The Future Lives Here
Europe's top event kicks off the 2025 gold and jewelry calendar with “Crafting the Future,” reaffirming its leadership with numerous high-quality information and educational events for the next generation
A strong sense of renewal is in the air at Vicenzaoro. And not only due to the rebuilding of the Expo Center’s halls 2 and 5 – whose construction, on schedule with IEG's timetable, will lead to the opening of an exhibition area of no less than 22,000 square meters between now and September 2026 – but also because of the 500 or so “Gen Z” students in attendance today for the opening of the Boutique Show. A presence that will certainly not go unnoticed and that is the result of a policy aimed at focusing on the next generation that IEG, and all its partner institutions in numerous generational change initiatives, have been pursuing for years to address an increasingly urgent need at all levels of the industry.
A mission that can only be accomplished by having young students discover and experience firsthand the many job and career opportunities and the beauty of the jewelry manufacturing world, and by putting the most pressing issues at the center of the discussion. It starts at 12 noon with the opening event entitled “The protection of Made in Italy. Legality in the jewelry sector as an essential element of development,” and continues at 3 pm with the meeting in the Educational Hub, organized by Club degli Orafi Italia and Intesa Sanpaolo, which are also celebrating their 20-year collaboration, bearing a more than explanatory title: “The jewelry business in the current context: today’s data, tomorrow’s sentiment and the impact of generational transition on business strategies,” a moment during which the industry’s latest economic data and related projections for 2025 will be presented.
Scrolling through the rest of the calendar through to January 21, a further 20 events over four days, for a total of about 30 hours, are scheduled as proof of a unique platform for education and information. On Saturday, in addition to the usual moment dedicated to trends presented by Paola De Luca, director of Trendvision Jewellery + Forecasting, IEG's Independent Observatory, the first four talks of a cycle of seven organized by Cibjo, the World Jewelry Confederation, will take place with main focuses on sensitivity to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues and, needless to say, the generational change between succession and tradition. On stage guests will include the leaders of historic companies such as Buccellati, Crivelli and Cesari & Renaldi Gemmai.
As at every edition of Vicenzaoro January, Sunday will also feature the Jewelry Technology Forum, an event that, for more than 20 years, has brought together the world's top experts in technology applied to the gold and jewelry industry and is the highest expression of the T.Gold show community, which, staged in Vicenza Expo Center’s Hall 9, alone groups together 170 exhibiting companies from 16 countries. Consolidated successes that have triggered in IEG and top players in this particular segment the need to create a further appointment on the calendar at the September edition of Vicenzaoro to boost the presence of high tech. And so, the outlines have been defined for The Vicenza Symposium, an international summit that will focus on all the latest news in goldsmithing technology and techniques applied to luxury fashion. The first edition will take place next September in the sumptuous location of the Basilica Palladiana.
In short, the best of the industry in the heart of the gold district to look at the challenges of the future together.
A mission that can only be accomplished by having young students discover and experience firsthand the many job and career opportunities and the beauty of the jewelry manufacturing world, and by putting the most pressing issues at the center of the discussion. It starts at 12 noon with the opening event entitled “The protection of Made in Italy. Legality in the jewelry sector as an essential element of development,” and continues at 3 pm with the meeting in the Educational Hub, organized by Club degli Orafi Italia and Intesa Sanpaolo, which are also celebrating their 20-year collaboration, bearing a more than explanatory title: “The jewelry business in the current context: today’s data, tomorrow’s sentiment and the impact of generational transition on business strategies,” a moment during which the industry’s latest economic data and related projections for 2025 will be presented.
Scrolling through the rest of the calendar through to January 21, a further 20 events over four days, for a total of about 30 hours, are scheduled as proof of a unique platform for education and information. On Saturday, in addition to the usual moment dedicated to trends presented by Paola De Luca, director of Trendvision Jewellery + Forecasting, IEG's Independent Observatory, the first four talks of a cycle of seven organized by Cibjo, the World Jewelry Confederation, will take place with main focuses on sensitivity to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) issues and, needless to say, the generational change between succession and tradition. On stage guests will include the leaders of historic companies such as Buccellati, Crivelli and Cesari & Renaldi Gemmai.
As at every edition of Vicenzaoro January, Sunday will also feature the Jewelry Technology Forum, an event that, for more than 20 years, has brought together the world's top experts in technology applied to the gold and jewelry industry and is the highest expression of the T.Gold show community, which, staged in Vicenza Expo Center’s Hall 9, alone groups together 170 exhibiting companies from 16 countries. Consolidated successes that have triggered in IEG and top players in this particular segment the need to create a further appointment on the calendar at the September edition of Vicenzaoro to boost the presence of high tech. And so, the outlines have been defined for The Vicenza Symposium, an international summit that will focus on all the latest news in goldsmithing technology and techniques applied to luxury fashion. The first edition will take place next September in the sumptuous location of the Basilica Palladiana.
In short, the best of the industry in the heart of the gold district to look at the challenges of the future together.