Why Attend
The launch of Drapers Fashion Tech Summit reflects how the fashion industry itself has changed.
Technology is no longer a separate conversation. AI, digital transformation, social commerce, data and customer experience are increasingly interconnected – influencing everything from how fashion businesses understand their customers to how they create, market, sell and grow.
By bringing together Drapers Future of Fashion and Drapers Social Summit , we are creating a bigger, more connected forum for the people shaping fashion’s technological future.
Attendees will discover how leading fashion businesses are harnessing technology to solve business challenges, unlock new opportunities and create competitive advantage – while connecting with peers, pioneers and technology partners from across the industry.
Drapers Fashion Tech Summit is where fashion comes together to understand what is next, what matters and how to make it happen.
Who Attends
Drapers Fashion Tech Summit brings together the senior leaders shaping the future of fashion through technology, digital transformation and innovation.
The summit is designed for C-suite executives, founders, directors and heads of function from fashion retailers and brands, alongside the digital specialists and innovators driving transformation across their businesses.
Attendees span the functions at the forefront of change, including:
- Technology, digital and transformation: CTOs, CIOs and leaders across technology, digital transformation, ecommerce, product and innovation
- Data and customer experience: leaders responsible for data, insights, customer experience, CRM and
- Ecommerce and growth: ecommerce, growth and performance leaders focused on accelerating digital revenue and creating new opportunities
- Marketing and social: CMOs, marketing directors, social media leaders, digital strategists and specialists shaping how fashion brands reach and engage their audiences
- Product and merchandising: senior product and merchandising leaders using technology and insight to respond to changing customer demand
- Business leadership: CEOs, CFOs, founders and senior decision makers responsible for investment, strategy and business transformation
Sustainability
Drapers is working with a carbon consultancy to measure the carbon footprint of this event, taking recommendations on how to improve our performance and impact on the environment. The results of our 2026 Drapers Future of Fashion and Social Summit event can be found here. We will publish this year's results of this report after the event.
Our company commitment to sustainability at events can be found below:
Our event attendees
SWAG Is it valuable to the attendee? We ask to keep this to a minimum with the aim of using sustainable, recyclable or compostable materials.
No single-use bottles We provide water stations and encourage attendees to bring their own reusable drinking bottles.
Getting to our events
Directions for public transport only are detailed on the event website.
Our event venue
The event will be held at etc.venues, County Hall, London. Click here to read its sustainability policy.
Our event suppliers
Drapers chooses its suppliers with a bias towards those partners who take sustainability seriously.
Event collateral, signage and exhibition stands Our event guide programmes and tickets are electronic instead of printed. The signage we use is from Insite Graphics, which holds ISO14001 certification. Event signage is all either recyclable, reusable or used to provide community power at end of life – none will go to landfill. All the ink is water based and much of our signage is moving to cardboard-based alternatives, recyclable in generic paper waste collections. For more information click here .
AV Supplier We have chosen our AV supplier based on its positive sustainability policy, which you can read here .
Couriers We request electric vehicles for our preferred courier, Santis Global. For more information click here .
Transport Employees are encouraged to take public transport to event or to travel using our Uber Green company account. For more information click here .
Trophy supplier Gaudio, our trophy supplier, plants a tree for every order made.
Lanyards
Where possible, we source lanyards that are made from sustainable materials such as bamboo, and we aim for these to be returned, disinfected and reused.
We need to work harder
This section of the website is not just dedicated to shouting about how great we are for doing what we should have been doing all along. We need to do better. We would love to hear from you on how you think we could improve. Please email any suggestions to Drapers.Tech@emap.com or take a few moments to complete the post-event survey that will be emailed to you after the conference.