Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit - the regional forum for fashion goes online this year
Sustainability, changes in business models and technological innovations – these topics will feature at this year’s international forum organised by the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency for the third time. At the Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit the audience – interested to learn about contemporary fashion – will be able to hear 30 international speakers including distinguished experts such as stylist icon, fashion specialist and editor of Vogue Japan, Anna Dello Russo. Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the conference will be held online between 30 November and 1 December, via live video presentations.
The Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit, formerly held as a side event to the Budapest Central European Fashion Week, is now hailed as a two-day global event providing a forum for dialogues on international fashion and design. The professional forum serves as a unique opportunity for anyone interested in the future of fashion, technological innovations or eco-conscious solutions that will be expected to characterise fashion in the near future.
Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the conference will be held online. Contributions will be made in English by international experts in a live video presentation, which will be available to anyone interested free of charge.
The conference will kick off with a keynote dialogue between stylist icon and fashion expert Anna Dello Russo and head of the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency Ms Zsófia Bata-Jakab. The event will be structured into four panels organised around the following topics:
Responsible Future - The fashion industry in 10 years - Will sustainability be the new norm?
The first panel discussion will focus on sustainable future and the next 10 years of the fashion industry and will involve presentations by illustrious experts such as Petra Green, the founder of Sans Concept Fashion Lab, or Dana Davis, the Vice President for Sustainability at Mara Hoffmann.
Fashion Business - How did fashion business models change in the last decade? Share your experiences, insights and lessons.
In the second panel of the conference, speakers will investigate the same 10-year period but this time focusing on the changes adapted to business models over the past decade. In this panel, we will have insights provided by Luceny Fofana, head of communication Burberry North America or Stefan Siegel the founder of Not Just a Label.
Connected Fashion - What can and cannot be changed via technology in fashion?
The role of technology in fashion is a recurrent theme each year. At this year’s conference, the issue will be revisited, among others, by Evelyn Mora, founder of the Helsinki Digital Fashion Week, and founder of the DFF innovation lab Lili Éva Bartha.
Global Changes Roundtable - Key conclusions of the pandemic and an outlook on the future of fashion
Panel 4 will have the largest number of novelties in store for creative industry actors since fashion and design sectors were among the first ones hit by the pandemic. The impact of the coronavirus and its repercussions will be discussed by the members of this session including distinguished experts such as Orsola de Castro, the founder and creative director of Fashion Revolution, or Alison Bringé, the marketing director of Launchmetrics.
HFDA is highly committed to the education of both stakeholders of the industry and the broader audience interested in fashion and technology. The Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit is organised partly to offer presentations – free of charge – delivered by well-known professionals of the field who may give some guidance about the secrets of successful operation. Distinguished speakers representing the profession will include experts from Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Nigeria, France, Italy and the United States.
The last programme of the first digital Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit will be a regional round-table discussion involving the heads of fashion institutions located in neighbouring countries, also featuring Ms Zsófia Bata-Jakab. During the talk, the participants will be asked to reflect on the four major topics of the summit and will also be expected to describe what they are experiencing at a regional level and how they think the current changes have affected the fashion industry in a global context. The roundtable discussion will be moderated by a professional consultant at HFDA, Ms Emese Dobos.
Further information and the detailed programme is available at the event’s Facebook page:
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