Why attend
The fashion industry is under increasing pressure to deliver measurable progress on sustainability while navigating evolving regulation, changing consumer expectations and commercial realities.
The Drapers Conscious Fashion Summit brings together more than 300 senior leaders from across fashion retail, brands, suppliers, innovators and solution providers to tackle the industry's biggest challenges and opportunities.
Join the people shaping the future of fashion and leave with practical insights, valuable connections and fresh ideas to drive meaningful change within your business.
Connect with the industry's decision-makers
Build relationships with the people leading sustainability and transformation across fashion.
Meet and network with:
- C-suite executives and business leaders from leading fashion retailers and brands
- Sustainability, sourcing and supply chain specialists
- Innovators driving circularity, traceability and technology solutions
- Emerging brands, start-ups and disruptors challenging industry norms
- Industry experts, consultants and policymakers shaping the future landscape
Gain actionable insights
Hear directly from the businesses leading change across the fashion value chain.
Through keynote presentations, panel discussions and case studies, you'll gain practical insights into:
- Circular business models and product innovation
- Supply chain transparency and traceability
- Responsible sourcing and ethical production
- Regulatory developments and compliance
- Emerging technologies and data-driven sustainability strategies
Take part in collaborative problem-solving
Our interactive collaboration sessions are designed to move the conversation beyond theory.
Work alongside peers and experts to explore real-world challenges, share experiences and develop practical solutions that you can take back to your organisation.
Be inspired by the leaders driving change
Hear from influential voices across fashion, sustainability, innovation and business transformation.
Discover how organisations are adapting to a rapidly changing landscape, overcoming barriers and creating positive impact at scale.
You'll leave with fresh perspectives, new ideas and the confidence to accelerate progress within your own business.
Alongside panels, interviews and TED-style talks, our popular ‘collab’ sessions remain a prominent part of the Summit, giving guests the chance to gather in small groups and get into the nitty-gritty of regulation, compliance, supply chain transformation, and so much more.
Sustainability
Drapers is working 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 2025 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:
Getting to our events
Directions for public transport only are detailed on the event website.
The venue
Hilton London Bankside constantly looks at the available opportunities to become a more sustainable venue year on year. Some of these measures include moving away from traditional fuels and increasing their use of more sustainable fuel methods; keeping plastic waste to a minimum and where unavoidable ensuring 100% of it is recycled; and ensuring that on average 90% of their staff travel to the venue by public transport.
The menu
To tie in with its goals as a venue, its caterer, Create Food designs dishes to suit their clients’ needs, while sourcing only the highest-quality seasonal and sustainable ingredients from local suppliers. It is also introducing a fully electric fleet of vehicles to reduce its carbon footprint.
Our suppliers
Drapers chooses its suppliers with a bias towards those partners who take sustainability seriously.
Collateral, signage and exhibition stands
Our event guide programmes and tickets are electronic instead of paper. 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 when disposed of – none will go to landfill. All the ink is water based and much of our signage is moving to cardboard-based alternatives that are recyclable in generic paper waste collections.
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AV supplier
We have chosen our AV supplier based on its positive sustainability policy, which you can read here .
Couriers
We request electric vehicles from our preferred courier, Santis Global. For more information click here .
Transport
Employees are encouraged to take public transport to the 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.
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.