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 Two Headline Demonstrations
This isn’t a generic injectables night. The evening is built around the two 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
The Hollywood Jawline
Dr. Ernai’s 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
Evening Schedule
Doors at 5:30 PM, program concludes at 10:00 PM — an unhurried evening of cocktails, two 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
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
Vendor Raffle & Open Networking
Lorena Cosentino
10:00 PM
Event Concludes
Goodie bags handed personally at the exit.
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.