DISCOVER THE PROGRAMMARCH 25TH AND 26TH

AT THE HOTEL MORTAGNE (MONTREAL AREA)

DISCOVER EXPO HIGHTEX 2015 PROGRAM

Customers’ Choice – Innovative Products

Dr. Jacek Mlynarek, President and CEO of the CTT Group

Robert Bélanger, President and CEO of Belt-Tech

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH

EXPO HIGHTEX OPENING8:45 AM – 9:15 AM

CONFERENCE 1

Ultra-Deep Mines: When the Heat and Humidity

Become Unbearable

Dr. Stéphane Hallé, Deputy Director of the Work Health and

Safety Team Research of the École de Technologie Supérieure

Dr. Sylvie Nadeau, Professor in the Mechanical Engineering

Division of the École de Technologie Supérieure

CONFERENCE 2

Challenges Facing the Textile Industry – Antistatic Issues

in Protective Equipment Applications

Dr. Steve Fowler, Fowler Associates Inc

CONFERENCE 3

Kinetic Energy Harvesting for Dismounted Soldiers:

Kinetic Boot Proof of Concept

Michel Bisson, President and CEO of STC Footwear

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH

PROTECH / WORKWEAR9:15 AM – 10:45 AM

KEYNOTE

Health and Personal Care Application: Trends and

Opportunities

Dr. Jacek Mlynarek, President and CEO of CTT Group

CONFERENCE 4

Quebec’s Medical Equipment Manufacturing Industry:

an Industry with Many Aspects

Michèle Houpert, Director of the Direction de la Santé et des

biotechnologies du Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et

des Exportations

CONFERENCE 5

Fast, Reliable and Convenient Protective Solutions for

Paramedics

Charlene Vacon, Analysis and clinical research advisor with

Urgences-Santé

CONFERENCE 6

Integration of Biometric Sensors

François Couderc, Solutions Health / Defense and Security

Specialist with Thales Canada Defence & Security

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH

MEDITEX DIALOGUE1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

CONFERENCE 7

Adaptive Clothing: a Market to be Discovered

Christine Harding, Technical Director of Vestechpro

CONFÉRENCE 8 (to be confirmed)

Therapeutic or Medical Devices... Textiles become really

Smart!

Karine Théberge, President and CEO of Biomod Concepts

ROUND TABLE

Personal and Health Care - Skills, Capabilities and

Canadian Added Value Textile Technologies

Moderator: Diane Côté, President and CEO of MEDTEQ

B2B SESSION

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH

MEDITEX DIALOGUE1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Economic and Financial Outlook 2015

Pierre Cléroux, Vice President Research and Chief Economist of the

Business Development Bank of Canada

René Leduc, Vice President Business Restructuring of the Business

Development Bank of Canada

THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH

KEYNOTE8:45 AM – 9:30 AM

CONFERENCE 9

Collaborative Automotive Research in Canada – Key

Issues in Materials & Manufacturing

Dr. Peter Frise, Scientific Director and CEO of Auto 21

CONFERENCE 10

Infused Large-Scale Composite Parts

François Trochu, Scientific Advisor with ERFT Composites

CONFERENCE 11

Overview RTM Research Project Using Braided Preforms

Didier Hoste, Section Chief in the Aerostructures Technology

Development Team of Bombardier Aerostructures and

Engineering Services

CONFERENCE 12

Textile Preforms For Composites

Jonathan Lévesque, 3D Textiles Group Leader with CTT Group

THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH

TRANSPORTECH9:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Innovative Technical Textiles: Emerging Trends and Technologies

Dr. Olivier Vermeersch, Vice-President R & D at CTT Group, Chair Leader

of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Innovative Technical Textiles

Justine Decaens, Project Leader with CTT Group

THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH

KEYNOTE1:00 PM – 1:45 PM

CONFERENCE 13

Technical Aramid solutions for protection against heat

and flame, Personal Protective Clothing Market (PPE)

Romain Zeganadin, Project Manager - Industrialisation &

Sourcing Textile with Kermel

CONFERENCE 14

Key Considerations for Balanced Chemical-Biological

Protection for the Soldier

Scott Duncan, Head of Chemical Biological Assessment and

Protection section of the Defence Research and Development

Canada Suffield

CONFERENCE 15

Flash Fire Man™ - Capacities Serving Industry and

Development

Yann Sadier, Project Leader with CTT Group

THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH

PROTECH / WORKWEAR1:45 PM – 3:30 PM