4th International Conference on Functional Textiles & Clothing (FTC)
Event Dares: 31st January - 2nd February, 2025
Venue: IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
Frequency: FTC is a biannual conference held at IIT Delhi, New Delhi.
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The event brings leading scientists, researchers, designers, and the textile and apparel industry together, to enable exchanges/deliberations on the latest/emerging scientific findings, design developments, cutting-edge technologies (tech advancements), innovations, trends, concerns around climate change evolving geopolitics, challenges, and opportunities it throws in the emerging field of Functional Textiles and Clothing (FTC).
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Putting it in context," three editions of FTC have been held in 2018, 2020, and 2023, each of which witnessed secular participation from roughly 80 universities across the world. Held only in the physical mode at the prestigious IIT campus. FTC has proven to be a melting pot of potent ideas that offer fertile ground for business networking between multi-stakeholders from across the textile value chain".
Functional Clothing constitutes clothing consciously designed to deliver specific functionalities to users, in addition to their usual functions. Functional clothing items can be purposefully classified as Protective clothing, Sports clothing, Medical clothing, multi-use cases such as Vanity clothing, and clothing for military applications that perform multiple functions.
Interestingly, smart clothing items equipped with functions like sensors and processors for monitoring metrics and body parameters are a fast-growing segment of this market. The market for functional clothing is anticipated to hit a staggering 244.6 billion U.S. dollars by 2025.