Fashion Assessment and Impact Reduction Workshop

Special pricing for USFIA members and students (email info@usfashionindustry.com from your student email address for discount code): $95

Fashion Assessment and Impact-Reduction Workshop

Focused on reducing supply chain, material, and product impacts along the fashion-product lifecycle

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
10am-4pm EST at GCNYC, 64 Wooster St., NYC

Earn a certificate of completion at this all-day USFIA x Material Exchange fashion sustainability workshop centered on assessing products, minimizing impacts, and understanding sustainable design and sourcing how-to’s. 

Learn to measure, assess, and reduce the footprint of the clothing you design and produce.

This workshop is geared toward working fashion professionals looking to deepen their knowledge of measurable ways to increase the sustainability of their brand products.

Agenda Sessions:

• The global supply chain, sourcing, and supply chain mapping
• Transportation impacts and emission calculations
• Material and product life-cycle impacts
• Product assessments and minimizing product and supply chain impacts
• Sustainable design strategies and practices
• Take-back, circularity, and end-of-life strategies
• Impact reduction activity time

Workshop instructors

Nina Kaledin - Program Manager, Flexport
Stewart Sheppard - Director of Sustainability & Training, Higg Index
Atnyel Guedj - Chief Product Officer, Made2Flow
Jennifer Gilbert - Chief Marketing & Partnerships Officer, JG End-of-Life Consulting
Andrea Kennedy - VP of Sustainability, Material Exchange

Click here to see the full schedule and instructors.

The Fashion Assessment and Impact-Reduction Workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 9th from 10 AM to 4 PM EST in-person at GCNYC, 64 Wooster Street, New York, NY. The certificate workshop kicks off the USFIA’s annual Apparel Importers Trade & Transportation Conference, which will be held the following day.