Webinar: Data-driven business and design

Online 23.9.2021 12:00

Data-driven business and design -webinar will focus on how data can enable and enhance a circular economy in the textile and fashion industry. Data can be used to better control the material flows through the system, to increase the transparency in the supply chain and to better design the lifetime of the garments as well as enhance the material circulation. Through data it is possible to create new design and business strategies for sustainable textile and fashion.

Speakers:

Ina Budde, Co-founder & Managing Director, Circular.fashion

Katie Quilici, Manager Private Labels Sustainability, Zalando SE

Tracy Kinden, Revolve Waste, NEW COTTON-project; TexRoad-project

Susanna Horn, Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, CircDNet project

Inka Orko, Co-creation Manager, VTT, CircDNet-project

+Panel discussion

Associate Professor Kirsi Niinimäki, Aalto University, will host the webinar The webinar will be organized together with FINIX, NEW COTTON, CircDNet -projects.

Sign up to webinar here.

The webinar is followed by a workshop Data as an enabler in circular textile economy II on Thursday 23 September 2021 at 14:30 – 16:15 EEST (Online). The workshop is organized by Circular Design Network project and it will focus on the utilization of data in a circular textile economy.

Read more and sign up to workshop here.