📍NH Collection Hotel Rooftop, Strandgade 7, 1401 Copenhagen
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Start your day with a rejuvenating morning yoga flow with Nike yoga trainer, Aurelie. This session will leave you feeling calm and ready for Global Fashion Summit 2025.

📍DR Concert Hall, 2300 København

Welcome Address

• We have the solutions: together, we can move faster
• New fashion narratives are being written in which hope must be central: the most decisive time to decide our future is today
• Now is the moment to support visionary leadership that breaks barriers, making bold leaps that show us what’s possible

Host Introduction

Panel Discussion

• How do circularity initiatives impact climate? Readying the circular value chain to consolidate ahead of stronger shifts 
• Engaging new actors: global collaboration to scale the integration of recycled materials into amazing products
• Strengthen metric capabilities: providing fashion with essential indicators to unlock circularity barriers

✷ Includes partner and grantor content

Fireside Chat

• Breaking the cycle of exclusion: elevating equitable strategies and solutions for a unified social and environmental approach
• Collective goals, contributions, and supply chain leadership upfront
• Structural factors and systemic issues: what visionary approaches to the transition can reimagine resource, funding and time?

Fireside Chat

• The story of creating a sneaker that respects both planet and people
• Cutting through the complexity: working directly with fashion’s farmers
• Independent, organic and without advertising: bold leadership and how to forge a different path

Wellness Moment

• Take part in a short wellness moment to breathe, stretch and reset

✷ Includes sponsor content

Panel Discussion

• Pricing and supply chain adjustments: what new tariff rollouts could mean for strategic sustainability
• Navigating new shifts and bridges to be built
• Adjusting to new realities: resilience and collective action in the face of complex business realities

Panel Discussion

• Opportunities of scale: systemic shifts from limited access to mainstream adoption
• An obligation to share: blending transparent communication with open and collaborative dialogues
• From incremental to absolute: staying true to consequences and commitments with responsible innovation at the business core

✷ Includes partner content

Host Introduction

Case Study

• Resale’s evolving role from a practical solution to a cultural force to shape long-term fashion values
• Driving the circular model: innovative strategies to ensure competitive and sustainable revenue streams
• How is tech reducing friction between fashion resale functionality and more sustainable consumer behaviour?

✷ Includes sponsor content

Ignite Presentations

• Pioneering technologies are redefining material innovation, transforming nature, waste and beyond into boundary-breaking fabrics
• From a product point of view, what are the barriers and bridges on the pathway to scaling textile and material innovation?
• What cutting-edge strategies and technologies can drive fibre-to-fibre by incentivising new materials, given resource capacity and demand?

✷ Includes sponsor content, includes partner content

Connect with innovators to explore practical sustainability solutions through the Matchmaking Programme. Apply here to be considered.

*Please note that completing the survey does not guarantee Matchmaking meetings.

Panel Discussion

• Achieving pay equity by bridging collective due diligence with strong commitments to a fair, inclusive work environment.
• How can local community efforts future-proof fashion by challenging cultural norms to unlocking new opportunities for women?
• Female leadership: redefining industry perspectives to empower marginalised communities and integrate art and expertise to future-proof fashion

✷ Includes partner content

Panel Discussion

• An intersectional imperative: transitioning the supply base towards better energy and better equity
• Collaborative action to scale renewables: not just mitigation, but also adaptation
• As climate threats pose disproportionate risk, what’s next for fashion’s low-carbon energy roadmap?

Fireside Chat 

• Seeding a new solution: how renewable feedstock for LYCRA® fibre can help reduce reliance on fossil fuels to lower fashion’s impact 
• Stretching expectations: switching to renewable raw materials with QIRA® while maintaining the performance of LYCRA® fibre
• Implementing the vision: exploring the world’s first large-scale commercial production of a bio-derived LYCRA® fibre made with QIRA®

✷ Includes sponsor content

Case Study

• Bridging the supply-demand gap: inspiring new consumer behaviors that drive demand for circular products while unlocking scalable, service-based models
• Leveraging innovative payment flows to enable, accelerate and streamline accessible circular experiences
• Commerce + consumption: transforming circularity barriers into bridges by empowering adoption at scale

✷ Includes sponsor content, includes partner content

Ignite Presentations

• With production volumes in flux, how can fashion rebalance risk by maintaining the ‘S’ in ESG?
• Micro-companies, massive implications: meaningful collaboration across fragmented global labour contexts
• Blending service and safety towards union engagement, workforce protection and a socially compliant vision for climate advocacy

✷ Includes partner content

Panel Discussion

• As terminology shifts between stakeholder groups, how can fashion articulate the next-generation mentality?
• Connecting cohorts: empowering incoming executives for the future of fashion leadership
• Beyond a focus on next-gen fibres alone, what approaches to sustainability will emerge in the coming years – and how do we start now?

✷ Includes sponsor content, includes partner content

Closing Presentation

• Leveraging the longview: building a fashion empire alongside a global movement
• Busy lives, natural fabrics: when renewable products and political activism go hand in hand
• Making sense of fashion today: addressing actionable solutions for overproduction and overconsumption

In Partnership with Væksthuset
📍 Ekvipagemestervej 18, 1438 København K

*Tickets must be purchased in addition to the Summit ticket. 

The GFS Social is a ticketed event for attendees wishing to continue conversations from the Summit in an informal setting. With a prime focus on networking, the social is the place for guests to mingle and foster new business relationships while enjoying food and drinks. 

If you have already purchased your Summit ticket and would like to buy a GFS Social ticket, please contact us at service@globalfashionsummit.com

📍NH Collection Hotel

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Get your day started strong with a fun and energizing run around Copenhagen with Nike run trainer, Dora.

All levels welcome!

📍DR Concert Hall, 2300 København

Fireside Chat

●     An evolving view of circularity: linking macro world contexts to micro design details
●     How the narrative of reimagining can define the future of craft-led, luxury fashion
●     Incubating innovation: the journey from atelier explorations to scaled-up responsibility principles

Fireside Chat

• Intimate histories and collective mythology: celebrating the cultural power of human-nature bonds
• Levergaing fashion’s ability for deep and visual storytelling towards effective advocacy and influence
• In turbulent times for our envionrment and economy, what is the role of climate art for climate preservation?

Keynote Presentation

• Competitive vs. Committed Sustainability: A moment of duality to advancing the European Green Deal while simultaneously strengthening the EU economy
• What world-defining legislations are included within the transformative European Commission proposal timeline?
• Growth for good: boosting innovation while ensuring a just transition – and what this means for the global textiles sector

Panel Discussion

• The word “regenerative” is widely used — but what does it actually mean?
• Context and resilience: grounding regeneration in real-world challenges and opportunities across diverse landscapes and fibre system
• Scaling regenerative impact through collaboration across the value chain and adaptive, locally informed action for nature

Panel Discussion

• Nuanced engineering: driving reduced reliance on petrochemical and animal-derived inputs for fashion
• Nature-inspired proteins and commercial-scale solutions: how renewable carbon content materials are transforming luxury landscapes
• With a focus on the future, how can the unique properties of plant matter be harnessed for incredible creativity?

✷ Includes sponsor content

Case Study

• Overcoming the complexities of data sharing by building collaborative frameworks to drive efficiency and capacity
• How can improved data collection empower suppliers, reduce audit fatigue and create seamless workflows?
• Moving beyond regulation reactions to adopt holistic, long-term strategies for ever-evolving industry challenges

✷ Includes sponsor content

Ignite Presentations

• Exploring AI’s transformative potential in fashion to enhance forecasting for consumers, producers, and suppliers alike
• Decoding the ethical dimensions of AI: fairness, inclusivity, and transparency in a rapidly evolving industry
• Blending craftsmanship with futuristic tech: honoring tradition in design while embracing the digital transformation to reduce impact

✷ Includes sponsor content

Connect with innovators to explore practical sustainability solutions through the Matchmaking Programme. Apply here to be considered.

*Please note that completing the survey does not guarantee Matchmaking meetings.

Panel Discussion

• Robust environmental impact programmes for guidance on materials and products
• Eco-efficiency: tough but pragmatic solutions to eliminate reliance on freshwater to tackling wastewater pollution at the source
• Rethinking water stewardship by adopting systemic approaches to sourcing across fiber and material types

✷ Includes partner content

Panel Discussion 

• Respecting the natural world in the sphere of business decision-making
• Insights from Global Fashion Agenda’s Next Gen Assembly: exploring how fashion can advocate for systems that protect, restore, and regenerate
• If the natural world had a seat at the table, what would it say?

Panel Discussion

• Making the case for responsible fashion and clothing: articulating incentives for engagement in circular lifestyles
• The product comes first: irresistible brand messaging to close the consumer-action gap
• Adapting consumer mindsets: cost, comprise and the incredible creativity of material innovation at scale

✷ Includes partner content

Case Study

• From material innovation to regional supply chain contexts, fashion’s value chain holds endless opportunities for impact
• How can small sustainability teams understand, measure and leverage large amounts of intel to drive positive change?
• An new tool: sharing a meaningful inventory of industry impacts for guidance on strategy assessment

✷ Includes partner content

Ignite Presentations

• Repair + recreate: from cultural collaboration to scaled-up initiatives, how are fashion front-runners levergaing used textiles?
• As strategies to reduce fashion waste develop, what other channels exist for excess inventory and unsold goods to be kept in use?
• Upcycle culture: how creative and social entrepreneurship can spark ingenuity in end-destinations for textiles

✷ Includes partner content

Fireside Chat

• Motivation and inspiration: what does sustainability actually mean to a designer today?
• How art has the answers 
• An ongoing context of fashion design identity: the importance of telling stories and creating powerful new narratives

Closing Remarks

📍The Royal Danish Opera House, 1438 København
*Invite only for Premium Ticket Holders

The official Celebration Dinner of Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025 brings together key fashion industry leaders (including Summit speakers, selected VIP guests and Premium ticket holders) for a commemorative evening. This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate and reflect upon all of the inspiring Summit content and to connect with your peers and new acquaintances during a festive evening in Copenhagen with enjoyable cuisine, refreshments and entertainment.