Makers: Women in Business

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Fashion Tech Expo

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Fashion Tech Expo X San Francisco Fashion Week [tm] 2014 [Photos by JD Bates]

Fashion Tech Expo : Technology is an integral aspect of the fashion industry. We feature app developers, fashion/tech & wearable startups and retailers under one roof. Demo products and network with VC’s, creative collaborators, developers, designers, startups, entrepreneurs, fashion/tech professionals, style geeks, marketing gurus & fashion enthusiasts. JOIN HERE!

Fashion Business Series / Session 5 : Legal & Small Business

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Fashion Business Series presented by: San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance, Inc. [SFFAMA]. This essential workshop is for individuals, students and professionals looking to start or expand their business in the local San Francisco fashion industry and to learn from companies offering business services that are invaluable to success as a fashion entrepreneur. Perfect networking opportunity for fashion startups, fashion designers, students, retailers, entrepreneurs, boutique and business owners. Connect with other professionals in the San Francisco fashion industry. RSVP HERE! 

#SFFashionLab : One Summer Night Popup

Join SFFashionLab’s One Summer Night Popup  to network and socialize with San Francisco fashion industry SFFI } professionals, talents, startups, retailers and designers… Support the local “Made in San Francisco” brands by local emerging fashion designers… Demo new stylish tech products with Fashion+TechSF members. 

#SFFashionLab is SFFAMA’s fashion incubator project for talented emerging designers. Leveraging the heritage, creativity and entrepreneurial spark of the San Francisco Bay Area as a “living innovation laboratory,” participants will experience San Francisco’s unique fashion industry DNA, evolving fashion personality, and the impact of technology and innovation on future strategic directions, as a primer to explore and inform their own individual design process and direction. SF Fashion Lab’s program includes Advisory Board business and strategy mentorship, a design and online retail project, events, and a behind-the-scenes look at new business with innovative Bay Area brands, designers, developers, manufacturers, retailers, and startups.

#RetailTechSummit SF Design Week 2014

Pret-A-PorterSF {SF Design Week 2014} #PAPSF14 featuring SFFashionLab

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PRÊT-À-PORTER SF” is one of the many successful fashion events along, with Project San FranciscoThe Beauty ExpoFashion FeudFashion Tech Week and San Francisco Fashion Week ™, that SFFAMA has brought to fruition, which are all labors of love with strong community support. One ofSFFAMA’s main goals is to establish San Francisco as a global fashion destination and as a catalyst of fashion and technology convergence. SFFAMA strongly believes in social good “to utilize fashion-to apply-to make impact” in our ongoing philanthropic efforts and mentorship program with our initiatives and fashion incubator, SFFashionLab. Pret-A-PorterSF was nominated for Best Runway Event for the past four consecutive years at San Francisco Fashion Awards.

Eventbrite - Pret-A-PorterSF {SF Design Week 2014}

  • RSVP via EVENTBRITE
  • DOORS OPEN AT 7pm, RUNWAY STARTS AT 7:30PM
  • WINE AND SPIRITS WILL BE SERVED AFTER THE RUNWAY SHOW
  • MEDIA MUST APPLY TO COVER THIS EVENT
  • DRESS CODE ENFORCED/ DRESS TO IMPRESS

RETAIL TECH SUMMIT: “Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SAN FRANCISCO FASHION AND MERCHANTS ALLIANCE, INC. Presents 

RETAIL TECH SUMMIT: “Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience” Retail Founders and Executives Panel for SF Design Week 2014 

(June 11, 2014 - SAN FRANCISCO) San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance Inc. is pleased to announce Retail Tech Summit for SF Design Week 2014 on June 16th 6-9pm, where we’ll look at how San Francisco’s leading public policy initiatives on Sustainability, Transparency, Accessibility and The Share Economy can translate into compelling business models for retail with a Retail Founders and Executives Panel “Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience” to be held at General Assembly - The Hattery, 414 Brannan Street, on Monday, June 16th, 2014. Doors open at 6pm. Tickets can be purchased online for $10-$20 - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retail-tech-summit-core-values-design-innovation-consumer-experience-tickets-11392087039 and at the door subject to availability



“Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience” San Francisco has been named the Greenest City in North America and the Innovation Capital of the World. For San Francisco Design Week 2014, Retail Tech Summit will explore how San Francisco’s leading public policy initiatives of Sustainability, Transparency, Accessibility and The Share Economy can translate into core-value-driven design innovation, compelling business models and new relevancy in consumer experience for an emerging crop of highly successful Bay Area retail startups. 

In the modern retail landscape, where the promise of technology and retail is the ability to have anything-anytime-anywhere, brands and business must continue to differentiate. We’ll talk with a panel of startup founders and execs about core-value-driven design, retail innovation and the benefits for consumers, brands and businesses alike.

Retail Founders and Executives Panelists include: Rakesh Tondon, Co-founder and CEO, LE TOTE; Tristan Pollock, Co-founder and COO, Storefront; Christoph Frehsee, Co-founder and CEO, Amour Vert. Moderator: Robert Burns Nixon, CFO,SFFAMA / Executive Producer, San Francisco Fashion Week.

For Media Relations and Sponsorship Inquiries, please contact Owen Geronimo at info@fashiontechpr.com

Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Future of Retail - happening now in San Francisco. The Next Big Thing. Once the conversation turns to the entirety of retail experience, the optimization of omni-channel and contextual marketing, and the technological promise of “anything-anywhere,” you have to go BIG. We’re turning the entire City of San Francisco into a Retail Incubator.


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RENAISSANCE BY THE BAY – In San Francisco, we’re working on rebalancing the tech-heavy economy by leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation assets to redevelop other strategic cultural and economic sectors – as a 501c3 education and economic development nonprofit and the largest fashion industry organization in California, SFFAMA implements this economic strategy by combining technology, innovation and entrepreneurship with creative communities in fashion, wearables, retail, design, and the arts

Shopify for Designers Workshop - San Francisco

Shopify Expert Mat Mullen is hosting a workshop on June 1st for Designers, Developers and anyone new to the platform. The session is designed to introduce web designers and front-end developers to all aspects of building a theme, from the basics right through to more advanced techniques, to give you and your clients ultimate flexibility. 
 
Shopify is used by over 100,000 online stores and powers many of today’s leading online retailers. With knowledgeable Shopify theme builders in high demand, it’s a great opportunity to expand your skill set. Details and signup