Speaker Program | RawAssembly

THE CONVERSATION
RESPONSIBLE. REGENERATIVE. CIRCULAR TEXTILE SOURCING

24 MAY

24-26 MAY 2022 - B2B

4th Floor | Hanover House | Melbourne

09:15 am

Morning Key Note - Changing the Ingredients

10:00 am

MYCOWORKS - Introduce for the first time in Australia Fine Mycelium® a groundbreaking, mycelium grown material that looks, feels, and even smells like leather.

MycoWorks Introduce for the first time in Australia Fine Mycelium® a groundbreaking, fungal-based biomaterial that looks, feels, and even smells like leather. Live from NYC, Fredrick Martel will talk through how their luxury materials Reishi® is made, and how their biotechnology platform can engineer mycelium to be grown-to-order and made-to-specification.

MycoWorks launched its first partnership with Hermès in early 2021 and now has contracts in place with a range of major global luxury brands. Reishi® is also the first plastic-free mycelium material commercially available on the market today.

Safia Minney MBE FRSA

Founder, Director, Fashion Declares, People Tree, Speaker, Author, Advisor/

Fredrick Martel

Senior Vice President

MycoWorks

10:45 am

Hosted by; Jordon Turner

Creative Director, T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine

T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine is crafted and brought to life by Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Katarina Kroslakova, who has earned her place as one of Australia’s most experienced editors, journalists and authorities on curating luxury experiences.

The former editor of the Australian Financial Review’s Life & Leisure and Luxury magazines brings almost 20 years’ experience writing, consulting and editing for respected national publications with a vast global reach.

Her extensive magazine portfolio includes Fairfax Media, News Ltd, Pacific Magazines, Bauer Media, the ABC and Macquarie Radio Network, and she regularly features in the media, reporting on the business of lifestyle and luxury in the retail, food, fashion, arts, travel and motoring industries.

She spearheads Primary Ideas, a full-service content agency providing bespoke content creation and marketing for a multitude of luxury brands, companies and individuals across digital and print platforms. With clients such as LVMH, Maserati, M&C Saatchi and Winning group, Primary Ideas is at the forefront of style and luxury within the Australian context.

Her custom book and magazine division KK Press Pty Ltd is an agile, ambitious, business savvy and commercially conscious publishing house which places T Magazine at its core.

In Conversation with T Magazine Australia - Changing the Ingredients, Fashion's Future Receipe.

Jordon Turner

Creative Director, T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine

Courtney Holm

Founder A.BCH

Bianca Spender

CEO Creative Director Bianca Spender

Marnie Goding

Creative Director and Co-Founder Elk

Kit Willow

CEO Creative Director at KITX

Leila Naja Hibri

CEO, Australian Fashion Council

13:00 -14:00

We should all want to know where our fibres come from, how our materials and products are made, and what their impact is on people and the planet. It is becoming essential to have real-time visibility of supply chain journeys to understand the impact of a product as it happens. This cultural shift in sustainability will make transparency a prerequisite to real impact. This panel will explore end-to-end traceability and what it takes to get sectoral adoption at scale.

Every fibre tells a story; How does fashion become Transparent?

Shannon Mercer

Chief Executive Officer at FibreTrace

Lenzing

Tencel™

Sandra Capponi

Co-Founder,

Good On You

Georgia Lloyd

Head of Supply Chain, Maggie Marilyn

John

Condilis

Chairperson,

NoBody Denim

14:30 - 15:45

Redefining Success: Beyond Social Responsibility

In this two part session, we welcome Gary Shaw, Kathmandu's Social Impact Manger to the stage to talk about the existing mindset, model and foundation upon which we currently conduct business and how it has proven to be illusory, unsustainable and destructive. Modern Slavery is just one of the many wider social and environmental realities that completely undermines any notion of “business as usual”. Creating an ethical sourcing policy and adopting some additional “best practices” are on their own woefully insufficient and actually increase the risk of consumer backlash, public exposure and financial loss. For those business leaders who want to remain profitable and continue to add value to the marketplace, the invitation is to question our previously taken for granted definitions of success and consider a more beneficial mindset, model and future.

Gary will then be joined by Julie Boulton who will host our Social Responsibility panel discussion

Where we will talk about what assumptions we have been making about the human element of sustainability that the pandemic and climate change has shone a light on and forced us to question these practices.

Where do we need to focus and how do we create new mindsets and business models that are based on transparency and social protection.

We ask, can scale and ethics ever exist?

Gary Shaw

Social Impact Manager

KMD Brands

Julie Boulton

Sustainability strategist at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI)

Alice Cope

Director Pillar Two/ Global Compact

Dewi Cooke

Chief Executive Officer at The Social Studio

James Bartle

Co-founder

Outland Denim

17:00-18:00

Carbon Positive:

What does this actually mean and how do we transition away from off-setting carbon emissions to actually reducing them. This panel will explore a variety of perspectives on how a brand starts this journey with credibility and accountability through meaningful and measurable impact.