Mr Alexandre Butte

General Manager Group, Andritz Laroche

Alexandre Butte has spent more than 20 years in the nonwoven and textile machinery business, supporting today’s transition towards a more sustainable and circular industry with a focus on energy savings, recycling, plastics substitution with cellulosic solutions, and promoting the development of bast fibres.

Ms Alice Tonello

R&D and Marketing Director, Tonello Srl

Alice Tonello is the R&D and Marketing Director of Tonello, the global leader of garment finishing technologies, helping brands, laundries and dyeing factories to produce more responsible products. She has contributed to the evolution of the company from a mere machine producer to its current position as the international benchmark for the RMG industry.

Ms Christiane Dolva Tornberg

Sustainability Expert, Strategy Lead Planet, H&M Foundation

Christiane Dolva Tornberg is responsible to drive the strategic direction of the Planet Positive pillar of H&M Foundation. She is working towards a planet positive fashion future by speeding up research and innovation and connecting different industry players to adopt and scale new ways of working to protect living conditions for people globally. In 2020 she was awarded Business Woman of the Year by the Swedish Sports Association.

Mr Lewis Shuler

Head of Innovation, Alpine Group

Lewis Shuler's passion is working on innovative materials and advanced manufacturing processes that help brands make apparel more responsibly. He has spent most of the past 15 years in Asia focused on textile innovation and sustainability initiatives for some of the largest sportswear and fashion brands. Today, as Head of Innovation at Alpine Group, he focuses his research on fibre pollution, textile recycling, bio-based fibres/chemistries, and low impact technologies for textile dyeing and finishing.

Ms Georgia Parker

Innovation Director, Fashion for Good

Georgia Parker is the Innovation Director at Fashion for Good, the global initiative that convenes brands, producers, retailers, suppliers, non-profit organisations, innovators and funders in a pre-competitive space to support and embed breakthrough technologies into the fashion supply chain. She focuses on orchestrating brand and innovator collaborations, in areas of the supply chain related to raw materials, dyeing and finishing.