Tom has been working in a combination of business strategy and sustainability for the past 20 years. He leads the Sustainable Business agenda at FARFETCH - a cross-functional program of work designed to help the company succeed commercially whilst also delivering tangible positive social and environmental impact. The work includes driving innovation in new circular business models; enabling customers to buy better products; and improving the company carbon footprint while saving cost and engaging consumers. Before FARFETCH, Tom held senior sustainability roles at Kimberly Clark and Innocent Drinks. Prior to that, he managed industry programs for Forum for the Future (in the UK) and The Institute for Sustainable Futures (in Australia) – both leading sustainable development organisations providing strategic advice to business. Before specialising in sustainability Tom spent 3 years as a strategy consultant at Gemini Consulting – a management consultancy based in London.

Hannah has been a freelance ethical fashion consultant and educator since May 2022. Previously she created and managed the Love Not Landfill campaign at ReLondon, which launched in 2017. Prior to focusing on ethical fashion, Hannah enjoyed a career in communications in London and Shanghai, leading global brand campaigns and crisis management strategies. She is now supporting schools in teaching students about the link between fashion and climate change through a variety of practical workshops. She is also building a start-up ethical fashion brand, Animal Army (an anagram of her two daughters' names), where she upcycles deadstock and charity shop finds for resale.

Amanda Johnston is Curator and Education Director at The Sustainable Angle, producers of the Future Fabrics Expo. She has a background in design consultancy and education, also teaching at London College of Fashion, and regularly runs sustainable materials workshops, delivering presentations and seminars internationally, both at industry events and in educational forums. She has co-authored two books: Fabric For Fashion, and Fabric For Fashion The Swatch Book, published by Hachette UK.

Safia Minney, MBE, FRSA, is an award-winning social entrepreneur and internationally recognised for the company she founded, People Tree, a pioneer of sustainable fashion. She led the business as Global CEO for 20+ years in Japan and Europe. Safia is recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur and is a leading influencer and international speaker on sustainable business and supply chains, climate action and Fair Trade. Safia is an executive coach and mentor and author of 9 books including; ‘Slave to Fashion’, campaigning to eradicate modern day slavery in the fashion industry and ‘Slow Fashion - Aesthetics meets Ethics’ and ‘Regenerative Fashion’, out in November 2022. Safia recently founded www.fashion-declares.org – a bottom-up, industry wide movement to promote rapid action to redesign the fashion industry to operate within planetary boundaries whilst delivering a Just Transition in the Climate, Ecological and Social emergency. Safia founded www.REALsustainability.org to promote awareness and action for sustainable living and leadership. Safia is an advisor with www.businessdeclares.org and works as a trustee of The Countryside Charity and Conway Hall Ethics Society

Justine Porterie is Global head of sustainability and DEI at Depop, and joined the business permanently in February 2020 after four months as a freelance consultant. She leads Depop’s efforts to embed and champion environmental and social impact matters both internally and externally.

Prior to joining, Porterie held sustainability-focused roles at PwC, Unilever and EY, and founded her own secondhand fashion start-up Outstand, through the social impact incubator Zinc. Porterie works tirelessly to reshape consumption, using fashion as a gateway to more sustainable ways of living.

Porterie received her Masters in Management from ESCP Europe in Paris. Born and raised in France, she has now been living in London for six years.

A creative leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of textile and apparel experience. Thea is known for advocating change, sharing knowledge and propelling cutting edge product and fibre innovation in the realms of sustainability and circular resource efficiency. Thea possesses comprehensive fashion industry experience. A knowledge base that extends from fibre growing, raw material production, apparel design and manufacturing, all the way through to branding and leadership of fashion and textile companies. A combination of this industry experience and recognition of the need for change was the inspiration for Thea to establish RawAssembly™, a global responsible fashion magazine and sourcing event that provides responsible sourcing and manufacturing networks for a renewed fashion industry, driven by innovation and a focus on renewable materials. Thea works as an active contributor to industry research groups, roundtables, reports and has presented and facilitated working groups with the Sherman Institute of Culture & Ideas, The Institute of Frontier Materials, Queensland University of technology, International Cotton Advisory Committee and the Technical Advisory Committee, shaping workforce skills for the future.

Professor Dilys Williams is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Dilys’ research and teaching practice draws on long-held design practices that connect fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural dimensions. Engaging participatory and transformation design practices, her work shapes and contributes to the field of Fashion Design for Sustainability.