Vicenzaoro Highlights, September 2025: Where Business Meets Culture
Vicenzaoro September, IEG - Italian Exhibition Group’s b2b show, opens today initiating five days of business, training and updating, guaranteed by thirty hours of talks and seminars organized by institutional players
Expectations at the start of a major event are always high and, at the dawn of this new September edition of IEG - Italian Exhibition Group’s Vicenzaoro, it can definitely be said that the 2025 edition will leave its mark. Firstly due to the debut of The Vicenza Symposium, three days dedicated entirely to technology applied to the jewelry and fashion segment, which has just ended, attracting the sector’s top experts and an audience of professionals from numerous countries to the city. An international parterre that can now be found in the Expo Center taking part in the thirty hours of talks and seminars scheduled until September 9. It all begins today with the usual presentation of the economic situation drafted by Club degli Orafi Italiani and Intesa Sanpaolo’s Research Department, with a particular focus on internationalization, a subject that will be completed tomorrow during another moment organized by Club degli Orafi, this time in collaboration with the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), entitled “The future of export routes”. Speaking of exports, tomorrow will see Confindustria Federorafi delving into the topic together with ITA and the British magazine Retail Jeweller, with an overview of the strengths and opportunities for Italian manufacturing companies interested in the UK market, made-in-Italy jewelry exports’ prime destination in Europe. Reflections on jewelry’s role today and on jewelry design trends will emerge from the event organized by Paola De Luca, director of Trendvision Jewellery + Forecasting, IEG’s independent Vicenzaoro Observatory, assisted by four renowned experts and creatives, anticipating several ideas that we will then find in the new The Jewellery Trendbook 2027, to be previewed on Sunday. Creativity as heritage and vision handed down from generation to generation will also be the topic of Assogemme's conversation with Fulvio and Alessandro Scavia. Emerging trends certainly include the use of AI applied to jewelry manufacturing, a topic that will be addressed on Sunday by Vincenzo Aucella, deputy vice-president of Federpreziosi Confcommercio Nazionale, together with business coach Mauro Mazzetto, while cameos and how to modernize these age-old creations will be discussed on Monday at the talk organized by Assocoral and Federpreziosi, together with the Italian Gemological Institute, which will also be playing a key role on Sunday at a celebratory event to mark its first 40 years of activity. Without forgetting the Retail Talks, those technical insights that Confcommercio Federpreziosi offers retailers. Among the absolute new entries of this edition of Italian Exhibition Group’s show, two bear the stamp of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, chaired by Gaetano Cavalieri: CIBJO, in partnership with Confcommercio, Fondazione Mani Intelligenti and CAPAC – Business and Tourism Polytechnic, will inaugurate the International Fine Jewellery Academy, located in Milan, with a collaboration between the parties in response to the jewelry industry’s needs and to provide training opportunities to students from all over the world. Saturday will feature the last meeting chaired by CIBJO for the final draft of the “Blue List”, or rather, the first international glossary of definitions and terms used in responsible jewelry supply chains. An important step toward defining the rules and boundaries of tomorrow’s jewelry industry.
