"What’s next for fashion textile?"
The Opening Ceremony
Milano Unica opens the 26th edition and shares an insight on the upcoming challenges for the textiles and accessories industry.
“What’s next for fashion textile?” is the leitmotif of the Opening Ceremony, which is scheduled for February 6, 2018 , h 11 a.m. at the Fiera Milano Rho Auditorium.
From sustainability to the digital world, continuing through fashion tech, the new markets and the Millennials: the textile industry is facing huge changes with great opportunities to be seized.
Speeches by:
Ercole Botto Poala, President of Milano Unica
David Orban, Professor and Advisor at the Singularity University
Pietro Sella, CEO Sella Group
Claudio Marenzi, President of SMI and President of Confindustria Moda
Carlo Calenda, Italian Minister of Economic Development
Ercole Botto Poala, CEO of Successori Reda 1865, has been the President of Milano Unica since February 2016, and has always been supported by the collaboration and dedication of Claudio Marenzi, President of SMI and President of Confindustria Moda. For years, they have consistently been sensitive to and proactive about sustainability.
On this occasion, two international authorities of the digital world will participate in Milano Unica to give impetus to such an important and hot topic for the future of the textile industry: David Orban, professor and advisor at the Singularity University and investor in high-tech start-ups and Pietro Sella, CEO Sella Group and one of the key actors of Fintech.
A great supporter of the Milano Unica trade show and of industrial synergies, as well as of industry 4.0, is Carlo Calenda, Italian Minister of Economic Development since May 2016.
