Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference: USA

23rd - 24th June 2027

New York City, USA

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Patrick Newsom

Vice President, ESG

Delta Galil Industries

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Day 0

Time
Session title
Session type
15:00 - 17:00
Visit to RTV sorting facility and roundtables 
17:00 - 18:00
Networking drinks
Day 1

Time
Session title
Session type
09:00 - 09:30
Showing up in the short-term: What is our responsibility as individuals and corporations amid global turmoil? 
Cotopaxi
Plenary
09:30 - 10:25
Shared risk, shared resilience: What do genuine supplier-brand partnerships that withstand trade uncertainty look like? 
Soorty Enterprises | Oritain | Princess Polly | Komar | Cascale
Plenary
10:25 - 11:05
Break and speed networking
11:05 - 11:45
Achieving net-zero as an industry: Realigning ambition and investment for long-term decarbonisation success 
HSBC | Elevate Textiles | J.Crew Group | Apparel Impact Institute
Plenary
11:45 - 12:30
Collapsing the E and S in ESG: Protecting workers’ rights in the push to net-zero 
Sourcing Journal | American Eagle Outfitters | Global Labor Institute, Cornell University ILR School | Fair Labor Association
Plenary
12:30 - 13:00
Brand values vs consumer value: Can sustainability drive business growth on the demand side? 
Veja | Tory Burch
Plenary
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Breakouts - round 1 
14:45 - 15:15
Case study breakouts - round 2 
15:15 - 15:45
Networking Break
15:45 - 16:30
Breakouts - round 3 
16:30 - 17:15
Breakouts - round 4 
17:15 - 18:15
Networking drinks
Day 2

Time
Session title
Session type
09:00 - 09:25
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
09:25 - 10:05
Overproduction: Where’s the incentive (and solution) to slow the system down? 
Subset | T.W.I.N.
Plenary
10:05 - 11:00
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
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:10
T2T targets: Would a fully recycled closed textiles loop truly benefit everyone? 
The Crisis of Stuff | Bank & Vogue | Reju | EILEEN FISHER
Plenary
12:10 - 12:45
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
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 15:15
Roundtables 
13:45 - 14:30
A. Corporate accountability: How do we make workers' rights a business norm, not a compliance exercise? 
Delta Galil Industries
Roundtable
15:15 - 15:45
Key takeaways and closing remarks 
Parsons School of Design

Previous speaker:

Nicholas Brown

Retraced

Next speaker:

Miranda Morrison

Steve Madden

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For any questions on this event, please contact:

Rebecca Fairbeard

Project Manager, Apparel and Textiles

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Anita Thomson

Chief Partnerships Officer

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