The future of the industry is being decided in a metaphorical crucible where labor and automation are currently burning. To understand what's coming in this wild and unpredictable reaction, we invited a panel of experts in the field of Workforce Development to discuss their initiatives and the general state of labor and automation in the American fashion business.
Lee Wellington is Executive Director of The Urban Manufacturing Alliance
Sarah Krasley is Founder and CEO at Shimmy Technologies, Inc
Lisa Futterman is the Regional Director in New York City for The Workforce Development Institute
Libby Mattern is the Founder of Course of Trade

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Sewist, noun, a craftsperson who cannot be replaced by automation.

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Gerber invented the technology that has underpinned the fashion industry for roughly the last five decades. Few people in the industry know the landscape of product development and manufacturing technology better than our guests in this episode, Karsten Newbury, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, and Mary McFadden, Vice President for CAD Product Management, at Gerber Technology. We discuss what they do, where they think everything is going, and the new Innovation Center they've set up in midtown Manhattan.
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Recorded in May 2020, the story of a collaboration between Lucky Brand, New Fashion Products, and Brother International Corporation to use what they had and start making masks as quickly as possible.
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Peter Holland, Vice President, Industrial Products Division, Brother International Corporation — https://brother-usa.com
Allison Charalambous, Senior Manager of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Lucky Brand — https://www.luckybrand.com/
Bobby Ahn, President & CEO, New Fashion Products — https://www.newfashionproducts.com/
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Gabriella Santaniello is the Founder of the retail consulting firm A Line Partners. 
"With over 15 years working in the fashion industry and 12 in finance, Gabriella brings a unique blend of experience to discuss what is happening with fashion specifically at the retail level – she provides the color behind the numbers. Her company, A-Line Partners, is an independent retail research firm providing the investment community with research from a stable of retail specialists who visit malls across the country on a weekly basis to identify fashion and retail trends.  Gabriella then uses the data to identify inflection points, recognize what is popular in fashion from a grassroots level, and better understand the psychology of the consumer and consumer spending."
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