In case you missed me at The Polys – Immersive Awards this past March 23rd, at the Microsoft Garage in Manhattan, or have yet to check out the amazing live production on YouTube, you can now see my live-hosting gig as the announcer for the ‘Innovator of the Year’ Award, which was won by Super Splat. 

Michael Owen, Dario Loverde, Alex Coulombe, Alvin Graylin, and Chris Pfaff, after the Polys (and Alex Coulombe’s cartoon treatment)

Chris Pfaff hosts the Innovator of the Year segment during the 5th Annual Polys, at Microsoft Garage

Chris Pfaff and Elena Piech                         Chris Pfaff and Alvin Graylin               Ori Inbar, Yu Yuan, Alvin Graylin, and Chris Pfaff

Check out my sequence at 1:35:23-1:40:32 (teed up here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX6u3ksu9o4&t=5668s), where I navigate a super-packed Teleprompter script (the amazing Ben Erwin wrote this show, and produced it).

And if you would like to hire me for live-hosting, you can send a note to chris@voiceofpfaff.com  

Chris Pfaff moderated the ‘Disrupting Fast Fashion and Saving the World’ panel at the Digital Fashion Week New York conference, on Saturday, September 7th, at 2:00 pm in the Canvas 3.0 Gallery in the World Trade Center, in New York City. 

Check out the intro clip to the panel at: https://youtu.be/mIR8DRy2uns

Check out a longer 10-minute clip of the panel at: https://youtu.be/bWal0tMi4R0

Chris Pfaff with Tatiana Alexa and Clare Tattersall

Panelists included: Krishnan Sangameswaran, from The F*Word, Miguel Huidor, from NICESTUFF Clothing, Ben Erwin, from Power Simple, and Tatiana Alexa, from Sangrove. 

Chris Pfaff with Krishnan Sangameswaran, Ben Erwin, Tatiana Alexa, and Miguel Huidor

Chris Pfaff (left) and the crowd at DFW NYC (right)

Topics included; What technologies can we leverage to disrupt fast fashion from the ground up? Disrupting Hype — Creating Meaningful Consumer Relationships). 

The XR crowd at DFW NYC, including Alex Coulombe, Robin Moulder, Michael Ferraro

Panel descriptor:

From virtual runways to digital printing on fabrics to NFTs and beyond, the digital fashion world has exploded since the pandemic. In this session, we will discuss how digital fashion can disrupt the traditional fast fashion model and create a more sustainable (and potentially more profitable) fashion ecosystem.

Clare Tattersall, Miguel Huidor, Tatiana Alexa, Ben Erwin, Krishnan Sangameswaran, and Chris Pfaff