Programme

• Exploring the paradigm shift from analog to digital in the apparel industry
• Creating interactive designs that explore the dynamic relation between space, people, and technology
• Showcasing Studio Roosegaarde's technologies and interactive projects: Dune, Intimacy and Smart Highway.

• What are the main challenges to progression coupled to siloed thinking?
• Exploring the role of PLM in unifying silos and enhancing inter-team collaboration to promote efficient work flows
• Integrating work streams, language and business processes across the value stream
• Understanding the importance of change management in the unsiloing process

• Reviewing the 3 development processes and timelines of the garment arm of the organisation
• Strengthening a 60 day time to market process
• Sustaining competitive advantage by jumping on demanded trends and focussing on the consumer
• Generating an internal collaboration system programme to promote effective intra-communication and reduced timelines
• Developing tools allowing for designers to work with suppliers on the production line directly to develop 'hit and run' lines
• Which stages have thus far been completed and what were the challenges?
• What are the next steps in ensuring the goal of 80% project completion is achieved by end of 2013?
• The UCB Footwear Project - translating key findings from the garment lines to footwear 

• Exploring the organisational structure of the Chicco brand within Artsana
• Why was PLM integration deemed a necessary strategy?
• Generating an effective PLM installation project: support, priorities, forecasts and timelines
• Understanding each project phase, their respective challenges and how these were solved
• What were the immediate short term benefits to operations?
• How has the project been developed since and what are the longer-term opportunities?

• MUUSE’s Big Picture – exploring a novel way of design innovation through continuous recruitment and development of new talent
• Promoting design collaboration between new and existing designers for each collection
• Ensuring that the risk associated with new talent is counter-acted by efficient sales conversion
• Supporting fast market testing at low cost to speed up the development process
• Using social media channels to generate test data
• How do you ensure the right data is being collected and used to establish which collections are resonating best with the market?
• Using sample production on a 6-week time scale to generate 6-10 piece test collections with no need for inventory investment
• Relying on video-conferencing and cloud technologies to highlight design/production flaws and to create a central store of data

• 'One Size Does Not Fit All' - realising the need for multiple and varied PLM installations to suit different business areas and brands
• 'Bigger is Not Always Better' - right-sizing your PLM application to match your organisation both technically and culturally
• 'Baby Steps versus Giant Leaps' - prioritising long-term ROI over short-term gains to ensure success

• Environmental Profit & Loss (E P&L) analysis as a tool for identifying opportunities
• How reduction and  mitigation of environmental drives innovation
• Case Studies from Kering Brands on product design (including PUMA's Incycle collection), new approaches to sourcing raw materials and engaging suppliers

• Is 3D printing really just a short-lived hype or are there further opportunities, yet to be realised, that require industrial and/or consumer patience to achieve?
• What does 3D printing actually allow you to do? – prioritising culture and use beyond aesthetics
• What are the material limitations and qualities of computer-assisted design and 3D printing?
• What does 3D printing mean in regards to creative sustainability?
• Attaining a new set of previously unattainable design cues through 3D printing
• Overcoming the cost barriers of complex design - 3D printing and ‘free complexity'
• Standing at the base of a ‘mountain of disruption’ with 3D fabrication - what are the implications on industry, brands and/or the environment
• What does wearable technology mean for the fashion industry and what role does 3D printing play in this field?
• 3D printing, consumerism and waste – reducing waste in material use whilst printing or creating more waste than known now due to domestic production

Translating key learnings from the PLM experience to technology platform deployment

Introducing new concepts in your company is always an experience. It can be a positive experience if people and organizations have understood the lessons learned from others in similar situations. This session will highlight some of the lessons learned from PLM implementations.

• The importance of the human factor and change
• The responsibilities of Business and IT
• What is the single version of the truth
• PLM and ERP and their complementary roles
• The Need for Data instead of Documents

Re-configuring Black Diamond's IT architecture and development processes. The Early Journey.

• Understanding the reasons for the need and the want for PLM at Black Diamond
• Generating an informative Request For Proposal document that eloquently reflected business needs and expectations 
• Identifying and vetting potential PLM providers
• Deploying an effective vendor review process
• How to choose the right vendor for you?
• Final selection

Deploying SOURCE: The Global Platform for Sustainable Fashion 

• What is the Ethical Fashion Forum and how does it’s platform, SOURCE, work?
• Making sustainability easy - simplifying sustainable sourcing, production and business strategy
• Making sustainability resource-efficient – saving time, money and people resource
• Making sustainability intelligent and collaborative – integrating social , corporate and environmental considerations
• What successes and impacts has SOURCE facilitated in the fashion apparel industry?
• Industry case study – exploring the challenges and benefits of working with SOURCE  

• Choosing PLM to support continuing company expansion and maturity
• Comprehensibly connecting disparate data sources
• Supporting collaborative work through team integration and process optimization
• Generating a more efficient product design and development process thus reducing time to market 

Re-addressing the balance between consumption and disposal to support waste reduction, cost savings and green innovation

• Understanding upcycling – concept, deployment and opportunities
• Promoting collaboration between design, retail and industry to support long-term success
• Modelling a novel and intelligent industry that performs alongside mainstream brand lines
• Realising the main challenges to concept and deployment from the perspective of leading brands
• Seeing upcycling as a solution to rising apparel costs and integrating this into the trend to move production back in-house
• What does upcycling need from you? – generating an innovative design and manufacturing support team
• Collaboration case studies: Speedo, Topshop and Tesco

Join us in the Conservatory for a seated three-course lunch, when you can continue networking with your industry peers in comfort.

The lunch will include a series of informal, themed discussions, layed out by theme-specific tables and mediated by one of our leading experts, including:

What is an E-Sample® and how can companies support Fast Track outside of PLM?

• Roxy Starr, EVP, Design & Development, FastFit360®

'PLM From Scratch' - Understanding the Early Journey of Sourcing and Deployment

• Walter Wilhelm, VP, Business Process, Black Diamond Inc

Supporting a 'Fast Fashion' Strategy - Challenges & Opportunities

• Andrea Piras, Global Product Development & Planning Division Director, United Colors of Benetton
• David Dencker, CEO & Co-Founder, MUUSE A/S

Best Practices in Overcoming Supply Chain Bottlenecks & Disruptions

• Peter Smith, President, Supply Chain, VF International

Strengthening a Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy

• Orsola de Castro, Creative Director, Reclaim to Wear
• Helen Crowley, Conservation & Ecosystem Services Specialist, Kering

Promoting Global Design Collaboration Around the World

• George Sanchez, Director, Technical Design, PVH Corp

Exploring the Role of Cultural Change Management in IT System Deployment & Adoption 

• Harminder Singh, Associate Fellow, Warwick Business School

• Understanding that PLM requires both an IT and a human toolkit during implementation and maintenance
• Exploring the workforce psyche - resistance to change, fear of failure and risk to job necesity when automating
• Generating a strategy that trains and prepares the workforce for PLM integration
• Viewing cultural change and support as a priority to support long-term PLM acceptance and success throughout the business

• Strengthening the link between business process and technology
• Incorporating more of a business lead on technological sourcing and deployment to balance out the current IT focus
• Minimising the internal need to create and/or customise purchased technology platforms
• Striking a balance between functionality and simplicity
• Technology Case Study 1 - boosting development efficiency through reduced prototyping and shorter development timelines
• Technology Case Study 2 - supporting production via the improved monitoring of work in progress and enhancing factory collaboration  
• Technology Case Study 3 - cloud-based technology platforms