's more than a photo but not quite a video". Beck and Burg named the process "Cinemagraphs".
Mathieu Nouzareth Mathieu is French, lives in New York and is the founder of the social game developer Fresh Planet. Creator of games that have been downloaded many millions of times such as Song Pop, he has also produced games for companies, for example “Spa Life” for Clarins.
Damien Viel With a degree from the prestigious French Business School ESSEC, Damien Viel began as an expert in mass-consumer marketing (L’Oreal) and retail (AS Watson Group). He was then appointed to the executive board of media agencies (Carat-Aegis Media Group) and finally to the executive board of the TV advertising agency (M6 Publicité) before joining Google in 2011.
Erika Bearman Erika Bearman is the Senior Vice President of Global Communications for Oscar de la Renta, LLC., an international luxury goods firm headquartered in New York City. Erika is also the voice of OscarPRGirl, the brand’s social media personality. Erika graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a BA in English. She has previously worked for Christian Dior and Burberry.
Mathieu Morgensztern Mathieu Morgensztern was a digital expert from very early on. In 1996 he founded the Data Planet web agency, which he sold to Euro RSCG in 2000 to create Euro RSCG The Connect Machine, for which he would become the CEO. In 2004 he became the Associate Director then Managing Director of Euro RSCG 4D. In 2009 he was appointed Managing Director of Isobar and simultaneously founded the start-up WebMii. He joined Digitas France as the managing director in June 2011.
Jeremy Langmead From the launch he established a unique mix of commerce and content, balancing weekly product updates with the MR PORTER online magazine. The Journal features a broad spectrum of features, shoots and advice. Previously, Langmead was the Editor of UK Esquire magazine for three and half years, re-establishing Esquire as Britain’s most upmarket men’s magazine. Prior to Esquire, Langmead was Editor-in-Chief of Wallpaper.
Stéphane Allard Stéphane Alalrd is the CEO and cofounder of Wisemetrics, an innovative analytical solution for Facebook pages currently being launched. He had previously created Spheeris in 2003, a pioneering French agency in the field of social media, and for 7 years he has worked for important French and foreign brands.
Carla Henny de Preval Carla Henry from Preval is the Digital Marketing Director of Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, at the heart of the L’Oréal group since the beginning of 2011. She previously worked for the Heaven agency in charge of the luxury division and in strategy planning for the Mazarine Digital agency.
Pierre Laromiguiere Pierre oversees global new business and Strategy for the Digital Marketing activities of the Baobaz Group. Over the past 6 years he has been dealing with various clients from media, fashion/apparel, beauty, consumer electronics and retail industries in France, UK, US, Canada, Australia, Spain and Italy. His client partners have included Expedia, Christian Louboutin, Zadig & Voltaire, Yves Rocher, Etam, PriceMinister, Sarenza, M6, Orange.
Guillaume Rostand Guillaume started his web career at eBay in 2006, after graduating from Celsa and Sciences-Po Paris. He worked for Marketplace for 2 and a half years before leaving for Shanghai where he led the Online Marketing for myfab.com for 2 years. He moved to Barcelona to become Marketing Director of Splendia in September 2011.
Stephanie Jolivot Stephanie has worked as a publisher at Madame Figaro since November 2010, and previously she worked in various advertising and media agencies. June 2004 to 2010 she worked as Chief Client Officer at Mediaedge CIA-WPP Group, for Chanel, Sony Ericsson, Eurostar etc. She created Arthur Schlovsky in 2008.
Xavier Leclerc Xavier Leclerc joined Facebook in April 2009 as the Account Executive. Xavier accompanied advertisers in the establishment of communication operations on the Facebook platform. Xavier previously worked as Director of Commercial Development at Fashion TV then as Finance Industry Manager at Google France.
Paul Dupuy Paul has launched and managed Actvertising, a company that distributes innovative online video ad technologies mostly in Asia. Paul then co-founded Zoo Uniform, a character-centric brand. Paul has been involved with The Fancy since March 2012 and acts as the company’s representative in France.
Pierre Moreau & Alexandra Mulliez Alexandra and Pierre opened their first concept-store Sauver le Monde des hommes in Paris in April 2012. This project was developed during their studies at Sciences Po Paris where they met. Alexandra graduated in Economic Law and Pierre is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and obtained a Master’s degree in finance and strategy at Sciences Po... and they’re cool!
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The 2011 event brought together more than 300 participants who work for luxury brands (Dior, Chanel, LVMH, Coty, L’Oréal, BPI…), agencies (Vivaki, Havas, Mazarine…) and media (Times, FrenchWeb, Figaro…).
Flow will host 200 participants, and the 2012 event was sold out many days before the start of the conference, so get in touch soon to reserve your place.
Call Ykone : (+33) 1 75 77 64 80 or E-mail : flow@ykone.com
