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Artificial intelligence is coming for retail. But that doesn’t mean it’s coming for everyone’s jobs. In presentations during the FN Summit on Tuesday in New York City, executives from PACSUN and HILOS discussed how companies can implement AI into their businesses while keeping humans engaged in the process.

Two of the best talks on #AI and its impact on the #footwear business I’ve ever heard at the Footwear News summit today. Shirley Gao with PACSUN and Elias Stahl with HILOS brought practical and digestible information on the proliferation of AI. Great takeaways. The potential of AI building brands overnight using open source information. 🤯

Real and unfiltered conversations with execs from across the industry - another amazing and intimate summit with the Footwear News team Caroline Daddario Katie Abel Nikara Johns and Michael Atmore! Thanks for inviting HILOS 🙏 #footwear #3d #genai #printing #makewhatmovesyou Photo credit to Kate Jones

 Heading to the Footwear News Summit in #nyc this week? Hear from our CEO Elias Stahl on leveraging AI for more intuitive footwear design and production. HILOS' new Studio OS uses machine vision and gen AI models trained on footwear design to turn ideas and concepts into wearable realities in minutes. We hope to see you at the show! 

We're #hiring for 3-4 senior 3D engineers with footwear experience to join our Wearables team led by industry veterans James Carnes, Omar Velazquez and Ty DeHaven in Portland, Oregon. This is an exciting opportunity to work with some of the biggest and most innovative footwear brands on cutting edge projects that will permanently change the industry. Please apply today or share this post with your network.

"During a critical period for the industry, FN brings together the innovative architects of footwear’s biggest success stories. The day-long summit, themed “The Hot List,” will take place June 25 at 583 Park in New York City, and will center around several important topics: the hot markets that are driving the industry forward; the retail innovations that are fueling a brick-and-mortar comeback; the AI revolution; and the critical conversation around diversity, equity and inclusion. " - Footwear News

Came across this very insightful, yet short & to the point talk of Elias Stahl who steers the ship at HILOS. He speaks about the direct advantages of integrating a 3D digital workflow/creation process in the design, development & production of Footwear & how they're doing it over HILOS. Some key takeaways: - The market is fast. It's creative. It's driven by trends. And we have a supply chain that is built for a mass market that's no longer there. It's slow. It's wasteful. And it depends on overproduction. - Digital Design Workflow + 3D Printing has it's limitations like every technology, but allows for speed and agility to take what's on your screen and bring it to the shelf. Faster. - Blend that with traditional methods of make like leathers and knits bringing in the variability of sandals, boots, sneakers, everything from luxury to technical, outdoor, and athletic. And you're able to make this faster turn. So 100 pairs into the market launched as quickly as 45 days. - 3D printed modular methods of make offer to blend traditional shoemaking with a far more sustainable and lower labor form of assembly. - Enabling lean manufacturing cells in every major city they're able to have high craft high-touch assembly for your favorite brands, produced locally. - Taking what is traditionally 65 components assembled in 350 steps, they 3D print five parts assembled in 12 steps. Not all of those parts are 3D printed but also integrated methods, it's the ability to make without tooling, without having to amortize, and with the speed of digital. Bringing in a new technology is imperative to your brand's growth. #3dprinting #digitalcreation #hybrid #footwear #footweardesign #footweardevelopment #india

👟 Skip Newberry sat down with Elias Stahl, the CEO and co-founder of HILOS, to talk about a new project he is working on alongside a coalition of industry leaders, legislators, local businesses and community stakeholders to revitalize Old Town and the city’s manufacturing sector. 🏙 Made in Old Town secured $2 million in funding from Oregon lawmakers for a 30,000-square-foot green manufacturing facility known as the Footwear and Apparel Manufacturing Innovation Hub. This facility will support entrepreneurs in launching new ventures and assist existing companies in developing and scaling innovative products and technologies, such as water-free dyeing, on-demand 3D printing, and other eco-friendly manufacturing methods. Thank you, Taylor Victoria Maurits and Wise Up PR, for all your continued support! Read the full Portland Business Journal article here: https://lnkd.in/gfdKtWwz

"More than 24 billion shoes are made every year. Yet 1 in 5 go straight to the landfill." On a recent episode of Bloomberg Markets, CEO Elias Stahl talks about how HILOS approaches sustainable fashion using 3D printing and generative design to elevate craft and reduce waste.