A Pitti Immagine event dedicated to the relationship between fashion and the digital world, E-P Summit aims to facilitate a dialogue between supply and demand of digital innovations. The next edition of the event will be held on May 4-5, 2022 in Florence, under the theme "Shaping the digital future of Fashion". As per a Spin Off report, the event will be led by a new scientific director Rinaldo Rinaldi, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence, who has been working for many years on the relationship between the major fashion and luxury brands and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for the digital transition of the entire supply chain. He, alongwith a comprising university professors, experts and high-level executives of fashion and luxury companies will select the themes and contents of the next editions of the eve

The theme is the digital development of creative and production processes underlying the new collections, with particular attention to artisan manufacturing; the new supply chains; the digital transition in support of ecology and the circular economy; integration between traditional distribution and e-commerce channels; strategies for social media; consumer customer engagement and analysis models; the Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; use and protection of Big Data and the Cloud; the Blockchain; the Metaverse and the creation, exchange and fruition of NFTs, etc.