RTG Meetup #4: Fashion tech

Participation is FOR FREE. To participate press "Going" in this event. Agenda: 15:40 - Doors open 16:10 - Intro by Riga TechGirls 16:15 - Getting techy with it - How technology is changing fashion, by Kristina Dimitrova 17:00 - Fashion meets tech by Baiba Ladiga 17:30 - RTG Christmas party! Snacks will be provided by our supporter Tele2 SSC. Ps. Feel free to bring along your best pie (it's not obligatory, you can come without it too of course!) and wear your fashionable Christmas jumper/dress. It is afterall - TECH meets Fashion event! :) Ladies & gents, Riga TechGirls wants to invite you for our last meetup of 2016! We will have one special guest from London - Kristina Dimitrova! First speaker, Kristina is the founder of INTERLACED, a media and events platform highlighting everything exciting in fashion and technology. In 2015 http://interlaced.co/ hosted their initial conference and one of the first fashiontech catwalk shows in Europe. Kristina often speaks at and curates industry events such as FashionTech Days Roubaix, The 3D Printed Show, Digital Shoreditch, Digital Fashion Forum and BDYHAXCON, among others. With marketing, advertising and PR background, she also writes about the intersection of emerging technologies, media and consumer culture. Fashion has been intertwined with technology since the invention of the Jacquard punched card loom but over the past couple of years the interest in fashion tech has grown significantly. This emerging field is transforming each part of the industry, from production processes and the creation of new materials, through to the democratisation of the fashion show as we know it. In this session, Kristina will explore some of the most significant moves from the field of fashion tech and touch upon emerging technologies such as 3D printing, the evolution of wearable tech, virtual reality and what this means for the industry going forward. Second speaker, Baiba Ladiga – Kobayashi (brand Baiba Ladiga) is a conceptual designer based in Riga, Latvia. She studied at Art Academy Of Latvia and graduated in 2004. For the past five years she worked as fashion design lecturer in Shanghai Raffles Design Institute as well did freelance design, styling and illustration projects. After taking part at various fashion shows and events as conceptual artist, she established her ready to wear line and presented her first ready to wear Womenswear collection at Riga Fashion Week A/W 2014 edition. After she was selected to take part at Poland Fashion Week SS2015 edition, Maastricht Fashionclash festival2014, Paris SS15 BENEXT Showroom as well London Brillante Fashion event 2015 to name few. Shanghai and Hong Kong. At the moment her collections are sold in EU, Japan and China.