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Attila Turos to be keynote speaker at Textile 4.0 Conference in Amsterdam

The leader of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Future of Production initiative, Attila Turos, will be the keynote speaker at October’s Textile 4.0 Conference, the first event to explore the opportunities and risk of Industry 4.0 for textile industry strategists. The conference, organised by World Textile Information Network (WTiN), will take place at the Hotel Novotel Amsterdam City, from October 25 to 26, 2017.

Switzerland-based WEF brings together the world’s most influential people in business and politics to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It says of manufacturing and distribution strategy: “The world is at the threshold of a new industrial revolution characterised by a confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs, including mobile connectivity, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, next-generation robotics, 3D printing, wearables and genetic engineering, nanotechnology, advanced materials, biotechnology and others.

An international development expert, Turos worked as an independent consultant before joining the WEF in 2015. Big players from the textile industry will also feature at the Textile 4.0 Conference. A first-day session on digitalisation and its capacity to disrupt business models will deliver the vision of Chiaretto Calo, group CEO of the newly created, Italian-based IMPRIMA Group, which has already brought together some of the biggest names in digital textile printing. The implications of such workplace automation for employment and skills will be the subject of a session featuring Yves-Simon Gloy, of the Institut fur Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen University.

WTiN recently launched IoTex magazine and introduced a Textile 4.0 channel as part of its online Intelligence portfolio, to provide a focus for discussion of the business and technology implications of Industry 4.0 in the textile industry. WTiN digital innovation analyst Mutlu Chaouch Orozco will deliver the results of her latest research, and an opening note will be delivered by Tansy Fall, editor of IoTex and Digital Textile magazines.

 
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