IAC President Lisa Koenigsberg was honored to join the CIBJO panel, “The Growing Separation of the Natural and Laboratory-Grown Diamond Markets” in Vicenzaoro September 2024. You can watch this important session here. The panel was moderated by Edahn Golan, CEO of Edahn Golan Diamond Research & Data. Other panelists included Martin Leake, Special Advisor - Precious Stones at the DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre); and
A highlight of IAC's 14th Annual Gold and Diamond Conference, Maintaining Purpose, was the presentation of IAC's 2024 awards for Leadership in Responsible Practice in Jewelry and for Extraordinary Contributions to the Diamond and Jewelry Industries. It was an honor to confer on Gaetano Cavalieri (President, CIBJO / World Confederation of Jewellery Organizations) IAC's Fourth annual Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Diamond and Jewelry
Talk value and markets with us at Expanding Horizons, IAC’s 14th International Gold + Diamond Conference, taking place July 16 - 17, 2024 in NYC at Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street! Moderator Brecken Branstrator (Editor-in-Chief, Gemworld International, Inc.) is joined by Avi Levy (President, IGI North America), Mmetla Masire (CEO, Okavango Diamond Company), Douglas Neves (CEO, Cruzeiro Mine) & Marcelo Ribeiro (CEO, Belmont
How will we train the next generation of makers? The answers aren’t simple. Join Lorraine West (Designer, Lorraine West Jewelry; member, Black in Jewelry Coalition [BIJC]), Karen Smith (Executive Director, We Wield the Hammer) & Longo Mulaisho-Zinsner (Founder and President, JGAA Jewellery and Gemstone Association of Africa) to tackle the challenge at Expanding Horizons, IAC’s 14th International Gold + Diamond Conference, taking place July 16
How do we best address the urgencies of our time? Join Gaetano Cavalieri (President, CIBJO), Iris Van der Veken (Executive Director, Watch and Jewelry Initiative 2030), Satta Matturi (Creative Director, Matturi Fine Jewellery & diamond industry expert and Board Member, Responsible Jewellery Council) & John Mulligan (Director and Climate Lead, World Gold Council; President, Sustainable Development Commission, World Jewellery Confederation CIBJO) to explore cross-industry convergence
IAC Founder and President, Lisa Koenigsberg, traveled to Las Vegas last week to participate in JCK, the largest global gathering for the jewelry retail trade. Delighted to be in the company of Alyssa Fontaine from the Responsible Jewellery Council, the important work of which we support.
On April 17, IAC President and Founder, Lisa Koenigsberg participated in Luxury Roundtable’s Luxury Marketing Summit 2024 and spoke on the panel “Luxury Leaders on Sustainability and Aligning Customer Values.” Alongside Caroline Mayhew Gardner (The RealReal @therealreal ) and Liam Bailey (Knight Frank @knightfrank ), Lisa addressed issues related to sustainability and responsible practice with regard to the gold, diamond, and jewelry sectors, stressing the
IAC is honored to have been accepted as a member of the Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030. Under the leadership of co-chairs Marie-Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability and Institutional Affairs Officer of Kering, Cyrille Vigneron, President and CEO of Cartier, and Executive Director Iris Van Der Veken, the Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030 is a global initiative open to all watch and jewelry players with a
The marriage of vision and responsible practice. Neves family-owned Cruzeiro Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil, aims to create a new mine-to-market model in which goods incorporating its tourmaline and rubellite are finished in-country, thus transforming locally extracted resources into greater valued-added product and providing greater local economic benefit. In 2022, Cruzeiro and brand development agency Julls together invited a select group of exceptional designers from
IAC’s president and founder, Lisa Koenigsberg, with Cruzeiro Mine's Douglas Neves (to her left), a leader in responsible mining practices, and Ara Vartanian (to her right), Brazilian fine jewelry designer. Lisa had a chance to visit Cruzeiro Mine last year and recently published an article on the trip in GemGuide, Issue I, Volume 43, January/February 2024!
Check out our most recent publication in GemGuide! IAC President, Lisa Koenigsberg, passionately addressed the question: “Why does Cruzeiro matter?” as a companion piece to Brecken Branstomer’s article “Cruzeiro Mine: Creating a New Market Presence While Staying True to its Principles.” So grateful for the opportunity! You can find our article in Issue I, Volume 43, January/February 2024 of GemGuide.
Delighted to have IAC’s collaboration with CIBJO highlighted in Kyle Roderick’s piece on the 70th Vicenzaoro Jewelry and Watch Fair in Forbes magazine. In the article, Kyle discusses the panel, Halo to Hammer: Reward and Risk in Social Media Marketing, moderated by IAC President, Lisa Koenigsberg. Thank you, Kyle, for sharing and participating in our work! Read her article here.
Always a pleasure to see friends like Iris Van der Vecken, Executive Director and Secretary General of the Watch and Jewellery Initiative 2030, at Vicenzaoro! Iris is an inspirational leader and moderated the Equality for All panel hosted by CIBJO and Watch and Jewellery Initiative 2030 and on which Lisa spoke. To watch the panel, visit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrsoaKqEfAlW-hBgRhK7_j8PbswAiTAv1
The Vicenzaoro videos are now available for streaming on YouTube! IAC is proud to have been represented by Lisa Koenigsberg who moderated the timely panel discussion Halo to Hammer: Reward and Risk in Social Media Marketing. You can watch the panel discussion here.
Join us on January 21 in Vicenza, Italy, in person or online at 1PM (GMT +1). IAC president Lisa Koenigsberg will moderate a panel entitled Halo to Hammer: Reward and Risk in Social Media Marketing during which authoritative voices discuss the ways social media is used to both champion and distract from critical contemporary issues. To watch the panel discussion live and for more information
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