World Footwear Congress focuses on the future
The main theme of the conference will be ‘The world from today, the vision for tomorrow’ and will cover a variety of issues including global production, the economic and political context, the development of secure technology (tracking, tracing and communicating objects), research (the customised shoe and the environmentally-friendly final product), and the question of world market access with a specific perspective from emerging markets (in respect of IP rights, their role in trade, security and climate changes).