Shortening Your Product Timeline with Color

Presented by Andrew Fraser | Director of Global Quality Control | Textile Color & Sourcing Solutions Inc

Todd Lee | Sr. Global Color Mgr | Fanatics

Kim Steiner | Director of Color | Chicos FAS, Inc.

Diane Buonpane | Color Project Manager | Macy’s

Diana Voravibul | Director of Color | Macy’s

The textile and apparel industry continues to face challenges from inflation, war, energy cost, supply chain disruptions, lingering COVID impacts and others. In this session, color teams from various brands share how they manage these challenges while keeping their product timelines as efficient as possible.

Adapting to New Challenges Roundtable

Linda Tiberi | Owner | Tiberi Global Solutions

Lynsey Jones | Transition Advisor | Americas Apparel Producers Network

Have a seat at the table with Linda and Lynsey as they discuss challenges that the textile industry has recently been facing, how brands are adapting and how strategies are shifting towards more streamlined production.

After the presentation, they answer questions from the audience!

Color Evaluation: Physical to Digital

Presented by Karen McGhee | Sr Manager II, Color Operations | Walmart

Tim Williams | Marketing Manager | Color Solutions International

Scott Altman | Director Sourcing & Compliance | Pico Manufacturing

Managing color approvals across a vast supply chain with hundreds of suppliers can be a huge undertaking, but transforming a physical workflow into a digital one comes with big benefits. Listen as color experts from Walmart, Color Solutions International, and Pico Manufacturing discuss how working digitally has improved their color processes for the better.

The Digital Color Ecosystem

Presented by Gerd Willschuetz | COO & Co-Founder | DMix

Johnny Yang | Marketing Manager | e.Dye

Gerd and Johnny highlight how holistic collaboration strengthens digital supply chain efficiency, sustainable digital product development and complete product visibility. Both companies are dedicated to using digital dye and processes to make product development in the textile and fashion industry more efficient and as environmentally sustainable as possible.

Uncovering the Obstacle of Near-Shoring

Presented by Mike Todaro | Managing Director | Americas Apparel Producers Network

As textile and apparel brands consider alternative sourcing strategies to address supply chain challenges, “near-shoring” and “re-shoring” have become the latest buzz. But there are many hidden obstacles when setting up a new supply chain in a new region.

Mike Todaro, Managing Director at Americas Apparel Producers’ Network, explores some of these challenges and offer insights into how you can overcome them.

Trends in the Textile Industry

Presented by Lisa Beck | Product Manager | Datacolor

The textile industry has had many changes in the past three years. In this session, Datacolor product manager, Lisa Beck, shares current trends to watch.

Sustainable & Efficient Operations: 4 Perspectives from Manufacturers in Asia

Presented by Yuming Pan | CEO | Shanghai Tiqiao Textile Yarn Dyeing Co., LTD

Zhanqi Zhang | Vice President | Luthai Textile Co., LTD

Xu Chen | Head of Marketing | Black Peony Textile Co., LTD

Quang Thanh Le | Yarn Production Leader | Decathlon Vietnam

Listen as leaders of textile manufacturing in Asian explain how they are empowering the shift to more digital operations to meet their sustainability and efficiency goals.

Product Process & Sustainability Priorities

Presented by Jim Chi | Founder & Principal | Cascade Management Consulting

Brands have announced sustainability as a priority. This sessions looks at various product management processes that impact a company’s ability to move towards their sustainability goals.

One way a brand can move their initiatives forward is through the use of digital technologies and software platforms. We wrap up with examples of how established brands as well as the more agile start-ups address these challenges.

Sustainability Roundtable

Rick Horwitch | Chief of Supply Chain & Sustainability Strategy | Bureau Veritas

Lloyd Vliet | Senior Marketing Manager | Datacolor

Rick and Lloyd discuss some of the sustainability trends and emerging issues many companies are currently faced with including: trade impacts, government requirements, growth of industry association audits, transparency and traceability, the impacts of global events, and consumer demands for greener products.

This video wraps up with Mike answering questions from the audience and offering advice for how to tackle these challenges.

The Complexity of Digital Textile Printing

Presented by Roland Biemans | Owner | LMNS

In this presentation, LMNS experts dive into the ever-increasing demand of sustainable printing on textiles and the impact on economy and ecology when switching from high volume traditional analog processes to on-demand digital processes. Color reproduction and colormatching quality is heavily influenced by the choice of process, material and equipment. Moreover, commercial business models depend on the ability to understand the complexities in digital textile printing. This presentation offers insights into some of the main drivers and solutions in the current textile industry.

WOW, That’s Bright! Managing Hi-Vis Colors & Fluorescent Whites

Presented by Ken Butts | Global Key Accounts Team Manager | Datacolor

Can you tell the difference between different shades of white? How do you communicate the differences? Does it matter?

In this session, Ken answers all of your burning questions about fluorescent and hi-vis colors and offers tips on how to effectively measure these tricky textiles.

Why Can’t We All Agree On Color?

Presented by George Angle | Senior Applications Specialist | Datacolor

We’re all talking about the same color, right?

In this session, you’ll learn how color can be subjective and easily influenced by a multitude of factors including surrounding colors, your age, the light source and so much more.

What’s New at Datacolor? Introducing CloudQC

Presented by Danielle Thome | Global Product Manager | Datacolor

Milagros Watts | Product Applications Manager | Datacolor

In this session, Datacolor product managers Danielle Thome and Milagros Watts will give you the first peak into a new cloud-based color quality control platform.

New Technology & Process

Presented by Mike Todaro | Managing Director | Americas Apparel Producers Network

Lynsey Jones | Transition Advisor | Americas Apparel Producers Network

Tony Anzovino | Chief Sourcing & Merchandising Officer | Haggar Clothing Co. 

Join Mike, Lynsey, and Tony as they discuss how new technologies and processes are redefining the way color managers work both internally and across organizations.

Digital Color Management Workflow in Retail & Apparel

Presented by Hussein Syed Mohammed | VP of Product & Market Management | Datacolor

Setting up an efficient digital color management workflow can save weeks off of your product development timeline. In this session, Hussein Syed Mohammed, Datacolor VP of Product and Market Management, will walk through setting up your color workflow for success.

Empower Design with the Power of Color Data

Presented by John Newton | Head of Color Technology | Coloro

Learn how you can leverage the data from your color standards to empower your design teams to make better color decisions. In this session, John Newton, Head of Color Technology at Coloro will share how brands are providing data to design & trend teams at the earliest part of the color selection process to yield shorter, more efficient product timelines.

The Role of AI in the Textile Industry

Presented by Andrew Fraser | Director of Global Quality Control | Textile Color & Sourcing Solutions Inc.

Ken Butts | Global Key Account Team Manager | Datacolor

AI is starting to make an impact in the textile and apparel industry. In this session, Andrew Fraser (incoming AATCC President) and Ken Butts (Datacolor Global Key Account Manager) will revisit an article recently featured in AATCC’s newsletter that examined the role artificial intelligence is currently playing in textile production and how it might shape color processes in the future.

Trims & Paterns Galore! Measuring the Unmeasurable with SpectraVision

Presented by Basto Wong | Service Product Manager | Datacolor

For most of color management history, evaluating color for trims, patterns, prints, zippers and other non-solid color materials had to be done visually. Today, you can manage color objectively using hyperspectral color technology. In this session, Basto Wong, Datacolor Product Manager, will walk through some of the use cases of this technology and how brands and suppliers can improve color management workflow efficiency with SpectraVision.