Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference

29th April - 30th April 2026

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Agenda

This year's focus is scaling impactful solutions and systems transformation. Through interactive workshops, problem-solving sessions, and peer-learning groups, we're convening forward-thinking apparel and textile leaders to identify opportunities for partnership and build an industry ecosystem that delivers tangible impact.

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Day 0

Tuesday 28th April 2026

Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
2:30pm - 5:00pm
Visit to Brightfiber Textiles 
Workshop
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Pre-event networking drinks 
Networking
Day 1

Wednesday 29th April 2026

Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:20am
Time to align: The necessity of partnerships and pre-competitive dialogue for success 
9:20am - 10:00am
Balancing quarterly results and long-term survival: How to make the case for climate action in the board-room 
Plenary
10:00am - 10:45am
Equitable partnerships: The importance of fair purchasing practises to unlock supplier-brand collaboration 
Plenary
10:45am - 11:30am
Break and speed networking
11:30am - 12:10pm
Electrification: Who’s funding the necessary investments to deliver net-zero? 
Case study
12:10pm - 1:00pm
Industry transformation: Where are the workers' rights and protections in a 1.5°C+ world? 
Plenary
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Breakout round 1 
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Social impact - Supply chain due diligence: Identifying and managing forced labour risks beyond tier 1  
Breakout
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Business value - Unlocking energy savings: What are the lost-cost, high-return innovation opportunities in tier 2?  
Breakout
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Regulatory preparation - Reporting cycles and boundaries: What is the balance between accuracy and scalability?  
Breakout
2:00pm - 2:45pm
This house believes - Luxury apparel products are sustainable by nature  
This house believes
2:00pm - 3:30pm
From premium to parity: Can next-gen materials ever scale sufficiently to compete with traditional options?  
Learning Group
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Breakouts round 2 
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Water stewardship: How can we identify and address blind spots in the value chain?  
Breakout
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Overcoming the sustainability stigma: Reshaping internal perceptions of sustainability teams and building company-wide sustainability culture  
Breakout
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Between greenwashing and greenhushing: What counts as credible evidence and substantiation for claims?  
Breakout
2:45pm - 3:30pm
This house believes - CSRD reporting was/is a waste of everyone’s time  
This house believes
2:00pm - 3:30pm
(Continued) From premium to parity: Can next-gen materials ever scale sufficiently to compete with traditional options?  
Learning Group
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Break
4:15pm - 4:45pm
Breakouts - case study round 
4:15pm - 4:45pm
Grievance mechanisms: How do we engage, respond and remediate with local context and sensitivity  
Case study
4:15pm - 4:45pm
Can recycled polyester become an economically viable alternative?  
Case study
4:15pm - 4:45pm
What are DPPs actually valuable for?  
Case study
4:15pm - 4:45pm
This house believes - We need to stop focusing on SBTi targets and focus on action  
This house believes
4:15pm - 5:30pm
End-to-end traceability: How do you align internally for effective supply chain management  
Learning Group
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Breakouts round 4 
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Worker wellbeing: How living wages and social dialogue drive impact for workers  
Breakout
3:45pm - 4:15pm
Shortening supply chains: What are the opportunities of localised production and how do we unlock them?  
Case study
4:45pm - 5:30pm
EPR readiness: How do we prepare for potentially fragmented national schemes?  
Breakout
4:45pm - 5:30pm
This house believes - Cotton faces a worse PR crisis than polyester  
This house believes
4:15pm - 5:30pm
(Continued) End-to-end traceability: How do you align internally for effective supply chain management  
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Networking Drinks
Day 2

Thursday 30th April 2026

Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
8:00am - 8:50am
Coffee catch-up: Brand case studies 
8:10am - 9:00am
What does meaningful union engagement look like for brands?  
Case study
8:10am - 9:00am
How do we embed action on fibre fragmentation within other sustainability priorities?  
Case study
9:00am - 9:50am
The consumption cyclone: Can circularity fix overproduction? 
Plenary
9:50am - 10:20am
Q&A with the EU Commission: Breakdown on the ESPR and the Circular Economy Action Plan 
Q&A
10:20am - 10:45am
Networking break
10:45am - 11:15am
Regenerative cotton as systems change: Impact, opportunity, and operational reality from farm to brand 
Case study
11:15am - 11:55am
Product team perspective: How do we design for durability and recyclability, not retrofit them later? 
Plenary
11:15am - 11:55am
How can SMEs drive meaningful change when the system favours giants? 
The other room
11:55am - 12:45pm
Dragons den style presentation - Can we decouple profit and production through resale? 
Case study
11:55am - 12:45pm
When is and when isn’t AI an appropriate tool for advancing sustainability? 
The other room
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Lunch
1:45pm - 2:10pm
A just transition: How we can centre waste pickers, not just waste, in the circular economy 
Plenary
1:45pm - 2:10pm
Measuring biodiversity: What data points should we be tracking? 
The other room
2:10pm - 2:55pm
Breaking the deadlock: What key barriers do we need to overcome to realise T2T recycling? 
Plenary
2:10pm - 2:55pm
How can the industry address waste colonialism and uplift community-led circular solutions? 
The other room
2:55pm - 3:30pm
Emotional durability: Why consumers neglect the clothes they own – and how psychology can help 
Plenary
3:30pm - 3:40pm
Closing remarks

Contact

For any questions on this event, please contact:

Niamh Campbell

Senior project manager

Contact Niamh 

Izzy Hodgson

Senior partnerships manager, sustainable fashion

Contact Izzy 

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