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Leather Supply Chain Symposium 2025

Date:
11 March 2025
Time:
12:15 pm - 05:00 pm
Location:
Room N101B, Level 1

Event Pre-registration Fee: USD120/person 

Onsite Registration Fee: USD150 / person

(The final payment will include an additional 4% fee for credit card processing.)

*** Bookings are non-cancellable. There will be no refunds once payment has been made.

 

A half-day conference featuring hot topics impacting the leather supply chain from farm to finished product. The conference is co-hosted by International Leather Maker (ILM) and APLF Ltd and will be moderated by ILM.

Presentation topics include:

1

Trusted Data, Better Decisions: AI-Powered Grading for Global Tanneries

Dion Bettjeman

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Mindhive Global

2

Navigating the EUDR Landscape: Key Updates and Strategic Insights

Deborah Taylor

Managing Director of the Sustainable Leather Foundation

3

How Authentic Thai Leather is Elevating The Leather Supply Chain

Nuttawan Eravadeekul, also known as “Khun May”

on behalf of the ATL Authentic Thai Leather coalition and Evolved by Nature

4

Guidance for Downstream Leather Buyers: Implementing and Assessing Deforestation and Conversion Free Supply Chains in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado

Fernando Bellese

Senior Director, Beef and Leather Supply Chains |  Markets | World Wildlife Fund

Louise Nakagawa

Imaflora in Brazil

Imaflora in Brazil

5

Redefining Leather: Using Data to Challenge Perceptions and Drive Informed Conversations

Christina Trautmann

Director of Sustainability, Leather Working Group

Kim Sena

Sustainability Director, JBS Couros; Sustainability Chair, IULTCS; volunteer Leather Naturally

6

Unified Leather: The Path to Market Relevance

Katie Kutskill

Representative from Is It Leather?

7

Anti-ESG sentiment and its impact on the leather industry

Michael Costello

Group Director of ESG at Stahl

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Organisers

Lead Sponsors

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Coffee Break Sponsor

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Speaker(s)

Director of Sustainability, Leather Working Group
Founder & Managing Director, Sustainable Leather Foundation
UN/CEFACT Consultant, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Mindhive Global
Senior Director, Beef and Leather Supply Chains | Markets | World Wildlife Fund
Representative from Is It Leather?
Sustainability Director, JBS Couros; Sustainability Chair, IULTCS; volunteer Leather Naturally
Imaflora in Brazil
Group Director of ESG at Stahl
on behalf of the ATL Authentic Thai Leather coalition and Evolved by Nature

About APLF

We bring leather, material and fashion businesses together: an opportunity to meet and greet face to face. We bring them from all parts of the world so that they can find fresh partners, discover new customers or suppliers and keep ahead of industry developments.

We organise a number of trade exhibitions which focus on fashion and lifestyle: sectors that are constantly in flux, so visitors and exhibitors alike need to be constantly aware both of the changes around them and those forecast for coming seasons.

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