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The second season of ITMAlive, a content series created to support the ITMA exhibition launched today, is hosting deeper discussions amongst industrialists on various trending topics affecting the global textile and garment industry. The series will be available online on ITMA with a new panel discussion uploaded every Tuesday till November 23.
The discussions are based on ITMA 2023’s overarching theme of Transforming the World of Textiles and its focused areas: advanced materials, automation and digital future, innovative technologies, and sustainability and circularity, ITMA said in a press release.
“This new season follows last year’s forging ahead amidst the pandemic series which consisted of interviews with 8 prominent leaders of textile and garment industry companies that had remained agile and resilient during the global Coronavirus crisis. For this year’s series, we are privileged to have established leaders of the textile and garment industry to share in-depth views, create awareness to anticipate future demand and ideas to future-proof their business. Such discussions also create a more vibrant community within our industry,” Charles Beauduin, chairman of ITMA Services – organiser of ITMA 2023, said.
The second season of ITMAlive, a content series created to support the ITMA exhibition launched today, is hosting deeper discussions amongst industrialists on various trending topics affecting the global textile and garment industry. The series will be available online on ITMA with a new panel discussion uploaded every Tuesday till November 23.
Each of the ITMAlive panel discussions features three industry members with the session moderated by a key media representative. The panel on advanced materials is moderated by Adrian Wilson, analyst and writer in technical textiles, nonwovens and composites industries from AWOL Media. The session covered new technologies for the production of advanced materials and an overview of the current state of the industry and what can be expected in the near future.
The panel on automation and digital future will be spotlighting on the digital future, barriers to automation, and challenges to creating a sustainable future for the textile industry, the discussion will be moderated by Madelaine Thomas, content lead, World Information Textile Network (WTiN).
The session on innovative technologies will focus on current smart textiles trends and developments, and their impact on textile manufacturing technologies. The discussion will be moderated by Claudia van Bonn, editor-in-chief, Textile Technology, dfv media group. The panel discussion on sustainability and circularity will zoom in on why the textile industry needs to move towards more circular model, the opportunities/challenges around the implementation of these solutions and the way forward. It will be moderated by John Mowbray, environmentalist and founder, Ecotextile News.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RR)
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