15:00 – 19:00: Registration
16:00 – 17:30: Directors’ Meeting Directors of ITMF member associations, associate and
corporate members
19:00 – 22:00: Joint Reception and Dinner ITMF, Austrian Textile Industry Federation (VTI)
and Lenzing Office Bearers and Directors of ITMF member associations, associate and corporate
members at Wirtshaus am See, Bregenz
Sunday, September 8
08:30 – 10:00: Meeting ITMF Spinners Committee
10:30 – 12:00: Meeting Joint Cotton Committee
12:00 – 13:30: Board Meeting
12:00 – 19:00: Registration
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Fiber Session
14:30 – 15:45: Cotton
- Metrics for Sustainability in Cotton Production – Terry Townsend, executive director,
International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), Washington - The New Meaning of Sustainability – Fritz Grobien, president, Bremen Cotton Exchange,
Germany - Kai Hughes, managing director, International Cotton Association (ICA), United Kingdom
- Lothar Kruse, Ph.D., lab manager, Impetus Bioscience, Germany
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
15:45 – 16:15: Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00: Man-made Fibers
- Regional Markets for Manufactured Fibers: Overview and Outlook – Peter Driscoll, managing
director, PCI Fibres, UK - Hans Leitner, senior technical manager, Lenzing AG, Austria
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
17:15 – 18:30: Meeting Fibers and Applications Committee
19:00 – 20:30: Welcome Reception Cruise Ship Hohentwiel
20:30 – 22:00: Dinner Festival and Congress Hall
Monday, September 9
Formal Opening Session
09:00 – 09:45: Welcome Addresses
- Dionys Lehner, president, VTI, Austria
- Peter Untersperger, CEO, Lenzing AG, Austria
- Josué Gomes da Silva, president, ITMF, Brazil
09:45 – 10:30: Keynote Address
- Felix Brill, chief economist, Wellershoff & Partners, Switzerland (TBC)
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
First General Session
11:00 – 11:45:Europe’s Textile Industry
- Alexander Hofstadler, managing director, Linz Textil, Austria
- Research- and Creativity-based European Textile Production – Juan Pares, CEO, Textil
Santanderina, Spain - Panel Discussion/Q&A
11:45 – 12:45: How E-Commerce Can Help Manufacturers and Retailers
- Teppo Paavola, vice president, PayPal (eBay), San Jose, Calif.
- (TBD), Google, Brazil
12:45 – 13:30: Lunch
Second General Session
13:45 – 15:00: Textile Supply Chain
- Giuseppe Gherzi, managing director, Gherzi Textile Organisation, Switzerland
- Simone Canclini, president, Canclini, Italy
- Mark Green, head, Global Supply Chain, PVH Corp., New York City
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30: Meeting
Committee of Management
16:30 – 17:30: Meeting
Committee of Home Textiles Producers
Evening: Gala Dinner aboard the Gebhardsberg
Tuesday, September 10
Third General Session
08:30 – 09:30: Retail
- Tina Striddle, managing director, Aid by Trade Foundation and Atakora GmbH, Germany
- Mark Sumner, sustainable raw materials expert, Marks & Spencer, United Kingdom (TBC)
- Felix Poza, director, corporate social responsibility, Inditex, Spain (TBC)
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
09:30 – 10:00: Coffee Break
Fourth General Session
10:00 – 11:15: Technical Textiles and Nonwovens
- Development Potentials for Technical Textiles – Götz Gresser, director, ITV Denkendorf,
Germany - New Textile Paradigms – Printed Electronics on Textiles, Photovoltaic Textiles, additive
Technologies (3-E Printing) – Antonio Braz, director, CENTI-CITEVE, Portugal - Christoph Tobler, CEO, Sefar AG, Switzerland
- Alexander Tessmar-Pfohl, member of the Board, Sattler AG, Austria
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
11:15 – 11:30: The Global Textile Machinery Market Situation
- Christian P. Schindler, Ph.D., director general, ITMF
11:30 – 12:00: China’s Textile Industry – Today and Tomorrow
- Sun Ruizhe, vice president, CNTAC, China
12:10 – 12:15: Invitation
2014 Annual Conference
13:15 – 16:30: Lunch and Visit
Dornier Museum, Friedrichshafen
For latest program updates, visit itmf.org. Program accurate as of
Textile World‘s press time.
