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EU Textiles DPP Conference 2026

PALACIO DE CONGRESOS DE VALÈNCIA

Driving Readiness, Technology & Opportunity

29th September 2026
08h30 - 18h30

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ALL PRESENTATIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH

 

08.15 | Doors Open | Main Foyer

 

08:30 – 09:15 | Registration & Networking Breakfast | Main Foyer | Arrival, Coffee, Exhibitor Stands open

 

09:15 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks | Auditorium 2 | Host: Ken Davies, | “Digital Product Passports; A Global Commercial Revolution: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage”

 

09:30 - 09:50 | Keynote 1 |  Auditorium 2  | "The Digital Product Passport for Textiles - Heralding a new dawn of Traceability and Circularity" | Michael Shea, Founder, The Aeolian

 

​09:50 - 10.10 | Solution Focus 1 | Spherity | “Beyond the Pilot: Scaling DPPs to Unlock Authentication, Circularity, and Customer Value in Textiles” | Giuseppe Benenati, Director of Sales, Spherity

 

10.10 - 10.30 | Keynote 2 | Auditorium 2 | "Achieving International Interoperability to deliver a beyond-compliance DPP system” | Natasha Franck,  CEO & Co-Founder, EON Group | CIRPASS 2

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10.30 - 10.50 | Solution Focus 2 | Auditorium 2 | Narravero | "Beyond Compliance: Building the Business Case for DPP in Fashion" | Dagmar Zoder, Chief Revenue Officer, Narravero,  Jens Herzog, Head of Business Development. Narravero​

 

10:50- 11:20 | Networking Coffee Break & Exhibition | Main Foyer

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11:20 – 11.40 | Keynote 3 | Auditorium 2 | “Preparing for DPP: A Roadmap for Textile Businesses” | Devendra Gupta, Head of Product , OEKO-TEX

 

​11.40 – 12.00 | Panel 1 | Auditorium 2 | "Implementing a Successful DPP Project: Strategy, Execution, Results" | Michael Shea, Sohag Salauddin, Natasha Franck

 

12.00 – 12.20 | Solution Focus 3 | Auditorium 2 | “Making Textile DPPs work: Practical Insights, Challenges and Wins from DigiProd Pass Pilots" | Sohag Salauddin, Managing Director, DigiProd Pass Ltd

 

12.20– 12.40 | Keynote 4 | Auditorium 2 | “How Standards facilitate the Interoperability needed for successful Digital Product Passport projects” | Eleanor Gayle, Global Retail Ecosystems, GS1

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13.00 – 14.00 | Networking Lunch & Exhibition | Main Foyer

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14.00– 14.10 | Solution Focus 4 | Auditorium 2 | “Practical lessons in Collecting, Aggregating, and Managing data. Identifying and Closing Gaps” | Marina Raicevic, Founder, Surge

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14.10 – 14.30 | Keynote 5 | Auditorium 2 | "“Recognising the Value of Waste through DPP implementation” | Denisa Gibovic, CEO, Blueroom Innovation

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14:30 – 14:50| Solution Focus 5 | Auditorium 2 |  "Case Studies: Early Movers. Piloting DPPs in the Textile Value Chain" | Pauline God, Policy and Industry Expert. TrusTrace

 

14.50 – 15.10 | Panel 2 | Auditorium 2 | ""Traceability, Transparency & Trust: Making Data Traceable, Reliable and Actionable" | Pauline God, Monisha Vasu, Marina Raicevic

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15.10 – 15.30 | Keynote 6 | Auditorium 2 | ""Preparing home textiles and footwear for ESPR and the Digital Product Passport: the STEPH project"| Catriona McAlister, STEPH Horizon 

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15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee, Networking & Exhibition | Main Foyer

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16.00– 16.20 | Panel 3 | Auditorium 2 | From Traceability to Circularity: Can the Textile DPP Deliver Better Recycling" Nicolas Prophte, Denisa Gibovic, Devendra Gupta, Jeanine Ballone

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16.20 – 16:40 | Solution Focus 7 | Auditorium 2 | "Compliance as a By-Product: How Brands Get DPP Ready by Fixing Product Data Once" | Tuomas Rinkineva, CEO, Ovido

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16.40 - 17.00 | Panel 4 | Auditorium 2 | "The Road Ahead: From Pilots to Mandatory Implementation and Beyond" Pablo Frieiro, Mat Rauzier, Tomasz Kruszewski

 

17.00 – 17.10 | Closing Address |  Auditorium 2 | Host: Ken Davies, | “Timelines, Action and Readiness | Turning Regulation into Innovation and Opportunity”

 

 

17.10 – 18.30 | International Drinks Reception | Networking & Exhibition | Main Foyer

 

18.30 | Conference Ends

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