May 22, 2024
Welcome to Global Fashion Summit 2024!
Opening address
Unlocking the Next Level
Welcome Address
Introducing your Host
Introducing the host of Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2024
Future Fibers: Enabling the Circular Model
Keynote Conversation
- The pace of fashion’s shift towards circular fibers must urgently increase, maintaining cost and quality considerations
- Which technological enablers can transform textile waste into high-quality, ready-to-spin recycled raw materials?
- Revolutionizing textile-to-textile recycling technology to enable the fashion & textile industry to shift to circularity
Models for Collective Financing
Keynote Conversation
- Leveraging interventions: insights from one of fashion’s most meaningful templates for investment
- What internal company capabilities are needed to deliver collective action on critical impact areas like reducing fashion sector emissions?
- From ambition to action: encouraging and inspiring fashion companies worldwide to engage in major collaborative projects
Fragmented Futures: Fashion’s Policy Agenda
Keynote Conversation
- Lack of country-specific policies for circular economy transition is a critical barrier towards unlocking the next level globally
- What learnings on textiles-related policy development can be shared and applied around the world?
- Global alignment for a global sector: context-specific knowledge exchange for harmonized policy future
Introducing: The Trailblazer Programme
Presentation
- A strong belief in the power of innovation: empowering early-stage investment for exceptional fashion start-ups
- Acknowledging key fashion sector parameters to drive sustainability solutions for the future
- Revealing a new visionary: introducing the Trailblazer Programme
Tipping the Scale on Circular Material Adoption
Panel Discussion
- A marginal difference? From commitment to action on recycled material offtake across the value chain
- Innovation towards stronger purchasing commitment mechanisms: driving the required pricing and performance benefits of circular textiles
- Circular or recycled? Systems shifts to share rewards of reintroduced waste streams
Reverse Logistics: Futureproofing Fashion Value Chains
Case Study
- As circular partnerships develop, a growing need for integrated reverse logistics is emerging across the fashion sector
- What are the strongest transition strategies for circular futures globally – and what role do reverse logistics play?
- Exploring opportunities: where can the fashion and logistics industries collaborate to co-create powerful solutions at scale?
Tackling Transparency: From Farms to Fabric
Case Study
- Scaling an end-to-end protocol: learnings so far from an industry-shifting cotton fibre transparency programme
- Action on field-level data: unlocking holistic impact from farms to fabric through grower-centric supply chain reporting
- Meeting a new burden of proof: how is policy driving brands and retailers towards cultivating deeper traceability strategies on cotton?
Unpacking Policy: Eco Design Principles
Round The Room
- A new paradigm: what is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and how can fashion view policy change as an opportunity for creative problem-solving?
- How are fashion’s design and product visionaries creating impact through adaptation and innovation?
- Empowering designers to reimagine existing systems: setting new industry standards through visionary collaboration
Pathways to Indigenous Partnership
Panel Discussion
- Level setting: addressing how articulating the framing for this topic and nuances to know
- Centering the human experience to democratize fashion sector decision-making
- From material sourcing to design: what core principles for Indigenous & Local Community engagement are actionable for the fashion sector today?
Ending Oversupply
Panel Discussion
- Adopting deeper transparency: connecting complex incentives from retail cycle to value chain
- Centering livelihoods: how are good living wages for fashion production connected to product volume?
- Understanding impact through emissions: interventions, volumes and definitions in flux
Elevating the Consumer-Citizen Role
Round The Room
- In a year of global elections, democracies can empower and enable citizen-level action towards circular economies on a massive scale
- But how is the fashion sector understanding the role of the consumer within the sustainable transition so far?
- From new retail models through to an ever-increasing level of knowledge and discernment in pop-culture, what actions are making an impact?
Unlocking Global Collaboration
Case Study
- Fashion is a global sector with a global value-chain – so relies on successful collaboration between a wide range of stakeholders, regions and emerging markets
- In today’s global context and macro-economic climate, how are new iterations of collaboartion elevating the development of the fashion sector as a whole?
- How is fashion empowering practitioners in the field in paradigm-shifting and inspiring new ways ?
Reshape, Rethink: Innovating Data
Keynote Conversation
- Unlocking the next value chain level: a new depth of quality on waste, water + GHG emissions reporting
- Data exchange immediacy for meaningful collaboration across global key regions
- Hard to measure, even harder to manage: what’s next for real scope 3 data necessities
Session to be announced
Keynote Conversation
End of Day Wrap
Closing Address