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
Session type
15:00 - 17:30
Visit to Brightfiber Textiles 
Workshop
17:30 - 18:30
Pre-event networking drinks 
Networking
Day 1

Wednesday 29th April 2026

Time
Session title
Session type
09:00 - 09:20
Time to align: The necessity of partnerships and pre-competitive dialogue for success 
09:20 - 10:00
Balancing quarterly results and long-term survival: How to make the case for climate action in the board-room 
Plenary
10:00 - 10:45
Equitable partnerships: The importance of fair purchasing practises to unlock supplier-brand collaboration 
Plenary
10:45 - 11:30
Break and speed networking
11:30 - 12:10
Electrification: Who’s funding the necessary investments to deliver net-zero? 
Case study
12:10 - 13:00
Industry transformation: Where are the workers' rights and protections in a 1.5°C+ world? 
Plenary
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Breakout round 1 
14:00 - 14:45
Social impact - Supply chain due diligence: Identifying and managing forced labour risks beyond tier 1  
Breakout
14:00 - 14:45
Business value - Unlocking energy savings: What are the lost-cost, high-return innovation opportunities in tier 2?  
Breakout
14:00 - 14:45
Regulatory preparation - Reporting cycles and boundaries: What is the balance between accuracy and scalability?  
Breakout
14:00 - 14:45
This house believes - Luxury apparel products are sustainable by nature  
This house believes
14:00 - 15:30
From premium to parity: Can next-gen materials ever scale sufficiently to compete with traditional options?  
Learning Group
14:45 - 15:30
Breakouts round 2 
14:45 - 15:30
Water stewardship: How can we identify and address blind spots in the value chain?  
Breakout
14:45 - 15:30
Overcoming the sustainability stigma: Reshaping internal perceptions of sustainability teams and building company-wide sustainability culture  
Breakout
14:45 - 15:30
Between greenwashing and greenhushing: What counts as credible evidence and substantiation for claims?  
Breakout
14:45 - 15:30
This house believes - CSRD reporting was/is a waste of everyone’s time  
This house believes
14:00 - 15:30
(Continued) From premium to parity: Can next-gen materials ever scale sufficiently to compete with traditional options?  
Learning Group
15:30 - 16:15
Break
16:15 - 16:45
Breakouts - case study round 
16:15 - 16:45
Grievance mechanisms: How do we engage, respond and remediate with local context and sensitivity  
Case study
16:15 - 16:45
Can recycled polyester become an economically viable alternative?  
Case study
16:15 - 16:45
What are DPPs actually valuable for?  
Case study
16:15 - 16:45
This house believes - We need to stop focusing on SBTi targets and focus on action  
This house believes
16:15 - 17:30
End-to-end traceability: How do you align internally for effective supply chain management  
Learning Group
16:45 - 17:30
Breakouts round 4 
16:45 - 17:30
Living wages: Why worker welfare starts but doesn’t end with decent pay  
Breakout
15:45 - 16:15
Shortening supply chains: What are the opportunities of localised production and how do we unlock them?  
Case study
16:45 - 17:30
EPR readiness: How do we prepare for potentially fragmented national schemes?  
Breakout
16:45 - 17:30
This house believes - Cotton faces a worse PR crisis than polyester  
This house believes
16:15 - 17:30
(Continued) End-to-end traceability: How do you align internally for effective supply chain management  
17:30 - 18:30
Networking Drinks
Day 2

Thursday 30th April 2026

Time
Session title
Session type
08:00 - 08:50
Brand-led coffee case studies 
08:10 - 09:00
What does meaningful union engagement look like for brands?  
Case study
08:10 - 09:00
What practical governance measures are needed to embed sustainability in company culture?  
Case study
08:10 - 09:00
Until our data sets improve, what working assumptions should we use to understand fibre fragmentation?  
Case study
09:00 - 09:50
The consumption cyclone: Can circularity fix overproduction? 
Plenary
09:50 - 10:20
Q&A with the EU Commission: Breakdown on the ESPR and the Circular Economy Action Plan 
Q&A
10:20 - 10:45
Networking break
10:45 - 11:15
Circular design systems: Building the business case for regenerative cotton in a circular transition 
Case study
11:15 - 11:55
Product team perspective: How do we design for durability and recyclability, not retrofit them later? 
Plenary
11:15 - 11:55
How can SMEs drive meaningful change when the system favours giants? 
The other room
11:55 - 12:45
Dragons den style presentation - Can we decouple profit and production through resale? 
Case study
11:55 - 12:45
When is and when isn’t AI an appropriate tool for advancing sustainability? 
The other room
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 14:10
A just transition: How we can centre waste pickers, not just waste, in the circular economy 
Plenary
13:45 - 14:10
Measuring biodiversity: What data points should we be tracking? 
The other room
14:10 - 14:55
Breaking the deadlock: What key barriers do we need to overcome to realise T2T recycling? 
Plenary
14:10 - 14:55
How can the industry address waste colonialism and uplift community-led circular solutions? 
The other room
14:55 - 15:30
Emotional durability: Why consumers neglect the clothes they own – and how psychology can help 
Plenary
15:30 - 15:40
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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