National Footwear Networking and Charity Event This is a chill networking event where you can hang out with colleagues and bump into friends from the Portland footwear community over brews. For more details click here.

NW Materials Show operates with the primary objective to make the leading experts related to footwear, apparel and leather accessories industry conscious of the latest and advanced techniques. These latest techniques will help in the improvement of this industry. Professional and technical experts related to this sector attend this event […]

The Global Footwear Digital Transformation Summit 2019, organized by Shanghai ECV International, is going to be held on Sept. 23rd-24th, 2019. in Shanghai, China. Digital transformation is the radical transformation of a company’s organization and business processes so that it can leverage emerging technologies to sustain growth. According to the […]

Hosted by the United States Fashion Industry Association, Material Exchange, and Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) Innovation takes place at the intersection of fashion and technology, and Material Exchange is beginning to reimagine the way the industry interacts with materials. The Material Exchange online platform allows designers, materials […]

The 23rd Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show (TITAS 2019) will be held from October 7-9 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1. There will be 350 exhibitors with more than 700 booths from all over the world to gather in the professional trade show. TITAS is the only professional textile trade […]

The event for Product Development Leaders in Fashion Product Innovation Apparel (PI Apparel) brings together the fashion, apparel and footwear industry to discuss the challenges and technologies disrupting the industry. Join us on the shores of Lake Maggiore as we explore the strategies and technologies employed by some of the […]

Meet your your Brand! Material Exchange is starting with series of events, named as “Open Book”, where we would invite Manufacturers and Material Suppliers to meet their Brands. This event is closed-type and could be accessed if you have already a business relationship with the specific brand. Agenda: Material Exchange […]

Footwear designers are generally focused on WHAT they need to create for their next collections, yet in the face of challenges and opportunities like circularity, customization, tariffs, reshoring, virtual retail and big data, the more important question will be: HOW can we best design footwear going forward? That is why FDRA and The Footwearists have teamed […]