Dunja Matanovic is a project leader at McKinsey’s Oslo office. Her core is within strategic topics in sustainable fashion with focus on circular fashion and textile recycling. Dunja’s knowledge work includes McKinsey’s yearly publication ‘State of Fashion’, developed in collaboration with Business of Fashion. She is part of McKinsey’s Apparel, Fashion & Luxury Sustainability group in Europe.

Stefania Saviolo, PhD, is a Professor of Management and Technology at Bocconi University, a board member at listed companies, a consultant. Her academic and professional interests are in the field of brand management, organisational purpose and sustainable growth with a focus on Fashion, Luxury, Design companies. She helps companies in their sustainable transformation.

Cathrine Dehli is co-founder and Head of Customer Success and Sustainability at the sustainability software company Celsia. Her career has involved sustainability work across public and private sectors, as Head of sustainability in IKEA Norway and Nordic Choice Hotels. Dehli has a master’s degree in industrial economics and technology management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is a member of OECD's National Contact Point on responsible business conduct.

Cecilia Nilsson Bottka is a Legal and Policy Officer in the field of textiles in the unit (G1) for tourism and textiles in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). She joined the European Commission in 2003, where she started working for the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) and worked in the fields of mergers, cartels and state aid. Between 2013 and 2014, she worked in OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, before joining DG GROW at the end of 2014. Prior to joining the European Commission,

Tom Savigar, founder of Avansere. Tom is an expert in foresight, strategy and transformation. For two decades up to 2020, he was forecasting and making the future happen with The Future Laboratory for the world’s biggest and best known brands. Now with his boutique Norwegian agency Avansere, Tom explores and advances the most effective next generation enterprises that 'only do good by design'. He is currently doing this with organisations like Logitech, Mastercard, Copenhagen Airport, Europris and AlphaTauri.

Thina Margrethe Saltvedt works as Chief Analyst in the department for Sustainable Finance, leads the Government's appointed expert group for climate-friendly investments and is a board member of the environmental organization ZERO. Before this, she worked for twelve years as chief analyst for macro/oil in Nordea Markets. Thina has also worked at Norges Bank in the area of ​​Financial Stability. Thina holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Economics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

Lene Hodge is an Investment Manager at Nysnø Climate Investments – a state-owned climate investment company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. Here, Lene has led efforts to integrate sustainability and ESG into the investment process for both companies and funds. She is a Board Member of portfolio companies Tise, the leading peer-to-peer second-hand app in the Nordics - and Metizoft, a leading software for compliance and sustainability in the maritime industries.

After 15+ years in brand & product development, serial entrepreneur Anette Miwa Dimmen launched AWAN (As We Are Now) as a disruptive 24/7 comfort-first fashion concept built on circular principles and tech-driven business model. On a mission to merge fashion with wellness, AWAN is closing the gap between the clothes that we buy and the clothes that we actually wear. AWAN is the only Norwegian fashion brand in the Antler VC portfolio and currently raising their pre-seed round.

Alexander T. Helle is CEO and Creative Director of Norwegian Rain and a board member of Norwegian Fashion Hub. He's got his academic background from a Master degree (in Rain) from NHH and Bocconi. As an all round "aesthetic functionalist" he's been working for 15 years together with T-Michael one mission - creating the world's best raincoats at the lowest possible footprint.

Jon is an engineer in sustainable systems and founder and CEO of Sustie, a VC backed fashion climate tech startup. Sustie helps fashion ecommerce stores offer carbon removal on purchase, enabling the brands to make real time direct donations corresponding to the footprint of the item. In doing so Sustie helps improve conversion so sales for its customers.

Pål Erik har lang erfaring innen salg og gründervirksomhet og har de siste 20 årene drevet med tekstil til helsenæringen, bl.a. gjennom Health Workers AS. Han har de siste årene jobbet aktivt med hvordan man kan oppnå mer sirkulære tekstiler i helsenæringen. Gjennom dette arbeidet ble HWReuse! etablert, som senere har blitt til Norsk Tekstilgjenvinning AS.

Jo Egil Tobiassen is originally a political scientist, journalist, and activist with Latin America and China as his playgrounds. During a skiing trip in his home country, he fell in love with both the mountains and some innovative ideas about wool and zippers. That was the beginning of Northern Playground, which was initially known for the Zipwear category but has since shifted its goal to encourage people to buy fewer clothes.

Martin Evensen is the visionary CEO, Founder, and Designer behind New Movements, a pioneering brand that has set new standards for circular design in the footwear industry. He is a member of the NF&TA steering group and holds a comprehensive education within anatomy, physiology, design, product development, and fashion merchandising from the Academy of Art University (AAU), San Francisco.

Kristin Vaag works as Country Manager for Vibrent (formerly known as FJONG) in Norway, which is a clothing rental company aiming to revolutionize fashion by giving people access to a sustainable, endless wardrobe. Vibrent is a digital platform that offers subscription-based clothing and accessories rentals

in Norway and Denmark, enabling brands and retailers to convert overstock into revenue through rental. Kristin is passionate about sustainable fashion and lifestyle, and she is also a member and co-owner of the green influencer agency, Team Tomorrow, and (fun fact!) author of a best-selling sewing book.