Shaping the Future of Sustainable Fashion: Opportunities, Innovations and Support
Explore innovative solutions and systematic changes needed for a sustainable UK fashion industry. With expert talks on themes like sustainable materials, digital technologies, and textile recycling, this event is your chance to network with industry leaders and shape the future of fashion.
The Shaping the Future of Sustainable Fashion event will provide an opportunity to participate in discussions regarding the future of sustainable fashion in the UK and the systematic change needed throughout the whole supply chain logistics. Our expert speakers will provide insightful and interesting talks and discussions on a variety of themes including:
- Future scanning: Challenges and opportunities for UK Fashion and Textiles Manufacturing Fashion and Textiles Sector Insights from Innovate UK
- Sustainable innovation, next generation and natural materials for sustainable KPI impacts
- Textile sorting and recycling: a sector overview
- Sustainable Dyeing and Coloration Technologies
- Digital Fashion and Robotics
- Challenges for sustainability: barriers and support required
- Digital technologies and efficiencies
Who should attend
If you are working within the sustainable fashion industry or supply chain or are looking to transition your fashion organisation towards a more sustainable future send your Expression of Interest for an opportunity to be part of the dialogue, to share your experience, expertise, barriers and future supply chain needs.
This event will provide an opportunity to network with industry leaders, academic experts and expand your network within the Fashion and Textiles Industry. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation.
Places are limited to x40 participants, and we anticipate a high demand. If you would like to attend, please submit your EOI by 12:30pm Monday 3rd February. Places will be confirmed by Tuesday 4th February.
Hosted by Innovate UK Business Connect and De Montford University
Agenda
09:30 AM – Arrival, coffee and networking
10:00 AM – Fashion and Textiles Sector Insights from Innovate UK – Stephen Morris | Innovate UK Business Connect
10:10 AM – Sustainable innovation, next gen and natural materials for sustainable KPI impacts – Claire Lerpiniere | De Montfort University
10:25 AM – Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour – Paul Thornton
10:45 AM – Textile sorting and recycling: a sector overview – Mohammed Patel | Textile Recycling Association
11:00 AM – Sustainable Dyeing and Coloration Technologies – Andrew Filarowski | Society of Dyers and Colourists
11:15 AM – Coffee and networking
11:30 AM – Digital Fashion and Robotics – Jenny Holloway | Fashion Enter
11:45 AM – Future scanning: Challenges and opportunities for UK Fashion and Textiles Manufacturing – Simon Platts | Recomme Co
12:15 PM – Lunch and networking
13:00 PM – Roundtable #1: Challenges for sustainability: barriers and support required
13:40 PM – Roundtable #2: Digital technologies and efficiencies
14:10 PM – Open Discussion (feedback from roundtables)
15:00 PM – Summary
Followed by tours of De Montfort University’s School of Fashion and Textiles facilities: Textile technologies, textile testing, coloration, research labs, contour fashion, footwear and fashion design.