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Partners & Sponsors
& more…
the new meeting and exchange format with the support of
global textile scheme initiative & other supporters
DO YOU FIND WONDERING YOURSELF:
WHERE IS THE FASHION INDUSTRY HEADING?
KEY TOPICS: Regulation, shifting value chains, a relentless influx of data – what’s truly essential for your business today and tomorrow? Do you feel like you are missing out on key developments, and who can help you navigate this complex landscape?
PROGRESS: The fact is, the fashion industry is transforming at an unprecedented pace, creating challenges and opportunities that require resources and a clear strategy for digital transformation and business model innovation. With issues becoming more complex and interconnected, staying ahead is a greater challenge than ever. Success today depends on collaboration, innovation, and adaptability!
DESTINATION: Düsseldorf, with its strong B2B fashion legacy and dynamic startup ecosystem, is the ideal location for this critical dialogue. Starting in March 2025, Igedo Exhibitions, together with visionary partners, will launch a twice-yearly conference / convention focused on the intersections of “it tools-data exchange-regulation-change management”.
Our Approach
EXPERT INSIGHTS
Leading experts and appearance leaders will provide actionable insights on the critical issues shaping the future of fashion, sustainability, and technology, including EU regulation, digital product passport, and the transition toward a circular economy.
HANDS-ON LEARNING
Interactive workshops and dedicated networking sessions will foster meaningful exchanges among colleagues, specialists, and service providers from around the world.
take the opportunity to participate with an
information desk in the conference area!
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN!
- In a rapidly transforming industry, success will favor those who adapt the fastest.
- Our mission is to build a collaborative ecosystem that fosters mutual support, innovation, facilitates smooth digital transformation, and drives new business models.
- Our goals is to equip you with the knowledge, tools, and partnerships you need to drive the future of fashion, sustainability, and innovation.
- Join us to stay ahead of the curve, forge international connections, and be part of a data-driven movement reshaping the industry.
- This isn’t just a conference; It’s a platform for action, and the time to act is now.
New era of fashion
>> NEW BENCHMARKS FOR SUCCESS
Regional production, standardized workflows, and sustainable, ressource-effecient growth
>> FUTURE
Fashion is digital, interconnected, resilient and increasingly local
>> PERSPECTIVE
It is essential to look beyond fashion-industries like food, beauty, and electronics offer valuable insights as we embrace digital transformation
>> EU
Advancing toward digital product passports and circular economy models, businesses will need to decouple growth from resource use
who should exhibit?
Exhibitors will include IT solutions providers, consulting firms, material science and technology start ups, logistics providers, and product end-of-life management specialists.
Contact
For further Information and details, feel free to contact us via EMAIL.
Agenda
Opening Hours
Networking Event
Address: Speditionsstraße 9, 40221 Düsseldorf
Date: 26 March 2025
Opening: 6.30 pm – 11.00 pm
Conference
Address: Joseph-Beuys-Ufer 33, 40479 Düsseldorf
Date: 27 March 2025
Opening: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm (admission starts at 8.30 am)
Program
Welcome to CIRCULAR ROOMS! Get ready to immerse yourself in a unique experience on 27 March 2025 at Rheinterrasse Düsseldorf. Join us at 9:00 am for a day filled with creativity, innovation, and inspiration. Explore different perspectives and connect with like-minded individuals in a dynamic setting. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to expand your horizons and be part of something special.
Timeline
Speaker Details
DR. MONIKA HAUCK (FOUNDER & CEO – REPAIR REBELS)
Moderator
Monika is an entrepreneur, social activist, and researcher in the field of open innovation. Driven by her passion for sustainable fashion and extensive experience in innovation management, she is the driving force behind Repair Rebels – Germany’s pioneering online platform for fashion repair and alteration service. She holds a Ph.D. from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, where she specialized in Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation in the fashion industry. In 2018, Monika founded the WHU Entrepreneurship Center, where she served as Managing Director. She supported startups and entrepreneurial innovation initiatives while actively contributing to the development of the startup ecosystem in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. In 2018, Monika became a City Ambassador for the UK-based social enterprise Fashion Revolution in Düsseldorf and a year later founded change-room.org, a think tank dedicated to fostering sustainable and inclusive innovation in the fashion industry. With her unique blend of expertise in innovation management, circular economy, and hands-on experience revitalising Germany’s local craft sector, Monika is active as a consultant, lecturer, and speaker.
Ulrike Kähler (Managing Partner – Igedo Exhibitions)
Organizer
Ulrike Kähler was born into the world of fashion. Today she is Managing Director of Igedo Exhibitions and is constantly working on the further development of the events, such as the development and conception of the TWODAYS planned for summer 2025. Under the name TWODAYS, fashion, shoes, accessories and bags will be presented together and equally under one roof. Neonyt Düsseldorf, to whose licensing by Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH she made a significant contribution, will continue to be part of the event and will take place parallel to TWODAYS. With CIRCULAR ROOMS, a new format is now celebrating its premiere that picks up on the dynamic developments in the rapidly changing fashion industry and creates a space for dialogue about the future of the branch.
Trevor Anderson (Trading Director – Oxfam Ireland)
Oxfam – Extending the life of clothing – Past, present & future
Trevor Anderson lives in Belfast. He is a passionate advocate of charity retailing in Ireland & Europe and working with the private sector to find solutions to the environmental and social issues connected to the fashion industry. He has been working for Oxfam since 1984 and will continue to do so until inequality & poverty is no longer the growing global problem it is today.
Jean Bauer & Haix (ESG-X GmbH)
Fighting bureaucracy with AI – quick and affordable sustainability report
As a Düsseldorfer, fashion accompanied me in the schoolyard, as a model and at work. Early on, sustainability was important to me for purely selfish reasons – because I don’t want to wear harmful chemicals on my skin and I want to be paid fairly for my work. So I recognize the benefits of bureaucracy when it comes to sustainability. But as a management consultant, I also saw how it can eat up companies’ resources. With AI, we can manage bureaucracy in an automated way. That’s why, after 10 years in management consulting, I entered the world of AI development.”
Christian Büdel (Digital Professional in Global Garment Business)
Product data exchange – challenges & chances in real life
Christian Büdel is Managing Director of PB ACCESSORIES, a family-owned company and global provider of trims for premium brands in various industries such as fashion, sportswear, and beyond. With a strong focus on digitalization, process optimization, and certification management, he drives innovation and efficiency. With over 20 years in the apparel industry—but a background in engineering—Christian combines deep expertise with a practical perspective on the processes in the textile sector. His hands-on experience fuels his skepticism toward the outdated methods still widely used to handle the massive data flow along the textile supply chain. At the event, he will share real world examples of how PB ACCESSORIES—led by him and his brother Andreas—is tackling automated data exchange with innovative solutions that bring greater efficiency and transparency to the industry.
Nicole Kösegi (CEO – Solutions for Business)
Extended producer responsibility – the bridge to textile circularity?
Nicole Kösegi has over 25 years of experience in the field of waste management with focus on textiles and packaging. She has held various strategic management positions within the recycling sector, for instance at SUEZ Environment, a global waste management provider or as business development manager at Boer Group, an international organization in textile recycling. Since 2018, Nicole Kösegi has been working as an independent management consultant. A focus of her work is in the field of take-back-systems and the development of solutions for implementing producers’ responsibility for various types of waste. Against this background, she has very good knowledge and understanding of current developments in the textile sector and approaches for increased circularity of textiles.
Robert Klauer (Circular Business Development – VAUDE)
Circular Economy in Action – Lessons from a German Pioneer
Robert has been working at VAUDE, a leading company in the field of sustainable outdoor clothing and equipment, for over 8 years. As an expert in circular economy, he plays a key role in the development of circular business models that aim to decouple resource consumption from economic growth. Since 2021, Robert has been focussing on the design and implementation of business models such as rental services, second-hand and repair services. A particular focus of his work was the management of an interdisciplinary research project on the reduction of microplastics produced by textiles. This project aimed to develop innovative solutions to minimise the release of microplastics into the environment and to make the entire life cycle analysis of textile products more sustainable.
With a Master’s degree in Integrated Design Engineering from the University of Magdeburg and his experience as a lecturer in the field of Circular Economy in the Master’s programme ‘Sustainable Business Management’ at the University of Ulm, Robert combines sound academic knowledge with practical, implementation-oriented approaches to promote the Circular Economy in the textile industry.
Richard Lawson (Director of Policy and Sustainability – 2BPolicy)
Operationalising ESG legislation
Richard is a strategic sustainability leader with over fifteen years of experience in the fashion and consumer goods sector, from manufacturing to retail and luxury to mass market. At 2B Policy, he enables organisations map the complexities of sustainability policy onto the realities of their own business. This means embedding ESG policy into corporate strategies and drilling into specific data points required for compliance. Previously, as Head of Product Sustainability at Zalando, Richard was responsible for the strategy to identify products with a lower environmental footprint and the data protocol required to onboard them to Europe’s largest fashion e-tailer.
Andreas Schneider (CEO – Global Textile Scheme)
He will give a brief experience overview, insights and an outlook around the upcoming Digital Product Passport within ESPR legislation.
Andreas R. Schneider is Founder and CEO of a cross-sector industry initiative called Global Textile Scheme Initiative, that developed a new data exchange standard, which will be critical to manage increasing volumes of end2end product related data of all kind.
GTS initiative: “Our mission is to drive efficient, resilient, sustainable and transparent end2end Value Chains in the Textile & Fashion industry by simplifying and automating the exchange of data between all stakeholders – from fiber to recycling.“
Andreas R. Schneider was/is:
- Member of key steering committees, e.g. at GS1 (Germany) and The Consumer Goods Forum
- Contributor to industry standards: eBIZ, EPCIS, EPC Global (RFID)
- One of the experts in the latest Sustainability Roadmap of DIN
- Co-Sector Lead for Textiles in the CIRPASS project of the EU
- Industry expert at JRC textile expert workgroup, defining future ESPR performance criteria as basis for future data points in the Digital Product Passport and the upcoming Delegated Acts
- Member of WG 1 (advisory work group) and WG 4 (interoperability work group) at JTC 24 at CEN/CENELEC
- Managing the Expert Work Group 3 (textile experts) at CIRPASS 2 Cirpass2
Walter Stahel (Club of Rome)
Opening Speech – Can Legislation and DPPs Foster Transition to Circular Economy?
Professor Walter R. Stahel is a Swiss architect, author, and advisor who is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of the circular economy concept. In 1983, Stahel founded the Product-Life Institute in Switzerland, the oldest consultancy in Europe dedicated to developing sustainable strategies and policies. This initiative followed his recognition for the prize-winning paper “The Product Life Factor” in 1982, which laid the foundation for his subsequent work in sustainability and circular economic models. Stahel has held numerous prestigious academic positions throughout his career. In 2005, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey in Guildford. in 2013, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of the University (DUniv) degree by the same institution, in 2016, a second DUniv degree by the Université de Montréal. He is a Full Member of the Club of Rome. His 2019 book, The Circular Economy: A User’s Guide, with a foreword by Dame Ellen MacArthur and edited by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, serves as a key reference for those interested in understanding and implementing circular economy principles. Similar texts have been published in a dozen languages since. His advocacy for a shift from a linear to a circular and a performance economy has been instrumental in changing industrial and economic perspectives worldwide.
Henna Suomi (Chief Operating Officer – IOXIO)
Unlocking circular value through data-driven supply chains
Henna Suomi is the Chief Operating Officer and standardization lead at IOXIO, a data intermediation service provider specializing in company data sharing in manufacturing and global logistics.
With experience spanning both industry and academia, she has been at the forefront of leading data economy developments in Finland. She is deeply committed to driving the adoption and value generation of fair, transparent, and secure industrial data sharing. Her expertise extends to data interoperability and developing scalable solutions for decentralized data sharing and helping companies enter new data-driven business models.
Currently, she is involved in CEN/CENELEC’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) standardization efforts and leads one of the lighthouse DPP pilots in the CIRPASS-2 project on circular workwear.
Lutz Walter (Secretary General – The European Technology Platform for the Future of Textile and Clothing)
Textiles of the Future/DigitX – EU funding and training programs for textile digitalisation
Passionate about transforming the world of textiles through innovation and collaboration, I am managing Textile ETP – the largest European network of textile research and innovations professionals, which I helped founding in 2004. With extensive experience in the market and innovation trends in the textile and fashion industries and a deep understanding of the evolving technology landscape, I am dedicated to fostering prosperity, sustainability, and technological advancements in the textile sector. At Textile ETP, my focus is on leveraging cutting-edge technologies, such as smart textiles, sustainable, bio-based and high-performance materials, and circular economy principles, to revolutionize the way we design, produce, and consume textiles. By fostering an ecosystem of collaboration, I aim to empower textile professionals, researchers, and policymakers to create a sustainable and resilient industry that embraces social responsibility and environmental stewardship.
Locations
Rheinterrasse
The New Homebase for Circular Rooms
The RHEINTERRASSE is a unique event venue in the heart of Düsseldorf, right on the banks of the rhine river. The different ROOMS, located at the heart of the location, are the ideal place for conferences and professional events. Equiped with state-of-the-art technology and integrated stages, the space provides an atmosphere that is both inspiring and conducive to productivity.
Rooms
>> Rheingoldsaal (470 sqm, 510 People)
>> Gelben Salon (258 sqm, 420 People)
>> Silbersaal (178 sqm, 240 People)
>> Kurfürstenzimmer (97 sqm, 131 People)
Innside by Melia Düsseldorf
The View
This skylounge is one of the most popular hotspots in the city. The stunning location sets standards in design, dining and bar culture. And as the name suggests, with a spectacular panoramic view of the Düsseldorf city skyline.
Skylounge & Bar
>> Modern atmosphere
>> Signature cocktails
>> Full board target
>> Elegant dress code
Visit
Networking Event
An evening before the Circular Rooms, on Wednesday, 26 March 2025, a networking event with food & drinks will take place in the Skylounge & Bar of the Innside by Meliá Düsseldorf Hafen at 6.30 pm to get to know each other and exchange ideas, strategies and more.
ADDRESS:
Speditionstraße 9, 40221 Düsseldorf (Skybar @ Innside by Meliá Düsseldorf)
Conference
This event is designed for senior professionals driving change within their organizations: IT and sustainability managers, e-commerce leaders, platform and re-commerce experts, product designers and representatives from municipal and regulatory bodies.
ADDRESS:
Joseph-Beuys-Ufer 33, 40479 Düsseldorf (Rheinterrasse)
Tickets
ACCESS: 80,- € *
Exhibit
Package A
Price: 1,750.- €*
Equipment of Package A:
• 6 sqm stand area
• basic lighting
• 1 high table incl. bar stool, 170cm x 60cm x 110cm (W x D x H)
• 1 cupboard, lockable
• stand lettering
• power supply incl. consumption
• stand cleaning during the duration of the event
• waste paper basket
• WIFI
• 1 ticket for Circular Rooms conference
Package B
Price: 2,610.- €*
Equipment of Package B:
• 9 sqm stand area
• basic lighting
• 1 monitor (60”)
• 1 high table incl. bar stool, 170cm x 60cm x 110cm (W x D x H)
• 1 cupboard, lockable
• stand lettering
• power supply incl. consumption
• stand cleaning during the duration of the event
• waste paper basket
• WIFI
• 1 ticket for Circular Rooms conference
Raw Space
Price per sqm: 210.- €*
(minimum size 10 sqm, price per sqm)
Stand area only, equipment will be brought by exhibitors
including:
• basic lighting
• stand lettering
• power supply incl. consumption
• stand cleaning during the duration of the event
• WIFI
• 1 ticket for Circular Rooms conference
*net price + VAT will be added
Illustration of package A
Optional for Package A and Package B:
• Graphic on table front, 154 cm x 102 cm (W x H): 147.- €*
• Brochure stand: 93.- €*
• Rack of shelves with ground pedestal: 79.- €*
Optional Services:
• Additional ticket for the conference: 150.- €*
• Ticket for networking event (26.03.2025): 80.- €*
*net price + VAT will be added