RRI2SCALE & TeRRIFICA – Final Joint Conference in Belgrade, Serbia “Embedding RRI for smart and climate resilient European regions” It was an honor for me to guide through this final conference of two inspiring Horizon 2020 projects. They were related to climate change and RRI driven smart regions. RRI2SCALE – Responsible Research and Innovation Ecosystems at regional scale for intelligent … Read More
61st Dornbirn-GFC 2022 – Sustainability a big issue
Global Fiber Congress – Dornbin-GFC – September 14-16, 2022 Sustainability, the meaning and challenges, and the urgent need to reduce human footprint on earth were primary topics during the opening session of the 61st Dornbirn-GFC. The 61st Dornbirn-GFC took place in Dornbirn, Austria from 14th to 16th September 2022. Thomas Riegler, PricewaterhouseCoopers, admonishingly mentioned that nearly all planetary boundaries are … Read More
60th Dornbirn-GFC Webinar Week 2021
Due to the corona pandemic, this year´s Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress took place as an online event. September 15th-17th, around 96 experts gave lectures covering topics such as Circular Economy & Sustainability, Fiber Innovations, Surface Modification, Apparel & Fashion. Sustainability as the most important driver for innovation This year’s Dornbirn-GFC focused on ecological challenges and sustainability. The environmental and marine … Read More
58th Global Fiber Congress Dornbirn-GFC and Dornbirn-GFC Startupdays
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Dornbirn-GFC: Communicating Fiber Innovations A firework of interesting topics and lectures from September 11-13 2019 in Dornbirn, Austria Circular economy and sustainability, digitization and smart textiles, surface modification and additives, sports and leisure wear, nonwovens and technical textiles – those were the hot topics of this year’s Global Fiber Congress. During the opening session Uday Gill, CEO Fibers Indorama Ventures … Read More
Announcement: 58th Global Fiber Congress Dornbirn-GFC (September 11-13)
The 58th Global Fiber Congress Dornbirn-GFC will take place September 11-13, 2019 in Dornbirn, Austria. Dornbirn-GFC is one of the worlds´ most important Fiber Innovation Congresses and is an ideas- and network providing platform for the industries of fibers, textiles, nonwovens, equipment and machinery. This year´s focus is on sustainability and digitization. The topics are: Fiber Innovations Circular Economy and … Read More
Purpose – Why attitude will decide
Special event organized by Creative Hive and Kienbaum Under the motto “Purpose – Why attitude will decide”, a very exciting get-together of the format Creative Hive took place on May 28 in Düsseldorf. In addition to the co-organizer Fabian Kienbaum, engineering artist Thomas Schönauer, CEO of the Metro AG Olaf Koch and Dr. Ing. Sarah Hintermayer of Evonik Technology & … Read More
Forum: Composites in Aerospace
Carbon composites – a vital material for the future success of aerospace Tuesday, May 21, an interesting networking event “Forum: Composites in Aerospace” took place at the innovation parc in Dübendorf, near Zurich in Switzerland. Carbon Composites Switzerland and the Swiss Aerospace Cluster (SAC) had invited to this forum that was geared to the aerospace industry, one of the leading … Read More
Techtextil 2019: Press conference of INDORAMA Ventures
INDORAMA Ventures press conference on the occasion of Techtextil 2019 Techtextil – the leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens took place May 14-17, 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. On the occasion of Techtextil 2019 IHOFMANN was organizing an international media conference for INDORAMA Ventures/Wellmann International to launch the new brand DEJA™. Official Market Launch of the … Read More
Dialogue in the Museum: “Artificial Intelligence and Smart Cities”
Dialogue in the Museum: “Artificial Intelligence and Smart Cities: Chinese Surveillance State – How does it affect us?” Series of lectures on April 4th, 2019 at the Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany The highlight of the event “Dialogue in the Museum” was definitively the convincing presentation by the studied sinologist and China expert Kai Strittmatter. In his almost … Read More
Human is the next big thing – machines become human
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The 7th Travel Technology Symposium took place under this auspicious motto “Human is the next big thing” on February 07, 2019 on the premises of Accenture in Kronberg, Germany. The always and again inspiring symposium of the Travel Industry Club (TIC) is supported by the cooperation partner Accenture. Accenture is currently the largest digital agency in the world, according to … Read More