What You'll Experience
A networking evening built around live procedural demonstrations on a model — the artistry behind facial balancing, contouring, and combination therapies, performed in front of the room by industry-leading injectors.
Live Procedural Demonstrations
Watch master injectors perform facial restoration, jawline definition, biostimulator placement, and regenerative combination therapies live on a model.
Industry Briefing
Empire leadership opens the evening with a state-of-the-industry address — what 2027 looks like for aesthetic practice owners.
Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres
Signature cocktails and curated hors d'oeuvres served throughout the evening. No seated dinner — conversations stay fluid.
Open Networking
The room of aesthetic practitioners, practice owners, and industry voices most likely to change what you do next year — in one room, all night.
The Three Headline Demonstrations
This isn’t a generic injectables night. The evening is built around the three procedures generating the most demand — and the most revenue — in aesthetic practices right now. You’ll watch each one performed live on a model, start to finish, by the faculty who teach it.
Live Demonstration · 01
The GLP-1 Face
Restoring Faces After Rapid Weight Loss
Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro have created an entirely new patient overnight — one who’s lost dramatic weight, only to watch their face pay the price: sunken cheeks, hollowed temples, skin that droops and sags where the fat used to be. They’ve reached their goal weight — and no longer recognize the gaunt, older face in the mirror. “Ozempic face” is now the single fastest-growing consultation in aesthetic medicine, and most injectors have never been trained to fix it. The practices that learn to restore these faces — strategic filler, biostimulators, and regenerative combinations — capture a patient population that didn’t exist three years ago.
Dr. Chris Croley and Maritza Mejia walk through the full restoration protocol live: how to assess volume loss, sequence the treatment, and deliver natural, balanced results that keep these patients coming back.
Why now: a brand-new, high-value patient most practices aren’t equipped to treat
Dr. Chris Croley & Maritza Mejia, FNP
Live Demonstration · 02
Dr. Ernai’s The Hollywood Jawline
His Signature Technique — Live on a Model
The patient arrives with a photo on his phone — some movie star’s jawline — and asks for exactly that. A sharp, sculpted, masculine jawline is the most-requested male aesthetic treatment and one of the highest-value injectable procedures a practice can offer. It’s also one of the easiest to get wrong: overfilled, boxy, a lower face that looks “done.” Definition without distortion — structure that looks effortless — is where most injectors struggle.
Dr. Ernai Hernandez has refined a repeatable, anatomy-driven approach to contouring the lower face, and he performs it live on a model, decision by decision — product selection, placement, and the artistry that turns a good result into a head-turning one.
Why now: the male aesthetic market is exploding — and the jawline is its signature request
Dr. Ernai Hernandez, MD
Live Demonstration · 03
Dr. Lanna’s Celebrity Non-Surgical Facelift™
The Multilayer K-Beauty Stack: Inject, Tighten, Resurface & Regenerate
Facial aging is not confined to a single anatomical plane — it is skeletal remodeling, fat-compartment change, ligamentous laxity, collagen degradation and skin-quality decline interacting at once. Treat one wrinkle, one fold or one layer in isolation and the result is incomplete, sometimes unnatural. Dr. Lanna’s physician-directed protocol — inspired by advanced Korean aesthetic principles — strategically stacks injectables, collagen biostimulators, energy-based devices, resurfacing and regenerative therapies, sequenced to each patient’s anatomy instead of relying on excessive filler.
Dr. Lanna Cheuck demonstrates live on stage: the LHALA Peel as a skin-conditioning and resurfacing step, followed by a customized skin-tox mesotherapy treatment — showing how superficial exfoliation, microdroplet neuromodulator placement and regenerative signaling integrate into one strategy for pores, texture, luminosity and skin longevity.
Why now: patients are done with overfilled faces — layered, natural results are the new demand
Dr. Lanna Cheuck, DO, FACS
Evening Schedule
Doors at 5:30 PM, program concludes at 10:00 PM — an unhurried evening of cocktails, three live educational presentations and demonstrations from Empire faculty, and the open networking that makes the room valuable.
5:30 PM
Doors Open — Cocktail Reception
Welcome drinks, passed hors d’oeuvres, and partner tables open for exploration.
Welcome Address
Dr. Stephen Cosentino & Lorena Cosentino
The GLP-1 Patient — Restoring Faces After Rapid Weight Loss
A live educational presentation and demonstration on facial restoration techniques for patients with volume loss following GLP-1 therapy.
Dr. Chris Croley & Maritza Mejia
Break — Hors d’oeuvres, Drinks & Networking
Dr. Ernai’s The Hollywood Jawline — Live Demo on a Model
A live injectable demonstration of advanced male aesthetic techniques for jawline definition and facial masculinization.
Dr. Ernai Hernandez, MD
Dr. Lanna’s Celebrity Non-Surgical Facelift™ — The Multilayer K-Beauty Stack
A live multilayer demonstration: the LHALA Peel as skin conditioning and resurfacing, followed by customized skin-tox mesotherapy — exfoliation, microdroplet neuromodulator placement and regenerative signaling in one comprehensive protocol.
Dr. Lanna Cheuck, DO, FACS
Vendor Raffle & Open Networking
Lorena Cosentino
10:00 PM
Event Concludes
Goodie bags handed personally at the exit.
The Next Day — The Peptide Symposium
The evening above is Thursday, December 3. The Peptide Symposium is a separate event the following day — Friday, December 4, 2026, in person in Manhattan — so both fit into one trip.
A dedicated session of expert presentations and moderated panel discussion on all things peptides, with Dr. Stephen Cosentino, Dr. Joseph Beavers, Dr. Valerie Civelli, Dr. Chris Croley and Yurik Lozano, MBA. Not a hands-on injection course — the room where clinicians practicing peptide medicine every day lay out what is working, what the evidence supports, and where the field is going.
Included free with the $499 Member seat, or book it on its own for $399.
Topics Covered
Conversations and content threaded across the evening, drawn from the questions practice owners are actively wrestling with:
- AI in the Aesthetic Practice — practical AI tools woven through the evening for consultations, content, scheduling, and patient follow-up.
- Profit Growth & Scaling — profit-growth strategies for building a more valuable, more efficient practice without sacrificing the patient experience.
- Regenerative Aesthetics — exosomes, PDRN, biostimulators, and what's next beyond the current generation of injectables.
- Pricing & Profitability — protecting margin without losing the patient relationship.
- Building a Defensible Practice — what insulates an aesthetic practice from competition, market shifts, and burnout.
- Marketing That Compounds — what's working in 2027 for patient acquisition and brand-building.
Make It a Full Training Experience
Many attendees pair the event with an Empire workshop — turning a single evening into a multi-day immersion. Workshops near the event date in New York and across the country include advanced injectables, regenerative medicine, PDO threads, and business-of-aesthetics intensives.