Textile Printing
Kornit Digital to inspire the textile printing and design community at digital innovation event in Düsseldorf
Friday 19. August 2016 - Spoonflowers Caroline Okun to hold Fiber Revolution keynote speech
Kornit Digital, (NASDAQ: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, has confirmed the agenda for its upcoming Digital Innovation Event, taking place at its brand new show room in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The objective of the event is to inspire eCommerce businesses, textile producers and designers, home textile manufacturers and everybody else who is interested in the topic about the opportunities enabled by digital textile printing.
Caroline Okun will deliver a keynote presentation titled ‘Fiber Revolution: The Pathway to Mass Customization’. Mrs Okun is the Director of Sprout Patterns, the latest initiative of Spoonflower. It is a new service that offers public indie sewing patterns that can be combined with Spoonflower designs to create customized cut and sew projects. Spoonflower is an online market place used by a community of over 3.5 million individuals who use their own designs to make curtains, quilts, clothes, bags, furniture, dolls, pillows, framed artwork, costumes, banners and much, much more. With over 350,000 designs, the Spoonflower marketplace is the largest collection of independent designers in the world. Spoonflower has recently opened a European production facility in Berlin and relies on Kornit Digitals technology as the backbone of the companys printed fabric production.
Also on the agenda are presentations and workshops with software and technology experts in digital textile production: Caldera, a specialist in printing and color management software for textile printing systems, Zünd, a leading manufacturer of digital cutting systems and Assyst, an expert in 3D visualization of fabric, cut piece and the human being.
Oliver Luedtke, Marketing Director at Kornit Digital Europe, is excited about the line-up of high-caliber presenters and partners from the industry: “Digital production technologies have arrived in the textile markets. We know from our customers that those technologies enable new and exciting business models, and we would like to demonstrate these opportunities to everybody who is either active or interested in the field of digitally produced textiles.”