AI and Virtual Try-On: The Route to Reducing Returns
Preview program
- Press Tour: What’s New in Circular Textiles?TOURS, 3:30 pm - 3:50 pmThe Press Tour is a quick 20-minute look at what’s new at Circular Textile Days, from new developments and launches to research, collaborations and the people behind them, giving media a chance to spot stories and find interesting people to follow up with during the event.
- Closing the Loop: From Collection to New FeedstockTOURS, 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm This guided tour takes you through the textile journey from collection and sorting to repair, reuse and recycling, showing how the different parts of the chain connect and how used textiles can find their way back into the textile industry as valuable feedstock.
- Materials & Product Innovation: From Better Materials to Better ProductsTOURS, 4:30 pm - 4:50 pmNow for this part, looks at how choices around fibres, fabrics and components shape a product from the start, taking you through materials, design, sourcing and production and highlighting developments that can help designers, developers, sourcing teams, manufacturers and brands make more informed choices.
- Making Circularity Work: From Ambition to ImplementationTOURS, 5:00 pm - 5:20 pmThis guided tour looks at how textile companies can turn legislation, reporting requirements, traceability, Digital Product Passports, standards and circular ambitions into practical systems and processes, covering everything from strategy and data to implementation and scaling.
- Law & LegislationMAIN STAGE, 10:00 am - 11:15 amA concise update from the European Commission on the latest European legislation and policy developments impacting the textile industry, followed by an open Q&A.
Featuring: Carsten Wentink – European Commission, Edwin Maes – Centexbel, Jeannet van der Stoel – GS1, Patrick Welp – Vodde, Moderated by Bianca Streng - The Digital Product Passport at the border: what can businesses expect from customs autorities?MAIN STAGE, 11:15 am - 11:30 amWhat will the Digital Product Passport mean in practice when textile products enter the EU? John Wouters shares Dutch Customs’ current perspective on the upcoming requirements, how controls may work in practice, and what textile and fashion companies should prepare for.
Featuring: John Wouters
