According to the news portal modaes.com
Seven days to Barcelona Fashion Summit: tune in to the fundamentals on February 9
Tick tock: Barcelona Fashion Summit is almost here. The next edition of the benchmark event for the fashion sector in Spain is warming up for its celebration at the Petit Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona on February 9, in just seven days.
The day returns to the emblematic Barcelona building with a new identity and with a program that includes executives from some of the largest companies in the fashion sector in Spain and abroad, experts from consultancies and entrepreneurs.
Barcelona Fashion Summit, organized by Modaes, sponsored by Districenter, Ecolife by Belda Llorens, Sequra and Meta and with the support of 080 Barcelona Fashion, celebrates its next edition under the title Back to basics: tune in with the consumer. The program is available on the event website.
Among the heavyweights that are part of the conference panel this year is Javier Losada, Inditex’s director of sustainability and member of the Galician group’s management committee since last November. The executive will be in charge of putting the finishing touch to the day with the closing presentation.
The starting signal for the Barcelona Fashion Summit will be given by Pol Morillas, director of the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (Cidob) research center on national relations. The expert will be in charge of reviewing the macroeconomic keys for 2023 through a presentation entitled The world in 2023.
The round tables at the Barcelona Fashion Summit will focus on product sustainability, pricing strategies and the new place for fashion through its supply chain
In addition, throughout the day, Núria Basi, president of Basi, and Fran Marchena, founder of Hoff, will review how the purpose and communication of fashion has changed, while Alejandra Caro, director of marketing at Harrods, and Marguerite Le Rolland, a researcher in the clothing and footwear area at Euromonitor, will focus on the channels to reach the consumer.
Barcelona Fashion Summit will host three round tables. The first will analyze sustainability in the product, exploring recycling and eco-design, led by Ignacio Sierra, Tendam’s corporate general manager; Hugo Martins, Sonae’s financial director; Marisa Selfa, CEO of North Sails, and Charles Kirby, EY Sustainability Partner.
Later, the focus will be on exploring what is the new place of fashion in the new world order through the supply chain. The debate will include Antonio Pascual, Mango’s director of operations; José Luis Goñi, director of supply chain at Pronovias; Antonio Puente, CEO of Adolfo Domínguez; Humbert Sasplugas, co-founder and CEO of Pdpaola, and Frederic Sabrià, operations expert and professor at Iese.
Finally, executives and consultants will put their heads together to discuss how to manage pricing in the midst of historic inflation. These will be Oriol Martínez, commercial director of Desigual; Jokin Umérez, CEO of Ternua Group; Fernando Maudo, advisor to Alma en Pena; Dora Casal, executive director of Roberto Verino, and Enrique Porta, partner responsible for consumption and distribution at Kpmg.
More than 7,600 in-person attendees and 3,600 virtual spectators endorse the trajectory of the Barcelona Fashion Summit, which has generated more than 10,000 professional connections within the fashion business in Spain during its journey.