KORE Outdoors Speaker Series: Ales Jurca  | Volumental

KORE Outdoors Speaker Series: Ales Jurca | Volumental

Join us for an informative online event with Ales Jurca, VP Footwear Research at Volumental, as part of our KORE Outdoors Speaker Series.

By KORE Outdoors

Date and time

Tuesday, December 17 · 11:30am - 12:30pm PST

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Ales Jurca | Outdoor Footwear: Fit Technology's Final Frontier

In this webinar, we'll learn about the industry-leading technology that’s changing the way shoppers, retailers, and brands think about outdoor footwear. Volumental, based in Sweden, is a global innovation leader in footwear-sizing research and technology. The company matches shoppers to shoes using 3D foot scanning. It also maintains an extensive dataset of more than 60 million scans collected from 3,000+ footwear brands and retailers worldwide including Fleet Feet, New Balance, and The Athlete's Foot.

Volumental’s Vice President of Footwear Research, Ales Jurca, will share insights from his research into this first-of-its-kind dataset. He will also discuss collaborations with footwear brands that are accessing the data to enhance the fit of their products.

Ales Jurca has been applying 3D foot scanning technology to the footwear industry since 1999. He holds a MSc in Robotics and Biomechanics from Ljubljana University and is finishing his Ph.D. at Josef Stefan International Postgraduate School with a focus on using AI for shoe sizing recommendations.

Ales is the former Chief R&D Manager at Alpina, the world’s largest cross-country boots producer, where he introduced 3D foot scanning into the last design process and into footwear retail. He has also managed foot scanning projects for the Swiss Army and EU Project Dorothy, among other clients. His scientific paper, “Analysis of 1.2 million foot scans from North America, Europe and Asia” was published in 2019.

During his time at Volumental, Ales has been instrumental in the development of Volumental’s foot scanners and its AI-based footwear recommendation system. He resides Stockholm.

Join us for this free presentation to better understand how this dataset and technology is changing the outdoor footwear landscape, and how you can benefit.

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The KORE Outdoors Speaker Series features entrepreneurs, designers, makers, and professionals who are in or connected to the gear manufacturing sector. They provide insights and strategies that can help every person working in the outdoor equipment space to take their craft gear from here and catapult it into the global marketplace.