Fashion scientist Dr. Amanda Parkes is a fashion scientist with over 15 years of experience in fashion innovation, sustainability, bio fabrication, wearable technology, interaction design and smart materials spanning research, development, and product commercialization for start ups and major tech and fashion companies. She is the Chief Innovation Officer of Pangaia, a material science company and fashion brand building a sustainable future in fashion and lifestyle products, it was named #4 on Fast Company’s 2022 list of Most Innovative Brands. Past career highlights include roles as the Chief Innovation Officer of Future Tech Lab, an investment fund focused on sustainable material innovations, the Chief of Technology and Research at fashion tech incubator Manufacture NY, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Dept of Architecture, teaching biomaterials and Founder of fashion tech studio Skinteractive, and co-founder of Bodega Algae, a microalgae biofuels company. She received a PhD & M.S. in Tangible Media from the MIT Media Lab and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Art History from Stanford University. She has been named to the Business of Fashion 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry, Vanity Fair’s 8 Wildest Women of Silicon Valley, The Glossy 50: Fashion’s Digital Front Runners, a Verizon Pioneer of Humanability and as one of Alleywatch’s 10 Most Influential People in Fashion Technology.