Fashion innovation catalyst active in the intersection of fashion and technology connecting the best innovative solutions and scale up with the most prestigious luxury brands.  Previously Co – founder of Global FashionTech, the leading startup and corporate accelerators in partnership with Armani, Valentino, Moschino, Accenture, Prada and many more; currently active as investor and senior advisor in the sector. With 18 years of extensive experience , Stefano is a digital entrepreneur committed to open innovation in order to build an improved ecosystem internationally. He is devoted to driving innovation and growth to the industry through digital transformation and startup acceleration.

As a global power connector, his span of expertise ranges across omni-channel customer experience, retail innovation, sustainability as buiness for a broad variety of luxury brands including BMW, Luxottica, Gucci, Bulgari, Fendi, Tod’s , Uniqlo, H&M. He is also the founder of the Accenture Innovation Global Hub focus on fashion, as well as a lecturer and professor at University Bocconi, Istituto Marangoni and Cambridge. His focus areas are Metaverse and new circularity business models.

Susan has extensive product development, management and marketing research experience. Her first degree was environmental science, the second technology. As Technical Account Manager Asia Pacific for IBM she was a problem solver and translator, listening to client’s business pain and turning that into geek speak. As Information Production Systems (IPS) Director at Lieberman Research Worldwide (LRW), she helped the organisation embrace the 21st century. They are now leaders in XR research with long term clients like Disney.

Born in Fiji, growing up in the tropics, Susan always loved nature. Her father used to call her a tree hugging hippy. Her love of fashion began when small. watching Mum and Dad dress for the ball. Mum-made clothes where the norm when she was young. Disgusted by fast fashion, the pollution, lack of decent wages and conditions, Susan wondered how to disrupt and transform the take, make and dispose mentality? How to help protect makers? Susan had an epiphany and Meyd.it was born. Now she helps people and planet, one dress at a time.

Lex Kiefhaber is the founder and CEO of United by Zero and co-host of the Who’s Saving the Planet podcast. He grew up in Southern California before attending Yale University, graduating with a degree in Political Science and Philosophy. He then went into a career in hospitality, achieving national recognition as the Wine Director and Sommelier of Smith and Wollensky in New York. Lex is a graduate of Columbia Business School where he was the VP of Sourcing for the Insite Fellows, building an education in and love for early stage high growth companies.

Kirstie Fleur is a modern day renaissance woman, recording artist, activist and designer. She incites women to use their passions to change the world around them.

She is the Founder and CEO of Freedom Fleur, a sustainable ethical fashion brand that resources visionary women. This brand elevates women’s work wardrobe and provides a community platform for entrepreneurship, upskilling, and reskilling.

Freedom, power, and justice fuel her mission.

Olivier is a seasoned Luxury executive with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and significant experience in Luxury, who has successfully accelerated businesses through multiple channels, geographies and partners, A French native living in New York since 2003, Olivier is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Exclusible, an NFT marketplace and Metaverse partner for luxury brands. Exclusible’s mission is to help brands start their journey in NFTs and Metaverse.

Before Exclusible, Olivier was the CEO of natural French beauty brand Bastide, taking this early-stage brand off the ground to a multi-million-dollar business by opening an international multi-channel distribution, modernizing its organizations and systems, as well as overseeing the overall brand image and strategic positioning. Previously, Olivier was the Managing Director of Goyard America, leading the development and operations of the brand in the Americas, including the US, Mexico and Brazil. Olivier came to Goyard from Cartier, where he started his career in 2003. At Cartier, Olivier held senior roles in the Retail and Wholesale divisions, participating actively in the optimization and expansion of the brand’s retail and wholesale footprint throughout North America.

Olivier lives in New York City with his wife and daughter, and is a volunteer at Build NY, mentoring students in underserved communities to develop entrepreneurial skills. He holds a BA from Grenoble Business School, France with a major in Marketing, as well as a Master from Warwick University, England, majoring in Corporate Strategy

Karen Williams is a recognized Strategic Operations executive with financial expertise and a proven bias for action. She is a change agent known for pioneering new relationships and tactics to deliver desired results from concept testing through scale-up and implementation. Karen builds high-performance teams to deliver value and drive measurable sales growth.

Karen currently leads business development and growth initiatives as CEO for Savitude, a SaaS B2B company that offers brand and retail merchandisers a design-focused computer vision and analytics platform for best fit and assortment optimization. Leveraging the Savitude technology, companies can improve margins, reduce returns and positively impact customer retention.

Throughout her career, Karen has advised senior executives and cross-functional product development and manufacturing teams at a wide array of Fortune 500 companies. Karen started her career as a research biomedical engineer at the Veterans Administration focused on robotics and computer-aided clothing design for people with disabilities.

Karen holds a BS in Product Design, Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.