Frederic Gaillard is responsible for defining Lectra’s vision of the cutting
room for the company targeted markets and the related roadmap for
both current and tomorrow’s offer since late 2015. His perimeter covers
the equipment (cutters, spreaders, consumables…) as well as software
required to plan, prepare the cutting and all necessary services (support,
maintenance…) coming on top. He is currently leading a project that is
related to the industry 11.0 and its corresponding challenges around
digitalization, data, integration. It leverages latest technologies such as
cloud, big data, IoT….Frederic has over 15 years of experience in product
marketing ; prior to Lectra, he was working in the semiconductor industry.

Jonathan Zornow is the 30-year-old inventor behind Sewbo. He came up
with the solution to automating garment manufacturing while reading
about temporary support materials for 3D printers, which are water-
soluble plastics that could be melted and molded.

These materials let 3D printers build things that would otherwise be
impossible. and he thought that the same concept could be applied
to the garment industry.This would ultimately prove to be a successful
approach – but not before many long nights of tinkering, including
a crowded stretch where he shared his tiny NYC studio apartment/
workshop with a rented industrial robot.

Zornow studied economics and studio art at Brandeis University. where
his sculpture thesis was a fresco-making machine called “Robotecelli.”
Jon lives in Seattle. http://www.sewbo.cam/press/

Pradeep David is the General Manager at Universal Robots South Asia.
Based out of Bangalore, he is one of the strong pillars of the company
responsible for setting up 8. running the operations of Denmark based
Universal Robots MS, in the region.

A quali?ed expert in robotics and industrial automation. Pradeep is a
Masters in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) from Clemson University,
South Carolina, USA and has also completed his MBA in International
Business from Marquette University, Wisconsin, United States. Pradeep
joined Universal Robots India in October 2015 and ever since has been
persistent with his effort and sure vision of the ambitious growth strategy
for the company to ful?ll the goal of making the company a market leader
in the segment of robotics that they operate in.

Universal Robots are the leading manufacturers of advanced user-
friendly and light industrial robotic arms from Denmark and only recently
expanded their presence in the Indian market and Pradeep. an engineer by
quali?cation. is a behind—the—scenes designer who spends majority of his
time in developing the strategies for the company to propagate the values
of human-robot collaboration. Through the collaborative robots (Cobots), he
believes in the idea for humans and robots to be inter-dependent and focus
on what each of them does best, safely. These collaborative robots provide
an added incentive to the workforce as consistent quality production is
possible with human supervision.

He reckons that this approach is particularly appealing to the Indian
Manufacturing Industry because labor-intensive conditions and the
collaborative robots together can help the Indian Market achieve the best of
both worlds by making precise use of this distinctive technology.

Prior to joining Universal Robots, Pradeep was with Rockwell Automation
Inc. for over 25 years. He had performed different roles during his tenure
with the company including- managing the South Indian Operations for
Rockwell Automation, running the Software Business in Asia-Paci?c, the
Visualization Software Business globally with a stint of Asia Paci?c Sales
Training 8 Services/Engineering Marketing in between.

Educational Quali?cation: Graduation in Industrial Engineering, University of
Kanagawa, Japan in the Year of 1997

Mr. Utena Has joined in Juki Corporation Japan in the Year of 1997 as
Industrial Consultant. He has been supporting productivity for many
customers from about 40 countries such as Asia, Africa. South America.
Europe and so on.

He has Giving the seminar of production control for Apparel Industries at
home and abroad, and lecturing about how to increase plant efficiency.

Mr. Utena has been visited more than 400 Apparel Industries in Bangladesh
and giving training in the ?eld of Production Control, Productivity analysis,
Factory Study and so on. He was the key note speaker of Many production
Control Training program which was conducted by AOTS( Association for
overseas Technical cooperation and sustainable development) Japan in
Bangladesh. He is the specialist of Lean manufacturing and conducted
many seminars on it.

Mr Utena now Trying to increase more customer ef?ciency by “JaNets”(Juki
Advanced Networking Systems), JUKI production control system.

Sonia Bashir Kabir, Educated and trained in Silicon Valley, Sonia lived in
Northern California for 20 years. After completing her MBA, she worked
in the Valley for Fortune 100 companies (Sun Microsystems 8 Oracle),
startups 8 in the financial district. Her expertise include strategic
planning 8. growth, sales execution, financial management. team
building and change management.

Sonia is currently the Managing Directorfor Microsoft Bangladesh, Board
Director and Co-Founder of D Money (Fin-Tech start up). Vice President
and Co-Founder of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT). Sonia is
also the Founder President of TiE Dhaka and has served in the Boards
of the American International School, Dhaka, Bangladesh Employers
Federation, Bangladesh Cricket Board (Women’s Wing), Abahani Women’s
Games Development Committee and Women Entrepreneur’s Association.
Besides co-founding an IT firm – Syntec, Sonia has served as the Country
Director of Dell Bangladesh, Director Business Development for South
East Asia, New Emerging Markets in Microsoft and Chief Operating Officer
for Aamra Technologies Ltd.

Sonia currently serves as a Board Member of Bangladesh Association
of Software and Information Services ( BASIS). She also serves in the
Advisory Boards of the School of Business and the School of Computer
Science of North South University and in the School of Business Advisory
Board of Independent University Bangladesh.

Sonia is a national athlete; she has played forAbahani women’s Volleyball
and Cricket team and continued playing for Bangladesh National
Volleyball team and Bangladesh National Cricket team

AKA THE GARMENT GU RU, is a second generation garments, and today he sits
at the cutting edge of garment industry strategic development and transfer
pricing. David began his career working in Hong Kong as a patternmaker. he
later rose to be a factory manager and still later built factories in Asia and
Latin America. In 1986 Birnbaum founded Third Horizon Consultants Limited
a boutique operation designed to solve problems facing garment factories,
agents and garment importers. Over a period THL gained a reputation for
innovative solutions to insoluble problems, often as a last resort. Clients
concluded that since everybody else has failed, let’s bring in Birnbaum.
Industry clients included Max Mara. Marks 8 Spenser, VF Corporation and
Hilfiger and WL Gore. Factory clients included Merrison Garments (Hong
Kong/China) and CMT (Mauritius). In recent years. governments and
institutions recognized that the global garment industry is the ?rst stage of
economic development; and as a result. retained Birnbaum to help develop
national and regional garment export industries. This included projects for
Governments of India, El Salvador, Mexico, Canada, and Myanmar as well as
USAID, ASEAN, The World Bank, The Inter American Development Bank and
the International Trade Centre. Birnbaum is also recognized as a leading
industry expert in transfer pricing and has been retained by Fenwick 8.
West, Wachtell Lipton. Baker 8. McKenzie and DLA Piper.

Other notable accolades:
– Author of 9 published books as well as many books for clients.

~ He also writes the Birnbaum Reports a monthly newsletter for international’“
garment industry professionals.
– He is a frequent contributor of textile and garment industry related
to specialized journals. -‘
– Birnbaum has taught at Institute of Textiles and Clothing Polytechnic
University (Hong Kong) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (New
York).As the industry is undergoing a generational Chage, Brimbaum has
co—founded a new company with his daughter Emma (third Generation),
Birnbaum & Father. Despite his place on cutting edge the global
garment industry strategic development, Birnbau remains an unrepentant
garmento.

Magnus Sundgren He has more than 20 years’ experience in the apparel
industry. Helping manufactures to strengthen their market position

through customized software solutions. UPS Inventor, more than 5000
installed systems, supporting customers in more than 50 countries.

In his 47 years in the garment industry, Ram Sareen has worn hats as
diverse as the business itself. In addition to being the top expert in bra
manufacturing, he is also well-versed in the complexities of men’s suit
tailoring, and everything in between. Sareen’s extensive and storied history
can be characterized with one word: disruptive. In fact, his mantra has always
been, “Change is constant, growth is optional.” Sareen has demonstrated
this philosophy and expertise in his invaluable work as a consultant for
retailers, brands, and manufacturers. Now it is ingrained in the very DNA of
Tukatech, the fashion software company he founded in 1995, and the leader
in innovative technology for the apparel industry.

Credited with successfully bringing digital pattern-making to dozens of
countries, Tukatech’s robust software applications are developed and
implemented by experts from all corners of the garment industry. In
keeping with Sareen’s relentless spirit of disruption, Tukatech has been
known to pivot their own processes and product offerings with the ever-
changing needs of the apparel industry. Tukatech has been the first to do
a lot of things in the technology sector, but with the company’s insatiable
desire to simplify and improve fashion practices, its list of accolades is only
the beginning of what is sure to come.

Is currently the Executive Vice President — Apparel at Li 8 Fung India Pvt
Ltd. He has over 27 years of experience in the manufacturing as well as
sourcing side for apparel in Asia.

Having worked with vendors and apparel exporters in India and Indonesia
prior to working with Li 8 Fung for the last 10 years, Sunil brings him a
perspective on both sides of selling as well as buying. Over his years of
experience. he has developed excellent working partnerships with key
customers in the US and in Europe and with vendors in the Subcontinent.
His strengths are in sourcing strategy, costing, marketing, manufacturing,
and supply chain solutions.

Vikas C. Raykar works as a research scientist at IBM Research, Bangalore,
India. An expert in machine learning he is currently focused on building
machines that can understand natural language and images in par with
humans. He finished his doctoral studies in the computerscience department
at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also de?ning a roadmap
for what can be done for the fashion industry, primarily leveraging deep
image and text understanding together with other cognitive capabilities.

Fashion designers and fashion houses usually start conceptualising and
designing products for the new season six months to one year prior to
the actual selling season—though in recent times this has been drastically
reduced with the emergence of fast-fashion retailers. That’s why for most
apparel retailers, and the fashion industry in general, knowing the trends
customers would like to wear next season is extremely important. In this
talk I will describe how modern AI based tools which can understand
fashion images and articles can be used to provide a more a more data—
driven approach for trend analysis and forecasting. I will describe some of
our recent collaborations with various fashion designers.

Traditionally a lot of fashion houses send fashion experts to the big four
major runway shows who actually observe what is being shown and form
very subjective opinion of what are the mega trends that are emerging.
While there is great value in expert fashion observers they will invariably
limited by how many shows they can see. It is probably not possible for
someone to manually look at 20-50 thousand images coming out from the
runway shows. We take a more data driven way where we can crunch all the
images and then provide these trend reports to the observers who can now
have a more data driven backing to their gut instincts.

For more details see
https://cognitivefashion.github.io/

Amanda Cosco is an internationally recognized fashion tech expert and the founder of Electric Runway. Electric Runway is a global brand synonymous with the future of fashion. Through their events, reporting, podcast, and
YouTube channel, Electric Runway aims to provide inspiration and insights that help push the fashion industry into the future.

Eva van der Brugge is an Innovation Manager at Fashion for Good. a
global platform for innovation made possible through collaboration and
community. She works within Fashion for Good’s Scaling Programme,
which provides bespoke support to circular apparel and footwear
innovations that have passed the proof-of—concept phase. Within the
Scaling Programme, Eva focuses on innovations in raw materials, dyeing
and finishing technologies.

Prior to joining Fashion for Good, Eva served as an Associate Consultant
at McKinsey 8. Company in their Amsterdam office. Within McKinsey, Eva’s
focus was mainly on Private Equity, performing due diligences in a wide
range of industries and company types. She also supported strategy
projects for various high-tech companies as well as for sustainable
innovators in food. Furthermore. Eva served as a statistical researcher in
the fields of educational testing and national intelligence.

Eva attained a MSc in Methodology and Statistics from Leiden University
and a MPhil in Argumentation Theory from the University of Amsterdam
in the Netherlands. She pursued her PhD in Philosophy of Science at the
University of Melbourne in Australia and at Princeton University in the US.

Muchaneta Kapfunde Considered to be one of the leading influencers
speaking and writing about the merger of fashion with technology and
wearable technology. Muchaneta in the founder and editor—in-chief of
FashNerd.com, a digital magazine that focuses on fashion and lifestyle
from a technology standpoint.

A regular contributor to Wareable.com, Muchaneta’s forte is the evolution
of smart fabrics. Her interest in this space has led to giving talks at events
like #FashionTech Berlin, Munich Fabric Start and Look Forward. She has
also been featured in the Huffington Post, Deutchlandradio Kultur.Electric
Runway podcast. Irish Tech News, and with notable mentions in. Elle.
com, Glossy.co and TechCrunch.

Pim is an Innovation Manager within the Scaling Programme of Fashion
for Good. In this role he provides bespoke support to start-ups that have
developed sustainable production methods for the fashion industry. Within
the Scaling Programme, he focuses on innovations in cut make 8. trim,
traceability 8. transparency, processing (weaving. knitting, etc) and value
chain recon?guration (e.g. on demand manufacturing).

Pim has started his career at Accenture as part of the Operations
Management team. Here, he has worked on various projects in Operational
Excellence, Organizational Transformation, Procurement 8 Supply Chain.
After Accenture, he joined the Strategy 8 Operations Team of Unilever. At
Unilever. Pim worked on business turnaround projects across all categories
aimed at optimizing margins. cash ?ows and revenue across almost all
functions. Pim has a MSc in Business Administration from the RSM Erasmus
University focused on Strategic Management and a MPhil in Business
Research from the Erasmus Research Institute of Management focused on
quantitative research methods.

Danit Peleg, 29, is a Fashion Designer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2015,
for her graduate collection at fashion school, Danit was the first to design
and 3D print an entire ready—to—wear fashion collection — printed entirely at
home. Her collection and the potential that printing clothes could have on
the fashion industry has captivated the attention of millions globally. For
the Rio 2016 Paralympics Opening Ceremony, Danit used her an printing
technique to design and print a dress for Amy Purdy, a double-leg amputee
who performed a samba solo. In 2017, Danit unveiled her second collection
and released the ?rst 3D printed garment available to purchase online.

Danit is a TED speaker and has been featured in the New York Times and
Wall Street JournaL Danit is a graduate of Shenkar College of Engineering
and Design and she is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
https.’//danitpeleg.com/press-kit/

Dr. Mike Fralix has worked in a variety of capacities at [TC]2 and has
provided guidance to hundreds of companies around the world. With
40 years of experience in manufacturing, research and development,
and operations and corporate management, he leads [TC]2’s initiatives
to develop next—generation supply chain technologies, and works with
companies to implement currently available technologies and business
processes.

In May of 2017 Dr. Fralix accepted an assignment with SoftWearAutomation
in Atlanta, Georgia to help promote the use of robotic automation for
the Sewn Products Industry. Their SewbotsTM technology was created
at Georgia Tech and Dr. Fralix served on the Advisory Board during its
development. SoftWear Automation gave him the title of Technology
Evangelist and has asked him to help implement the technology globally.
In addition to overseeing [TC]2’s strategic direction and working with
SoftWear Automation, Dr. Fralix speaks globally on a variety oftopics and
helps deliver programs and services to the fashion industry. These topics
include 30 product development, sizing for fit, virtual dressing, online
shopping, additive manufacturing, re-shoring, lean systems, sustainable
technologies, robotics and automation, and the digital supply chain.

He holds BS degrees in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy from North
Carolina State University, an MBA from Duke University and a PhD. in
Technology Management from NC. State University. In 2009, he was
appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at NC. State University. In
2012, he was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for the NCSU
College of Textiles.

Dr. Fralix is also active in several industry organizations. He is a member
Of the Board of Directors of: AAFA-American Apparel 8 Footwear Association.,
AFMA-American Fiber Manufacturers Association, SPESA-Sewn Products
Equipment and Suppliers of the Americas, IAF-International Apparel
Federation, CCAA-Caribbean-Central American Action, AAFA Education
Foundation, YMA-Fashion Scholarship Fund, and the Georgia Soft Goods
Education Foundation. He was recognized as a Thought Leader at the OIA
(Outdoor Industry Association) Thought Leader’s Dinner in January 2013

Richard is the current CEO of innovation, product development and
technology licensing company T H E U N S E E N where he is responsible
for developing and executing the company’s growth strategy and mission
statement, “changing the way, the world uses colour”.

Prior to the T H E U N S E E N, Richard was with Accenture Strategy where
he worked as a Project Manager, leading global, multi-disciplinary teams
of management consultants focused on merger and acquisition (buy and
sell side), corporate strategy and technology strategy projects for FTSE 100
corporations and private equity firms across industries such as investment
and retail banking, high technology, retail, consumer goods and industrial.
During this time, Richard notably took a secondment to work with Martha
Lane-Fox (board member at Twitter) to set up the UK’s first charity focused
on bringing socially disadvantaged people online.

Before his career in management consulting, Richard worked for an
early growth stage technology start-up, providing software-as-a-service
solutions to local government and healthcare organisations — he worked
across sales, marketing and operations in various roles.