Manufacturing and supply chain expo, Pure Origin announced a line-up of leading experts who will take to the stage from February 10 to 12, 2019 discussing Brexit, sustainability, personalisation, the Amazon impact, digitalisation of the textile and apparel industry, innovations in athleisure, and garment costing interspersed with the newly launched Pure Origin AW21/SS22 Trend Catwalk shows.

Jovit Balseviciene, Solution Consultant from Lectra UK and Northern Europe, and Jean-Patrice Gros, UK & NE Managing Director, Lectra SA will highlight the growing consumer demand for personalisation. Christopher Stopes, Representative of GOTS in the UK, Global Organic Textile Standard, will discuss why organic fibre production on farm and organic processing in factories is good for people and planet; how to get started.

On Day two, experts from World Textile Information Network’s leading publications Industry Digitalisation and Technical Textiles will speak. Tansy Fall will provide an insight into the changing shape of the textile and apparel manufacturing supply chain and the impact on sourcing decisions. She will be followed by Maddi Cornforth, who will look at Amazon’s investments and patents in the textile, apparel and fashion sector. Anna Borkowicz, market intelligence analyst on Technical Textiles will given an insight into industry and challenges associated with development and commercialisation of smart clothing sport and fitness.

On day three, Fiona Haran, Editor of WTiN’s Future Textile, will dwell on the innovations in athleisure, and type of functionalities adopted in the products with commercial examples. Mark Powell, Senior Consultant, at EFI Optitex will end the show with a talk on using 3D digital transformation to support sustainability.