2008 SHOW PREVIEW - Specialty Fabrics Review

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Wednesday, sePtember 23
Daily schedule
7:00 am–5:00 pm
Registration / IFAI Bookstore Open,
Hall AB
8:30–9:30 am
Keynote Speaker:
CNBC's Ron Insana, 6C
9:45 am–12:30 pm
Global Textile Markets, 4
9:45 am–12:30 pm
Improving Profitability Strategy
Forum, 11A
9:45 am–12:30 pm
Patching Holes in Human
Tissue, 5A
10:00 am–5:00 pm
TRADE SHOW OPEN, Halls ABC
10:15–11:15 am
Fabric & Lighting Workshop,
Innovation Theater
11:30 am–12:15 pm
International Achievement
Awards—How an Architect/Design
Firm Did It, Innovation Theater
1:30–5:00 pm
The Ultimate Sellers Forum, 11A
2:00–5:00 pm
Sustainable Printing–Ensuring
Our Future, 10
2:00–5:00 pm
Technical Textiles Rocketing
to Space, 9
4:00–5:00 pm
Welding Codes for Shade
and Lightweight Structures,
Innovation Theater
5:00–7:00 pm
Welcome Reception and 7th Annual
IFF Silent Auction, West Terrace
Division/industry Meetings
1:15–2:00 pm
FGA Business Meeting, 5A
1:30–2:30 pm
TC&TA Business Meeting, 7A
4:30–5:00 pm
NFI Annual Meeting, 7A
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global textile markets
Wednesday, Sept. 23
9:45 am–12:30 pm
Located in room 4 of the San Diego Convention Center
Session Leader–Jeff Rassmussen, Market Research Manager, IFAI
• Learn about the economic infrastructures in five emerging countries–Mexico,
Germany, Australia, Egypt and the Middle East, and China
• Learn how to conduct business across the borders
• Find out about importing and exporting opportunities
• Develop international business connections
Main Competitiveness Drivers of Mexico’s Textile
and Apparel Industries
Claudio Rodrigo Garcia Verdú, Director General for Basic Industries,
Ministry of the Economy, Mexico
9:45–10:20 am
German Textile Market
Representative, German Embassy, Trade Sector
10:20–10:50 am
Australian Textile Market
Joseph Dean, Managing Director, Wade Design Engineers Pty Ltd, member of management
council, Australian Cavnas and Synthetic Products Association (ACASPA)
10:50–11:20 am
Doing Business with Egypt and the Middle East
Hanzada Adel Farid, Commercial Assistant, US Foreign Commercial Services
11:20 -11:50 am
Technical Textile has a Prosperous Future in China
Flora Xu, IFAI China Representative
11:50 am–12:30 pm
This presentation will introduce the Chinese technical textile industry and
several main application markets. Attendees will discover the opportunity for
technical textiles in China through the current status of China’s economy. China’s
state government economy stimulus plan, manufacturing and textile industry
revitalization plans, and emphasis on energy saving and environmentally-friendly
construction. It will explore the strength and weakness of the Chinese technical
textile industry and ways to solve the problems.