09 Sustainable Innovation Talk: 'How to use AI/ML in Zero Waste Fashion?' by Ashwini Deshpande

Nirvana CPH was delighted to present its ‘Sustainable Stories’ Exhibition at the London Design Festival in collaboration with SharpEnd from 18th September 2019 – 18th October 2019. The exhibition was hosted at the G . F Smith Show Space; alongside their collection of innovative and technically advanced papers.

This interactive exhibition presented 5 ‘Sustainable Stories’ for the modern brand & consumer, which demystified the issues surrounding sustainability and how it impacts our every-day lives as well as presenting future production solutions in sustainable packaging.

The featured stories focus on the packaging materials where the need for sustainability initiatives is most relevant: glass, paper, metal, textile and plastic. Each story included the key ingredients to the success of a brand or a product; consumer education, production transparency, innovation and closed loop material scenarios for minimal use of resources. Examples of where technology could help with both minimising the environmental impact as well as communicate the sustainable story were also showcased.

Nirvana CPH also hosted a talks program throughout the exhibition, with leading industry voices, which included:

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS TALKS
- Katie Kubrak, Materials & Insight at Nirvana CPH
- Sian Sutherland, Co-founder at A Plastic Planet
- Gary Tee, Director at TIPA
- Julian Ellerby, Strategy Director at FranklinTill

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION TALKS
- Nick Gumery, an Ethical Buyer at Lush
- Carl Partt, Founder of FuturePlanet
- Richard Kirkman, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Veolia UK & Ireland

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION TALKS
- Cameron Worth, Founder and CEO of SharpEnd – The Agency of ThingsTM
- Natasha Franck, Founder and CEO of Eon
- Ashwini Deshpande, Founder of Art-Z

This video is part of Sustainable Innovation talk series. This talk discusses how use of AI/ML can benefit zero-waste fashion.

Ashwini Deshpande is a London College of Fashion graduate. She has a keen interest in sustainability, technology, and innovation. Her project, Art-Z, supported by LCF’s Fashion Innovation Agency, aims to utilize artificial intelligence to reduce fabric wastage in the fashion industry. After winning ‘Accelerating the Future of Fashion’, she was selected to go the US to develop the idea with experts at Microsoft. She is now working to turn Art-Z into a business.