One-day Fashion Assessment and Impact-Reduction Remote Workshop
Fashion Assessment and
Impact-Reduction Remote Workshop
Fashion Assessment and Impact-Reduction Remote Workshop
Focused on reducing supply chain, material, and product impacts along the fashion-product lifecycle
Thursday, January 12, 2023
9am-3pm EST
Earn a certificate of completion at this all-day USFIA x Material Exchange fashion sustainability workshop centered on assessing products, minimizing impacts, and understanding sustainable design and sourcing how-to’s.
Learn to measure, assess, and reduce the footprint of the clothing you design and produce.
This online workshop is geared toward working fashion professionals looking to deepen their knowledge of measurable ways to increase the sustainability of their brand products.
Sustainable fashion workshop details:
An all-day course on fashion sustainability focused on sharing strategies and solutions to minimize material and product impacts along the global supply chain. Fast-paced and hands-on, this seminar will target sustainable design strategies and practices; responsible global-sourcing approaches; transport impact calculations; supply chain mapping; material and product assessments; and action plans and roadmaps so that fashion brands, designers, and apparel-industry professionals can learn to add measurable sustainable processes, actions, and goals at their companies. All attendees will earn a certificate of completion at the end of the workshop.
Workshop instructors
Circularity
Jennifer Gilbert
Founder, JDG Group Consulting
Former CMO, I:Collect N.A.
Dig into ways to create a successful and engaging take-back program and achievable product downcycling, recycling, and repurposing.
Material and product impacts and assessments
Stewart Sheppard
Director of Sustainability & Training
Higg Index
Measure and assess the environmental impacts of your materials and product styles.
Preferred fibers, certifications, and standards for impact minimization
Katina Boutis
Director of Sustainability
Everlane
Transportation impacts and emission calculations
Nina Kaledin
Program Manager
Flexport
Gain expertise on how to measure and calculate the CO2 emissions of your fashion product’s supply chain.
Impact-reduction strategies
Andrea Kennedy
VP of Sustainability
Material Exchange
Learn ways and approaches to development, sourcing, and design so that your materials and products can be produced more responsibly and sustainably and work toward circularity.
Tier 1 and 2 impacts and action plans
Atnyel Guedj,
Chief Product Officer
Made2Flow
Make plans to reduce the impacts of your products and make sustainable changes along your supply chain.
Sponsors
Agenda*
09:00-09:10am
Welcome, introductions and learning objectives w/ USFIA
09:10-09:30am
Assessments, life cycle stages, supply chains w/ Material Exchange
09:30-10:20am
Transportation impacts and emission calculations w/ Flexport
10:20-11:10am
Material & product impacts w/ Higg
11:10-11:20am
Formatting and visualizing impacts w/ Material Exchange
11:20-11:45am
Break-out activity time
11:45-12:15pm
Lunch break
12:15-1:00pm
Preferred fibers and certifications for impact minimization w/ Everlane
1:00-1:30pm
Sustainable design strategies w/ Material Exchange
1:30-2:15pm
Take-back, circularity, and end-of-use strategies w/ JDG Group
2:15-2:50pm
Break-out activity time
2:50-3:00pm
Q&A time
*Workshop schedule subject to change.
Register for the workshop
Register for the Fashion Assessment and Impact-Reduction Workshop here.
We look forward to digging into all the tangible and actionable ways to decrease fashion impacts together with you on Thursday, January 12, 2023.
Class fee: $165
Special pricing for USFIA members: $95
Thank you to our sponsors!