Fashion Business Research hosted its first IRL industry roundtable last Friday, to tackle the big question: “what are the global issues we can change through our research?” focusing on the theme of Digital Futures and emerging technologies. With the help of three incredible panellists, Dr Ahmed Zaidi, CEO and Co-founder of Hyran Technologies and AI expert, Jonathan Chippendale, Co-founder and CEO of Holition and Jennifer Dickinson, Brand and Content Director at DREST, we explored the impact of Web3 on fashion, the role of the Metaverse, humanising technology, AI, machine learning and fashion’s response to big data and industry mindset changes required to embrace digital futures. Attended by over 70 people, comprising FBS colleagues, PGR and PGT students, the panel offered plentiful takeaways for possible research projects.
