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NB: Focus Groups and Think Tanks are delegate only sessions.

Day 1 : 30 March 2026

08:00

Gear Up & Grab Your Badge - Coffee Provided!

 Break   King George

09:00

Chair’s Greetings

 Chairman's Address  Porter Tun

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

09:15

Building Fashion's Next Digital Creation System

 Keynote  Porter Tun

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

10:00

Start-up Tech Sparks

 Startup Stage  Porter Tun

Joanne Filbin, CEO, Vestir

Phoebe Gormley, CEO, Fit Collective Labs Limited

Ozgecan Ustgul, Founder, MYTH AI

Adam Hankin, Co-Founder, Gemell Technology

Mert Kutengin, Business Operations Lead, Skabapp

Tuomas Rinkineva, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Ovido

11:00

Morning Refreshment Break

 Break   King George

11:10

Morning 121 Meetings

 Meetings   King George

12:10

Designing at the Speed of AI

 Workshop  Porter Tun

Caley Taylor, Head of Customer Success, VIZCOM

Janda van Dyk, Product Expert, VIZCOM

Emilia Moya, Design Manager, New Balance

Winning in the Age of Speed with AI-Powered Digital Product Creation

 Workshop  Queen Charlotte

Daniel di Benedetto, Sales Director, Centric Software

Linda Pimmeshofer, CTO, J.Lindeberg

Jonas Bloom , Industry Expert, Centric Software

12:45

Lunch: Sponsored by Yoona

 Break   King George

13:35

Who Designs When Machines Can Create?

 Panel  Porter Tun

Roderick Muller , Founder & CEO, Stieglitz

Marius Op't Eynde, Head of Design , Independent

Yury Antonov, Co-Founder, EnhanceThat

Mary Sidiropoulou, Fashion Tech Executive - Fortune 500 companies, Independent

H&M’s AI/3D 2025 Transformation Story

 Case Study  Queen Charlotte

Bhargava Ram Kummamuru, Head of Digital Product Creation, H&M

3D Bodyscanning: What Still Matters

 Focus Group  Upper Sugar Room

Anne Lupas, Head of Digital Content Production, ISA Sallmann AG

14:05

Interactive Roundtables: Choose Your Topic & Get Talking!

 Roundtables  Porter Tun

Anne Lupas, Head of Digital Content Production, ISA Sallmann AG

Mihai Ursu, Business Development Manager, Hypedrop

Jessica Goodyear, Director & Freelance Digital Fashion Designer, Jessica Goodyear Design

Navya Mathur, Manager Northern Europe, TrusTrace

Cora Gehrmann, Head of Sustainable Product & Quality Management, Bonprix Handelsgesellschaft mbH

Janette Cox, Head of Fit and Digital Product Creation, Primark

Sandra Kuijpers, 2D/3D CAD PD | Physical vs Virtual Material | Teacher & PhD Researcher Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | FR&T |, AMFI

From Creative Intent to Industrial Certainty

 Think Tank  Upper Sugar Room

Gerd Willschutz, COO and Co-Founder, DMIx by ColorDigital

How Demographic Shifts Are Redefining Fashion

 Think Tank   Queen Vault

Tim Guenzel, Sales Manager International, Humanetics Digital Europe

Frederick Magner, Key Account Sales, Humanetics

Frank Mager, Managing Director at Humanetics Digital, Humanetics

14:50

Afternoon Refreshment Break

 Break   King George

15:00

Afternoon 121 Meetings

 Meetings   King George

16:00

Training Humans, Training Machines

 Panel  Porter Tun

Luca Pascucci, Digital Innovation Manager, Bestseller

Alina Morar, Fashion design lecturer/ researcher/ 3D designer, AMFI

Ermina Avdisha, Independent Consultant, ermina avdisha

Hans Olsson, Vice President, IACDE International & President, IACDE Nordic Chapter, IACDE

Balancing Fashion and Efficiency: The Future of Apparel Development

 Case Study  Queen Charlotte

Simone Klump, Head of Technical Product Development & Digital Innovation, Bonprix

Solveigh Friedrichsen, Manager Technical Product Development & Digital Innovation, Bonprix

Building a Shared Framework for Digital Fabric Drape Validation

 Focus Group  Upper Sugar Room

Sandra Kuijpers, 2D/3D CAD PD | Physical vs Virtual Material | Teacher & PhD Researcher Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | FR&T |, AMFI

16:35

The Last Thing the World Needs Is Another Fashion Brand

 Keynote  Porter Tun

Stephen Downey, Director, PI

Stuart Trevor, Founder, Stuart Trevor & AllSaints

17:20

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

 Chairman's Address  Porter Tun

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

17:30

Drinks Reception - It's Time to Mingle!

 Break   King George

Day 2 : 31 March 2026

09:00

From 35M AI Headshots to €1M Spending in Fashion Tech R&D

 Think Tank  Upper Sugar Room

Ricardo Ghekiere, CEO , Runflow

Are Fashion Brands Ready for Agentic Decisions?

 Think Tank   Queen Vault

Marita Sanchez de la Cerda, CEO & Co-Founder, SAIZ GmbH

Beyond Visualisation: Making 3D Work Across the Workflow

 Think Tank   Queen Vault

10:00

Chair’s Opening Remarks

 Chairman's Address  Porter Tun

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

10:05

Circular Design, Recycled Materials and the Skills Needed to Get There

 Keynote  Porter Tun

Nick Lambert, Head of Circularity and Materials, Primark

10:40

Connecting Fashion’s Digital Ecosystem

 Panel  Porter Tun

Mihai Ursu, Business Development Manager, Hypedrop

Torben Boehm, Manager Technical Product Development & Digital Innovation, Bonprix

Frans Borgstrand, Founder, Shoreline DPC

Sallyann Houghton, Senior Business Development - Partnerships Fashion/Apparel, Epic Games

Leading With Skills in the AI Era

 General Session  Queen Charlotte

Katharina Engelhardt, Founder & MD, The Female Shift Atelier

Creating Learning Environments for All Cognitive Styles

 Focus Group  Upper Sugar Room

Jessica Goodyear, Director & Freelance Digital Fashion Designer, Jessica Goodyear Design

Samuel Goodyear, Digital Fashion designer, NDV

11:10

Morning Refreshment Break

 Break   King George

11:20

Morning 121 Meetings

 Meetings   King George

12:20

Minutes, Not Months: How to Slash Garment Development Timelines Without Sacrificing Quality

 Workshop  Porter Tun

William Wilcox, Founder and CEO, Clothing Tech

Building Emotional Worlds into Digital Spaces

 Workshop  Queen Charlotte

12:55

Lunch: Sponsored by Yoona

 Break   King George

13:45

Interactive Roundtables: Choose Your Topic & Get Talking!

 Roundtables  Porter Tun

Theresia Grevinga, Head of Fashion and Design, AMFI - Amsterdam Fashion Institute

Eleanor Rockett, Lecturer in Fashion Law, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

Prabir Jana, Professor at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Shahi Exports Chair Professor, Industry 4.0 and co-founder of Apparel, National Institute of Fashion Technology

Bhargava Ram Kummamuru, Head of Digital Product Creation, H&M

Ermina Avdisha, Independent Consultant, ermina avdisha

Dominic Sluiter, Co-Founder, EnhanceThat

How JD is Rebuilding Product Development with AI

 Focus Group  Upper Sugar Room

Monika Balach-Kinsella, Innovation Lead, JD Sports Fashion Plc

Sylwia Szymczyk, CEO & Founder, FashionINSTA

14:15

Digital Product Passports: Beyond Compliance

 Panel  Porter Tun

Iain Walker , Director of Industry Engagement, GS1 UK

Andrew Xeni , Founder & Chairman, Nobody's Child

DAMn That’s Smart: Rewriting Digital Asset Management with AI

 General Session  Queen Charlotte

Kristian Sons, Founder & CEO, PixaScale

14:45

Why Fashion’s Digital Future Can’t Wait

 Panel  Porter Tun

Valerie Van Namen, Chief Product Executive, Champion

Katharina Engelhardt, Founder & MD, The Female Shift Atelier

15:15

Standard Sizing vs Real Bodies: What Technology Can Fix (and what it can’t)

 Keynote  Porter Tun

Pelin Anli Bedirhanoglu, Director of Product Management, Zalando

15:55

What Do We Leave Behind to Move Forward?

 Panel  Porter Tun

Craig Crawford, Digital Transformation Strategist, Crawford IT

Janette Cox, Head of Fit and Digital Product Creation, Primark

Bhargava Ram Kummamuru, Head of Digital Product Creation, H&M

Kerry Murphy, Co-Founder CEO, The Fabricant

16:35

Last Call: The PI Bingo Prize Draw

 Chairman's Address  Porter Tun

16:40

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

 Chairman's Address  Porter Tun

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

17:00

The EPIC Closing Party: Unreal After Dark

 General Session  LOBBY