Audience:
Open industry. All apparel and footwear industry professionals, regardless of AAFA membership, are encouraged to participate.
Description:
Join Bureau Veritas as they discuss the necessary enablers and challenges as we head towards a circular economy in the textile space. From design, manufacturing, marketing, and retail every step in the process has an important part to play.
We will discuss the concepts and some examples of how these are being applied today in our industry.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- To identify the elements at each step in the product lifecycle necessary to enable circularity.
- About real examples of these elements being put into action.
- To recognize available resources to assist in your circular journey.
Speaker:
Chuck Rogers
Americas Director, Technical Consulting & Supply Chain Solutions
Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, Inc.
Chuck Rogers is the Americas Director - Technical Consulting and Supply Chain Solutions for Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services. Chuck has over 15 years’ experience in supply chain and quality management both at the brand and retail level. His retail experience includes both compliance and quality assurance roles with Dollar General and Wal-Mart. On the brand side, he was involved with manufacturing quality assurance as well as product reliability and safety assurance with Sunbeam Household products. He has been heavily involved in sourcing a variety of products from factories around the world. Since joining Bureau Veritas in 2012, he has been heavily involved in developing supply chain quality and compliance solutions based on a data-driven model and with services including factory audits, product inspections, and product testing.
AAFA Host:
Audrey Clark
Trade and Transportation Specialist
AAFA
Audrey Clark is responsible for supporting the association’s trade policy efforts and leading the Transportation Team as the committee liaison. Prior to joining AAFA in November 2023, Audrey worked as Export Program Coordinator at the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. (DISCUS) where she managed eight international export promotion campaigns and supported four DISCUS committees. She previously worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) where she was awarded the Pearce Prize Achievement Award and served as Program Coordinator for Streaming & Broadcasting. She has earned both her bachelor’s and master's degrees in International Affairs from Georgia Tech.
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