Main Event Day, 11:50 — Main Ballroom ● Exchange
Interactive Roundtables - Choose Your Topic & Get Talking
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5. The Capability Reversal
What happens when the manufacturer knows more than the brand — and how both sides navigate it
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6. Material Interoperability
How fabric and material digitisation is being solved at the source
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1. AI & the Handoff
Where is AI genuinely accelerating the journey from digital asset to physical product?
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2. PLM in the Supply Chain
How to get suppliers connected, capable and confident
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3. 3D in the Factory
How the best organisations are closing the gap between what design produces and what production can use
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4. Digital Quality
Where inspection and quality management tools are genuinely delivering and what's next
Main Event Day, 13:50 — Main Ballroom ● Exchange
Interactive Roundtables - Choose Your Topic & Get Talking
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5. Sustainability & the Thread
How can better digital connectivity between brands and manufacturers actually moves the needle on sustainability?
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6. The Talent Gap
What the most digitally advanced brands and manufacturers are doing differently to build the teams they need
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1. AI & Inspection
From automated defect detection to predictive quality, what's actually being deployed and what's working?
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2. AI-Generated Design
As brands experiment with AI concepts and colourways, are the briefs hitting manufacturers getting better or worse?
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3. Build vs Buy
Should brands and manufacturers develop AI capability in-house or rely on platforms — and what does good look like?
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4. Traceability End to End
How close is the industry to genuine thread-to-retail visibility — and what are the real blockers?