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Karen Harvey founded Fashion Tech Forum in 2014 to create a space for fashion and technology leaders to come together to better understand how each industry was approaching the future of retail. In 2012, as her consulting firm was sitting at the center of the global luxury, fashion, retail and related innovation communities, Karen and her team identified a seismic shift developing globally that would revolutionize these industries. As she explored these changes, Karen realized this new dynamic would alter what leaders needed to compete, creating an identity crisis for fashion and retail. Traditional approaches to developing leaders suddenly seemed insufficient. Karen could see outsiders would disrupt fashion and retail at all levels, from new types of companies to emerging technologies to the next generation of talent that was impatient, hungry, digital and independent. She was both deeply curious and nervous. Mostly, Karen wanted to learn more to help her consulting clients maintain their edge and recruit the right talent to lead their brands, ultimately ensuring relevance for Karen Harvey Consulting Group for the foreseeable future

Maia Wojcik was then the VP, Global Talent Scout at Karen Harvey Consulting Group. She understood, almost more than anyone else in the field, what was happening with creative millennials, how they were thinking about their work and how they wanted to express themselves. Maia and Karen both believed there could be power to bringing together multiple generations to share ideas and give voice to a new way of working. They realized they could connect the most inspiring people from their networks, combining Karen’s years of developing live content and training programs with their shared insights into global talent trends to create Fashion Tech Forum. They envisioned a high-level event that would create the space for the most influential fashion and tech innovators to develop ways to collaborate, discover innovations, and share best practices in a unique format, in which discovery and honest dialogue would naturally occur. With this inspiration and with true entrepreneurial spirit, we launched the first FTF in 2014. Our annual conference is an invitation-only event with 800+ industry leaders, including CEOs, founders, creative directors, investors, and disrupters

Our Mission

Fashion Tech Forum provides a platform for discovery and inspiration for the leaders of fashion, retail and technology to collaborate to build communities and partnerships for sustainable brands of the future. FTF provides an environment for the most curious, committed and bold innovators, who are willing to understand the inherent cultural differences between fashion and technology creators, so that authentic conversations and true collaborations can be established.

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Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice tells you what to expect in relation to personal information about you which is collected, handled and processed by Fashion Tech Forum.

Fashion Tech Forum is committed to protecting the privacy of our community and users of our website. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website or through any of our offices or other international websites or offices is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

1. The Information we may collect
The information about you we may collect, hold and process is set out below:

1.1 Information collected and processed is as follows:

  • Your name
  • Your address/geographical location
  • Your email address
  • Your telephone number
  • Your current title/work history
  • Any other work related information you provide

2. This information is held, used and disclosed by us as follows:

  • to provide the best service you;
  • to maintain our business relationship, where you are a user of our website, a sponsor, partner or attendee;
  • internal record-keeping
  • to contact you via email, SMS or phone, with news, events and information that we believe you may be interested in
  • to enable you to purchase tickets and/or attend our events and access our content. 
  • to answer your enquiries;
  • we may also seek your consent to collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for any other purpose not listed above
  • The personal and sensitive personal information you provide us may be sent to clients and third parties located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When we transfer your personal information outside the EEA we will take reasonable steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

3. How we hold the information
All the personal data we have is stored on our GDPR compliant database, Bullhorn

4. Disclosure of your information
Your information may be shared or sent to our sponsors and clients.  

5. What is the legal basis for processing the information?
We will rely on an individuals consent to process information which is collected at the outset of the sign up process.

6. Your rights
You currently have the right at any time to ask for a copy of the information about you that we hold.   
You also have the right to erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability

7. Retention of your data
Your data will be retained for no longer than is necessary and in accordance with our Data Retention Policy.

8. Withdrawal of consent
If you have provided us with your consent to process your data, for the purpose of using our services and us finding you suitable work, you have the right to withdraw this at any time

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