This presentation discusses Lydia Kostopoulos's journey from her career in national security to founding a women's workwear company called Empowering Workwear by Lydia. The presentation is divided into four parts: 1) analyzing workwear fashion through the lens of human anatomy, 2) the importance of supply chain transparency for consumers and brands, 3) new technologies in the fashion industry, and 4) introducing Empowering Workwear by Lydia, which aims to provide functional, transparently sourced clothing that empowers women and encourages change in the industry. Kostopoulos draws from her experience in national security, technology, and education to create a purpose-driven business focused on empowering women through thoughtful

1. Workwear Fashion,
Human Anatomy,
Transparency & Technology
A National Security Professional's Journey to Functional Women's Workwear
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Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos

2. Workwear Fashion, Human Anatomy, Transparency & Technology
A National Security Professional's Journey to Functional Women's Workwear
This presentation discusses:
Part I:Dissecting Workwear Fashion:
Through the lens of Body Systems
Part II: Supply Chain Transparency:
A consumer’s right, a brand’s responsibility
Part III: Technological Advances:
An explosion of new fashion technology
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Part IV: A New Workwear Concept:
Meet Empowering Workwear by Lydiae

3. Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos consults on the intersection of people, strategy,
technology, education, and national security. She addressed the United
Nations member states on the military effects panel at the Convention
of Certain Weapons Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) meeting on
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS).
Formerly the Director for Strategic Engagement at the College of
Information and Cyberspace at the National Defense University, a
Principal Consultant for PA and higher education professor teaching
national security at several universities, her professional experience
spans three continents, several countries and multi-cultural
environments..
Hello, I’m Lydia @LKCYBER
She lectures at the National Defense
University, Joint Special Operations
University, is a member of the IEEE-USA
AI Policy Committee, participates in
NATO’s Science for Peace and Security
Program, and during the Obama
administration has received the U.S.
Presidential Volunteer Service Award for
her pro bono work in cybersecurity.
She started the fashion label
Empowering Workwear by Lydia.

4. Part IV: A New Workwear Concept:
Meet Empowering Workwear by Lydia
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5. EW is not just a purpose-driven business
but an impact-driven business and has the
following agenda:
Empowering Workwear by Lydia Ltd. ©2019
Meet Empowering Workwear by Lydia
1. Deliberate Functionality:
Functionality that meets modern workwear needs.
2. Supply Chain Transparency:
Full transparency throughout the supply chain to demonstrate ethical standards from fabric
sourcing to manufacturing.
3. Campaign for Change:
Encourage and campaign for change in the fashion industry to incorporate women’s functionality
needs in workwear designs.
4. Storytelling Fashion:
Fashion pieces that tell a story through the design of the clothing from the fabric design
to the pattern to the accessories.

6. Empowering Workwear by Lydia:
The pipeline...
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Fortune 500
Gender Gap
Women’s
suffrage
connected
through time
and space
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development
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Empowering Workwear by Lydia Ltd. ©2019

7. “Women of today
want to wear their
values on their
sleeve.”
Unbound CEO, Polly Rodriguez

8. Empoweringworkwear.com
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@empoweringworkwear