Opening Hours
Networking Event
Date: 10 November 2026
6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: t.b.d.
Conference
Date: 11 November 2026
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: t.b.d.
Program
Welcome to CIRCULAR ROOMS! Get ready to gain unique experiences on 11 November 2026. Join us for a day filled with creativity, innovation, and inspiration. Explore different perspectives and connect with like-minded individuals and experts in a dynamic setting. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to expand your horizons and be part of a great community.
Speaker Details
Our speakers have been chosen to address topics that are textile and apparel industry oriented and groundbreaking relevant for the upcoming transition process. They are specially inspiring and expressing foresight that the content cannot be found in literature or other conferences.
Speaker
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Dr. Monika Hauck (Founder & CEO, Repair Rebels)
Moderator
Monika is an entrepreneur, social activist, and researcher in the field of open innovation. Driven by her passion for sustainable fashion and extensive experience in innovation management, she is the driving force behind Repair Rebels – Germany’s pioneering online platform for fashion repair and alteration service. She holds a Ph.D. from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, where she specialized in Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation in the fashion industry. In 2018, Monika founded the WHU Entrepreneurship Center, where she served as Managing Director. She supported startups and entrepreneurial innovation initiatives while actively contributing to the development of the startup ecosystem in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. In 2018, Monika became a City Ambassador for the UK-based social enterprise Fashion Revolution in Düsseldorf and a year later founded change-room.org, a think tank dedicated to fostering sustainable and inclusive innovation in the fashion industry. With her unique blend of expertise in innovation management, circular economy, and hands-on experience revitalising Germany’s local craft sector, Monika is active as a consultant, lecturer, and speaker.
Tanja Kliewe-Meyer, Head of Corporate Responsibility at BRAX | Leineweber GmbH & Co. KG
Speaker
Can We Still Talk About Sustainability? Navigating Fashion Communication in the Age of EmpCo
Tanja Kliewe-Meyer is a prominent voice in Germany’s sustainable fashion landscape, combining extensive entrepreneurial experience with hands-on responsibility for sustainability transformation across the brands of Leineweber GmbH & Co. KG, including BRAX, Eurex, Raphaela, PNTS and Fuchs Schmitt.
As Head of Corporate Responsibility & Product Safety, she leads the company’s corporate responsibility agenda, product safety and sustainable corporate strategy across its brand portfolio, while also driving internal education and external sustainability communication. She acts as a Corporate Influencer for Leineweber and was named among the Top 5 Corporate Influencers in both 2025 and 2026.
Before joining Leineweber, Tanja spent 14 years as an entrepreneur, building her own sustainable fashion label, Like a Bird, and working as a sustainability consultant. This gives her a rare perspective on sustainability transformation: from developing more responsible products and business models to translating increasingly complex requirements into the reality of one of Germany’s largest fashion companies.
At Circular Rooms, Tanja will focus on one of the industry’s most pressing questions: How can fashion companies communicate sustainability credibly in the new regulatory environment? With the EU’s Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (EmpCo) rules fundamentally changing what companies can say about environmental and sustainability performance, the challenge is no longer simply to communicate more about sustainability, but to communicate with greater precision, evidence and credibility.
Andreas R. Schneider (CEO, Global Textile Scheme)
Speaker
Andreas R. Schneider is Founder and CEO of a cross-sector industry initiative called Global Textile Scheme Initiative, that developed a new data exchange standard, which will be critical to manage increasing volumes of end2end product related data of all kind. GTS initiative: “Our mission is to drive efficient, resilient, sustainable and transparent end2end Value Chains in the Textile & Fashion industry by simplifying and automating the exchange of data between all stakeholders – from fiber to recycling.“ Andreas R. Schneider was/is: Member of key steering committees, e.g. at GS1 (Germany) and The Consumer Goods Forum; Contributor to industry standards: eBIZ, EPCIS, EPC Global (RFID); One of the experts in the latest Sustainability Roadmap of DIN; Co-Sector Lead for Textiles in the CIRPASS project of the EU; Industry expert at JRC textile expert workgroup, defining future ESPR performance criteria as basis for future data points in the Digital Product Passport and the upcoming Delegated Acts; Member of WG 1 (advisory work group) and WG 4 (interoperability work group) at JTC 24 at CEN/CENELEC; Managing the Expert Work Group 3 (textile experts) at CIRPASS 2 Cirpass2
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