OutDoor by ISPO 2019

Sport, outdoor and new technologies are growing together more and more. Sports brands such as Deuter or Interactive Wear show how cross-industry creates innovation. We show best cases.

Climbing and bouldering have established themselves as a mass sport. The OutDoor by ISPO trend report Core Outdoor shows where classic outdoor sports are heading in summer 2020.

The outdoor brand The North Face pursues a noble approach: sustainability counts for Americans not only in their own products, but also in the minds of the consumers. The company has a number of ideas for this.

Brands are embedding more and more sustainability and CSR goals in their companies. Part 3 of the sustainability trend report: Sustainability as a corporate objective.

In the second part of the OutDoor by ISPO Sustainability Trend Report, we explain the innovations in the field of natural materials. Part 2: Renewable raw materials of nature.

Sustainability is a matter close to the heart for the outdoor industry. The OutDoor by ISPO Sustainability Trend Report shows how brands protect the environment. Part 1: Recycled materials and products from Ocean Waste.

Titanium coating from the aerospace industry, foldable barefoot shoes and clever knots: The outdoor industry also has new innovations in store for 2020 that set new standards with their low weight and well thought-out design. At OutDoor by ISPO in Munich, we discovered eight lightweights that will help us get through 2020 more easily.

Outdoor and new technologies are merging ever further. Whether it’s smart textiles, wearables, logistics, laser technologies, automation or environmental technologies –X-industry aims to bring the outdoor movement together with other sectors to create innovations and new collaborations. The maxim here is ‘think outside the box’.

This is how Generation Z wants to return to nature: Outdoor? Of course - but without parents! At Next Entrepreneurs, the decision makers of the future demonstrate their perfect outdoor weekend.

No brand can avoid sustainability, especially in the outdoor industry. But what is it like if you want to subordinate your own company to the rules and laws of sustainability? How complicated is that? What compromises have to be made?