How traceability can accelerate sustainability
Digitalt
Moderator: Konrad Olsson
Panelists: Birgitte Langer, Jan Erik Rendahl, Shameek Ghosh
Traceability of raw materials is key to calculate carbon footprints and offer consumers and companies increased transparency in products and construction. But how do we achieve true traceability? What technologies need to be implemented? How do we handle the increased amounts of data? Leading traceability experts give their view of the way forward, and of what designers, companies, and consumers need to learn to understand the process.
Lecturers
Konrad Olsson Moderator
Curator, Stockholm Design & Architecture Talks and Editor in chief, Scandinavian MIND
Scandinavian Mind
Konrad is one of Sweden’s most established magazine editors within fashion and design and the founder and editor-in-chief of Scandinavian MIND, a magazine and platform covering the intersection of lifestyle and technology. He’s an experienced speaker, moderator, and podcaster and regularly advises brands and organisations on content strategy and digital transformation
Birgitte Langer Panelist
Business Development Director
SPOOR
Holgaard Langer has a background in the retail and fashion industry having worked for the Bestseller Group and textile company KABOOKI. She’s now heading up Danish business unit and brand SPOOR that enables full traceability in the leather industry, working with clients like Fredericia, August Sandgren, and Roccamore
Jan Erik Rendahl Panelist
Chairman
Tracy of Sweden
A former Professor at Lund University, Rendahl has been rewarded with a medal from Harvard Business School for excellent lectures in Change Management and also been responsible for a large international research project, funded by EU’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7). He’s now one of three founders of traceability startup Tracy of Sweden.
Shameek Ghosh Panelist
co-founder and CEO
TrusTrace
The impact-tech company is a market-leading traceability platform for the fashion industry. After personally seeing the detrimental effects of irresponsible supply chains on their local community in India, Shameek and three fellow veterans from the global software industry founded TrusTrace with the aim to fundamentally change the way fashion is being produced and consumed.