Day 1, 13:50 — Room 1 ● Roundtables
Roundtables: Click Below for Topics & Hosts
Design Futures
1. Storytelling Through Design: Building Consumer Connection
Exploring how authentic narratives in branding, marketing, and design can forge lasting cultural relevance.
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Design Futures
2. What Can Legacy Brands Learn From Emerging Disruptors?
Exploring how new brands challenge speed, structure, and consumer connection.
Design Futures
3. Evolving a Heritage Brand Without Losing Its Soul
How creative leaders balance brand DNA, new audiences, and modern tools at scale
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Design Futures
4. Is Computational Design the Next Core Skill for Designers?
Rethinking creative roles, education, and what design literacy means in an algorithmic world
Digital Workflows
5. Precision: How Perfect Do Assets Really Need to Be?
Defining the Right Fidelity for Your Goal - From Manufacturing's Digital Twin to Marketing's Virtual Twin
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Digital Workflows
6. Are We Approaching Digitization from the Wrong Starting Point?
Why design-led 3D assets so often fail to scale beyond development, and how alternative starting points (including scan-first or product-first approaches) change assumptions around reuse, ownership, and downstream value.
Digital Workflows
7. Who Connects the Dots When No End-to-End Workflow Exist?
Examining ownership, alignment, and decision-making in fragmented workflows.
AI in Practice
8. Where Are AI & 3D Workflows Most Fragile?
Identifying the failure points between tools, data, and teams
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Sustainable Supply
9. What Does “Local Manufacturing” Actually Means in 2026?
A practical discussion on what “Made in the USA / EU” really takes — ecosystem gaps, manufacturing clusters, and hybrid supply chains.
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Sustainable Supply
10. Materials Matter: Which Levers Really Count?
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Day 2, 13:20 — Room 1 ● Roundtables
Roundtables: Click Below for Topics & Hosts
Design Futures
1. Consumers as Co-Creators: Where’s the Line?
Exploring collaboration, control, and creativity in consumer-led design.
Design Futures
2.The Art of Being Alone: Loneliness, Creativity, Leadership
Exploring how loneliness shapes purpose, growth, and human connection.
Design Futures
3. Why Does So Much Great Feedback Never Make It Into the Product
A candid look at where insight gets lost in real footwear pipelines
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Design Futures
4. Designing Systems, Not Objects
What changes when products become programmable instead of static
Digital Workflows
5. Is Digital Actually Making Us Faster at Innovation?
AI, 3D and the uncomfortable gap between speed-to-market claims and ground-up product reality.
Digital Workflows
6. End-to-End Exists…The Missing Link is Adoption
How to Assemble Scattered Solutions into a Cohesive Fashion Workflow
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Digital Workflows
7. From Physical Product to Scalable Digital Experiences
What it actually takes to create customer-ready 3D at scale: quality thresholds, workflow trade-offs, organizational friction, and what “success” looks like once theory meets reality.
Sustainable Supply
8. Next-Gen Materials: Promise vs. Proof
What’s real in labs, what’s ready for factories, and what’s resonating with consumers.
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Sustainable Supply
9. How Do We Make Low-Volume Production Work?
A practical roundtable focused on winning 100–200 pair runs without blowing margin — covering factory access, agent dynamics, batching strategies, pooled buys, calendar planning, and when paying an EU premium makes more sense than pushing China.
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