The New Economy: How Consumer Behavior is Changing the World of Fashion

Speakers:

Marissa Hill, Executive Producer and Co-Founder, ShadeTV
Sonali Karmarkar, Content and Community Lead, YouTube
Hili Banjo, Managing Director, Accenture

The industry is moving toward a collision point.

Artificial intelligence, data ecosystems, and digital platforms are not evolving
independently — they are converging. As they do, the distance between idea,
experience, physical product is shrinking rapidly.

Design cycles are accelerating. Commerce is becoming real-time. Consumers
expect immediacy, personalization, and seamless movement between digital and
physical worlds.

What once took seasons now happens in weeks — sometimes days.

The result: legacy operating models built on long forecasts, static systems, and
delayed feedback loops can no longer keep pace.

The pressure is not just technological. It is structural.

Rather than treating AI, data, and digital platforms as separate tools, this session
reveals how they function together as a new operating foundation — collapsing time
between concept, engagement, and production. As experiences become more
dynamic and commerce becomes more immediate, organizations must move from
static planning to agile systems that support continuous adaptation.

This conversation sets the stage for how brands, creators, and production partners
operate in a high-velocity environment — where experimentation replaces
prediction, and responsiveness replaces rigidity.

Agility here is not a feature, it is the new architecture.