Conference «Vietnam Footwear Summit 2026»

   Tariffs, digital product passports and carbon border rules are quietly rewriting next year's footwear orders, and this is the room where global brands and Vietnamese factories work through them together across two days in Ho Chi Minh City.

   The organiser is ECV International, a consultancy that runs high-end international conferences. By its own announcement the summit gathers 150+ decision-makers from 15+ countries. The confirmed speaker list on the official site includes Adidas and New Balance, alongside Fashion for Good, the Fair Wear Foundation, the Council for Leather Exports India and the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association.

   Agenda topics include:

   — Vietnam's footwear industry: status, challenges and strategic directions
— export tariffs, trade policy and compliance for the US and EU markets
— EU CBAM and the Digital Product Passport: impact and action plans
— supply chain resilience, digitalisation and sustainability
— bio-based and low-carbon material localisation
— smart manufacturing: from automation to AI and 3D printing

   The organiser's site also lists an optional factory tour day following the two-day programme.

   It is built for factory leadership, sourcing and compliance managers and sustainability leads — the people who have to decide before the rules bite. The backdrop is Vietnam's stated push to lift its share of the global footwear market to 8-10% by 2030.

   The summit is held in English.

   Come to hear what will be a purchase-order requirement a year from now.