Saturday, November 3
13:00 – 15:30: Board Meeting
15:00 – 19:00: Registration
16:45 – 18:15: Directors’ Meeting
Directors of member associations, associate and corporate members
19:00 – 20:00: Joint Reception
ITMF officers; directors of member associations, associate and corporate members
Sunday, November 4
09:00 – 10:30: Meeting
ITMF Spinners Committee
11:00 – 12:30: Meeting
ITMF Joint Cotton Committee
12:00 – 19:00: Registration
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
Fiber Session
14:00 – 15:00:
Cotton
- Global Cotton and Textiles: Friends or Foes? — Robert P. Antoshak, managing director, Olah
Inc., New York City - Cotton vs PSF: Perspectives for Future Consumption — Antonio Vidal Esteve, CEO, Ecom
Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd., Brazil, and president, International Cotton Association (ICA), United
Kingdom - Brent Crossland, Fiber business development manager, Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park,
N.C. - Panel Discussion/Q&A
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30:
Man-made Fibers
- Review of Global Demand for Chemical Fibers — Peter Driscoll, managing director, PCI Fibers,
United Kingdom - Reliance Industries, India
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
17:00 – 18:30: Meeting
Fiber/Technical Textiles Committee
19:30 – 22:00: Welcome Reception and Dinner
Monday, November 5
Formal Opening Session
09:00 – 09:45:
Welcome Addresses
- Vu Duc Giang, chairman, Vinatex, Vietnam
- Bashir H. Ali Mohammad, president, ITMF
- Ho Thi Kim Thoa, vice minister, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam (to be confirmed)
- Hoang Trung Hai, deputy prime minister, Vietnam (to be confirmed)
09:45 – 10:15: Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:45
State and Outlook of the Global Economy
First General Session
10:45 – 12:15:
Vietnam’s Textile and Apparel Industry on the Rise
- Phan Chi Dung, director, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam (to be confirmed)
- Le Tien Truong, vice general director, Vinatex
- Panel Discussion/Q&A
12:30 – 13:45: Lunch
Second General Session
14:00 – 16:00:
How to Do Business in Times of Uncertainty and Volatility
- Sustainable Development of Chinese Textile Industry and Win-Win Cooperation for Global Textile
Industry — Wang Tiankai, president, China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC),
China - Making a Difference in the Textile and Apparel Industry — Marjorie Yang, chairman, Esquel
Group, Hong Kong - U.S. Trade Policy: Presidential Elections Do Matter — Thomas G. Travis, chairman, Sandler,
Travis & Rosenberg, Miami - Panel Discussion/Q&A
16:30 – 18:00: Meeting
Committee of Home Textiles Producers
Evening: Gala Dinner
Temple of Literature
Tuesday, November 6
Third General Session
09:00 – 10:00:
From Fiber to Retail – How to Handle the Textile Supply Chain
- Cotton in the World’s Supply Chain: Now and into the Future — Mark A. Messura, senior vice
president, Cotton Incorporated, Cary, N.C. - Sustainability in the Textile Supply Chain: A Chemical Company’s View — Huntsman Textile
Effects, Singapore - Panel Discussion/Q&A
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break
Fourth General Session
10:30 – 12:00:
Old and New Retail Markets
- Global Changes in Clothing Consumption by 2020, and their Impact on Fiber-Manufacturer Supply
Chains — Arvind Singhal, chairman, Technopak, India - Thomas Nelson, vice president, VF Corp., Hong Kong
- Apparel Retail’s Future and the Implications for Supply Chain Partners — Colin Funnell,
executive vice president, Global Supply Chain, Gap Inc., United States - Panel Discussion/Q&A
12:00 – 14:00: Meeting
Committee of Management (includes working lunch)
12:00 – 14:00: Lunch
Fifth General Session
14:00 – 15:00:
Technical Textiles and Nonwovens
- Technical Textiles for Infrastructural Applications in Asia – Wally Moore, global group
director, TenCate Geosynthetics, Pendergrass, Ga. - Challenges and Opportunities for Nonwovens: Global and Regional Market Trends -Jacques
Prigneaux, market analysis and economic affairs director, EDANA, Belgium - Panel Discussion/Q&A
15:00 – 15:15:
The Global Textile Machinery Market Situation
- Christian P. Schindler, Ph.D., director general, ITMF
15:15 – 15:30: Invitation
Invitation to the 2013 ITMF Annual Conference
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00: Workshop
Offered by Huntsman Textile Effects
For latest program updates, visit itmf.org. Program accurate as of
TW Asia
‘s press time.
July/August/September 2012