Date:       13th October       
Time:       Seminar: 2pm-6pm,
                  Evening party: 6pm-9.30pm
Location: National Geographic Store
                  83‐97 Regent Street,
                  London, W1B 4EW
                  map to the venue
           
MADE-BY was proud to host our 2011 International Annual Event on Thursday 13th October at the National Geographic Society's Flagship Store.             
            
Throughout the evening, visionary speakers presented and involved discussions took place on current hot topics within sustainability. Organised networking and an exclusive evening event including a drinks reception, live music, entertainment and installations, were among the highlights.           
            
     

Half-day Seminar:

14:00    Registration       

14:30    Welcome and Introduction by Allanna McAspurn, General Manager, MADE-BY UK

14:40     Keynote Speech – The Art of the Eco-Mindshift, Natalie Jeremijenko, Associate Professor of Visual Art and Director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic, NYU Steinhardt
   
15:00    A brand's perspective of working with MADE-BY - Craig Smith, Brand Communication Director, Ted Baker
       
15:10    Breakout Sessions: Presentations and Q&As

Social Group
To what extent are productivity improvement projects a solution to excessive overtime and other social issues in garment factories?

Facilitated by:
• Dr Martin Buttle, Senior Supply Chain Consultant, MADE-BY UK
• Professor Doug Miller, Chair of Workers' Rights in Fashion,
University Northumbria

Environmental Group
Dirty Laundry by Greenpeace:  more of the same or a real step change for the industry?

Facilitated by:
• Angela Jenkinson, Senior Supply Chain consultant, MADE-BY Benelux
• Phil Patterson, Managing Director of Colour Connections

16:15    Break
      
16:45    Summary of Breakout Sessions by Esther Verburg, General Manager, MADE-BY Benelux

17:00    Speed Networking Session
      
17:30    Reflections and Concluding Thoughts by Burak Cakmak, former CSR Director for Gucci Group and Senior Manager at the GAP

17:50    Closing remarks by Ulrich Van Gemmeren, General Manager, MADE-BY Germany 

Evening Party:

18:00    Guests Arrive
     
19:00    Welcome by Allanna McAspurn, General Manager, MADE-BY UK

19:10    Host MADE-BY Ambassador Katie Derham, BBC Presenter and Broadcaster

19:20    Keynote Speech - Future Fabrications. Can design-science iterations challenge sustainable issues? Carole Collet, Reader and Deputy Director Textile Futures Research Centre, Central Saint Martins     

19.45      Announcement of new MADE-BY Ambassadors, Nichole & Charlotte DeCarle

20:15    Closing remarks by MADE-BY Ambassador Katie Derham, BBC Presenter and Broadcaster

21:30    Evening ends

Speakers:

Allanna McAspurn, MADE-BY UK General Manager. Allanna is a leading figure working at the forefront of Sustainable Fashion in London, having co-founded the Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) and worked as the Head of Clothing and Accessories at Natural Collection before heading up the MADE-BY UK Office.

Natalie Jeremijenko, bridging the technical and art worlds, creates socially conscious experiences that make change, both directly and indirectly. As director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, she helps prescribe creative health solutions for the environment. Her individual work has been exhibited in the MASS MoCA, the Whitney Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and she is part of an artists' collective called the Bureau of Inverse Technology. Jeremijenko was named as a 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine and one of the Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review.

Ted Baker became a MADE-BY Partner Brand in 2010. Renowned for its unwavering attention-to-detail, commitment to quality and rather quirky sense of humour, Ted Baker is No Ordinary Designer Label. It was the first UK based international brand and retailer to commit to MADE-BY, and is a business that is committed to looking at how it can best help improve environmental and social conditions in the fashion industry.

Martin Buttle, Senior Supply Chain Consultant, MADE-BY UK. Following a PhD studying ethical investment and the social economy, Martin was a Project Manager at the labour standards consultancy Impactt, working with businesses and brands on their social compliance strategies

Professor Doug Miller, Chair of Workers' Rights in Fashion, University Northumbria. Doug has 30 years experience in teaching, researching and communicating on the issues surrounding equality, corporate responsibility and industrial relations.  He has also worked as a Researcher, co-ordinating research projects into supply chain developments in the textile, clothing and footwear sectors.

Angela Jenkinson, Senior Supply Chain consultant, MADE-BY Benelux. Before joining MADE-BY, Angela worked with major apparel brands from performance sportswear through to high street fashion, focusing on areas including sustainable product design, development and sourcing, waste reduction initiatives and community projects.

 Phil Patterson, Managing Director of Colour Connections. Phil has wide ranging expertise in the textile industry gained from a career that has spanned research, manufacturing and retail; fibres, fabrics and garments; legislation, environmental compliance, standardisation and innovation.  He was a founding member of the multi-brand Afirm group, is Chairman of the RITE group, sits on the Soil Association Textile Committee and the British Retail Consortium REACH implementation committee.

Natalya Sverjensky is a consultant in the Strategy Team and has worked on a wide range of projects since joining Futerra,
from thought leadership on the future of reporting to design and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies. Natalya is a reporting expert and leads on the vast majority of Futerra’s reporting projects. This year alone, these have included bespoke sustainability reporting and communications strategies for clients as diverse as the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, Nokia and the multinational food retailer Delhaize Group. She also led on the analysis and future insights that went into Futerra’s recent piece of thought leadership in partnership with the Global Reporting Initiative, Reporting Change. Before joining Futerra in late 2009, Natalya completed a BBA in Design and Management at Parsons School of Design in New York, as well as working in policy communications and media analysis at the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc.
  
Esther Verburg, MADE-BY Benelux General Manager.  Before becoming the General Manager for Benelux in August 2008, Esther held the positions of supply chain consultant and of business development manager at MADE-BY. Prior to this she worked as a strategy consultant in the Netherlands and Japan, and has held various supply chain management positions at multinational Heineken, the Netherlands.

Burak Cakmak, has significant expertise in the field of sustainable fashion, having worked as Director of Corporate Sustainability for luxury brands such as Gucci Group and PPR and as Head of CSR for Gap Inc. European office.  Burak received a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations and his MBA with a concentration on International Business prior to joining Gap Inc.

Ulrich Van Gemmeren, MADE-BY Germany General Manager.  Before joining MADE-BY, Ulrich worked predominantly within the high-tech industry as a sales director and General Manager.

Katie Derham, BBC Presenter and Broadcaster and MADE-BY Ambassador. Katie Derham is one of British television’s most recognisable faces having anchored the ITV news for a number of years and, more recently, as the face and presenter of the BBC Proms. While presenting the recent BBC Proms season, Katie has dressed, whenever possible in sustainably sourced outfits from many of the MADE-BY partner brands, including, among others, Ted Baker and Edun.

Carole Collet pioneered the discipline of Textile Futures ten years ago by fostering a new approach to designing textiles for the future and by setting up the MA Textile Futures course at Central Saint Martins College. Her vision is to explore textiles as a form of industrial design but with a focus on the language and codes inherent to textiles. Led by the need to incorporate sustainable drivers at the core of the design process, both her research and educational practice are focused on exploring key contextual questions to interrogate, critique and propose new design concepts that can fully engage with the challenges of designing for the 21st century. Carole was recently leading the Nobel Textiles project for Central Saint Martins College (a collaboration with MRC UK) which linked Nobel laureates to 5 leading Textiles and Fashion designers. She has been contributing worldwide on the subject of future textiles, sustainable design practices, climate change and the role of science in design. Her design work has been exhibited at the Science Museum, the ICA and the V&A and she has contributed to exhibitions worldwide.

 MADE-BY Ambassador Peter Gregson holds sustainability to heart when it comes to his instrument. Born in Scotland to a family who instilled keen values of reuse and recycle  in their home and lifestyle, Peter has carried these  through into his music life. Gregson is in the process of having another cello crafted for him, which should take, from start to finish, approximately five years to complete. His work has been recognised with the 2008 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for music and membership to the Courvoisier Future 500. "...[he works] in ways that simply do not recognise the boundary between digital and analogue..." BBC