San Francisco Fashion Week
Fashion Tech Conference
In partnership with Target Open House
FASHION+TECH Conference hopes to foster an innovative community where influencers, investors, startups, creatives and technologists are able to connect and learn about the future of fashion and retail.
Technology’s impact on the retail sector has been difficult to ignore. The shift from brick-and-mortar retail shopping to a world of e-commerce has forced traditional retailers to rethink business strategies and adapt to rapid changes in technology and consumer preferences. Technology is Shaping the Future of Fashion. Fashion technologists accumulate their design and technical aptitude to consult on problems faced by branded fashion houses.
RETAIL TECHNOLOGY
In stores and on the sales floor, high tech tools help balance inventory assortments, manage ordering and track pricing. Customer tracking tools increase customer satisfaction and promote loyalty by enhancing shoppers' in-store experience. On the executive level, technology improves planning and decision making.
IMMERSIVE TECH (VR/AR)
Immersive technologies create distinct experiences by merging the physical world with a digital or simulated reality. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are two principal types of immersive technologies. These technologies share many of the same qualities.
BLOCKCHAIN in Retail in Fashion
The benefits of blockchain technology can help fashion brands reduce losses as a result of counterfeit products. With transparency as blockchain's significant benefit, fashion brands can monitor and manage their supply chain.
Fashion has struggled with sustainability and created many problems that it is now trying to fix through technology. Advances in fabric production stand to dramatically reduce resource use and waste, while other advances will make clothes more useful and playful. Fashion technology is closely related to fashion designing. It primarily focuses on the fabric types and suitability. It involves measuring, tracing, cutting, sewing, fitting, adjusting and finishing.
Retail Tech - Panel
Technology has certainly become very influential in the retail industry in the last decade. Consumers are now more inclined to used their smartphone to search and buy products online, rather than go to a retail shop. However, the traditional retail shop is still popular, and it is important they keep up to date with technological advancements.
Immersive Tech (VR/AR) - Panel
Immersive technology aims to overlay a digital layer of experience atop everyday reality, changing how we interact with everything from medicine to entertainment. What that future will look like is anyone's guess. But what's certain is that immersive technology is on the rise.
Blockchain in Retail in Fashion - Panel
The fashion industry, like many other retail sectors, is currently looking at the countless possibilities provided by blockchain technology to find sustainable solutions for their respective businesses.
FASHION+TECH Conference takes place San Francisco/Silicon Valley, the tech capital of the world. No other place boasts the technological achievements of the Silicon Valley and there is no better time than now to bring together a thriving Fashion+Tech community in San Francisco. Representing the new vanguard in the convergence of fashion, technology, creative design and innovation, as the most pivotal fashion week platform to watch. An innovative industry event series for individuals, groups and organizations involved in or interested in the development and transformation of fashion through technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Technology’s impact on the retail sector has been difficult to ignore. The shift from brick-and-mortar retail shopping to a world of e-commerce has forced traditional retailers to rethink business strategies and adapt to rapid changes in technology and consumer preferences. Technology is Shaping the Future of Fashion