Programme Key
- Innovation
- Materials Science
- Sustainability
- Digital Product Creation
- Data Management
- NB: Focus Groups and Think Tanks are delegate only sessions.
| Day 1: 12 February 2018 | |||
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| 7:30am |
Delegate Registration
The Lobby |
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| 8:30am |
Chairpersons' Welcome Address
Room 1 Alexis Kantor, VP of Owned Brand Technical Development and Quality, Target Sandra Gagnon, Senior Director - 3D Virtual Transformation, Target |
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| 8:50am |
PI Keynote - Moana: The Art of Costume Design
Room 1  Neysa Bové, Visual Development Artist , Disney Animation Studios |
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| 9:35am |
The Material Exchange - Advancing the Management and Accuracy of Virtual Materials in One Central, Vendor-fed Industry-wide Library
Room 1    Darren Glenister, CEO, Material Exchange Chris Hillyer, Director, Innovation, Deckers Brands |
What I Didn't Know About 3D...
Room 2  Stephanie Kleinjan, Founder, Socialite Clothing |
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| 10:15am |
Morning Refreshment Break
Exhibition Hall |
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| 10:30am |
Networking 121s
Exhibition Hall |
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| 11:30am |
Connected Design & Development in the Digital Era - How Integrated Collaboration Can Improve Creativity and Enhance Speed to Market
Room 1  Alisa Schreiber, Pre-Sales Lead, Fashion & Apparel, Lectra. Carlos Jimenez, Technical Sales Director, Fashion, Lectra |
5 Reasons Why Digitizing Quality Should be Top of your Priority List in 2018
Room 2  Stephane Boivin, Managing Director, TradeBeyond |
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| 12:10pm |
Re-inventing Consumer-Product Interaction with a Fully Digital Online Design Experience
Room 1   Safir Bellali, Chair, 3DRC Education Committee | Venture partner, Digital Innovation, Moonflare, Founder, Aliph, Aliph Alexander Thomas, VP, Engineering, VF Corporation |
Sustainability and Product Innovation - Some Lessons from Gap Inc.’s Journey
Room 2  Melissa Fifield, Sr Director, Global Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, GAP Chris Moses, Sr. Director, Strategic Sourcing and Product Innovation, Gap Inc. |
Focus Group - Past Future Material Collections
Room 3  Caleb Sayan, Co-Founder, Textile Hive |
| 12:50pm |
Networking Lunch
Exhibition Hall |
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| 1:50pm |
Emerging Technology Standards - What You Need to Know to Accelerate Technology Integration
Room 1  Rudi Schubert, Director - New Initiatives, IEEE Standards Association |
Revitalizing Your PLM as a Foundation for Surviving Ongoing Market Disruption
Room 2  Jill Mazur, Independent Consultant, Torrid |
Focus Group - The Role of the Designer in the Age of Digital Tools & Technologies
Room 3  Anne Prahl, Design & Innovation Consultant, concept+design |
| 2:30pm |
Reshaping Product Creation with Augmented Reality, PLM and Digital Design Tools
Room 1   Leigh Anne Oden, Director, Digital Operations, Levi Strauss & Co Mike Curtin, Sr. Vice President - Sales, Logility Brett Chatfield, Associate, Vibe IQ |
Smart Digital Solutions for Product Quality & CSR Management
Room 2   Azfar Hasan, CEO & Founder, Triple Tree Solutions John Frazier, Senior Technical Director, HOHENSTEIN Institutes |
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| 3:10pm |
Afternoon Refreshment Break
Exhibition Hall |
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| 3:25pm |
Networking 121s
Exhibition Hall |
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| 4:25pm |
Panel Discussion - What is On-Demand Manufacturing & Why Should You Care?
Room 1    André Wolper, Founder, CEO, embodee Matthew Cochran, SVP, Strategy , BeProduct Hal Watts, CEO & Founder, Unmade Ltd |
Panel Discussion - How is Technological Disruption of Materials Re-defining Traditional Models of Design & Manufacturing?
Room 2     Austin Stout, Sr Materials Developer Global Innovation Center, VF Corporation Claudia Richardson, Head, Materials Innovation Team, Patagonia Natacha Alpert, Senior Innovation Manager, Caleres Maki Yamazaki, Senior Manager, Materials, Deckers Brands Joe Walkuski, Founder & CEO, Texbase Inc. |
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| 5:05pm |
PI Keynote - 'Collaborate or Die'
Room 1  Hebe Schecter, President, Kaltex Nathan McDonald, Business Consultant and Technology Strategist, Kaltex |
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| 5:50pm |
Chairpersons' Closing Remarks
Room 1 Alexis Kantor, VP of Owned Brand Technical Development and Quality, Target Sandra Gagnon, Senior Director - 3D Virtual Transformation, Target |
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| 6:00pm |
Sponsored Drinks Reception
Pool Deck 3rd Floor  Julie Vargas, Director Digital Solutions and Brand Protection, Avery Dennison |
| Day 2: 13 February 2018 | ||||
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| 8:00am |
Think Tank - SEWLOCALâ„¢: Looking for Cheap Labor? Try the US.
Room 3  Pete Santora, Chief Commercial Officer, SoftWear Automation |
Think Tank - Block Chain Technology and Fashion
Room 4  Ken Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, EXENTA |
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| 9:00am |
Chairpersons' Opening Remarks
Room 1 Alexis Kantor, VP of Owned Brand Technical Development and Quality, Target Sandra Gagnon, Senior Director - 3D Virtual Transformation, Target |
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| 9:10am |
PI Keynote - How Will the Next Wave of Digital Disruption Fundamentally Change Product, Retail & Consumer?
Room 1  Stacey Shulman, Chief Innovation Officer, Intel |
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| 9:55am |
The New Age of Collaboration - Enhanced by Digital Technology
Room 1  Alexis Kantor, VP of Owned Brand Technical Development and Quality, Target Sandra Gagnon, Senior Director - 3D Virtual Transformation, Target |
Data and Informatics as a Pathway to Sustainable Apparel Production
Room 2  Lucy Dunne, Professor and Co-Director, Wearable Technology Lab; Director, Apparel Design Program, University of Minnesota |
Focus Group - Why is Speed and Quality Critical to Success for Brands in the Digital Age?
Room 3  Joel Barrie, Director of Product Development, Reef, a VF company |
Focus Group - Maximizing Business Process Efficiency & Profitability Across a Multi-Brand Organization
Room 4  Walter Wilhelm , VP - Integration, The Safariland Group, LLC |
| 10:35am |
Morning Refreshment Break
Exhibition Hall |
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| 10:50am |
Networking 121 Meetings
Exhibition Hall |
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| 11:50am |
Is your PLM Working For You? 5 Ways to Find Out!
Room 1    Joe Groves, Sales Director North America , Centric Software Colin Israel, Founder and Partner, Black Ink Strategy Dale Bathum, President of Expivi and Founder of STM Worx , STM Worx |
Adapting your Design, Development and Manufacturing Processes to the New Shopping Habits of the Everchanging Consumer
Room 2  Michael van Genabith, General Manager, Human Solutions of North America Matthew Cochran, SVP, Strategy , BeProduct Michael van Genabith, General Manager, Human Solutions of North America Matthew Cochran, SVP, Strategy , BeProduct |
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| 12:30pm |
Panel Discussion - The Convergence of Sustainability, Innovation & Technology for Success
Room 1     Jason Kibbey, CEO, The Sustainable Apparel Coalition Michael Kobori, Vice President, Levi Strauss & Co. Jaclyn Allen, Director, Corporate Sustainability, Guess Nicole Flood, Owner of Flood Clothing, Flood Clothing Arthur Kononuk, Creative Director & Co-Founder, tentree |
Panel Discussion - Understanding the Legal Implications of Integrating Technology into Your Product Portfolio
Room 2    Gina Bibby, Founder, TF Law Group Karl Manheim, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Stacey Shulman, Chief Innovation Officer, Intel Gila Jones, General Counsel, James Perse |
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| 1:10pm |
Networking Luncheon
Exhibition Hall |
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| 2:10pm |
Learn How Fashion Companies Can Adopt a Modular Approach to Embrace Virtualisation and Digitialisation Techniques to Deliver Agility and Efficiency
Room 1   Grif VonHolst, Head of Product Vision, DeSL |
Fashion Disrupted - How Technology, Innovation & Consumers are Changing the Future of Fashion
Room 2  Ed Gribbin, President, Alvanon |
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| 2:50pm |
Is 3D Technology All It's Cracked Up To Be? - A Controversial Look into the Realities of Today's Digital Product Creation Capabilities
Room 1  Nino Romero, Director of Technical Design and Quality Assurance, Speedo |
How Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning are Set to Transform Customer Experience & Retail
Room 2  José Chan, Professor, Parsons School of Design |
Focus Group - What Can Architecture and Industrial Design Tools Teach Us About the Steep Ramp to 3D Apparel Design?
Room 3  Sarah Krasley, CEO, Shimmy Technologies |
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| 3:30pm |
Panel Discussion - Standardizing Digital Platforms to Overcome Issues of Systems Interoperability and Data Transfer
Room 1    Alexis Kantor, VP of Owned Brand Technical Development and Quality, Target Bill Brewster, Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Software Solutions, Lectra Julie Vargas, Director Digital Solutions and Brand Protection, Avery Dennison André Wolper, Founder, CEO, embodee Pete Santora, Chief Commercial Officer, SoftWear Automation Yazan Malkosh, Founder & CEO, swatchbook |
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| 4:30pm |
Chairpersons' Closing Remarks
Room 1 Alexis Kantor, VP of Owned Brand Technical Development and Quality, Target Sandra Gagnon, Senior Director - 3D Virtual Transformation, Target |