Day 0

Time

Session title

Theme

Session type

3:00pm - 5:00pm

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Day 1

Time

Session title

Theme

Session type

9:05am - 9:20am

Showing up in the short-term: What is our responsibility as individuals and corporations amid global turmoil?

VF Corporation | Cotopaxi

Plenary

9:20am - 10:00am

Shared risk, shared resilience: What do genuine supplier-brand partnerships look like amid tariff uncertainty?

Soorty Enterprises | Komar | Cascale

Plenary

10:00am - 10:40am

Achieving net-zero as an industry: Realigning ambition and investment for long-term decarbonisation success

HSBC | Elevate Textiles | J.Crew | Apparel Impact Institute

Plenary

10:40am - 11:20am

Break

11:20am - 12:00pm

Collapsing the E and S in ESG: Protecting workers’ rights in the push to net-zero

Sourcing Journal | Global Labor Institute, Cornell University ILR School | Fair Labor Association

Case study

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Brand values vs consumer value: Can sustainability drive business growth on the demand side?

Veja | Tory Burch

Plenary

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Breakouts - round 1

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Due diligence fatigue: How do we shift from compliance checkbox to real impact for people and planet?

Lacoste | TextileGenesis | W. L. Gore & Associates

Breakout

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Preferred materials: How to use LCA data and navigate trade-offs for impact?

Canada Goose | Bureau Veritas | DÔEN

Breakout

1:30pm - 2:15pm

Supply chain disclosure and resilience: Are we overcomplicating traceability?

MG Apparel | Sweep

Breakout

1:30pm - 2:15pm

This house believes - Circularity distracts the industry from achieving net-zero

This house believes

2:15pm - 3:00pm

Breakouts - round 2

2:15pm - 3:00pm

Water stewardship: How can we identify and address blind spots in the value chain?

Macy's | Artistic Milliners

Breakout

2:15pm - 3:00pm

The change management challenge: How do you actually embed sustainability into business value creation?

SIERRA | Nordstrom

Breakout

2:15pm - 3:00pm

How do we navigate fragmented textile EPR systems — and turn compliance into value?

Ellen MacArthur Foundation | H&M Group

Breakout

2:15pm - 3:00pm

This house believes - AI will deliver sustainable fashion but betray the movement that demanded it

This house believes

3:00pm - 3:45pm

Break

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Case study breakouts - round 3

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Workplace assessments: How do they translate from framework to factory-floor reality?

Target | CARE Impact Partners | Social & Labor Convergence Program

Case study

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Reverse logistics: Building the infrastructure, data systems and collaborations to convert returns into value

Case study

3:45pm - 4:15pm

DPPs: How to turn compliance into competitive advantage

Case study

3:45pm - 4:15pm

This house believes - Transaction certificates create paper trails, not supply chain accountability

Centric Brands

This house believes

4:15pm - 5:00pm

Breakouts - round 4

4:15pm - 5:00pm

Dignified work: How can the apparel and textiles industry empower workers and uplift communities?

Rothy's | Faherty Brand | SOKO Kenya

Breakout

4:15pm - 5:00pm

Innovation opportunities: What are the small tweaks in our supply chain that can have big impact?

New Balance | Livinguard Technologies | Nettalco

Breakout

4:15pm - 5:00pm

ESPR: Can circular design requirements eliminate waste from supply chains?

ARMEDANGELS | Steve Madden

Breakout

4:15pm - 5:00pm

This house believes - “Luxury fashion is sustainable by nature”

This house believes

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Networking drinks

Day 2

Time

Session title

Theme

Session type

9:00am - 9:20am

Board room buy-in: How can we present the business case to the C-suite without selling sustainability short?

NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business

Q&A

9:20am - 10:00am

Overproduction: Where’s the incentive (and solution) to slow the system down?

Subset | T.W.I.N.

Plenary

10:00am - 10:45am

The reality of resale, repair, rental: Can circular business models actually scale to compete with the linear system?

Nuuly | Tersus Solutions | GUESS inc. | Yale University | Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Plenary

10:45am - 11:15am

Break

11:15am - 12:00pm

T2T targets: Would a fully recycled closed textiles loop truly benefit everyone?

Lululemon | Bank & Vogue | Reju | EILEEN FISHER

Plenary

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Regenerative cotton: If it really is a win-win for all, why is it not more widespread?

Spruell Farms | Victoria's Secret & Co | COTTON USA™ and U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol

Case study

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Roundtables

1:30pm - 2:15pm

A. Living wages: What is required to deliver workers their right to a living wage?

Roundtable

1:30pm - 2:15pm

B. Responsible exits: What does effective human rights due diligence look like for workers as supply chains shift?

Verité

Roundtable

1:30pm - 2:15pm

C. Fiber shedding: Until our data sets improve, what working assumptions should we use to assess preferred materials?

Under Armour

Roundtable

1:30pm - 2:15pm

D. Next-generation materials: How do we balance performance and price parity in lower-impact fibres?

Roundtable

1:30pm - 2:15pm

E. Shared purchasing power agreements: How can collective action unlock renewable energy investment in supply chains?

Ralph Lauren

Roundtable

1:30pm - 2:15pm

F. SBTi implementation: How do we navigate SBTi services and integrate FLAG into our inventories?

La Vie en Rose

1:30pm - 2:15pm

G. T2T feedstock: How does ‘design for disassembly’ work in practice?

Accelerating Circularity

Roundtable

1:30pm - 2:15pm

H. FABSCRAP sorting station: A collective opportunity to de-stress and recharge amid industry burnout

FABSCRAP

Roundtable

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Key takeaways and closing remarks

Parsons School of Design

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