The session aims to provide:

• Strategic overview of the Technical Textiles sector, focusing on its current state, future growth trajectory, and the evolving ways in which industry stakeholders engage across global markets.
• The expanding role of Technical Textiles across healthcare, infrastructure, mobility, protective applications, sustainability, and advanced industrial use-cases.
• Global demand drivers, regional growth dynamics, and future opportunity areas.
• Increasing complexity in sourcing, qualification, and collaboration as Technical Textiles become more application-specific and regulation-driven.
• The growing relevance of structured and digitally enabled B2B engagement models, alongside traditional industry mechanisms, to support discoverability, collaboration, and informed decision-making.

Speaker: Dr. Arindam Basu

Dr. Arindam Basu, a Chartered Engineer, Hon. Fellow of Textile Association, Institution of Engineers, and Society for Applied Biotechnology, has obtained his Ph.D. in Textile Engineering from University of Leeds, England. After retirement as Director General of NITRA, Ghaziabad and Director of NITRA Technical Campus, a engineering degree college approved by AICTE and affiliated to Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, after 11+ years tenure, he has co-founded a company namely Nattex Sols Private Limited to promote natural, biodegradable, environmentally friendly fibres and technologies. Before NITRA’s stunt he worked as Director of SITRA, Coimbatore and CSTRI, Central Silk Board, Bangalore.

He has published around 25 books and chapters and published more than 175 research papers in International and national journals. He has published 15 patents as Principal Contributor and successfully completed 30+ externally sponsored R&D projects as Principal Investigator.