Speakers’ Corner is our new short-form interview series offering a preview of the voices you’ll hear at upcoming PI events, directly from the people shaping fashion and footwear today.

Across these six conversations, what stands out isn’t the technology itself, but what sits behind it; the systems, skills, and belief required to make it stick. From craft and modular construction to AI-enabled DPC, next-generation materials, sizing reinvention, and belief-driven transformation, the real tension isn’t what’s new, but whether infrastructure, education, and human judgment are evolving at the same pace.

Less hype. More responsibility.
Less spectacle. More substance.

Caroline de Baere on Craft, Capability & the Next Generation
How craft and digital tools can meaningfully coexist, and why investing in education & people will determine long-term success.
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Mihai Ursu on Scaling DPC Beyond Pilots
Why alignment across teams still slows progress and how digital transformation succeeds when it’s treated as a belief-driven shift
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Scott Labbe on Craft, Tech & Intention
How footwear design is evolving from modular construction to digital infrastructure
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Ronald Dod on Reinventing Footwear Sizing
How 3D scanning and manufacturing could eliminate traditional shoe sizes and why automation and data must ultimately serve consumer value
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Torben Böhm on AI as a DPC Partner
How AI is reshaping digital product creation, from automation to challenging the misconceptions surrounding 3D
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Miranda Morrison on Materials That Matter
The promise of next-generation bio-polymers to the hard conversations the industry must have about cost, responsibility, and long-term impact.
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More Speakers’ Corner interviews will be released in the lead-up to upcoming PI events, offering a continuing snapshot of how fashion and footwear leaders are thinking, building, and adapting.