Event studio for hospitality, food & culture
Studio Lucine is a small, hands-on studio. We design events for the people shaping the future of hospitality, food and culture, and we stay with you from the first idea to the last guest leaving.
Screens are good at sharing information. Rooms are good at changing minds. Every event we make is built to outlast the evening, through the ideas, friendships and collaborations that keep going once the lights are off.
We like ideas that make people lean in, and formats that put strangers at the same table.
An event is a beginning. We design for what comes after: the partnership, the project, the follow-up call on Monday.
The guest who arrives alone, the speaker with butterflies, the team on site at 6 am. We think about all of them.
Most of our work sits where hospitality, food and innovation meet: summits, conferences and the community evenings in between.
An exploratory meeting to understand your goals, audience and brand DNA.
Tailor-made concepts that reflect your culture. You pick one; we refine it into a full plan.
Programming, venue sourcing and scenography — every detail shaped with intention.
Logistics, suppliers and on-site coordination, handled end to end.
We review takeaways and impact so you can build on the success.
Her ability to anticipate needs, coordinate with partners and start-ups, manage timelines and create a seamless experience for almost 400 attendees was truly impressive.
Andrea Monti — CEO, EHL Next
Lucine grew up in Johannesburg and now calls Switzerland home. She studied Economics & Management at the University of Geneva and Hospitality Management at EHL, and spent time at Deloitte before founding the studio. She brings all of it to every project: a clear head for strategy, a soft spot for the details guests remember, and a habit of introducing people who should know each other.
Four quick questions and we'll come back to you within two working days with first ideas and next steps.
Behind every good event there are people you remember: the host who warmed up the room, the chef everyone talked about, the speaker who said the thing nobody else would. Our Talent Directory is where we keep those people. When we design a summit, a launch or a client evening, this is where we look first.
The directory is private: our talent trusts us with their fees, availability and contact details. Pick the option that fits you.
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Independents and small agencies who change the energy of a room. You might be based in Switzerland or happy to travel; you might work in English, French, German or all three. What matters is that guests leave talking about you.
A few of the people who have already made our events memorable.
When a client asks us for a voice, a host or a performer, we start here. If you fit the brief, we put your name forward ourselves.
Summits, brand activations, retreats and community evenings, for organisations that care about hospitality, food and culture.
Clients see your bio, photos and what you do. Your fees and contact details stay with us, always.
Speakers and hosts, chefs, mixologists, artists, photographers and more, all in one place. Log in with the details we sent you, shortlist the people you love, and we take it from there.
May 2026 · EHL Innovation Hub
In collaboration with EHL Hospitality Business School
Two days on how connection and care can drive strategy, across hospitality, healthcare, finance and beyond.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
Studio Lucine led the operational side of the summit, from logistics, ticketing and partnerships to F&B, volunteers and everything on site, and our founder also took the stage as a speaker. The second edition grew into one of EHL’s fastest-growing flagship gatherings. Each day ran on two tracks: main-stage keynotes, panels and fireside chats, alongside participatory sessions — sound labs, leadership debates, investor pitches and the HumanX City Collective Challenge.
Food and connection were part of the programme, not breaks from it: a Togetherness Dinner, an immersive “Taste the Future” lunch powered by F&B start-ups, guided networking throughout, and an awards ceremony and closing cocktail to finish.
The theme was connection and care, so the summit had to feel human too: shared tables, hands-on formats and food at the centre, with a shared dinner and the "From Seed to System" tasting lunch, then an awards ceremony and closing cocktail to celebrate the teams of the two days.
Felt less like a conference and more like a living experience of what human-centered innovation can feel like.
Alina Hernandez — Founder, Wellness Innovation Hub
October 2026 · EHL Innovation Hub
24 hours to turn an idea into a business. 45 students arrived with their own ideas, built teams with people they had just met, and pitched to a jury with CHF 6,000 in prizes on the line.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
The EHL Innovation Sprint is built around one theme, human-centric innovation, and one rule: you build something real in 24 hours. Students from different schools and backgrounds came with their own business ideas. No team? No problem: teams formed on the spot.
Friday evening was for ideas. After the welcome and opening session, an icebreaker got everyone talking, then came idea generation, one-minute idea pitches and team formation around the most promising concepts, finished over a networking dinner. Saturday was for building: breakfast, a kick-off with the 12 expert coaches, a morning on the problem and the business model, an afternoon on prototypes and pitch decks, then the final pitch competition in front of a 4-person jury. The awards ceremony shared CHF 6,000 from a sponsor between the winning teams, and a closing apéro celebrated everyone who made it to the end.
The format does the work: short deadlines, real coaching and a real jury push students further in a day than in a semester.
One-minute idea pitches on Friday evening, then teams formed around the most promising concepts.
On Saturday, experts moved from team to team to challenge the problem, the user and the business model.
Final pitches in the auditorium in front of 4 jury members, with CHF 6,000 from a sponsor for the winning teams.
May 2026 · F&B innovation lunch at EHL
A food innovation lunch at EHL’s HumanX Summit: 14 innovative start-ups redesigning the food system, served stand by stand to 250 guests.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
Lunch at a summit is usually a break. At HumanX it became the place to taste where food is heading. "From Seed to System, An Immersive Food Journey" brought 14 innovative F&B start-ups into the Agora, each one rethinking a part of the food system, and 250 guests ate their way through it, talking to the founders behind every bite.
The concept followed a single thread, from the seed to the whole system, and shaped the route through the room. We coordinated the start-ups and the menu, set up the space and the signage, and designed the guest flow so people slowed down, tasted and asked questions.
May 2025 · F&B activation at EHL
A two-hour lunch where every stand was a start-up: 15 innovative F&B start-ups, from vegan cheese to non-alcoholic cocktails, and 150 guests tasting their way through the future of food.
Studio Lucine loves working with F&B start-ups. They bring the boldest ideas in food and drink, and nothing explains an idea better than tasting it.
For the EHL Innovation Hub, we turned lunch into a tasting route: 15 innovative F&B start-ups, each at their own stand, and 150 guests free to go around, taste and talk to the founders behind every bite and every sip. Over two hours, guests discovered vegan cheeses made in Switzerland, non-alcoholic cocktails, gut-friendly drinks and honey blends, and the start-ups met the people who could help them grow.
September 2026 · EHL Innovation Hub
No pitch, no polished slides. A founder takes the hotseat and shares a problem they haven’t solved yet. For half an hour, the Hub community and invited experts become their advisory board, with peer insights, ideas and honest recommendations.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
Pitch nights reward polish. The Founder's Hotseat rewards honesty: founders bring a problem they have not solved yet.
It is knowledge sharing at its most practical. The Hub is full of start-up experts and coaches, founders themselves, investors, bankers and many more, and the Hotseat puts all of that collective intelligence to work on real problems. Each founder who took the seat left with new ideas, fresh contacts and a few uncomfortable but useful questions.
Studio Lucine ran the operational side of the evening: invitations, agenda, speakers, F&B and the room itself.
The format turns an audience into an advisory board, and the community into the hero of the evening.
The founder lays out a real problem, unfiltered.
The room asks questions, suggests ideas and opens its network.
Ideas and recommendations from the Hub community and invited experts: the collective intelligence of the Hub, shared in real time.
March 2026 · EHL Innovation Hub
An InnoHub evening built around two moments: a hands-on mixology workshop on entrepreneurship and balance, and The Entrepreneurs’ Circle, a fireside chat with two founders who have seen it all.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
The EHL Mixology Committee led a hands-on workshop on entrepreneurship and balance, using the craft of the cocktail as a lens on building a business without losing yourself.
Then came The Entrepreneurs’ Circle: a fireside chat with two seasoned entrepreneurs, sharing the honest version of their journeys with 60 guests around shared tables.
The highlight of the evening. With the EHL Mixology Committee, the cocktail became a metaphor for building a company: every guest made their own recipe, and thought a little about their own life too.
Measuring ambition, energy and time for yourself, like the parts of a recipe.
A solid base, like a business model, that everything else rests on.
The personal touch that makes the difference, in a drink and in a company.
December 2025 · EHL Innovation Hub
Our way of closing the year with the InnoHub community: an evening where people didn’t just say hello, they actually got to know each other, over a festive buffet.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
Rather than a classic Christmas drinks evening, the party turned networking into a game: rounds of speed-dating at long tables paired founders, partners and team members who had never really met.
Around the rounds, guests gathered in a bright winter hall over canapés, a live chef demonstration and a short stage moment with the hub, closing the year as a closer-knit community.
A Christmas drink can leave people standing with the colleagues they already know. We designed the evening so that nobody stayed alone.
Short, rhythmic rotations at long tables: everyone met someone new.
A menu of festive savoury and sweet bites, with a live chef moment.
Decor, welcome and pacing designed for a warm end-of-year evening.
October 2025 · Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley
For its general assembly and fifth anniversary, Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley wanted more than a formal meeting. Studio Lucine scripted the day for about 80 guests in three acts: past, present and future.
Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley brings together companies, start-ups, research and public partners across the Swiss food system. For its fifth anniversary, the general assembly had to be a celebration of that community, not just a report to it. About 80 members and partners joined us for the day.
We scripted the day in three acts. The past looked back on five years of the Valley with the people who built it. The present was all about connection: the networking game and a tasting with member F&B start-ups. The future gave the stage to six Valley start-ups, Voltiris, FoodFor Labs, FoodYoung Labs, GoNina, Nereid Water and Vivent, to pitch where food is going next. Studio Lucine took care of the start-up pitches. An alphorn moment and the Mountain Climber Award closed the day, followed by an apéro.
Every part of the day was designed to get members talking, tasting and playing, with the food theme of the Valley running through it all.
Every guest received ingredient stickers. Each time they met someone new, they swapped a sticker, and slowly filled their plate card to match the food theme of the Valley.
Member start-ups served their products to the room, so guests could taste the future of food instead of only hearing about it.
A narrative thread that carried five years of the ecosystem through the whole programme.
An alphorn moment and the Mountain Climber Award ceremony gave the day its Swiss character.
May 2025 · EHL Innovation Hub
In collaboration with EHL Hospitality Business School
The inaugural EHL Open Innovation Summit: 1.5 days of connection, learning and real-time co-creation around the future of hospitality.
Photos: EHL, taken by Redvision
Three tracks — Future of Food, Regenerative Economies and Luxury with Impact — ran through keynotes, panels, fireside chats, hands-on workshops and live challenge sessions, with a networking dinner and dance evening at the Montreux Jazz Café in between.
The inaugural summit had to make innovation tangible. People moved between keynotes, workshops and live challenges, walked out into the forest for a regeneration session among the trees, and finished the first day at the Montreux Jazz Café, where contacts slowly turned into relationships.
From the main stage to a regeneration walk in the forest, every format was designed to move people and spark collaborations. Studio Lucine brought together partners, start-ups, speakers and 25 student volunteers into one seamless experience.
Her ability to anticipate needs, coordinate with partners and start-ups, manage timelines and create a seamless experience for almost 400 attendees was truly impressive.
Andrea Monti — CEO, EHL Next
June 2021 · Junior Entreprise Genève
Our yearly celebration for Junior Entreprise Genève: current members and alumni together on a rooftop, from sunset drinks to a late party.
Every year, Junior Entreprise Genève brings its current members and its alumni back together. In June 2021 we gave that reunion a rooftop with a view over the lake and the mountains, and planned the evening from the first drink to the last song.
Guests walked in under a floral arch and welcome sign that quickly became the photo spot of the night. Comedian Bruno Peki took the stage for a stand-up set, a few short words followed at sunset, and then the lights went down for the party, with people from 19 to 55 sharing the same dance floor.
April 2021 · Université de Genève × Junior Entreprise Genève
In partnership with the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM), University of Geneva
Professors and students on one stage, asking what Covid and the climate crisis really meant for us, and what should change next. A full hall at Uni Dufour and a livestream followed every word.
Junior Entreprise Genève and the Geneva School of Economics and Management wanted a conversation, not a lecture. So the panel brought professors and students together, and the questions came from both sides: what did the pandemic change in how we live, move and consume, and what does that mean for the climate?
We organised the round table from concept to stage, then hosted and moderated it live. The format was hybrid from the start: a full hall at Uni Dufour and a livestream that reached 1,300 views, with live questions and poll results on the big screen keeping everyone part of the debate.
Brand activation · IQOS boutique
Pilot project with IQOS
An artist came into the IQOS boutique to personalise clients’ devices on the spot, turning a visit to the store into a moment people could take home with them.
A boutique is usually a place you pass through. For this pilot activation, Studio Lucine turned the IQOS boutique into a place to stay a while: clients who walked in were offered something they could not get anywhere else.
At the heart of it, an artist worked live in the store, personalising each guest’s IQOS by hand. Every device left the boutique as a one-off, and every guest left with a story about how it was made.
Guests chose a design, watched it being painted and left with a device nobody else has.
The artist prepared pattern sketches and a palette, so guests could choose the look of their device.
The artist worked at the counter, right in the middle of the boutique, while guests watched their design come to life.
Every device left the store as a unique, hand-painted piece.
The finished pieces stayed on show in the boutique, next to the sketches that inspired them.