Manchester hosts Fashion-Textiles-Wearables

Manchester, UK – 22 April, 2025 – Manchester is going to host the international conference “Fashion – Textiles – Wearables (FTW) 2025 on 28 - 30 of this month. Organised by iCongress from Northwest Conference & Exhibition, the event is supported by The Textile Institute and will be chaired by Dr. Abu Sadat Sayem CText FTI, editor of the Textile Institute Professional Publication Series.

The international conference will host 5 Keynote talks, 1 invited talk and 28 technical presentations from senior, early-career and mid-career researchers from all over the world. The keynotes will be delivered by renowned academics and scientists as listed below.

• # Keynote 1 - Stakeholders and applications of technical textiles: the dissolving boundaries with fundamental research, by Professor Parikshit Goswami, The University of Huddersfield
• # Keynote 2 - Academia meets Industry: Shaping a Digitally Skilled Workforce, by Professor Lynn Boorady, Oklahoma State University
• # Keynote 3 - How Human Interacts with AI for Better Fashion, by Professor Calvin Wong, CEO and Centre Director of Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (AiDLab) and Cheng Yik Hung Professor in Fashion at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• # Keynote 4 - Digitalization Technologies in Circular Business Models: Help or Burden? by Professor Bastian Quattelbaum, Hochschule Niederrhein
• # Keynote 5 - Water-Health Nexus in Textile Industries, by Professor Iqbal M Mujtaba FREng, University of Bradford

Academics and researchers from the following universities and companies will gather in Manchester to discuss and share the findings from their state-of-the-art research works.

• The University of Manchester, UK
• Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• London College of Fashion, University of Arts London, UK
• Kingston University, UK
• University of Leeds, UK
• University of Huddersfield, UK
• University of Bradford, UK
• University of Southampton, UK
• Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) UK
• Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
• Thomas Jefferson University, USA
• Oklahoma State University, USA
• Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• College of FASHION & TEXTILES, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
• HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Hochschule Niederrhein, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Jodhpur
• PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria
• Primark, UK
• Panta Rei Water Solutions, Italy
• Masco Group, Bangladesh
• National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Hydarabad
• Lodz University of Technology, Poland

The full programme of the conference can be explored from - https://www.ilettersicongress.co.uk/.