Bregenz, Austria / September 8 - 10, 2013
“Rebalancing the Power between Manufacturing and Retail”
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Conference Programme
SATURDAY, SEPT 7
| 15.00 – 19.00 | Registration (Seegalerie, Level 2) |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Directors Meeting (Seegalerie, Level 2) Directors of ITMF member associations, associate and corporate members |
| 19.00 – 22.00 | Joint Reception and Dinner ITMF and VTI Office Bearers and Representatives of Lenzing as well as Directors of ITMF member associations, associate and corporate members - with spouses – Meeting Point: Foyer Main Entrance, Festival House Dinner Location: Wirtshaus am See, 3 minutes’ walk) |
SUNDAY, SEPT 8
| 8.30 – 10.00 | Spinners Committee Meeting (Seegalerie, Level 2) - by invitation - |
| 10.30 – 12.00 | Joint Cotton Committee Meeting (Seestudio, Level 1) |
| 12.00 – 19.00 | Registration (Foyer II, Level 1) |
| 12.15 – 13.45 | Board Meeting (Seegalerie, Level 2) - by invitation - |
| 12.15 – 13.45 | Lunch (Seefoyer, Level 1) |
| 14.00 – 15.15 |
Fibre Session - Cotton (Seestudio, Level 1) Chair: Andrew G. Macdonald, Brazil, ITMF Board Member Metrics for Sustainability in Cotton Production Terry Townsend,Executive Director, ICAC, USA The New Meaning of Sustainability Fritz A. Grobien, President, Bremen Cotton Exchange, Germany DNA Based Cotton Analysis Kai Hughes, Managing Director, ICA Bremen, Germany and Lothar Kruse, Managing Director, Impetus Bioscience, Germany Panel Discussion and Q&A |
| 15.15 – 15.45 | Coffee Break (Foyer II, Level 1) |
| 15.45 – 16.30 |
Man-made Fibres
Regional Markets for Manufactured Fibres: Overview and Outlook Peter Driscoll, Managing Director, PCI Fibres, UK Innovative Applications for Cellulosic Fibers Dieter Eichinger, Vice President/General Manager BU Textile Lenzing, Austria Panel Discussion and Q&A |
| 16.45 – 18.00 | Fibres and Applications Committee Meeting (Seestudio) |
| 19.00 – 20.30 | Cruise on Lake Constance (Paddle Steamer Hohentwiel) Welcome Reception and First Dinner Course Meeting Point: Foyer Main Entrance (Festival House) |
| 20.45 – 22.00 | Festival House (Seefoyer, Level 1) Dinner (continued) |
MONDAY, SEPT 9
| 8.30 – 9.00 |
Formal Opening Session
Dionys Lehner, President, VTI, Austria Peter Untersperger, CEO, Lenzing, Austria Josué Gomes da Silva, President, ITMF, Brazil |
| 9.35 – 10.45 |
1st General Session: Branding & E-Commerce
Chair: Josué C. Gomes da Silva, Brazil, ITMF President Keynote Address The Branding Multiplier in a Digital Age David Roth, CEO, The Store, WPP EMEA & Asia, WPP, UK How Ebay and PayPal are Approaching Commerce and Mobile Teppo Paavola, Vice President, Head of Global Business Development, PayPal, USA Panel Discussion and Q&A |
| 10.45 – 12.00 | Coffee Break (Foyer II, Level 1) |
| 11.15 – 12.00 |
2nd General Session: Europe’s Textile Industry
Chair: Muharrem H. Kayhan, ITMF Board Member Industry & Retail: An Industrial Point of View Alexander Hofstadler, CEO, Linz Textil, Austria Research- and Creativity-based European Textile Production Juan Parés, CEO, Textil Santanderina, Spain Panel Discussion and Q&A |
| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch (Seefoyer, Level 1) |
| 13.30 – 14.15 |
Keynote Address
Chair: Gregory Fleming, Switzerland, Former ITMF Economist Eurozone Deficit Crisis Receding – World Economy to Surprise on Upside Folker Hellmeyer, Chief Economist, Bremer Landesbank, Germany Q&A |
| 14.15 – 15.15 |
3rd General Session: Textile Supply Chain
Chair: John Cheh, Hong Kong, China, ITMF Board Member Opportunities within the Worldwide Textile Added Value Chain Giuseppe Gherzi, Partner, Gherzi Textile Organisation, Switzerland Which Strategy for the European Textile Supply Chain? The Experience of Canclini Tessile Simone Canclini, Chairman, Canclini, Italy Global Supply Chain: The Next Generation Mark Green, Executive Vice President – Global Supply Chain PVH Corporation, Hong Kong, China Panel Discussion and Q&A |
| 15.15 – 15.45 | Coffee Break (Foyer II) |
| 15.45 – 16.45 | Committee of Management Meeting (Seestudio, Level 1) |
| 16.45 – 17.45 | Committee of Home Textiles Producers Meeting (Seestudio) |
| 19.15 – 22.30 | Gala Dinner on the Gebhardsberg Busses leave at 19.00 hrs. from the Bayerischer Hof, Lindau and at 19.15 hrs. from the Hotels Mercure, IBIS, Weisses Kreuz and Kaiserstrand |
TUESDAY, SEPT 10
| 8.30 – 9.30 |
4th General Session: Retail
Chair: Bashir H. Ali Mohammad, Pakistan, ITMF Hon. Life Member Cotton made in Africa – Sustainable Cotton for the Mass Market Tina Stridde, Managing Director, Aid by Trade Foundation / Cotton made in Africa, Germany Digital Transformation of the Digital Retail Business Stefan Hentschel, Industry Leader B2B, Google, Germany Flávio Rocha, President, Riachuelo, Brazil (tbc) Felix Poza, Inditex, Spain (tbc) Panel Discussion and Q&A |
| 9.30 – 10.00 | Coffee Break (Foyer II, Level 1) |
| 10.00 – 11.15 |
5th General Session: Technical Textiles and Nonwovens
Chair: Wallter Simeoni, South Africa, ITMF Honorary Life Member Development Potentials for Technical Textiles Götz T. Gresser, Director, ITV Denkendorf, Germany New Textile Paradigms - Printed Electronics on Textiles, Photovoltaic Textiles, Additive Technologies (3-D-Printing) António Braz dos Santos Costa, General Manager, CITEVE, Portugal Innovation within our Core Competence Christoph Tobler, CEO, Sefar Holding, Switzerland Coping Challenges as a Midsized Global Niche Player Alexander Tessmar-Pfohl, Member of the Board, Sattler, Austria |
| 11.15 – 11.30 |
The Global Textile (Machinery) Market Situation Christian Schindler, Director General, ITMF |
| 11.30 – 12.00 |
China’s Textile Industry – Today and Tomorrow Sun Ruizhe, Vice President, CNTAC, China Q&A |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Invitation ITMF Annual Conference 2014 |
| 12.30 – 18.00 | Excursion to the Dornier Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany Meeting Point: 12.30 hrs. Foyer Main Entrance, Festival House Lunch at the Zeppelin Hangar Guided Tour of the Dornier Museum incl. Carbon Exhibition Busses depart from the Dornier Museum to the Hotels at 17.30 hrs., one early bus at 16.30 hrs. |
