As the Global Vice President of Product Innovation and Customer Creation at Nike, Jalaj Hora sat at the cutting edge of digital technologies in fashion design and manufacturing. From that perspective, he worked on and witnessed many positive moves towards sustainable practices, but also identified areas where things weren't joining up.

In this episode, we find out how he's looking to fix some of those issues to help brands design in ways that move the needle when it comes to sustainability. We discuss fashion manufacturing challenges, how brands typically calculate their carbon footprint, AI as a design tool and much, much more.

This is our sixth episode of series one, and after this, we'll be taking a little break so that our student team can focus on their assignments. Miriam, Laura and the crew will return to the airwaves before they graduate, with one (or maybe two) last episode(s).

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