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• 2010 Mar 24 -- "Wool, the Designer's Choice", London SE Section, London
• 2010 Apr 14-15 -- 'Digital Strategies' Innovation Through Apparel And Textile Technologies Symposium, New Zealand
• 2010 Apr 14-16 -- Smart Fabrics, Miami, FL, USA
• 2010 Jun 10-11 -- Managing Innovation In Textiles, Manchester, UK
• 2010 Nov 3-4 -- The Textile Institute World Conference, Manchester, UK
  

Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th April 2010
AUT Conference Centre, AUT University,
WA Building, Wellesley Street, Auckland City, New Zealand

The AUT University's Textile and Design Lab in conjunction with the Textile Institute's New Zealand Section and Fashion Industry New Zealand (FINZ) is hosting 'Digital Strategies', a 2 day symposium on innovative and emerging technologies for the apparel and textile sectors.

Overview

Our guest researcher and keynote presenter is Kerry Maguire King from US based Textile and Clothing Technology Corporation, better known as [TC]². Kerry's visit to the Textile and Design Lab is part of a research building process between our two organisations, which will inform future strategic developments within the Textile and Design Lab. Kerry's experience across the apparel and textile industries is far reaching and includes research, education, consultancy and product development in the areas of 3D garment visualisation, avatars, body scanning and garment fit, and digital textile and garment printing.

Other New Zealand presenters from AgResearch, AUT University, FINZ, Gerber Technology, Ponoko, Shima Seiki, Textiles NZ and Wera will address areas of innovation in the New Zealand context. Further details about speakers and topics will be announced shortly. The programme will include sessions around smart and conductive materials, innovations in wool, outlooks for the New Zealand fashion and textile sectors, on line manufacturing and digital supply chains, developments in knitwear design and technology and a number of technology oriented case studies.

Programme
The final programme and timings will be published on 1st March 2010.

Registration
Reduced fees are available for early registrations - please refer to the attached brochure. Please email your completed registration form to peter.heslop@aut.ac.nz or fax to the Textile and Design Laboratory on (09) 921 9420.

2010 April 14-16, Smart Fabrics 2010, Miami Florida

Intertech Pira are organising the 6th annual Smart Fabrics Conference. The event will cover topics such as the current status of innovative smart fabric technologies in the marketplace, as well as recent application breakthroughs and adoption. The conference will be of particular interest for people involved in electronics, textiles, medical, sporting equipment, fashion, and wireless communication industries, as well as military/space agencies and the investment community.

For a full programme, speaker details and information on how to register visit www.smartfabricsconference.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

The global Textile Industry has in the last few decades seen revolutionary changes in its output, structure, and technology - covering all aspects of Fibres, Yarns, Fabrics, Machinery and manufacturing processing techniques.

Apart from the above major achievements, the industry progressively has seen major developments in the production of Technical & Industrial Textiles covering around 25 different fields of new applications. A huge variety of revolutionary products have been brought into the world market as a result of technological innovations in new fibres, yarns, fabrics, dyeing and finishing and processing methods. Unforeseen a few decades ago, these products have been successfully imagined and developed and now on the whole have brought dramatic positive changes in our environment and life-styles.

The most exciting new markets for Technical and Industrial Textiles from a potential growth/value-added/profitability point of view involve the high technology or high performance applications. The forecast as to what will happen most likely in the technical and industrial textile world during the next decade is one of growth in spite of the current global financial situation.

• How these innovations universally being created?
• How are ideas converted into products?
• Can innovation be managed?
• How do we identify market opportunities?
• Can we learn from recent case studies of successful innovation and product launch?
• How will technology serve the needs of the design and fashion sectors?

To address this need, the Technical Textiles Special Interest Group (SIG) of The Textile Institute, Manchester and The Manchester and Cheshire Section of the Textile Institute have teamed together to organise an International Conference on Managing Innovation in Textiles.

The conference will aim to bring together textile scientists, engineers, fibre-yarn -and fabric mfrs, fashion designers, retailers, and many others engaged and interested in recent innovations and their applications in all branches of Technical & Industrial Textiles. The conference programme will consist of invited and contributed papers.
The organisers invite authors to submit the title of their paper along with the brief abstract by 20th March 2010

For full details contact:

Dr. Kim Gandhi , CText FTI
Chairman Manchester & Cheshire Section
Mobile 0780 170 8878
Tel : +44 161 702 9483, Fax +44 161 702 9616
kim.gandhi@virgin.net

Brian McCarthy
Chairman Technical Textiles SIG
Director, Technitex Faraday Limited Manchester
Mobile 07841 590657
Tel +44 161 306 8500 Fax +44 161 306 8501
brianmccarthy@technitex.org

Textile Institue World Conference,

3rd & 4th November 2010,
Manchester, UK
WebSite: www.TIWorldConference.org

CALL FOR PAPERS -- Click HERE

The Textile Institute is pleased to announce the date for their next world conference which will be held in Manchester on the 3rd & 4th November 2010. A full call for papers will be issued in November 2009 with full details on the website and within issue 4 of textiles.

A variety of corporate sponsorship opportunities, including exhibition stands are available to suit all budgets. If you would like to discuss how your company can become involved please contact stinsley@textileinst.org.uk

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