Ashley Crowder, Co-Founder and CEO of VNTANA will be presenting at the 6th International Footwear Innovation Summit (Dongguan)

New materials are constantly developing, new technologies are rapidly evolving, digitization is quickly innovating, new brands are increasingly disrupting, and sustainability is continuously growing.

On November 3rd and 4th, 2022, FMNII will host the 6th International Footwear Innovation Summit at Hotel InterContinental Dongguan. The two-day event will feature 40+ speakers, 50+ exhibitors, and 1,000+ attendees from the footwear industry. The event will also carry out in-depth discussions around four themes: innovation (involving new materials, new compounds, new machinery, and new manufacturing processes), sustainability, digitization, and New Retail exploring the latest breakthroughs, developments, and opportunities in the current footwear industry environment.

In the future footwear supply chain and retail market, the next generation of leaders is coming into being! Ashley Crowder , Co-Founder and CEO of VNTANA has confirmed her participation!

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Ashley Crowder, an expert in spatial computing and digital worlds is the Co-Founder and CEO of VNTANA, a first-of-its-kind 3D Infrastructure Platform, trusted by leading apparel companies like VF Corp, Hugo Boss, and Diesel, that makes 3D accessible across all platforms.

She has 14 patents on mixed reality technology and is a part of the Khronos Group to create standards in 3D technology. She oversees VNTANA’s partnership with META, to enable brands to create 3D ads on their platform. Ashley regularly shares her insight on the future of immersive technology at prestigious events including SXSW, AWE, TEDx, the World Economic Forum, TechCrunch AR/VR Sessions, LA Games Conference, Retail Innovation Conference, eCommerce Festival, Digital Summit, Montgomery Summit, and more. She graduated from USC with a bachelors and masters in engineering. She leverages her engineering background to guide VNTANA’s overall direction and technology development to shape the future of e-commerce by making it easy to create a 3D version of every product in the world.

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VNTANA is a first-of-its-kind 3D Infrastructure Platform, trusted by leading companies like VF Corp, Hugo Boss, and Diesel, that makes 3D accessible across all platforms. We help brands, Original Design Manufacturers, retailers, and technology platforms deploy 3D at scale across design, development, sales, and marketing. VNTANA’s fully-automated, patented 3D optimization reduces 3D file size by up to 99%, instantly converting existing 3D design files into the file types and sizes needed for any end use case and delivering those optimized files through the industry’s fastest-loading, highest-quality 3D web viewer.

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Built with a headless architecture and designed for infinite scale, VNTANA technology can be embedded into any platform to quickly upgrade existing tools (including PLM, DAMs, and marketplaces) with 3D capabilities at a fraction of the cost and time. VNTANA’s technology is bolstered by a team of technical 3D experts with the highest level of 3D and AR expertise in the industry. Learn more at vntana.com.

Join us in Dongguan, on November 3rd and 4th for the 6th International Footwear Innovation Summit. Ashley Crowder will give a presentation titled " How to Build a Scalable 3D Workflow to Improve Sales and Reduce Waste?" Please stay tuned!

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• About FMNII & FIS

Organizer FMNII is a footwear industry innovation platform dedicated to holding a worldwide Footwear Innovation Summit to encourage the growth of digital transformation, innovation (material, machine, and process), sustainable sourcing, and new retail in the footwear sector. The International Footwear Innovation Summit has held its annual event in New York, Los Angeles, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, and Dongguan, China. In the past five FIS summits, we have established partnerships with hundreds of brands and supply chain partners. The summit aims to provide a professional platform for digital start-ups, material innovators, consultants, as well as top brand decision-makers, designers, manufacturers, suppliers, senior experts, and industry leaders to explore collaborative opportunities, learn about industry information, build partnerships, share knowledge, and engage in in-depth exchanges.

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• Contact FIS:

Iris

FIS Event Organizer (Dongguan, China)

[email protected]