Piyush Goyal to inaugurate Asian Textile Conference in Delhi on Aug 17

The tenth edition of Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) is all set to be inaugurated on Wednesday by Union minister commerce and industry, consumer affairs, food and public distribution and textiles Piyush Goyal. The one-day event ATEXCON, to be held in New Delhi, will focus on the prospects and challenges of the textile industry in the next decade.

The conference, being organised by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), will see more than 35 renowned speakers sharing their thoughts. Over 350 delegates from India and abroad have already registered to participate in the event. Textile industry focused global information portal Fibre2Fashion is supporting the event as Knowledge Partner.

Textiles minister will deliver keynote address in the inaugural session of the conference. The session will be addressed by HK Agarwal, managing director, Grasim Industries Ltd; Soundhar Rajhan K, director operations, Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd. (LMW); Neeraj Jain, joint managing director, Vardhman Textiles Limited; Sudhir Sekhri, vice chairman – Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC); among others.

The tenth edition of Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) is all set to be inaugurated on Wednesday by Union minister commerce and industry, consumer affairs, food and public distribution and textiles Piyush Goyal. The one-day event ATEXCON, to be held in New Delhi, will focus on the prospects and challenges of the textile industry in the next decade.

The theme session on “Reimagining the Textile and Apparel Industry for the Next Decade” will be addressed by minister of state for textiles Darshana Vikram Jardosh. Textiles secretary Upendra Prasad Singh will present a “Roadmap for the Next Decade”.

Singh will also chair the first session on ‘Rebuilding India’s Textile & Apparel Industry’. Panellists for the discussion are Arvind Singhal, chairman, Technopark Advisors; Gautam Nair, chairman, Export Promotion Committee of Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), Sunil Patwari, vice chairman of The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL), Bhadresh Dodhia, vice chairman of the Synthetic & Rayon Textile Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) and Sangeeta Vashishth, president of Federation of Buying Agents (FBA).

Vijoy Kumar Singh, special secretary of ministry of textiles, will chair the second session on ‘Changing Trends in Asian Textile and Apparel Trade’. International Textile Manufacturers’ Federation (ITMF) director general Dr. Christian Schindler will moderate the session, which will have experts from Taiwan, Sri Lanka and TUV Rheinland as panellists.

The third session on ‘Digitization, Automation & Innovation in Textiles and Apparel Industry’ will be chaired by joint secretary, ministry of textiles, Prajakta Verma. This will be followed by two more sessions on themes: ‘India’s Trade Agreements with Major Economies’ and ‘Scaling up Cleaner Production with Sustainable Textile Solutions’.

All the five sessions will be followed by a Q&A session and summing up by the moderator.

Click here to register for the event.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KUL)