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title: Speaking & Media | Marcel Melzig
url: https://marcelmelzig.com/speaking
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Speaking & Media

# The market, read live on stage

Panel talks, podcasts and interviews on luxury, sportswear and fashion. Data and cultural signals, read by a practitioner with 20+ years in retail and brand practice.

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[Speaker kit](#kit)

Talk & panel · The Learning Lab eLearning Summit, Zürich, Nov 2025

Speaker & panelist  
Zürich 2025

Media partner  
Abu Dhabi 2026

Quoted  
Sep 2025

Quoted  
Feb 2026

[#1Luxury Fashion · Germany  
#19 worldwide · LinkedIn](https://creator.favikon.com/ranking/fashion-beauty/luxury-fashion/linkedin/germany/)

LinkedIn creator rankings by Favikon (Luxury Fashion, Germany; Fashion & Beauty, worldwide), November 2026.

On stage · Zürich, 26 Nov 2025

## eLearning Summit for Retail

A talk and a panel on how content, culture and data redefine training for luxury maisons, watchmakers and retailers.

Photos: The Learning Lab

Topics

## Talk topics

Each topic works as a talk, a panel contribution or a podcast conversation, tailored to the audience: brand, retail, investor or team.

01Delivered · Zürich 2025

### Content, culture and data: the new brand training

How new technologies reshape learning, why learner expectations are shifting, and how content, culture and data redefine training for luxury and retail teams.

LuxuryRetail training

02

### When luxury buys the entire venue

Why the luxury–sport convergence is infrastructure, not marketing, and what it means for brands without a Formula 1 budget.

LuxurySport

03

### Wholesale is a culture decision

What the swing between direct and wholesale tells us about brand heat, margin and who really owns the customer.

SportswearChannel

04

### Resale isn't a side market

Resale as infrastructure: how it makes pricing, channel control and brand equity transparent, and how brands should respond.

PricingBrand equity

## Formats

### Talks

A focused market read for conferences, brand events and internal sessions.

### Panels

A practitioner's view with numbers, on luxury, sportswear and fashion panels.

### Podcasts

Long-form conversations on brands, channels and the signals behind what sells.

### Interviews & quotes

Fast, sourced commentary for journalists, as for Vogue Business and Handelszeitung.

Speaker kit

## Short bio

Marcel Melzig is a strategy advisor, market analyst and speaker for luxury, sportswear and fashion brands, and the founder of Circular Link. With 20+ years in retail and brand practice, he reads data and cultural signals and turns them into commercial decisions. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice, publishes the Market Pulse newsletter and has been featured by LinkedIn News and quoted in Vogue Business and Handelszeitung.

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[Request full speaker kit](mailto:marcel@circularlink.eu?subject=Speaker%20kit%20request)

## Request a talk

Tell me about your event and I will come back to you personally. Write to [marcel@circularlink.eu](mailto:marcel@circularlink.eu).

What helps me reply fast

* Event name, date and city
* Format: talk, panel, podcast or interview
* Who is in the room, and the topic you have in mind

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