Beata Wilczek Bailly


Strategist, researcher and educator working across emerging technology, human behaviour and the future of learning.



I work on the near future of being human: how emerging technologies reshape bodies, knowledge, creativity and identity, and how people learn to live and work with them. I advise brands, technology companies, universities and institutions, and speak internationally on AI and human behaviour, the future of learning and work, and what the next generation will eat, wear and believe.

I design research and education, and turn them into programmes, standards and tools. From executive briefings and team workshops to postgraduate curricula and global studies, I build the learning and insight underneath product, brand and talent decisions: who a technology is for, what it does to people, and what an organisation needs to know and be able to do next.

My work moves between industry and academia, drawing on social psychology, culture and design, and the largest global study of digital fashion education to date. I have led industry and university partnerships, taught internationally as a lecturer and visiting professor, and co-developed postgraduate programmes, bringing research and practice into the same frame.


I AM
↳ a Founder and Director at Unfolding Strategies
↳ a Host at the Fashion Knowledge Podcast
↳ a PhD candidate at the ADBK Wien

SELECTED CLIENTS
↳ BMW · Nike · T-Mobile · H&M · Reserved · 4F · VORN Berlin · AMD Berlin · SOF Warsaw · The Dematerialised 

CONTACT
You can also reach me at beata@unfoldingstrategies.com and follow on Linkedin, Twitter or Instagram. To receive the latest news and fresh insights on my projects,
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EVENTS & TALKS 

*last update 08.2024

10/07/24                DMU Creative                                      Web 3.0 Fashion Synthesis

22/06/24                 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna       Re/vision Fashion 

07/06/24                 Parsons School of Design             Unravelling Fashion Narratives ↱
10/04/24                 London College of Fashion            Fashion Becoming ↱

01/06/23                 Copenhagen Fashion Week          Digital Fashion Summit ↱

02/06/23                 WEB3 Live London                            Future of Fashion ↱

07/11/23                 AlphaTauri x Telekom                     Feeling the Heat ↱
26/07/23                 The Berlin Fashion Hub                  VORN Academy II Loom ↱

02/06/23                 WEB3 Live London                            Future of Fashion ↱

01/06/23                 Aalto Helsinki                                     Woke Fashion Feed

28/04/23                 Google x Fashion Revolution       Digital Sustainability in Fashion

14/04/23                 Parsons Paris x LCF                        Digital Fashion Symposium

29/03/23                 DigiFashion Forum Taiwan          Keynote: Bridging Worlds ↱

24/03/23                 Fotografiska Museum                   Cultural Fabric ↱

14/03/23                 Responsible Fashion Series        Digital Fashion and Cultural Heritage ↱

10/02/23                 PARSONS Paris                                 Body in Web3: Intersectional Avatars

09/02/23                 Farfetch Twitter Space                 Latest Trends in Digital Fashion ↱

18/01/23                 Berlin Fashion Summit                  Fashion and Culture in Web3 ↱
02/12/22                 Immersive Tech Week                   Virtual Fashion & Virtual Bodies ↱

09/11/22                 WEIFT Podcast                                 Future Proofing Fashion ↱

26/10/22                 The Berlin Fashion Hub                 VORN Academy Innovation Lab ↱

20/10/22                 LJM University                                 Metaverse Ethics Symposium

11/10/22                 Vogue & BCG                                      Business Fashion Environment Summit ↱

07/09/22                 Berlin Fashion Summit                  Phygital Fashion

07/09/22                 DRHA Conference 2022                Digital Sustainability

07/07/22                 Fashion Tech                                      Fashion Industry enters the Metaverse ↱

22/06/22                 Warsaw Stock Exchange             Designing in a Digital World ↱

17/06/22                 Aarhus University                           Digital Fashion in the Metaverse ↱

31/05/22                 Central Saint Martins                    Blockchain in Art and Fashion ↱
21/04/22                 Fashion Revolution Week             New Fashion Systems ↱
11/10/22                 University of Antwerp                    Responsible Fashion Series

01/10/21                 Fashion Multilogue                         Teaching Fashion Together




BIO
Beata Wilczek is a strategist, researcher and educator working across emerging technology, human behaviour and the future of learning. She designs education for a world being reshaped by technology: programmes, curricula, executive learning and research studies that help organisations and universities understand what technology does to people and what to teach next. Her clients include BMW, Nike, T-Mobile and VORN Berlin.

Her doctoral research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Aalto University is the largest global study of digital fashion education to date, mapping 370 programmes across 54 countries and tracing where the industry's tools, skills and investment concentrate. She has taught internationally for over ten years, including at ESMOD Berlin, AMD Berlin, SOF Warsaw and UdK Berlin; gave guest lectures at CSM, LCF and RCA in London, and Bunka and ESMOD in Tokyo; created and led a University of Virginia summer programme (Digital Design) as Visiting Professor; and co-developed an MA programme in Social Design and Sustainable Innovation (Berlin/Beirut).

She is Founder and Director of UNFOLDING, a strategy and education studio, and previously served as Head of Impact at The Dematerialised, where she researched, designed and launched REAL, the first transparency standard for digital fashion, live on the marketplace since 2022. She holds an MA in Social Psychology (SWPS University Warsaw) and an MA in Culture, Curating and Criticism (Central Saint Martins). Her speaking engagements range from Google and the Warsaw Stock Exchange to Nike headquarters.

Earlier in her career (2007-2017) she worked as a fashion art director, VR film concept developer and contemporary art curator for clients including Uniqlo, Diesel, Moncler, Novembre, Marco Brambilla Studio, Space Doctors, Contemporary Museum Wrocław and Design Gallery BWA.





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