For decades fashion has been bucketed as “behind the times” in technology and innovation, but there simply isn’t room for that anymore. Fashion is taking a pivotal role across sustainability and innovation, and technology is at the center of this conversation.
Join us as we dive deep into the brands, companies, and leaders who are doing it right and the opportunities yet to be discovered in the future of fashion.
Noelle Tassey is currently the CEO of Alley. She has spent almost a decade working to scale growth-stage technology businesses, and launching new ventures. She also advises and invests in a variety of early-stage companies, and she is committed to building a more equal future through technology. Under her leadership, Alley has been named to Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies and Inc. Best Places to Work.
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Fashion + Tech = Amanda Curtis' world. She grew up in the fashion industry & graduated from Boston University & Parsons School of Design. As a fashion designer she went from New York Fashion week designing for Richie Rich, DVF, & A-list celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres to bringing a solo designed collection all the way to London Fashion Week in her first season. From the trenches she experienced a major lack of technology in the design & production process (hello sticky notes, hand drawing, & fax machines!) which resulted in an archaically slow timeline to get product to market. The fashion business model desperately needed a redesign & a tech upgrade so she decided to learn from tech startups about what they were doing right.
Eight years ago she entered into the tech startup world in a retail biz dev & marketing role & learned first hand the efficiency & potential of the space. N.A.bld + Nineteenth Amendment is the result of the collision of her two worlds; a platform & business model that gives brands of all sizes a way to design & sell smarter using data while sustainably manufacturing on-demand, without minimums through technology in a transparent, financially responsible, & ethical way. Her mission, starting in fashion, is to make the way products come to market, are made, & are sold, better for everyone: from designers & shoppers, to manufacturers & retailers.
She is Forbes’ 30 Under 30 2016 for Retail & E-commerce, Apparel Magazine's 30 Under 30 2016, NRF's Person Shaping Retail's Future 2018, a mentor at TechStars, a mentor with AOL's Built by Girls & she's just getting started.
Whitney Cathcart is the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of 3DLOOK, an AI-first technology company solving retail's fit and sizing problem. The 3DLOOK Body Data Platform maximizes the fit opportunity by putting body data intelligence at the center of design, manufacturing, and customer experience. Whitney has spent over two decades working in executive leadership positions for some of America’s leading branded, celebrity licensing, and private label manufacturers delivering apparel products to the biggest names in retail. Whitney also holds a certification from MIT in Artificial Intelligence and is an expert at understanding the intersection of the fashion/retail ecosystem and technology.
Serial entrepreneur, Camilla Olson, is driven by curiosity. It’s led her to successfully complete her undergraduate degree in microbiology, and advanced degrees in business and fashion design. Her career has covered electron microscopy, venture capital, predictive modeling, her own fashion ecommerce label and now the AI retail technology company, Savitude.
She holds 2 patents, with 4 more in process; fought in the Techcrunch Battlefield; launched her label on the runway of Lincoln Center during NY Fashion Week, and saw her designs worn at the Met and the LAcMa Galas, and the White House. Still, she is most proud of her family, that her children still talk with her and her marriage is strong after 30+ years. The recent additions of Gracie and Mac have given her many doggo laughs.
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