Educational Program Schedule

Textile Talk

Moderator: Jeff Wilson - Sr. Business Development Manager – Sustainability, NSF (National Science Foundation)

Panelists: 

• Roian Atwood - Sr. Director of Global Sustainable Business, Kontoor Brands                  
• Atul Mittal - Pratibha Syntex Ltd. and Director, Vasudha Swaraj Private Ltd.
• Rebecca Burgess - Executive Director, Fibershed

This Textile Talk is a forum to learn, share knowledge, and ask questions about on-farm regenerative practices that brands can support and farmers can adopt. Regenerative agriculture and the multiple benefits it delivers can be part of the solution to meeting brand sustainability targets and addressing environmental goals leading to climate change. Join us in this important foundation building forum to help you gain an understanding of regenerative practices with a particular focus on cotton and what they mean for you, your company and your products in achieving our industry's sustainability goals into 2030 and beyond.

Textile Talk

Speaker: Kai Chow - Creative Director, The Donegar Group

The Doneger Group's Spring/Summer 2022 forecast brings to light a renewed longing for a life lived in simplicity and harmony. Join this exclusive, one-day-only presentation to identify global shifts and their influence on color, fabric and fashion for 2022.

Textile Talk

Moderator: TBA

Panelists:

• Liz Hershfeld - SVP of Sourcing & Supply Chain, Madewell
• Maya Spaull - Vice President, Apparel and Home Goods, Fair Trade USA
• Sanjeev Bahl - Saitex

Join this informative and inspirational discussion to understand how Madewell partners with Fair Trade USA to set goals. Sustainability goals for 2025 and 2030 will also be discussed.

Lenzing Seminar Series

Moderator: TBA

Panelists:

• Maria Rugolo - Director of Apparel Market Insights, NPD
• Casey Martin - Student, Cornell University

Consumer needs are constantly changing, especially now with the world in a state of transformation. Lenzing recently released key findings from their "Global Consumer Perception Survey on Sustainable Raw Materials in Fashion and Home Textiles." This survey had over 9,000 responses from 9 different countries. It is key to understand the end consumer and what they view as a "sustainable" and "eco-friendly" so you can communicate and market effectively to your consumer.

Textile Talk

Moderator: Sheng Lu 

Panelists:

• Deborah Elms - Founder and Executive Director, Asian Trade Centre
• More TBA

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), signed in November 2020, is the world's largest free trade agreement. Nearly half of the world's textile and apparel exports currently come from the fifteen RCEP members. How will the new "rules of the game" in RCEP shape the future landscape of the textile and apparel supply chain in Asia? Who are the winners and losers of the agreement? Why US fashion brands and retailers also need to care about RCEP? The panel will interpret the key textile and apparel provisions in RCEP and share insights about the agreement's broad implications on the textile and apparel sector.

Lenzing Seminar Series

Moderator: Kelly Drennan - Founding Executive Director, Fashion Takes Action                              

Panelists: 

• Ashely Gill - Director of Standards, Textile Exchange              
• Diana Rosenberg - Product Sustainability Manager, Gap Inc.           
• Walter Bridgham - Senior Business Development Manager, Lenzing Fibers, Inc.

Within the Great Reset, companies are making commitments and facing hard decisions about how to meet their goals in a constantly changing landscape. The industry needs a holistic approach to ensure that climate action happens at the beginning of the supply chain while connected to other environmental concerns of water, biodiversity, consumption and more. What tools are available to support?

Lenzing Seminar Series

Moderator: Tricia Carey - Lenzing Fibers, Inc.                                    

Panelists:

• Gail Strickler - President of Global Trade, Brookwood Associates                            
• Alex Penades - North America Brand Director, Jeanologia              
• Arzu Turgay - Global Accounts Sales Manager, Coats           
• Kutay Saritosun - Director of Fashion Brands, Bluesign        
• Devin Gilmartin - Founder, The Canvas by Querencia

Materializing a new industry takes a pot of new ideas. Join these thought leaders for a fusion of concepts joining social, political and technology.