Help Me Get Dressed! 1 Billion Reasons for Adaptive Fashion!

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: The fashion industry is starting to care about people with disabilities…designing apparel, shoes and other products for consumers with non-standard body types, boosting an overlooked population's confidence – and their own bottom lines” cbsnews.com). When you got dressed today, other than deciding what to wear, was it EASY? Not if you have a disability that makes it challenging to use buttons, snaps, zippers, hooks, or pull on shirts and pants. Where to find “stylish adaptive clothing” with easy-on-off features? Many mainstream clothing retailers mostly ignore Americans with disabilities, despite their total disposable income of $490B. Can technologies like AI algorithms, robotics, and 3D printing help manufacturers adapt production processes to this market? We'll ask Mindy Scheier, Runway of Dreams Foundation; Billy Price, Billy Footwear; Matt Laukaitis and Maria Morais, SAP. Join us for Help Me Get Dressed! 1 Billion Reasons for Adaptive Fashion!

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, meet today's future, which is about to happen?
0:09.9	And tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away.
0:14.8	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:19.9	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:25.9	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:29.3	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:33.2	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:34.9	Oh, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:37.1	This is the second episode of our brand new series,
0:40.0	and we are so excited to come to you today. This is a hot topic. You may not be aware of what
0:44.7	we're going to talk about. We're going to educate you, inspire you, motivate you. You might be
0:48.8	able to take action, or you might just be able to say, aha, I didn't know that. So let me start out with a buzz quote, as I always do.
0:56.8	This is a quote from an article on CBSNews.com.
0:59.7	Let me read it, and then I'll tell you a little more, and then I'm going to have my four
1:03.1	special guests introduce themselves, so you get to hear their voices right at the top of
1:07.8	the show.
1:08.4	So here's the quote.
1:09.1	The fashion industry is starting to care about people with disabilities, designing
1:14.3	apparel, shoes, and other products for consumers with non-standard body types, boosting
1:21.1	an overlooked population's confidence and the industry's own bottom line.
1:26.1	That is such a loaded statement.
1:28.0	It's so packed.
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