Great brands aren’t built alone — they’re shaped through shared knowledge, meaningful connections, and real opportunity. Tulsa Beauty Collective creates the conditions that move founders forward.
From Indie to Industry, Beauty is Collective™
The Exchange presented by Tulsa Beauty Collective™ brings together emerging beauty founders, customers, community leaders, and ecosystem partners for four days in the district where Black entrepreneurship made American history.
Part founder summit, retail activation, cultural gathering, and marketplace, The Exchange shows what happens when commerce, education, and community operate together. The name describes the mechanics. Products change hands. Knowledge changes hands. Contacts, capital, and confidence change hands. Here, founders, partners, and industry leaders come together around real-world commerce — where products meet customers, knowledge and relationships move freely, and possibility becomes progress.
October 15-18, 2026 | Historic Greenwood District & Downtown Tulsa
Your Questions, Answered
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The Exchange unfolds across four days of conversation, culture, commerce, and connection — opening with our Thursday Power Panel; followed by Friday’s VIP Tour of Historic Greenwood/Black Wall Street and VIP Marketplace Preview; Saturday’s “AfterHours” evening party; plus two Market Days on Saturday and Sunday bringing founders and the Tulsa community together.
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On Thursday, October 15, decades of experience and expert insight spanning beauty, entrepreneurship, retail, operations, and storytelling will converge for one candid conversation.
Renae Bluitt: Storyteller, Filmmaker, and Creator of She Did That.
Kinta Gates: Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations at Glossier
Dana Ammons: Founder of Value Growth Partners (Former Manager/Director at SC Johnson Wax, Colgate Palmolive, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble)
Full lineup announced September 2026! -
The Exchange unfolds across downtown Tulsa and its Historic Greenwood and Arts Districts, with programming hosted at multiple locations throughout the four-day experience. Specific venues and locations will be announced soon.
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Our Historic Greenwood/Black Wall Street Tour Marketplace Preview are reserved for VIP guests, while the remaining programming welcomes the broader Tulsa community.
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The Exchange is generally free to attend, with the exception of our ticketed, 21+ "AfterHours" evening party on Saturday.
Brands participating in Pop-Up @ The Exchange pay a vendor fee: $75 early rate through Friday, September 4; $100 standard rate through Friday, September 11.
More information for interested beauty, wellness, and personal care brands can be found HERE. -
There are several ways to be part of The Exchange!
We’re welcoming partners and sponsors to help bring the experience to life, brands and vendors to join Pop-Up @ The Exchange, and talent and speakers to share their expertise and perspective throughout the weekend.
To explore opportunities, email us at shop@tulsabeautycollective.com.
The Exchange presented by Tulsa Beauty Collective™ takes place in and around Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District — the neighborhood the world knows as Black Wall Street — where culture, community, and commerce have long been deeply intertwined.
A century ago, Greenwood demonstrated the power of entrepreneurship, ownership, and a self-determined economy. Today, a new generation of founders is building on that legacy. The Exchange puts that spirit into motion — creating space for beauty’s next wave to be seen, supported, and connected to real opportunity, all while opening the experience to a city ready to discover, engage with, and champion them.
October 15-18, 2026 | Historic Greenwood District & Downtown Tulsa
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