This year's theme for SOURCE Summit is 'Future Fashion', looking at transformative technologies that are shaping the industry for a more sustainable future.
Here are the proposed masterclass topics:
- TRAFFIC: Increasing web traffic, sales and consumer engagement
New Technologies and tips for omni-channel selling, growing your customer base, converting them into sales, tuning them into brand advocates and engaging them in your sustainability story.
SUPPLY CHAIN: Technology's role in supply chain improvements
Using new technologies to better manage supply chains, engage and empower workers, HQ staff and consumers, and drive forward sustainability and ethical best practice.
INNOVATION: Technology, fabrics and smart manufacturing for sustainability
How new technologies, processes and innovations that make materials and manufacturing more efficient, less wasteful less toxic, better quality, longer-wearing and better for producers and better for designers alike. Including a look at: bio-based polymer fibres used for fashion fabrics, new and improved dyeing, closed loop processes, 3D printing, zero-waste tools, future fabrics, tools for energy efficiency + more.
DESIGN: Digital tools and smart designing for sustainability
Tips, tools, strategies and processes for designing products, services and retail experience with sustainability in mind. Including: upcycling, zero-waste patterns, take-back schemes, 3D imaging, 3D printing, transeasonal and multi-functional thinking + more - add in commercial, how this helps you make winning products, how can it drive your bottom line, where's the business case.