Smart Textiles Salon



www.smarttextilessalon.com

The programme is organised together with » 80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University (www.textileconferences.be) » 6th International Conference on Textile and Polymer Biotechnology (www.intb.org)

Exhibition …

…introduces the latest demonstrator and prototype developments in the field of smart textiles and intelligent wearable systems. The displayed items will be explained and demonstrated by the developers.

Tool Time…

…gives you the opportunity to create your own smart textile. Two workshops will be offered »Elucidating textiles »Temperature changing textiles

Award ceremony…

…will be held to honor a student for outstanding work with the SysTex award. The work will be shown in the exhibition area. More information available at www.systex.org.

Call for demonstrators & prototypes

Submission of a demonstrator or a prototype requires a written abstract of maximum 200 words describing the working principle. All proposals must be in English and submitted to the email address Judith.Kenis@ugent.be no later than 15 May 2009. All submissions will receive an email confirming the submission and the selected contributions will be notified latest 31 May 2009. The demonstrators or prototypes of interest should fit in the scope of the exhibition being textile based or integrable into textile systems.