Sep 29th, 2021

HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE
OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL

inviting to
free Webinar on

Future Material Innovations

Presentations will be online
27.09.2021 (Mon) – 10.10.2021 (Sun)
ready for your comments and questions**
for the ensuing Q&A live-event:

Live Q&A with Speakers is taking place
Oct. 12th 2021 16:00-17:00 (GMT+8)
(check your local time here)

In this 60-min live dialogue, speakers will address your questions **(including those received previously)
and have an in-depth discussion with other speakers on the topic.
Communication is taking place in English (with simultaneous interpretation in Putonghua)

Meet the Speakers:

New Materials & New Solutions
	Mr Edwin Keh Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited Mr Keh had a career as senior executive with several US consumer goods and retail companies. He serves on the Board of Whittier College, CA and teaches supply chain operations in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Bioreceptive Textiles
	Mrs Aura Luz Melis Architect / Partner, Inside Outside Aura Luz Melis works on public spaces, masterplans, small-scale architectural implementations, textile designs and exhibitions, with a focus on creative, innovative, context specific, and socially conscious results.
	Ms Nafsika Efklidou Project Architect, Inside Outside Nafsika Efklidou works on landscape design, interior architecture and exhibitions. She has collaborated extensively with design firms in the Netherlands and Greece.
New Anti-viral and Anti-microbial Bio-polymers and Textiles
	Prof Xiaoming Tao Director, Research Institute of Intelligent Wearable Systems, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Prof Tao is known for her leading research in intelligent fibrous materials, photonic fibres and fabrics, fibre-based electronic and photonic devices, wearable technology and textile manufacturing. She is the former World President (2007 – 2010) and a Fellow of the Textile Institute International, a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Textiles and Apparel.
When We Were Sustainable
	Dr Kanji Kajiwara Research Fellow, Faculty of Textile Science & Technology, Shinshu University Dr Kajiwara specialises in textile fibres and textiles chemistry. After serving the professorship at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Otsuma Women’s University and Shinshu University, Dr Kajiwara is now retired and has undertaken his research activities in Shinshu University.

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