Digital Futures: Industry Summit 2022

Fashion Business and Technology. The University of Manchester

Join The Interline x UoM to connect the future talent with digital pioneers and examine the technologies reshaping the global industry.

Engineering Building A

The Interline and The University of Manchester unite for a festival of Technology, celebrating the return of in-person events with a full spectrum exploration of the future of retail and fashion technology. Following what feels like an age of uncertainty for physical events, The Department of fashion Business and Technology is delighted to announce our first in-person event, developed in collaboration with The Interline. Digital Futures: Industry Summit 2022 will be held at the University of Manchester&#x27;s new Engineering Building (MECD) on the 30th March 2020 from 1-5pm, and will see global experts in the digital fashion, retail and manufacturing industries come together to educate the next generation on what’s possible. About this eventHosted by The Interline’s Ben Hanson, the Summit is positioned around the continual ‘META-morphosis’ of fashion, retail, materials innovation and manufacturing. It will connect future talent with industry leaders to facilitate new ideas and examine the forces – driven largely by technological advancements – reshaping our global industry. The event will explore a multitude of topics from AI, VR and the blockchain, to e-prototyping, and 3D textile innovations. Keynote speaker for the Summit is Founder of The Interline, and CEO of WhichPLM, Mark Harrop, who brings more than four decades of industry expertise to deliver exhaustively researched education to today’s retail technology professionals. The event will run in two parts The Festival of Technology - 1-3pm - Exhibition space MECD - meet a range of exhibitors including Brandlab360, The Digital Futures team and 3DStyle and explore the technologies disrupting the industry. Industry Summit - 3-5pm Lecture Theatre B MECD - UoM x The Interline will be joined by an esteemed panel of industry insiders for a stimulating and immersive exploration of technologyKeynote speakerMark Harrop – CEO of WhichPLM, and founder of The Interline Mark has worked for more than four decades to help the world’s best-known retailers, brands and manufacturers achieve efficiency savings across their entire supply chain through informed technology investments. Today, Mark is considered a trusted advisor to many of the world’s leading organisations. He is also a member of the Satra Technology board, supporting the business on new strategic technology futures. Leveraging his and his team&#x27;s expertise in the field of fashion technology and the global brand recognition of WhichPLM, he delivers exhaustively researched and expertly informed online education to today’s retail technology professionals.Mark Harrop will be joined by an esteemed panel of industry insidersMarielle Pesant and Danny Reinfield - Linctex 3DStyle Linctex is one of the premier digital fashion technology companies, which provides digitized fashion retail solutions designed to enhance consumer’s online shopping experiences. The company produces both hardware and software products such as advanced virtual apparel try-on and 3D body scanning using machine learning &amp; deep learning, enabling consumers to enjoy customised, true to fit clothing recommendations without the hassle of traveling to a physical store.Amal Jomaa - Digital Fashion ExpertAmal is a digital fashion expert whose experience lives at the convergence of entertainment, imaging, and physics. By mass-producing cinematic-quality, xR-&amp; game-ready 3D objects, Amal helps brands facilitate global access to immersive experiences.Stuart McCready-Stocks - Commercial Director Coats DigitalCoats Digital is the software business of Coats Group, the world’s leading industrial thread company and a trusted industry player. The company leverages deep industry and technology expertise to create and deliver business critical software solutions which are proven to digitally transform the way fashion companies design, develop, cost, source, plan, and manufacture. The company’s apparel, footwear and textile specific solutions harness industry best practice and the latest technology to improve agility, speed to market, efficiency, transparency, and sustainability, and are trusted by brands and manufacturers around the world.Goor Moshe and Adi Mandel - Twine SolutionsTwine Solutions was founded as technology start-up in 2015, in the world’s hub of digital printing, Israel. It is in this environment of inventiveness that the company developed its proprietary digital, on-demand thread dyeing system that is set to disrupt the textile industry.Tal Shogal - Made 2 Flow Made 2 Flow are a team of fashion supply chain experts, environmental specialists and tech wizards. The company specialises in data gathering and analysis of environmental data in the fashion indsutry. The company empower brands and suppliers across the globe to develop sustainable supply chains and produce products with lower environmental impact. Wayne Fan and Alexis Liu - Frontier CoolFrontier is a first of its kind digital fabric platform, utilizing AI to build the world’s most powerful textile and fabric image exchange for the apparel and fashion industries. As a textile collaboration platform, Frontier offers apparel brands a hub from which to engage with current and prospective suppliers to manage digital fabric sourcing and reduce go-to-market times. Suppliers use Frontier to build their virtual fabric libraries and economize sampling, shipping, and other production-related costs. The team at Frontier boasts decades of textile and engineering experience, with skills honed in textile manufacturing, garment design, retail, and machine learning engineering. Please note this event is FREE to attend. If you would like to discuss ways in which you can get involved in the event, or wish to attend the post event networking meeting with the exhibitors and panel members, please contact charlene.gallery@manchester.ac.uk

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