Innovating in the Fashion World

Feb 27, 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Runaway East, 10 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AF

Fireside chat with David Grunwald is VP of Innovation at Farfetch (valued at over $6 billion) and Heikki Haldre (named in Vogue's "Online Fashion 100" – top 100 most influential names of the digital fashion world). This talk was co-moderated by Head of Global Operations at Google for Startups, Amrit Dhir & ex-Operations at Amazon Fashion, Hannah Drew.

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About this event

Fireside chat with David Grunwald is VP of Innovation at Farfetch (valued at over $6 billion) and Heikki Haldre (named in Vogue's "Online Fashion 100" – top 100 most influential names of the digital fashion world).

This talk was co-moderated by Hannah Drew, ex-Amazon Fashion and Head of Global Operations at Google for Startups, Amrit Dhir. 

Heikki Haldre successfully started & exited four companies. The latest one, Fits.me created groundbreaking bio-robotics technology for fashion e-commerce. Fits.me raised €15M in funding & was acquired by Rakuten – one of world’s largest e-commerce companies.

David is Farfetch's VP of Innovation, where he leads open innovation & engagement with startups. Before Farfetch he spent 8 years at Google for Entrepreneurs. Before Google he founded three companies, and consulted to leading international media and technology corporations on product/digital.

Get ready to acquire interesting knowledge, insights and context about the future of fashion. 

Check out what happened

Speakers

  • Heikki Haldre

    Fits.me (acquired by Rakuten)

    Founder/CEO

  • David Grunwald

    Farfetch

    VP of Innovation

  • Hannah Drew

    Amazon Fashion

    Operations Manager (ex)

  • Amrit Dhir

    Sidewalk Labs

    Director of Business Development

When

When

Wednesday, February 27, 2019
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM UTC

Organizers

  • Prem Sangeet Petar Savic

    Supreme Factory

    London Director

  • James Lethem

    Nascence

    Co-Director

  • Sam Adekunle

    Grone Collective

    Head of Special Projects & Initiatives

  • Gabriel Pizzolante

    UK GAP Consulting

    Ambassador

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