Conference

MFA Fashion Tech
Conference 2025

As part of the inaugural MFA Fashion Tech Conference, international experts (jury, advisory board, finalists) will present keynotes, fireside chats and panel discussions on how technological innovations in the textile value chain can lead the fashion system into a more sustainable future.

FACTS

MFA Fashion Tech Conference 2025
Friday 16 May 2025
9 am to 3 pm

House of Communication
Friedenstraße 24
81671 Munich (Ostbahnhof)

By invitation only

The conference will be recorded and will be available in full on this page as soon as possible.

Schedule

Moderation: Lisa Morales-Hellebo
(Founder & Managing General Partner REFASHIOND Ventures and member of the MFA Advisory Board)

Conference language: English

TIME

TOPIC

FORMAT

SPEAKER / MODERATOR

9:00

Opening Words Team MFA

Opening

Dr. Olaf Kranz & Mirjam Smend
(Kreativ München)

9:05

Opening Words Lisa Morales

Opening

Lisa Morales-Hellebo
(REFASHIOND Ventures & rOS)

9:10

State of the Union

Keynote

Lisa Lang
(Open Connector Alliance)

9:40

Microfactory Labs as the missing link to commercialize innovations

Fireside Chat
Q&A

Moderator: Lisa Lang

Fredrik Timour
(Open Connector Alliance)

Mouhannad Al-Sayegh
(Flair Fashion)

10:15

The need for aesthetics in a future sustainable fashion system

Panel

Moderator: Christiane Arp

Tina Lutz Morris
(Lutz Morris)

Herbert Hofmann
(Highsnobiety)

10:45

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:00

Human Rights & Labor

Fireside Chat

Moderator: Lisa Lang

Louise Xin
(Louise Xin, Human Rights Advocate)

11:30

The State of Fashion Supply Chains

Keynote

Lisa Morales-Hellebo
(REFASHIOND Ventures & rOS)

12:00

TBC

Fireside Chat

Moderator: Lisa Morales-Hellebo

TBC

12:30

Lunch & Networking at HoC Cafeteria

Lunch Break

13:00

CLO – how sustainability goals can be achieved through digital product development

Keynote

Nathalie Petzendorfer 
(CLO)

13:30

Sustainable Soft Goods Automation

Keynote

Maria Intscher Owrang 
(Simplifyber)

14:00

Empowered by Bayern Design
and munich creative business week:

Fashion Design as a Tool for Resilience

  • Introduction by Nadine Vicentini and Mala Siamptani
  • Impulse: Hope – Democracy – Fashion with a holistic Purpose by Philip Fimmanno
  • Impulse: Indigo – Global Fashion for the Future with Knowledge from the Past by Chomwan Weeraworawit
  • Impulse: Phygital Fashion and Mental Health by Juliane Kahl
  • Q&A round

Impulse
Discussion / Q&A

Moderator: Mala Siamptani

Nadine Vicentini
(Bayern Design)

Philip Fimmanno
(Trend Union)

Chomwan Weeraworawit
(Philip Huang NYC)

Juliane Kahl
(Responsive Fashion Institute)