Digital Fashion Week NYC 2026 | AI, Fashion Technology & Future Retail
Join 500+ fashion executives, designers, AI founders, luxury brands, and investors exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming design, manufacturing, retail, and digital commerce
Who should attend
Fashion brands
Retail executives
Designers
Technology founders
Investors
3D artists
AI builders
Students exploring fashion technology
September 10, 2026 | 10:00 AM–9:00 PM
Fashion Summit • New York Fashion Week • Digital Fashion Week 2026
Digital Fashion Week brings together fashion leaders, technology innovators, investors, and creators to explore how AI, immersive experiences, and emerging technologies are transforming every stage of the fashion value chain—from design and product development to retail, marketing, and commerce.
Speakers and industry leaders from JOOR, Gap, Deloitte, SNAP, CLO, WSGN, Perfect Corp, Archive, Mayer Brown, Randolph Goods, and more.
Topics include:
Fashion AI • Retail Innovation • Luxury • 3D Design • Sustainability • Digital Fashion • Web3 Fashion • Future Commerce
Experience the Immersive Retail Gallery featuring next-generation shopping experiences, AI-powered personalization, spatial commerce, and interactive brand activations.
Seven curated sessions explore the technologies and business models reshaping fashion—from agentic AI systems and digital twins to predictive analytics, blockchain-enabled supply chains, and emerging opportunities in gaming and virtual commerce.
11am— Future Signals Understanding what's next in fashion, culture, and technology.
- Zasckia Villatoro, Sr. Trade Marketing Manager / Luxury Fashion, Kering Group
- Barry McGeough, Senior Vice President of Innovation & Strategy, Next Now
- Cassandra Napoli, Head of Consumer Forecasting, WGSN
- Amanda Bacal, SVP Global Head of Marketing & Communications, Joor
12p — The brand Toolkit AI, digital workflows, PLMs and next-gen tools.
- Nova Lorraine, Founder, House of Nova
- Isabella Barbetta, Business Development Manager, CLO
- Jennifer Connors, Strategic CX and Operations Executive, Ex Estee Lauder
- Muni Xu, Founder, CEO, MAIstyle
- Björn Bengtsson, Chief Product Officer, UNTUCKit
1p — Retail Reimagined How customer expectations & values influence the future stores, experiences, ecommerce and omni-channel engagement.
Kimberly Morgan, Retail Women in Tech
Lauren Howley, Perfect Corp
Carlos Fernando Belmonte, SanderLak
Taylar Gomez, Syft
Alex Vinash, Celebrity designer/founder, Alex Vinash Atelier & Mono Monkey
2p — The New Fashion Infrastructure The emerging technologies that are moving fashion from reactive processes to smarter decisions, products, and customer experiences.
- Astrid Pilla, Founder, The Perfect Add
- Sucheta Klein, Co-founder, Aquerius
- Jac Hsieh, Founder, CEO, NunoX
- Feli Oikonomopoulou, Founder & CEO, WealthMeUp.ai
3p — Capital & Innovation Investment trends, startups, and building the future of fashion.
- Haseeb Fonte, COO Fashion in Gaming Awards, Managing Director, Reality Hack at MIT Founders Lab
- Andrea Abrams, CEO, Phygicode
- Stephanie Hurst, Partner – VC/Tech, Mayer Brown
- Roxann Stafford, Managing & Creative Director, Blueprint FTC
4p — The New Fashion Workforce How entrepreneurship, AI, and new ways of working are reshaping the teams and talent needed to build the future of fashion.
- Marie Driscoll, President, Retail Marketing Society, Assistant Professor, Parsons, The New School
- Meg Ball, Senior Director, Creative Technology and AI Enablement, Centric Brands
- Emem Adjah, Author, The Tech Interview, Hacked. Ex Google Hiring Committee
5p — Fashion Beyond The Customer Circularity, blockchain, sustainability and the future
- Jill Stein, Luxury Fashion Advisor | Vogue College Instructor
- Timothy Armitage, Randolph Goods
- Lauren Sagadore, Archive
- Stephanie Benedetto, Aloqia
- Nancy Rhodes, Founder & CEO, Alternew
Startup Innovation Gallery for early-stage startups: Fashion, Gaming, XR, AR, Styling, creating, manufacturing, digital textiles, and more showcase the latest technology that is driving the fashion industry forward.
Join here: for real-time updates on NYC fashion, fashion tech, creator events, mixers, panels, and pop-ups
Fashion AI
Luxury
Retail Innovation
Fashion Technology
Web3 Fashion
3D Design
Sustainability
Digital Fashion
Digital Fashion Week has welcomed thousands of attendees across New York, London, Paris, and Taipei, bringing together leading fashion brands, emerging designers, technology companies, and investors exploring the future of fashion.
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