| 09:00-10:20 Reception & Registration | ||
| Opening Session | ||
| 10:30-10:35 | Recitation from Holy Quran | |
| 10:35-10:50 | Opening Remarks | Dr. Yasir Nawab, NTU, Fsd
Dr. Mohammad Mujahid, Principle SCME, NUST |
| 10:50-11:15 | Technical Textiles: Opportunities for Pakistan’s Textile Industry | Prof. Dr. Tanveer Hussain, Rector NTU |
| 11:15-11:30 | Current status of Pakistan’s Textile industry and role of FGCC | Mr. Rehan Naseem Bharara, Chairman Faisalabad Garments City Company |
| 11:30-11:45 | Status of Sialkot Technical Textile Industry and expectations from academia | Dr. Khurram Khawaja
Ex. President SCCI (Sialkot) |
| 11:45-12:00 | Success story of Interloop: An inspiration | Mr. Navid Fazil, COO, Interloop Limited |
| 12:00-12:10 | Importance of innovation for Pakistan’s Industry | Mr. Imtiaz Rastgar, Chairman HEC Innovation Steering Committee |
| 12:10- 12:20 | Address | Ch. M. Nawaz, President FCCI |
| 12:20-12:30 | Address | Secretary Mintex |
| 12:30- 12:45 | Role of HEC/ the way forward for textile Industry | Chief Guest, Prof. Dr. Arshad Ali (Executive Director HEC) |
| 12: 45- 14:00 | Lunch and Prayer Break | |
| Technical Session 1. Session Chair Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mujahid (SCME-NUST) | ||
| 14:00-14:20 | Benefits of accreditation in export of technical textiles | Ms. Ismat Gul Khattak, DG PNAC |
| 14:20-14:40 | Trends in Technical fabrics for advanced applications | Dr. Rizwan Hussain, DG- NESCOM |
| 14:40-15:00 | Vector Protective Textiles (NOT AVAILABLE FOR TODAY) | Dr. Mumtaz Hasan Malik, UMT, Lahore |
| 14:40-15:00 | Geotextile use in Civil Infrastructure | Mr. Hasan Sharyar Akhtar, Director Matrixx Company |
| 15:00-15:20 | Textile Composites: Materials of the future | Mr. Khubab Shaker, NTU, Fsd |
| 15:20-15:40 | Nanofibers: A new entry into technical textiles era | Dr. Zeeshan Khatri, MUET, Jamshoro |
| 15:40 -16:00 | Tea Break | |
| Technical Session 2. Session Chair Dr. Rizwan Hussain (NESCOM) & Mr. Farhan Latif (Director Chenab Group) | ||
| 16:00 -16:20 | Needleless Electro-spinning a Real-world way for the corpus fabrication of nano-fibrous membranes | Dr. Usman Ali, BZU, Multan |
| 16:20 -16:40 | 3D woven Fabrics for hi-tech applications | Mr. Ayub Asghar, NTU, Fsd |
| 16:40 -17:00 | Comparative Analysis of 2D and UD’s Flexural Rigidity of Kevlar Woven Preform | Dr. Mazhar Hussain Peerzada, MUET, Jamshoro |
| 17:00 -17:20 | Role of material engineering in Textiles | Dr. Ahmad Nawaz, NUST, Islamabad |
| 17:20 -17:40 | Novel Anti-UV and Anti-fouling Polymeric Emulsions for Biomedical Textile and Fibers | Dr. Nasir Ahmad, NUST, Islamabad |
Program
Day 1 (Monday) 26th September, 2016
Day 2 (Tuesday) 27th September, 2016
| Technical Session 3. Session Chair Prof. Dr. Sheraz Siddique, NED Karachi/ Co-Chair Dr. Mazhar Hussain Peerzada | ||
| 09:20 -09:40 | Generating heat from glass fabric coated with conductive polymer | Dr. Rehan Abbasi, BUITEMS, Quetta |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Textile based Temperature Sensor: Development and applications | Dr. Dawood Husain, NED Karachi |
| 10:00 -10:20 | Effect of Sphygmomanometric cuffs construction on pressure distribution | Dr. Shenela Naqvi, NED Karachi |
| 10:20 -10:40 | Application of Textile based smart sensors to improve the healthcare system | Dr. Syed Zameer Ul Hassan, BUITEMS, Quetta |
| 10:40 -11:00 | Materials for technical textiles and applications | Mr. Mujeeb Ullah Khan,
CEO I-Textiles |
| 11:00 -11:20 | Tea Break | |
| Technical Session 4. Session Chair Dr. Rehan Abbasi, Buitems & Mr. Talib Butt (AVP, Crescent Textile Mills Ltd) | ||
| 11:20-11:40 | Dyeing of 100% Cotton Woven Fabric with reactive dye using microwave technology | Dr. Uzma Syed, MUET, Jamshoro |
| 11:40 -12:00 | Characterization of fiber glass non-woven webs by using image analysis technique | Dr. Sheraz Siddique, NED Karachi |
| 12:00 -12:20 | Textiles for near IR Camouflage | Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, NTU, Fsd |
| 12:20 -12:40 | Environmental Issues of textile waste water and solution | Mr. Amjad Paracha, EHS expert |
| 12:40 -14:00 | Lunch and Prayer Break | |
| Round Table Discussion | ||
| 14:00 -17:00 | Shifting to highly value added technical textiles: issues of textile industry and possible solutions |
Invited participants only |
| 17:00 | Closing Remarks | Professor Dr. Tanveer Hussain |