One Month To Go! Sustainability Breakfast Line-Up Announced
The popular Slide & OTS Winter Sustainability Breakfast is a key networking event at Slide & OTS Winter, taking place once again at the 2025 show in January. Exhibitors and retailers visiting the show, are warmly invited to attend. The breakfast, on Wednesday 8th January, will feature thought-provoking and inspiring presentations from experts in the field, and is just one of the many networking events taking place at the show.
Slide & OTS Winter is THE must-attend event for anyone involved in buying or selling into the snowsport and outdoor trades, running from Tuesday 7th to Thursday 9th January 2025 at Telford International Centre, and you can join the 100 snowsports and outdoor exhibitors who have already booked their stands for the show.
Networking Drinks Evening, in association with National Outdoor Expo 6pm to 8pm, Tuesday 7th January
All welcome; come along to meet and chat with industry colleagues with a complimentary drink.
Sustainability Breakfast Programme
- 7.30am – 7.55am – Breakfast and networking
- 7.55am – 8.00am – SIGB Welcome and introduction
- 8.00am – 8.20am – Jade Gerrard, Head of Sports Development, Snowsport England – Working together to build a sustainable future for Snowsport in England and beyond Snowsport England, the National Governing Body for Skiing and Snowboarding in England are working across the sector to unite conversation, plans and activity to help build a more sustainable future for the sport. Join us to hear our progress as we work to develop a strategy for sustainability.
- 8.20am – 8.35am – Zoë Phenix McCandless, United Repair Centre – Making Repairs Work: How to Build a Business That Thrives while Fixing Things In a world where repair is becoming a necessary service, how can your business adapt? United Repair Centre will use their experience and knowledge to share how brands, especially in the outdoor market, can make repairs a natural and profitable part of what you do. How does repair impact your bottom line? How can your brand can fit repairs into your budget and business model? URC will make a holistic case for how you can make repairability work for your brand, both financially and sustainably.
- 8.35am – 8.50am – Mark Edridge, Product Manager, bluesign technologies. How bluesign helps brands, and their supply-chain, meet the new EU Regulations. In the next 6 years, the EU plans to clean up apparel & textiles using legislation and taxes… For the past 25 years, bluesign has been achieving the same through collaboration & co-operation. Hear how bluesign is the forerunner of the EU’s Strategy for Circular & Sustainable Textiles and how you can be part of it.
8.50am – 9.00am – Q&A