Events
Smart Textiles workshops, symposia, seminars and business trips
Scientists, developers and entrepreneurs will find a forum for interdisciplinary cooperation at our events.
Take the opportunity to learn about expertise and the latest scientific findings at first hand, exchange ideas, find development partners - and make new contacts.
6 May 2025: Smart Textiles Workshop in Jena
Customised modifications of textile structures are the basis for innovative, marketable smart textiles
Many companies are facing major challenges. How are you responding? What role could smart textiles play in the future? Which parameters support marketability? Come to our Smart Textiles Workshop on 6 May 2025 to find out about new smart solutions in institutes and companies. Learn about outstanding projects and discuss the possibilities for your own products with the experts.
10 December 2024: Smart Textiles Symposium 2024
Symposium "Innovative material concepts as a turbo for smart textile developments"
The annual Smart Textiles Symposium took place in Jena on 10 December 2024. Experts from institutes and companies presented a wide range of new approaches for smart textiles and took part in the discussion. You can download the presentations as soon as they have been released by the author.
11 Sept. 2024: Smart Textiles Workshop | Lecture notes online
Flexible intelligence: innovations and trends in smart textiles
Intelligent materials are the textile materials of the future, from which multifunctionality and intelligent behaviour are expected. Innovators and developers are increasingly overcoming the challenges with solutions in which flexible textile materials act as the basis for an intelligent system. By integrating sensors into textile materials, we are giving them a new role.
3 - 4 September, 2024: WT | Wearable Technologies Conference USA
Up-to-date knowledge from international experts, inspiration and market insights
The world's largest B2B WT conference series will take place on 3 and 4 September 2024. Since 2006, the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series has been bringing together decision-makers, tech entrepreneurs and researchers to gain insights into innovations and exchange ideas with thought leaders in the WT value chain. The event is recognised as an important meeting place for players and thought leaders from Europe, North America and Asia.