Zeeshan: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Our AI solutions significantly boost manufacturing quality and sustainability by automating visual inspections. This not only elevates accuracy and speed, thus reducing waste and conserving resources, but also helps in early defect detection, minimizing material usage, and environmental impact. By reallocating human resources from repetitive tasks to more value-added activities, we also improve productivity and job satisfaction. Thus, our technology fosters a more sustainable, efficient, and worker-friendly manufacturing environment.
Neerja: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Neerja PR is dedicated to amplifying South Asian voices and underrepresented talent. We recognize that within the realm of fashion, certain voices and perspectives are often overlooked or marginalized due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more. Our work aims to challenge these systemic inequalities by actively seeking out and amplifying the voices of underrepresented founders, designers, models, artisans, and creatives within the South Asian fashion and lifestyle community.
Malvika: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! We are upcycling materials to make shoes and targeting better/conscious consumption under the shoe segment. Our product is not 100% sustainable, but as an organization we believe that sustainability is truly achieved when we work on creating better processes (that reduce the carbon footprint from an existing process) and use materials that don’t take too much from the environment. Our paradigms are using waste and biodegradable materials wherever possible. Tires have one of the most durability when it comes to travel and transportation; we are changing the norms of its usage from a machine to a human being. 75% of tire waste ends up in landfill which is roughly 750,000 tires. A single tire can produce up to four pairs of shoes!
