Sustainability in Textiles features industry leaders and academic experts exploring environmental challenges and solutions across the supply chain, from raw materials to finished goods and beyond. Speakers will discuss new research, upcoming innovation, test methods, raw materials, fiber fragmentation, dyeing and finishing, as well as certifications, LCAs, and other topics.
Mary Ankeny
Mary Ankeny is VP, Product Development and Implementation, at Cotton Incorporated and heads up the Textile Chemistry Research (TCR) Department and has oversight of the research labs and outside research for textile applications. Cotton Incorporated is focused on the issue of sustainability and TCR has worked to reduce inputs such as water, energy and chemistry in cotton wet processing through research and technology implementation. In recent years, Mary headed up the team at Cotton Incorporated who partnered with researchers at NCSU and Cornell to map cotton’s biodegradation path.
Dr. Dimitri Deheyn
Dr. Dimitri Deheyn, is a Marine Biologist-Research Scientist-Principal Investigator, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. Deheyn is an expert generalist using biomimicry, the science of learning from Nature to develop new technologies, as an umbrella for multidisciplinary research. Amongst his expertise relevant here are ecotoxicology, biomaterials and circularity assessment. In his research, Deheyn emphasizes public outreach and collaborative projects with the industry.
Heather Elliot
Heather Elliot is Product Integrity Manager at Smartwool. Heather has been a member of the AATCC since 2012. She is active in both AATCC and ASTM textile committees and believes that quality product is sustainable product.
Karin Fleck
Karin Fleck, CEO and Founder, Vienna Textile Lab (VTL GmbH), is an accomplished manager in the field of business planning and strategy. She has worked over 10 years in the oil and energy business. Her expertise encompasses project management in the field of optimisation and data base landscapes up to the P&L responsibility of the virtual power plant portfolio. Through out her career she established new teams, structured business processes, trained and coached team members. She has been successfully establishing new technologies within the organization and managing core project portfolio.
Randy Mumford
Randy Mumford is Technical Manager at Archroma. Randy is a graduate of North Carolina State University College of Textiles and has spent over 30 years in the chemical industry in various technical and commercial roles.
Kasper Nossent
Kasper Nossent works for Dyecoo Textile Systems B.V. as their Commercial Director and is based Asia. With an interest in innovative technologies and sustainability, he has over 15 years of experience in the High-Tech Industry, Digital Printing Industry and Textile Industry and has worked in different commercial and management roles in fields of R&D, business development and sales. Kasper holds a Bsc. in Chemical Engineering from Saxion University and a Msc. in Innovation Management from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Dr. Siva Rama Kumar Pariti
Dr. Siva Rama Kumar Pariti is Sr. Technical Marketing Officer at BluWin Ltd. Dr. Pariti holds a Ph.D. (Tech) in Intermediates and Dyestuffs Technology from UDCT in Mumbai, India. He is a Chartered Colourist (C.Col. A.S.D.C.) and was awarded the Silver Medal Society of Dyers and Colourists. Managing Trustee of SDC EC India and Member Trustee Board of SDC UK. Located in Manchester, Siva is responsible for research, innovation and to set the grounds for continuous learning.
Sharon Perez
Sharon Perez represents Lenzing as Business Development Manager focused on active, outdoor, and footwear categories. Sharon blends her passion for strength training along with her background in textile research and development. She resides in NYC where she studied Fashion Merchandise Management at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar
Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar is a tenured full professor of advanced materials at Texas Tech University. His research has resulted in commercial products such as FiberTect decontamination wipe and cotton-based oil absorbent wipes. Most recently he has been appointed as an Honorary Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Agile Manufacturing and Management at Chennai-based Grand Alliance of Management Excellence. Currently he is actively involved in research related to face masks and promoting its usefulness in protecting global citizens, via research and outreach.
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He publishes an international newsletter called “TexSnips,” which is distributed globally informing researchers, industry, and academics on new developments in the field of fiber to soft materials.
Akhil Sivanandan
Akhil Sivanandan is the co-founder and co-CEO of Green Story, a sustainability platform helping brands like PANGAIA, threadup and 150+ more, to accurately quantify and show the environmental performance of their products and offset their carbon footprint.
Jeremy Stangeland
Jeremy Stangeland is Sr. Lab Manager at Under Armour. Jeremy’s father made sure he never left waste behind, and his dad stepped up as an example by always picking up other people’s trash. Patagonia amplified those values and Under Armour has helped Jeremy turn those lessons into something he is truly proud to be a part of.
