It will be interesting to know what all brands are doing to grow their businesses by applying artificial intelligence.
Read MoreAll these have significant implications for the fashion industry around the world. The traditional strategies of retail and sourcing are becoming redundant, paving way for more agile supply chains which are enabled to service the new consumer better.
Fashion players around the world need to focus on improving the consumer shopping experience, make best use of the social media channels, get digital ready and make sustainability their top priority.
Today, these trends not only impact the fashion players in developed markets like US, Europe, Japan, but also in the Asian and other growing economies. Our panellists will present a global outlook on these substantial topics and provide lot of important insights and examples from around the world, which will be useful for all the stakeholders in fashion retail.
Read MoreWhile panel discussions are debate platforms where serious issues that impact the industry are deliberated upon, an open house session is a free flowing, interactive format where there is constant ‘to and fro’ of ideas between the presenter and the audience. The idea is to exchange thoughts and talk experiences.
This format of knowledge sharing appeals to middle level professionals and younger audiences that are keen to hear experiences of people or set of people working in areas that they would like to walk the path at some point of time.
In store for participants at ASW 2021 is a series of 6 open house sessions that tackle some really ‘today’ topics that are trending on digital platforms and young professionals want to know more from people who have the experience.
Read MoreAthleisure has rocked the fashion world in recent years by taking stretchy leggings out of the gym and into everyday life. Also, as a cultural shift, it is acceptable to wear T-shirts and yoga pants to office. Smart Garment is equally gaining attention of the consumers, especially athletes, with its ability to track heartbeats and other body parameters which have actually become need of the athletes nowadays. However, these product categories have their own challenges such as fabric composition, electronics, manufacturing difficulty and washing cycles.
These are exciting times for all these product categories and our panellists will share lot of new examples of how they see this market evolve in the years to come.
Read MoreWhile consumers will play a major role in deciding when and what should be produced, technologies like artificial intelligence, chatbots, blockchain, augmented reality are already changing the game of retail. Going forward, these technologies will be even more significant not just to increase the shopping experience for the consumer, as much as possible within a retail store and in the digital space - but also to manage the complete supply chain. Collectively all these factors will impact product, sourcing, manufacturing and retail as a whole.
Our panellists are top retailers of India and are very much abreast with this topic and will share their insights into the future of Indian retail.
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