Day 1, 12:10 — Room 1 Lower Level & Expo Hall ● Roundtables
Roundtables: Choose Your Topic & Get Talking
Craft x Digital Innovation
1. Rethinking the Brief, Bringing the Team
How to lead digital design change without losing the magic
Presented by:
Craft x Digital Innovation
2. What Evolving Skillsets are Needed to Adopt Digital?
Hard-won lessons in driving digital change inside resistant organizations and translating fashion’s 3D maturity into footwear.
Craft x Digital Innovation
3. Designing for Manufacturability From Day One
How earlier collaboration, digital workflows, and material choices shape scalable footwear outcomes
Presented by:
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
4. 3D & AI For What, Exactly?
Why 3D, and why now? As AI accelerates creation, this roundtable cuts through the hype to clarify what 3D, AI, or neither actually delivers.
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
5. Does Digital Actually Improve the Way Customers Buy Shoes?
A consumer reality check on 3D, AI visuals, trust, and what actually reduces returns
Presented by:
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
6. How Much Does Supplier Readiness Define Your 3D Workflow?
This discussion unpacks the role supplier tooling, skills, and standards play in shaping brand-side 3D workflows, and where alignment (rather than pressure) drives better outcomes.
Sustainable Supply
7. The Hidden Bias in Digital Footwear
Why comfort, aesthetics, and non-sport footwear struggle to fit sport-first digital systems
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Day 2, 13:40 — Room 1 Lower Level & Expo Hall ● Roundtables
Roundtables: Choose Your Topic & Get Talking
Craft x Digital Innovation
1. How to Hire & Retain Next-Gen Footwear Talent
What today's emerging talent actually wants from a career in footwear, and what brands need to stop getting wrong if they want to find, hire, and keep them
Craft x Digital Innovation
2. Scaling Strong Design Outcomes without Flattening Craft
How designers balance speed, manufacturability, and innovation while protecting authorship in real production environments
Presented by:
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
3. Can One 3D Footwear Asset Ever Work End-to-End?
Why do 3D footwear assets still break down beyond development - from file structures and material accuracy to tool limitations and workflow handoffs - and what “good enough” really means at each stage of the product lifecycle.
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
4. What is Computational Design and Why Should You Care?
Computational design is the connective tissue between craft, engineering, and scale, and it's reshaping how footwear is made.
Presented by:
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
5. From DPC Skeptic to Sponsor
What actually creates 3D buy-in in craft-led cultures?
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
6. Can One Digital Asset Ever Serve Design, Marketing & Retail?
Exposing the real gaps between DPC, marketing and commerce
Digital Product Creation (DPC)
7. From Digital Assets to Digital Trust
Realism, ethics, and how synthetic imagery reshapes customer confidence
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Sustainable Supply
8. Tackling Gender Equity in Footwear Innovation
How digital technologies can support anatomy-specific design and accelerate equity in footwear.