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The future of fashion depends on bringing next-generation materials to scale. While innovation continues to accelerate, turning breakthrough solutions into industry-wide adoption requires collaboration across the entire value chain.
This Climate Week NYC, Eco-Age is convening the organisations, brands, & initiatives helping to shape that future. The Forum creates a platform where leaders can share knowledge, build partnerships, & explore practical pathways to adoption, connecting the people who each play a vital role in scaling next-generation materials.
While global brands play an important role in leading the transition, commercial scale will ultimately depend on adoption across the wider fashion market, emerging brands to suppliers, material innovators, manufacturers, investors, NGOs, & solution providers. The Forum is designed to move that conversation forward & focus on commercial adoption, supply chain readiness, investment, sourcing, & the partnerships that can accelerate progress across the industry.
Climate Week NYC is where global leaders come together to turn ambition into action. As one of the world's largest platforms for climate collaboration, it creates the ideal environment to build the relationships & shared understanding needed to move promising innovations beyond pilots & into practice. The Forum contributes to that momentum by connecting the people who can help shape the future of next-generation materials.
Forum Partners
Developed with & featuring voices from:
Eco-Age - a purpose-led media & communications agency accelerating the fashion industry's transition to sustainability.
Canopy - an award-winning environmental non-profit driving the shift to next-generation, forest-free fibres.
Fashion for Good - the global platform for sustainable fashion innovation, connecting brands & innovators to scale breakthrough solutions.
Material ConneXion - the world's leading materials insights company, connecting industries to the most innovative & sustainable materials available.
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) - New York's internationally renowned college for fashion, design, business & technology, fostering innovation, education & industry collaboration across the global fashion & textile sector.
The Programme
The Forum combines a keynote, structured workshops, & a networking reception. Through an invitation-based format & curated audience, participants will explore the opportunities & challenges shaping the next chapter of material innovation.
The programme, speakers, & venue are currently being developed with our partners & will be announced in the coming weeks.
Who Should Attend
The Forum is designed for senior leaders in sustainability, sourcing, supply chain, & procurement across the fashion, apparel, & textile industry. It is built for the people inside the industry who are responsible for what gets made, how it is sourced, & what it is made from.
Event Details
22 September 2026
3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York City
Pre-register now for priority access & programme updates.
Registration is open but subject to review. We reserve the right to cancel registrations from organisations outside this scope.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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