POLYMERS IN FOOTWEAR | EVENT PREVIEW
Discussing design and materials in footwear
Ahead of AMI’s third edition of Polymers in Footwear, taking place in Berlin, Germany, in November, we preview the speakers from leading brands and industry innovators
AMI is staging the Polymers in Footwear confer- ence, discussing key industry trends, challenges and innovations for the footwear industry and its supply chain in November. The high-level interna- tional two-day conference will bring together polymer and additive suppliers, compounders, processing machinery experts, testing companies, shoe designers, and manufacturers to explore the wide range of existing and emerging materials and manufacturing technologies for producing foot- wear of all types. The two-day conference takes place on 19-20 November 2019 at the Sofitel Hotel Kurfürstend- amm in Berlin, Germany. It will be an essential networking and learning opportunity for polymer and footwear industry professionals, and provides an up-to-date view on market trends, new materials and technology developments. Sustainable design and production methods, bio-based polymers and circular solutions for footwear applications, test methods, simulation technologies, 3D printing, three-dimensional bonding, automation, robotics and many more
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topics will be covered in the programme. Here we preview the event, with a closer look at the line-up of expert speakers.
Sustainability The Polymers in Footwear conference opens with a presentation by Nicoline van Enter, Founder of The Footwearists in the Netherlands. This is followed by a panel discussion on key industry trends, challenges and innovations with a focus on sustainability. Van Enter is joined in the discussion by Sabrina Zinner, Manager Material Engineering Innovation Footwear, at Puma in Germany, and François-Ghislain Morillion, Co-founder, VEJA in France. Next, Arnaud Dabir, Project Manager and
Reges Da Costa, Lead Engineer, both at VEJA in France, are giving a joint presentation on a differ- ent approach to innovation: the “post-petroleum running shoe”. Anesca Swart, Footwear Designer at Footwear Hacking & Design in Austria, looks at footwear design’s accelerators, challenges and fiction. The last presentation in this session ex-
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