31st August.
Live 09.00 - 13.00 CET
Passionately focused on innovation at the intersection of technology and sustainability in fashion, the FashionFu- ture platform is an international meeting place, bringing global leaders, innovators, activists, and other experts as well as emerging talents together for conversations and collaborations.
A digital conference on fashion, sustainability, technology and innova- tion,broadcasted from a studio in Stockholm on 31 August, which coincides with the launch of Stockholm Fashion Week.
Bringing together international leaders as well as emerging talents, and surrounding communities, for conversations and collaborations around LEAD- ERSHIP – the projects and initiatives that are driving the change for a sustainable future.
Inviting selected partners for close collaborations and promotion.
Session 1 : DESIGN & MANUFACTURING
Martine Jarlgaard works in the intersection of technology, business, fashion and art. Her drive towards sustainability and positive change is complimented by her extensive creative and strategic fashion business experience. She advocates technology's potential to change human behavior and to disrupt the very core of the fashion industry.
DANICA KRAGIC JENSFELT
Professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication
at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH
Danica Kragic is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. She holds MSc in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Computer Science. She is the Director of the Centre for Autonomous Systems. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Session 2 : THE FASHION SYSTEM
AMANDA PARKES
Chief Innovation Officer,
Future Tech Lab
JANNE PORANEN
CEO and Founder at Spinnova Ltd.
Janne looks at the bigger picture for Spinnova, as he is the CEO and co-founder of Spinnova. Before spinning the business off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland with Juha Salmela, he headed VTT's Fibers and Bio-based materials research area. This PhD in physics is a hybrid of scientist, industrial expert and entrepreneur.
URS BERGMANN
Research Lead, Zalando SE
As a research lead, Urs Bergmann pushes the limits of machine learning at Zalando Research - a unit within Zalando SE that covers diverse AI topics ranging from Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Recommender Systems to Fashion Image Analysis and Manipulation.
Session 3 : RETAIL
MICHAEL B REIDBORD
Founder at Retail/Fashion Tech Consortium
Michael B. Reidbord is a technology and retail executive experienced in building companies in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, and Europe and involved in numerous start-up successes within the technology and consumer products sectors. Mr. Reidbord founded technical apparel producer Brilliant Asia Corporation and was also President & CEO of Blue Dasher Technologies, an award-winning location-based services provider.
Alfredo Orobio is one of the leading names in co-creation. He has studied and tested the benefits of co-creation in the creative industries with his own brand AWAYTOMARS, a collaborative network for design talent with the objectives of promoting co-creation, advancing creativity and striving for a more inclusive fashion industry.
Panel Design & Manufacturing
Martine Jarlgaard, Martine Jarlgaard London - Alfredo Orobio, Awaytomars - Danica Kragic Jensfelt, KTH - Ananth Narayanan, Myntra - Nicholas Kirkwood
ANNA GEDDA
Head of Sustainability, H&M Group
ARTI ZEIGHAMI
Global Head of Advanced Analytics & AI, H&M Group
CAROLE COLLET
Director of Sustainable Innovation,
Director Design & Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins
Carole Collet has dedicated her career to developing a new vision for sustainable design, and pioneered the discipline of Textile Futures in 2000. She is Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, where she currently holds two key roles.
MICHAEL CROOKS
Senior director, Global relational marketing at DVF
Michael Crooks is a marketing strategist with a research background in biochemistry and experimental psychology conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Senior Director of Global Relational Marketing at Diane von Furstenberg. Before DVF, Michael oversaw Customer Insights & Marketing Campaigns at Gucci, and prior to Gucci was responsible for digital database marketing at Gilt Groupe's Jetsetter.
JANNIS KOEHN
CEO, Looklet
Jannis is the CEO of Looklet and joined the Swedish B2B Fashion-Tech company in 2015. Looklet is a provider of turn-key technology solutions for the scalable creation and personalization of fashion imagery. Clients include luxury retailers and fashion houses in the U.S. and Europe.
PANEL RETAIL
BOBO ROK
Founder LuxTNT
Bobo is a serial entrepreneur. She launched a London-based fashion event company when she was only 16 years old. Later she founded a mining development company in Indonesia and made her first million dollars at the age of 23. She speaks four languages and received her education at London School of Economics in Mathematics and published a thesis in algorithm studies.
Session 4 : MEDIA & MARKETING
ADRIAN LEU
CEO, Inition
Adrian is the CEO of INITION, a technology innovation agency in London, a company at the forefront of developing solutions using diverse immersive technologies like AR, VR, MR, haptics and others.
JANOSCH AMSTUTZ
Founder HoloMe
Janosch Amstutz is a leading name in the world of holograms, and the skilled production of some of the most well-refined visuals in the industry. He has spent the last 4 years heading a research team focused on the capture and projection of humans in augmented reality.
EDDIE MULLON
Co-founder at Launchmetrics, Founder at Fashion GPS INC
Karinna Nobbs, Holition
Anja Cronberg, Vestoj
Georgina Harding, Semaine
Lauren Indvik, Vogue International.
Anna Gedda was appointed Head of Sustainability at H&M in January 2015 and also became a member of the company’s executive management team.
Anna led the work on the H&M group's new sustainability strategy launched in 2016. The strategy includes the ambition for the H&M group to only use 100 % recycled or other sustainably sourced materials by 2030 and to become climate positive throughout the value chain by 2040.
Before taking over as Head of Sustainability at H&M, Anna Gedda held different roles at the H&M Sustainability Department from 2008 onwards, including Social Sustainability Program Developer and Social Sustainability Manager.
Anna, with a background at the Ministry of Finance, holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and a Bachelor degree in Business and Economics.
ANNA GEDDA
Head of Sustainability, H&M Group
Janne looks at the bigger picture for Spinnova, as he is the CEO and co-founder of Spinnova. Before spinning the business off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
with Juha Salmela, he headed VTT’s Fibers and Bio-based materials research area. This PhD in physics is a hybrid of scientist, industrial expert and entrepreneur. Janne is adamant that Spinnova can and will be the most sustainable fibre in the world. Twitter @JannePoranen
JANNE PORANEN
CEO and Founder at Spinnova Ltd.
Matthew works at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, where he heads up the Innovation Agency. He delivered the world's first digital skirt for Nokia, wireless charging clothing for Microsoft, a 3D-printed bionic arm to help celebrate the launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and what Forbes described as 'the first example of truly beautiful wearable tech' for Disney. He has also overseen some of the most groundbreaking developments in Augmented and Virtual Reality that London Fashion Week has experienced.
Matthew was named in the 100 most influential in the world of Wearable Technology, amongst the 'Top 15 people in UK tech' by BBC3 and as a 'fashion-tech trailblazer changing the course of retail' by Drapers and a ‘pioneer’ by Wired.
MATTHEW DRINKWATER
Head of Fashion Innovation Agency at London College of Fashion
Janosch Amstutz is a leading name in the world of holograms, and the skilled production of some of the most well-refined visuals in the industry. He has spent the last 4 years heading a research team focused on the capture and projection of humans in augmented reality. As founder of HoloMe, he is deploying augmented reality humans to enterprise clients globally.
JANOSCH AMSTUTZ
Founder HoloMe
Martine Jarlgaard works in the intersection of technology, business, fashion and art. Her drive towards sustainability and positive change is complimented by her extensive creative and strategic fashion business experience. She advocates technology’s potential to change human behavior and to disrupt the very core of the fashion industry.
Forbes — “As a designer, her work is heavily rooted in sustainability. She looks to technology as playing a significant role in helping to solve some of the industry's biggest challenges.”
Upon graduation from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Martine Jarlgaard was hired to work with Vivienne Westwood, where she headed the Vivienne Westwood Red Label. Following this Martine worked with All Saints in London and as Head of Diesel Female Apparel in Italy before returning to the United Kingdom to launch her company, Martine Jarlgaard London.
At London Fashion Week, in September 2016, Martine Jarlgaard London presented the world's first Mixed Reality fashion show. This was a collaboration with FIA, DoubleMe, Ravensbourne University and W Hotel London.
In May 2017 Martine Jarlgaard London launched the first Blockchain-powered supply chain
transparency fashion pilot at Copenhagen Fashion Summit in collaboration with Provenance, A
Transparent Company and FIA. Martine Jarlgaard London had been invited as one of ten innovative companies to present the latest and most groundbreaking solutions to solve the fashion industry’s most urgent sustainability issues.
In January 2018 Martine Jarlgaard presented her new Extended Reality art installation MEET
YOURSELF at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark supported by Unity Technologies and Microsoft.
MARTINE JARLGAARD
Founder and Creative Director Martine Jarlgaard
Danica Kragic is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. She holds MSc in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Computer Science. She is the Director of the Centre for Autonomous Systems. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Her research is in the area of AI, robotics, computer vision and machine learning.
DANICA KRAGIC JENSFELT
Professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication
at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH
Bobo is a serial entrepreneur. She launched a London-based fashion event company when she was only 16 years old. Later she founded a mining development company in Indonesia and made her first million dollars at the age of 23. She speaks four languages and received her education at London School of Economics in Mathematics and published a thesis in algorithm studies.
Bobo represents the perfect balance of fashion and technology that characterises a independent modern woman.
BOBO ROK
Founder LuxTNT
Michael B. Reidbord is a technology and retail executive experienced in building companies in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, and Europe and involved in numerous start-up successes within the technology and consumer products sectors.
Mr. Reidbord founded technical apparel producer Brilliant Asia Corporation and was also President & CEO of Blue Dasher Technologies, an award-winning location-based services provider.
Michael has held senior positions in the U.S. and Europe with companies including Palm Beach and Bayer, and oversaw global manufacturing and operations for Lion/GSCM in Germany: a leading supplier of technical products to police, fire, and emergency response personnel.
Before founding the Fashion Tech Consortium, Mr. Reidbord was Chief Operating Officer of Kloog, Inc., an IoT and Smart Cloud and Wearables enabling platform based in Silicon Valley that was acquired by Facebook. Michael is a professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology and received his BA from the University of Pittsburgh.
MICHAEL B REIDBORD
Founder at Retail/Fashion Tech Consortium
Karinna Nobbs is a freelance academic and strategist. She is a published author and guest lectures and researches on the digitalisation of the fashion industry at London College of Fashion, Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design, ESCP Business School, Antwerp Management School, Parsons New York and Pearl Academy New Delhi and recently was appointed as an affiliate Professor at ESCP Europe. Karinna currently co-leads the Strategy and UX Team at creative technology agency Holition. In the last two years she has also consulted with agencies such as King and Partners and Sunshine, media brands like Business of Fashion and Decoded Fashion and luxury brands including The Vampire’s Wife and SWEAR.
KARINA NOBBS
Chief futurist, Holition
Michael Crooks is a marketing strategist with a research background in biochemistry and experimental psychology conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Senior Director of Global Relational Marketing at Diane von Furstenberg. Before DVF, Michael oversaw Customer Insights & Marketing Campaigns at Gucci, and prior to Gucci was responsible for digital database marketing at Gilt Groupe’s Jetsetter. He has also held various posts in marketing, merchandising, and menswear accessories design at Tommy Hilfiger, Lord & Taylor, and Sid Mashburn.
While at university after competing for Penn’s nationally-ranked wrestling program, Crooks found a passion for research: he worked for pioneering biophysicist Dr. Britton Chance, conducting near-infrared (fNIR) biochemistry imaging to examine brain patterns in the prefrontal cortex during problem solving. He then served as Research Assistant to Dr. Aaron T. Beck, the founder of Cognitive Therapy.
After leaving the world of academic research to pursue a business career in fashion and luxury, Crooks has spent the last few years utilizing an interdisciplinary background across creative & quantitative capacities to fine-tune an evidence-based, customer-centric approach to marketing – leveraging data analytics, clienteling, training, and events, as well as creating experiential moments that combine digital and physical elements to drive business growth via innovation.
MICHAEL CROOKS
Senior director, Global relational marketing at DVF
Lauren Indvik is Head of News and Features at Vogue International, building global stories that run across 13 digital editions of Vogue, including the UK, Paris, Italy, China, Russia, Australia, Korea and Japan. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of Fashionista.com in New York and a business editor at Mashable. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company.
LAUREN INDVIK
Head of News and Features,
Vogue International
ARTI ZEIGHAMI
Global Head of Advanced Analytics & AI, H&M Group
Kina is a journalist and author fascinated by the vibrant tech scene and the entrepreneurs behind it. What does it really take? And why is Sweden so super successful in producing billion dollar tech companies?
Used to travel the world writing about skiing and travel related topics and spends three months a year as a grown up ski bum.
KINA ZEIDLER
Journalist and Writer
Carole Collet has dedicated her career to developing a new vision for sustainable design, and pioneered the discipline of Textile Futures in 2000. She is Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, where she currently holds two key roles. As Director of the Design & Living Systems Lab, she explores the interface of biological sciences and design to challenge established craft and manufacturing paradigms and propose news models to biofabricate materials and products of the future. As CSM-LVMH Director of Sustainable Innovation, she has recently set up Maison/0, a catalyst for creative-led sustainable intelligence. Collet’s research work has been published and featured in international exhibitions and she regularly contributes to conferences on the subject of textile futures, biodesign, biomimicry, synthetic biology, future manufacturing and bio-materiality, sustainable design and climate change.
CAROLE COLLET
Director of Sustainable Innovation,
Director Design & Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins
AMANDA PARKES
Chief Innovation Officer,
Future Tech Lab
Adrian is the CEO of INITION, a technology innovation agency in London, a company at the forefront of developing solutions using diverse immersive technologies like AR, VR, MR, haptics and others. Adrian has spent the last 20 years in different media, software and advanced technology companies, from small startups to large public companies in different positions ranging from Head of Innovation to CTO to MD and sometimes as an investor. Adrian is always excited about new advances in communication technologies and being at the forefront of those during his career he appreciates the ones which make a long-lasting impact.
ADRIAN LEU
CEO, Inition
EDDIE MULLON
Co-founder at Launchmetrics, Founder at Fashion GPS INC
JÖRGEN ANDERSSON
Creative/Strategic adviser
ANDERS HAGSTRÖM
Head of H&M IT Labs
NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD
Creative director
ANANTH NARAYANAN
CEO of Myntra
Alfredo Orobio is one of the leading names in co-creation. He has studied and tested the benefits of co-creation in the creative industries with his own brand AWAYTOMARS, a collaborative network for design talent with the objectives of promoting co-creation, advancing creativity and striving for a more inclusive fashion industry.
Since its launch in 2015, AWAYTOMARS has been highlighted within the industry for its innovative uses of technology. It now comprises more than 10,000 registered designers from 90 countries, making it the biggest fashion collective in the world.
Alfredo holds an International Relations degree and also studied luxury and fashion brand management. During the last 12 years he has worked in management, marketing, communications, innovation and digital intelligence, working as a consultant for major companies and brands including Bentley, Burberry, Coach, Tory Burch, LATAM Airlines, Accor, Estée Lauder, GM, Lexus, Honda, Volkswagen, Whirlpool, Swarovski, Pandora, Embraer, Diageo, Pernod-Ricard, Nestlé, Johnson & Johnson and Coca Cola.
ALFREDO OROBIO
Founder at Awaytomars
As a research lead, Urs Bergmann pushes the limits of machine learning at Zalando Research – a unit within Zalando SE that covers diverse AI topics ranging from Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Recommender Systems to Fashion Image Analysis and Manipulation. As one of Zalando’s research and data scientists, he gathered experience in business fields ranging from logistics to size recommendation, and selected contributions have been published at top-tier conferences in the field.
Learning systems have been his focus since his diploma thesis on Reinforcement Learning with Neural Networks at the University of Heidelberg. During his Ph.D. at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and a following postdoc position at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he further deepened his machine learning experience into timing-based learning, probabilistic and Bayesian modelling.
URS BERGMANN
Research Lead, Zalando SE
Jannis is the CEO of Looklet and joined the Swedish B2B Fashion-Tech company in 2015. Looklet is a provider of turn-key technology solutions for the scalable creation and personalization of fashion imagery. Clients include luxury retailers and fashion houses in the U.S. and Europe. Jannis is passionate about innovation within Creative Operations and addressing the needs of mass image production for the demanding fashion industry.
Before Looklet, Jannis worked at the Boston Consulting Group from 2009 till 2015 where he focused on Retail, Corporate Development, and renewable energy. He holds a Business Master’s from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and an Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
JANNIS KOEHN
CEO, Looklet
With a background from technology combined with deep industry knowledge, Linda inspire and show the possibilities that digital transformation brings. She also support retailers throughout the journey to ensure speed, reduce risk and maximize value.
LINDA PIMMESHOFER
Director Business Development - Retail
Microsoft
PETER HAGSTRÖM
Innovation Professional,
H&M IT Labs
ANJA ARONOWSKY CRONBERG
Founder, Vestoj
Welcome to Fashion Tech Talks
Fashion Tech Talks is a full day of lectures, performances, interviews and panel discussions on the fusion of fashion and technology. We are bringing together some of the world’s foremost visionaries in their fields – designers, scientists and business leaders, innovators and motivators.
The conference dives deep into the topics and trends that are shaping the future of the fashion industry, offering insight and inspiration. It also provides an intimate forum for discussions and networking.
09.00–10.30 - SESSION 1
DESIGN & MANUFACTURING
Martine Jarlgaard, Martine Jarlgaard London
Alfredo Orobio, Awaytomars
Danica Kragic Jensfelt, KTH
Ananth Narayanan, Myntra
Peter Hagström, H&M IT Labs
Anders Hagström, H&M IT Labs
11.00–12.30 - SESSION 2
THE FASHION SYSTEM
Amanda Parkes, Future Tech Lab
Arti Zeighami, H&M Group
Anna Gedda, H&M Group
Janne Poranen, Spinnova
Carole Collet, Central Saint Martins
Urs Bergmann, Zalando Research
12.30–14.00 - LUNCH
14.00–15.30 - SESSION 3
RETAIL
Michael Reidbord, Fashion Tech Consortium
Michael Crooks, Diane von Furstenberg
Jannis Koehn, Looklet
Bobo Rok, LuxTNT
Jörgen Andersson
Linda Pimmeshofer, Microsoft
16.00–17.30 - SESSION 4
MEDIA & MARKETING
Matthew Drinkwater, London College of Fashion
Karinna Nobbs, Holition
Janosch Amstutz, HoloMe
Eddie Mullon, Launchmetrics
Anja Cronberg, Vestoj
Georgina Harding, Semaine
Lauren Indvik, Vogue International.
Adrian Leu, Inition
INITIATED BY
PATRIKSSON COMMUNICATION AND ASFB—ASSOCIATION OF SWEDISH FASHION BRANDS
CURATOR
LINDA LEOPOLD - INNOVATION STRATEGIST, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR
ADVISORY BOARD
Amanda Parks, Matthew Drinkwater, Elin Frendberg, Linda Leopold, Lena Patriksson Keller (Founder)
SUPPORTED BY
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