Keynote Speakers
FTW 2025


Professor Lynn Boorady Head, Department of Design and Merchandising,
Oklahoma State University, USA

Professor Parikshit Goswami
Director, Technical Textile Research Centre
University of Huddersfield

Professor Calvin Wong
Professor in Fashion
CEO & Director, AiDLab
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professor Bastian Quattelbaum Qualitätsmanagement
Hochschule Niederrhein
University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Professor Iqbal Mujtaba
Chair
Computational Process Engineering
University of Bradford
UK
STFC 2024

Professor Muhammad Azizul Islam
Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency
University of Aberdeen Business School
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Professor Usha Ramanathan
Professor of Sustainability and Supply Chains,
Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Dr. Michael Klode
Programme for Sustainability in the Textile and Leather Sector (STILE)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
SWFC 2022

Professor Deepti Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi
British School of Fashion, GCU London
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Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering,
Director, Wearable Biosensing Lab,
Founding Member, URI Artificial Intelligence Lab,
University of Rhode Island, USA
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Department of Computer Science,
Founder, Secure and Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab),
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA​
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STFC 2022
Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas EdD FRSA SFHEA NTFHEA CMBE
Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Business,
British School of Fashion, GCU London
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​Vice Chancellor, Asian University for Women (AUW)
Fellow at NYU and Harvard Asia Center
TFIC 2022

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​Head, Department of Design, Housing and Merchandising,
Oklahoma State University
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Anthony Bednall
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Fashion,
Kingston University
TFIC 2021
1st Textile and Fashion Innovation Congress (TFIC) 15-16 April 2021

Professor Prasad Potluri
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