Topic of the Speech:

BioEconomy @ Textiles : Technology Achievements, Opportunities and Challenges

Antonio Braz Costa 

CEO

General Manager, Technology Center for Textile & Clothing Industries in Portugal

Portugal

Dec 23rd:

Beijing time: 13:30-14:00

Topic of the Speech:

Surpassing Shockley-Queisser Efficiency Limit in Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Bingqing Wei

Professor,  University of Delaware USA

USA

Dec 24th:

Beijing time:13:30-14:00

Topic of the Speech: 

Advantages and challenges of mechanical recycling for textiles in the context of sustainability

Heike Illing-Günther

Managing  Director

The Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI), Chemnitz 

Germany

Dec 23rd:

Beijing time: 17:00-17:30

Topic of the Speech:

ESG Compliance and Textile Digitization

Henry Yi Li 

Professor, Chair of Textile Science and Engineering

Department of Materials, School of Natural Sciences, 

The University of Manchester

UK

Dec 24th:

Beijing time: 9:00-9:30 

Topic of the Speech:

Carbon Footprint Assessment Procedure for Textile Products

Kanji Kajiwara 

Professor, Shinshu University 

Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University 

Japan

Dec 24th:

Beijing time: 17:00-17:30

Topic of the Speech:

Carbon Counting and Waste Management of Apparel in Australia

Lijing Wang

Professor, Leader in textile materials and products research theme  RMIT University

Australia 

Dec 24th:

Beijing time: 17:30 -18:00

Topic of the Speech: 

Hybrid composite materials with waste fibers and biomass for advanced mechanical, thermal and acoustic applications

Mishra Rajesh Kumar

Professor, the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Czech Republic

Dec 24th:

Beijing time:10:30-11:00 

Topic of the Speech: 

Energy Harvesting from Textile Structures

Savvas G. Vassiliadis

Professor, AUTEX President

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,

University of West Attica"

Greece

Dec 24th:

Beijing time:16:00-16:30 

Topic of the Speech: 

Eco-friendly Carbon Fiber Composites and Natural Fiber Composites

Seung Kook An 

Chairman of KATT ,

Department of Organic Material Science and Engineering,

College of Engineering, Pusan National University

Korea

Dec 23rd:

Beijing time: 16:00-16:30

Topic of the Speech:

Biomimetics as a source of ideas for an environmental friendly future of our textile industry

Thomas Stegmaier

Chief Sustainable Officer

Competence Center Textile Chemistry, Environment & Energy Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf (DIFT)

Germany

Dec 23rd:

Beijing time: 17:30-18:00

Topic of the Speech: 

Development of an AI-based sustainable circular textile economy  

Xianyi Zeng 

Professor and Director of the GEMTEX National Laboratory

The ENSAIT Textile School, University of Lille

France

Dec 23rd:

Beijing time: 14:30-15:00

Topic of the Speech:

What Determines the Lifecycle of Clothing: An Analysis of Second-Hand Clothes Design

KyoungOK Kim 

Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Textile and Kansei Engineering,

Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University

Japan

Dec 24th:

Beijing time:14:30-15:00