The Covid-19 pandemic continues to have political and economic turmoil all over the world, affecting business and consumer activities. Against this backdrop, digital transformation has become crucial to enterprises for operational resilience. While digitally active companies have been able to play to their strengths, others are increasingly considering digitalization as a choice better now than late or never. And for the apparel industry, ranging from global retailers to apparel manufacturers, they are both investing in digital tools to streamline their supply chain for response the possible trade risks and uncertainties. Apparel industry is one of the most challenging fields, highly impacted by global economic uncertainty as well as distinct trends and industrial changes. In response to the pressure for growth and cost efficiency, many brands have started a series of initiatives to improve their speed to market and to implement sustainable innovation in their core product design, manufacturing and supply chain processes. Thus, digitalization is one of the most important way to complete these goals and accelerate speed to market-allowing for quicker response time to trends and shifts in the marketplace.

Under the new background, it’s really important for each company to quickly revisit the digitalization strategies for more business resilience. So, this summit will focus on the digital sourcing and digital supply chain innovation during COVID-19, digital manufacturing transformation and advanced technologies innovation, how the digitalization will make a great impact on the apparel industry amid COVID-19 and how to strengthen the implementation of their digital strategy post-COVID/when comes to the possible trade risks. The major international apparel brands, apparel manufacturers, excellent digital platform providers and technology innovators will be invited to share their insights and practices at this event to talk about the opportunities and challenges that brought by the digital wave.