Planet Textiles 2015, a conference, which addresses environmental and social impacts of global textile supply chain, will take place on October 14, 2015 alongside the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics trade fair. Jointly presented by MCL Global and the fair’s organiser Messe Frankfurt (HK), the conference features 10 presentations from leading experts in the field of sustainability, covering both global and China-specific topics.
After announcing keynote TED.com speaker Hans Rosling, the organisers have said that three high profile presenters from Adidas, VF Corporation and the Beijing-based NGO: Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs will be part of the conference. Ma Jun, Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) will be speaking, along with confirmed speakers Philip Courtenay, Senior VP of apparel sourcing at Adidas Group, and Sean Cady, Vice President of product stewardship and sustainability at VF Corporation.
Ma Jun is a very well-known Chinese environmentalist, environmental consultant, and journalist, who received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012 and made the list of FP Top 100 Global Thinkers in the same year. In addition to Cady and Courtenay, speaking on behalf of VF Corp and Adidas respectively, other speakers for the event include senior executives at Bayer Materials and Bluesign technologies. Hans Rosling’s award-winning lectures cover contemporary environmental, economic and social world changes, accompanied by animations and graphics of global trends.
MCL Global, publishes Ecotextile News, Sustainable Nonwovens, Detox Deconstructed, Knitting Trade Journal, EcoComposites, Cotton Horizons and the biannual Eco-Textile Labelling Guide.
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