Track 4: Big Data/Circularity - 2020 Digital (3D) Footwear Transformation Events

Track 4: Big Data and Circularity
August 2020
This final track shows the future potential of digital transformation and takes a holistic look at how we could use it to work towards circular business models and products. We will combine all we have learned so far and will then add knowledge on big data and waste management systems, so we can start answering important strategic questions like:
How can we create a holistic workflow for both digital design and manufacturing that is fully automated based upon big data?
How can we gather relevant big data both inside and outside our company?
How can we turn data into actionable information?
How can we translate aesthetic preferences into automated design systems?
How can we create a holistic digital system that fully optimizes what we make as a company, including both the product's beginning and end of life?
How can we use artificial intelligence to minimize or even eliminate industrial waste?
Which international data systems exist that track consumer waste streams that could be used as a resource for footwear?
Which systems exist that give insight into where we can find the most sustainable natural resources in our region? How could we automatically find the best partners to buy our waste streams?
REGISTRATION
Track 4 is just $75
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Video Class 1: Big Data
The first video class is all about data: which data to collect, how to collect it, how to analyze it, and how to turn it into actionable information.
Video Class 2: Generative Design Systems
Now that we have looked at how to structure data streams, in this video class we will continue to look at how you could feed this data into automated design systems.
LIVE Video Class August 7: 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 4. 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: Using Data to Optimize Cradle to Gate
In the final two classes, we will focus only on using data to improve your carbon footprint. In this video class, we will look at how to optimize your internal process: “cradle to gate”.
Video Class 4: Using Data to Close the Loop
In this final video class, we will look at which options are currently available to use data to build your end of life processes for recycling, biodegradation, or remake.
LIVE Video Class August 21: 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 4. 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.
Experts
Meet your expert trainers in Track 4!

Ales Jurca
VP Footwear Research
Volumental
Ales has over two decades of experience applying 3D foot scanning technology to the footwear industry, and studying large (millions) datasets of 3D footscans. As one of Volumental’s earliest employees, he has been the chief architect behind Volumental’s revolutionary fit engine, an AI-based footwear recommendation software powered by Volumental’s database of 10 million foot scans called ‘Volumental Recommend’. He recently wrote a scientific paper, analyzing 1.2 million foot scans from North America, Europe, and Asia, published in Nature (Scientific Reports).
Troy Robert Nachtigall
Professor of Fashion Research and Technology
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
What if you could develop a system that creates optimal shoes for each individual consumer, involving participants from various disciplines—from doctors to designers to the wearer—improving those shoes based on actual user data that is gathered with sensors? In a nutshell, this is what Troy Nachtigall researched for his PhD Thesis "Materializing data". He will be sharing his insight on what is needed to make such a system a reality, covering technological, medical, creative, and legal aspects.
Jelle Stienstra
Digital Strategy Director
PTTRNS.ai
Patterns.ai is an artificial intelligence company specializing in digital personalization of consumer lifestyle products. The company has developed groundbreaking optical recognition software that could be used for a wide range of purposes in fashion. You will hear how this technology can be applied to help designers quickly select the right last or sole mold from archives of existing tooling, saving the cost of unnecessary production of new tooling and lowering companies' footprint.
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.