24 Hours of Innovation: Fashion Tech steals the show

The Izarbel Technology Park hosted the 12^th edition of the 24 Hours of Innovation organized by ESTIA. Associated with the Fashion Tech Week in Paris, the 2018 24 Hours of Innovation were dedicated to fashion and textile industry.

With the development of digital technology, the fashion industry now has tools that make it possible to imagine and design the clothing of the future. Smart, connected, sustainable or recyclable, textiles of the future are among the 34 battle plans launched in 2013 in the framework of the government’s “New Industrial France” programme. The term Fashion Tech refers to this movement that unites the traditional fashion industry and that of new technologies.

Fashion Tech Week has been organized in Paris since 2014, offering round table discussions, conferences and meetings on emerging practices, recent initiatives and innovative designs in the fashion and textile industry. ESTIA and its Chair BALI (for “Biarritz Active Lifestyle Industry”) Chair chose to associate the 2018 edition of the 24 Hours of Innovation with the Fashion Tech Week to create an event entirely dedicated to the fashion and textile industry.

26 teams

The principle behind the 24 Hours of Innovation was maintained. Teams had only 24 hours to come up with innovative solutions to challenges presented by companies, organizations or independent parties. The event’s connection with the Fashion Tech Week was evident through several topics on circular economy, traceability, transparency, recycling and slow fashion. There were also conferences on fashion of the future and tours of companies such as Voltaire group.

26 teams and roughly one hundred professionals participated in this year’s edition of the 24 Hours of Innovation, held at the Izarbel site in Bidart on 19 and 20 October. Major groups, SMEs and start-ups participated in this edition. The “Coton Fiber” team won the competition for its proposal for Act3, a company specialized in creating woven fabrics for haute couture. The “Coton Fiber” team imagined an innovative computer system to replace the punch card system used to control machines in the 70s, which are still used today at this company located in the Béarn area.

Find out more: https://24h.estia.fr/fr