Track 3: Manufacture/Automate - 2020 Digital (3D) Footwear Transformation Events

Track 3: Digital Manufacturing & Automation
In this track, we will focus on how to streamline manufacturing through digital transformation, creating an optimal synergy between digital design and manufacturing.
With a couple of expert speakers from the digital manufacturing side, we will help you answer vital questions, such as:
How can we best support manufacturing remotely?
What technologies (3D scanners, molding tools, robotics) can we help implement in the factory to speed up manufacturing and reduce quality issues and costs?
How can we create new methods of manufacturing using digital means?
How can we use 3D printing in manufacturing, either for molds and/or final products?
How can we create and implement local digital manufacturing?
How can we create and implement digital manufacturing solutions for custom footwear?
REGISTRATION
Track 3 is just $75
BUNDLE DEAL: All 4 tracks are just $250
Bundle option is available when you register for each track
REGISTER FOR TRACK 3
Video Class 1: Connecting Design and Manufacturing
In this video class, we will talk about how to connect digital design and manufacturing to become more cost-efficient, faster to market, and prevent mistakes.
Video Class 2: Automated Manufacturing
In this video class, we will look at new developments in automation to streamline our current methods of footwear manufacturing, which could also lead to reshoring production.
LIVE Video Class TBA: Answering Questions for Weeks 1 & 2
In this live video class, several of our experts will answer your questions for weeks 1 and 2 of Track 3. The class will take place at 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM CET. If you cannot join live, you can watch the recording.
Video Class 3: Digital Manufacturing
In this video class, we will look at the next step in automation, which is digital manufacturing, for instance using 3D printing.
Video Class 4: Customization in Manufacturing
In this final video class of this track, we will combine all learnings to take a deep dive into the options for, and workflow of, manufacturing custom footwear.
LIVE Video Class TBA: Answering Questions for Weeks 3 & 4
In this live video class, several of our experts will answer your questions for weeks 3 and 4 of Track 3. The class will take place at 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM CET. If you cannot join live, you can watch the recording.
Speakers
Meet your expert trainers in Track 3!

Janne Kyttanen
3D visionary, investor, co-founder of WTFVC, inventor of 3DTI
Janne's passion is to empower and advance the 3D printing industry, and he has been doing this for two decades in the form of product design, building companies, and investing in moonshot ideas. His focus is to create 3D Value Networks in footwear and to fuel footwear professionals' desire to change by sharing his creative approach to solving big problems in the world.
Pedro Barros Castro
General Manager
ALOFT
With his innovative outsole factory ALOFT, located in Portugal but working worldwide, Pedro is pushing the boundaries of digital design and manufacturing, especially when it comes to sole design and mold making. Together with Jens Schmidt he will talk about how to ensure that your digital designs are not just fancy pictures, but actually manufacturable.
Andrey Golub
Founder, ELSE Corp
GM Italy, ICOL Group
Andrey is internationally known for his achievements in virtual retail, but this time he is showing another side of his knowledge and his company, helping footwear brands to set up their digital design flow in the most efficient way possible, so they can be "smart from the start". His low-cost, cloud-based applications that are specialized for footwear make it possible to work quickly and do not necessarily require staff to have any kind of 3D design training.
Jens Schmidt
CEO
Footwear Innovation Lab GmbH
When it comes to digital local manufacturing of high-level performance footwear using cutting-edge software and hardware, Jens Schmidt is THE expert, since he is actively doing it with his Footwear Innovation Lab in Pirmasens, Germany. He also partners and consults on this topic for brands around the world.
Adrian Hernandez Hernandez
Industrial Engineer
Simplicity Works
Adrian's company, Simplicity Works, was established almost 10 years ago with the goal to develop a new method of manufacturing 3D products. This new assembly process impacts the complete supply chain and drastically reduces labor costs in manufacturing many products, including shoes, with a focus on creativity, efficiency, and sustainability.
Sponsors
Thanks to our generous event sponsors!

Reimagining the way brands and suppliers interact with materials, Material Exchange, an industry-backed platform, provides a solution which allows for the rapid visualization of materials, automates data input and improves communication between brands, material suppliers and manufacturers.
The Footwearists, a membership-based innovation and education platform for and by footwear professionals, offers conferences, lectures, online courses, and consulting. Working with companies across the supply chain on meaningful, innovative footwear industry projects, they add emotional, functional, social, and ecological value.
Pioneering software for creative industries for over 20 years, Foundry's products help tackle complex visualization challenges to meet the demands of their customers and projects. Their industry know-how and focus on speed, quality, and user-experience save customers time so they can spend it bringing incredible ideas to life.
Romans CAD Software tools enable companies to boost productivity and get the best return on investment available on the market. With more than 25 years of experience in the industry, RCS has proven track record of maximizing the potential of world-class companies.
Technology makes it possible and necessary to rethink how we interact with brands and products, and Volumental believes in a future where retailers connect with shoppers through genuine personalization. Their omnichannel ecosystem is a universe of conversations with your customers, where each unique foot shape is brought into focus from lost to a sea of sizing tables.
Retailers, brands, manufacturers and wholesalers worldwide use First Insight's digital product testing solution platform to design, select, price, buy, and market more successful new products. Through Bayesian AI modeling, machine learning, and APIs, First Insight’s predictive analytics platform provides a powerful, scalable, and easy-to-integrate solution informing the product assortment decisions retailers face every season.