Mouhannad Al-Sayegh is the founder and CEO of Flair Fashion, a showcasing platform and ecosystem for fashion graduates and emerging designers; building digital tools for the next generation of designers at the forefront of innovation in design, sustainability and technology.

He also manages the Digital Learning Lab (DLL) at London College of Fashion, a frontier-focused digital space that explores the futures of digital for fashion, providing an experimental environment that bridges academic, industry and student-led agendas.

With more than 20 years of experience in fashion technology research and development, software development and architecture, Al-Sayegh has led projects across mass customisation, co-design, manufacturing systems, retail, wearable technology and immersive digital fashion.

He thrives on exploring new ways of fusing technology and fashion, where tech can act as a catalyst for innovation.

Holly McQuillan is Assistant Professor in Multimorphic Textile Systems at TU Delft, where her research explores the design and development of complex interconnected fibre-yarn-textile-form systems as a means for transforming how we design, manufacture, use, and recover textile-based forms.

Co-founder of the Centre of Design Research for Regenerative Material Ecologies (DREAM), Holly’s research explores the materials potential of textile systems to transform how textile products are designed and made, while also enabling enriched experiences that extend use-time.

Oriented through a holistic lens and building on her experience developing and disseminating the field of zero waste fashion design, Holly’s work advocates for a new understanding of the relationship between designer and system, material, and form to conceptualise and prototype alternative futures.

Rickard Lindqvist is a fashion designer, pattern-maker and researcher known for integrating traditional craft with emerging digital technologies.

He earned his PhD at the Swedish School of Textiles, where his influential thesis Kinetic Garment Construction introduced a movement-based approach to pattern cutting that challenges conventional tailoring systems.

His work spans industry collaborations, experimental design practice and academic research, focusing on material behaviour, digital garment creation and sustainable production models.

As co-founder of ventures such as Atacac and [a]industri, he has pioneered open-source patterns and local, on-demand manufacturing.

Lindqvist lectures at the Swedish School of Textiles and continues to explore new hybrid models that bridge the digital and physical dimensions of contemporary fashion.

Dr Hakan Karaosman is a world-renowned expert on, and advocate for, sustainability in fashion supply chains. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. Previously, he was an associate professor at Cardiff University. In 2025, he and Professor Donna Marshall from University College Dublin won the Financial Times’ Responsible Business Education Award for their ‘FReSCH’ action research project on just transition.

Recognised as a thought leader, Dr Karaosman was included in the Vogue Business 100 Innovators: Class of 2023 in recognition of his contributions to sustainability. In 2023, Greenpeace Italia honoured him as a Voice for the Climate.

Dr Karaosman’s research interests are at the intersection of just transition, decarbonisation and alternative futures in the context of fashion and luxury. 

Analia Segal is an Argentine-born, New York–based artist. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires, an MA in Arts from New York University, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

She teaches at Pratt Institute in New York. Her artistic and pedagogical practice moves across language, body and place, exploring the shifting codes that define migrant and female experience. In a digitally mediated world marked by accelerated change, she investigates how we communicate, relate and construct meaning, employing diverse materials and processes to activate memory, gesture and relational presence.

Cécile Feilchenfeldt is a textile designer specialising in experimental knitwear. She graduated in Textile Design from the Zurich University of the Arts and received the Brunschwig Prize for Applied Arts in 1999, marking the beginning of her international career. After more than a decade working in theatre costume design, she returned to fashion, collaborating with clients ranging from haute couture to the automotive industry. She later founded her own Paris-based atelier, KNITWEARSTUDIO.

Her work has been recognised with several major awards, including the Swiss Grand Prix of Design (2018), the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris – Talent Confirmed (2019), and the LVMH Artisan Award (2024).

Feilchenfeldt’s practice pushes the boundaries of traditional knitwear through an approach based on tension, weight and the use of unconventional materials. Working with hand-operated machines, she challenges established codes to create unexpected volumes, dynamic material movements and a strong sense of three-dimensionality.

Silvia Martínez is the Academic Lead for CLO in Madrid, where she supports universities and design schools in adopting CLO3D. She combines her creative and technical expertise to help educators translate their fashion know-how into the 3D environment and facilitate digital transformation in education. She is involved in research and education on new technologies that pave the way for new creative practices, methodologies, and forms of craftsmanship.

Rocío Lozano is a master craftswoman specialising in traditional Lagartera embroidery, a distinctive hand-embroidery tradition originating in the town of Lagartera (Toledo, Spain). She represents the third generation of a family of artisans dedicated to this heritage craft and currently runs a family-owned artisanal workshop. Her work remains faithful to the original techniques and materials of this tradition, employing hand embroidery on linen, cotton and acrylic fabrics using needle, thimble and thread.

She produces commissioned works including table linens, curtains, bedspreads and liturgical textiles, and has collaborated with institutions such as the Museo del Prado and the Galería de las Colecciones Reales in Madrid, as well as with fashion designers.

In 2016, she was awarded the title of Master Artisan by the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha, and received an Honourable Mention for her professional career at the 6th Castilla-La Mancha Master Crafts Competition.