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TUESDAY JULY 19, 2022 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Forum Insights Performance Materials: Summer 2024/ Update Winter 23/24 Alexa Dehmel, Active Sports Designer & Consultant In this session, you will learn about the latest performance trends in functional fabrics and accessories for the sports apparel business. Alexa Dehmel will sum up all novelties for summer 2024 and updates for winter 23/24. From first layer to outer shell, the speech will bring all important trends in fabrics and functions to the audience. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Metamophosis: Colors & Trends Summer 2024 Nora Kuehner, Independent Fashion & Design Consultant Discover the brand new color range for summer 2024! The multi-faceted palette spreads a very intense color mood reflecting our firm desire for comfort and well-being. A strong sense for smooth color gradation is palpable in each color story. Saturated bright hues take center stage, framed and intensified by soft harmonious shades. Carefully selected darker tones provide depth and contouring. Focusing on performance and leisure wear, Nora Kuehner approaches color and trend perspectives from a trans-seasonal angle: extensive research on socio-cultural developments and user mindsets form the base of her renowned forecast. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Tool Demonstration: Design Smarter, More Sustainable Products e Higg Group See how Higg Product Design Tools deliver environmental impact data across the entire product mlifecycle: from materials to production to end-of-use. Quantify impact across 5 crucial performance indicators: global warming, fossil fuel use, water quality, water use, and chemical use. With a complete picture of a product's footprint, you can find new opportunities to reduce impact – and accurately demonstrate improvement to customers, stakeholders, and business partners. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Journey to Sustainability Marci Yamasaki, Jody Max, Texbase Jody Max from Bravado and Marci Yamasaki from Texbase will share how a medium sized apparel company defined and built their Sustainability Strategy; it needed to be achievable, relevant, and reportable. Each strategy pillar – People, Product, Planet – required new and different certifications, processes, internal and external resources, and ultimately a soware platform to support it. 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Not Your (Great) Grandparents Antimicrobial... (Silver is Back) Jason Tetro 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM How to leverage digital technologies to increase efficiencies and reduce your CO2 footprint Annie Cyr, Tengiva Each year the textile industry loses 35% of potential market opportunities due to distribution inefficiencies, which indirectly contributes to avoidable CO2 emissions. Annie will draw a clear picture of the current process inefficiencies in inventory management & distribution that are causing such a heavy CO2 footprint. She will then share ideas on how to rectify this with existing digital solutions for a more efficient supply chain and a reduced CO2 footprint for the textile industry as a whole 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Digitizing Your Garment Design Process Elana Frosk, Hohenstein Fashion is fast paced and ever changing. e right 3D design and visualization process can cut design time and prototypes, reduce waste and expense, improve supply chain communications and produce the perfect fit. Elana Frosk will discuss the essential steps for implementing a smooth digital design process. 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Happy Hour Sponsored by Dri-Release Mix and mingle with old and new industry colleagues at the Main Stage. l E X P E R T TA L K S S C H E D U L E 12 • Textile Insight Functional Fabric Fair Special Edition ~ July 2022 textileinsight.com