Dentro del programa previsto, el día 14 se visitarán varias fábricas en Guangzhou y Dongguan.
El congreso tendrá lugar los días 15 de noviembre y 16 de noviembre. La cena oficial tendrá lugar el 15 de noviembre.
PROGRAMA OFICIAL:
Thursday 14 November (factory visit)
8:30 am Start from Guangzhou Hotel
9:00 am Visit of BOOTY and SEHOPE Group
11:45 am Lunch offered by SEHOPE Group and project presentation transfer to Dongguan
1:00 pm Visit of HUAJIAN
3:30 pm Visit of JIACHENG (to be confirmed)
4:30 pm Departure from Dongguan to the Guangzhou hotel
6:00 pm Arrival at the hotel
7:00 pm Diner on Pearl river night cruise
Friday 15 November
9:00 am Opening session
– UITIC Presidents (Yves MORIN) and CLIA Presidents (Su CHAOYING) welcome
– CLIA Shoe Committee welcome
– BEIJIN Light Industry welcome
– SEHOPE Group (exclusive sponsor ) welcome
9: 30 am Introductory lectures
– CSR An essential part of business! Is there still something like volunteer?
(Florian BERANEK – UNIDO expert)
– Presentation of Chinese Market (Su CHAOYING – CLIA President)
– Global Footwear Supply and Demand (Peter MANGIONE – USA)
10:50 am Coffee break + Poster presentation
11:10 am Session 1: Product innovation
– Development of Biodegradable Polyurethane Footwear Soling Materials
– (Gnanasundaram SARASWATHY – India)
– Footwear carbon footprint evaluation and action plan – An integral approach towards sustainability (Maria José FERREIRA – Portugal)
– Mean life of footwear. Results and methodology implemented for estimating a fundamental Life Cycle Analysis variable (Antonio Ruiz MARISCAL – Mexico)
– The development trend of shoe retail – try shoes online system (Li SHU – China)
– The application of the EPD scheme within the footwear sector: an approach to improve data integration, eco-labelling procedures and design tools
– (Carlo BRONDI – Italy)
12:50 am Lunch Buffet
2:30 pm Session 2: Process innovation
– Lean, green and clean: a new paradigm in footwear manufacturing
– (Sergio DULIO – Italy)
– Usage of anthropomorphic robots to assist human operators for the automatic pick and place of leather shoe components (Michele CANTELLA – Italy)
– The next generation of virtual shoe design (Monika RICHTER – Germany)
– Materials and time saving technologies (Antonio MIRALLES – Spain)
– ISA TAN TEC : A German tannery in Asia (Tom SCHNEIDER – Germany)
4:10 pm Coffee break + Poster presentation
4:40pm Session 3: Working conditions and human resources
– Ensuring Worker Safety In Footwear Production (John HUBBARD – United Kingdom)
– Improvement of training methods for manufacturing operations in footwear Industry (Christophe CUMIN – France)
– Improving Profits and Productivity: Lessons from the Apparel Sector
– (Steve JESSEPH – USA)
– Working Conditions and Human Resources – Standardization the key to achieve success (Ramalingam RAMESH KUMAR – India)
6:20 First day closure
7:30 Official Gala Diner
Saturday 16 November
09:00 am Opening session
– UITIC general assembly report to Congress
09:10 am Session 4: Consumers and customers
– Sustainability and the Confused Consumer (Gerhard NICKOLAUS – Germany)
– The present situation and the trend of China Footwear Standardization
– (Qi XIAOXIA – China)
– The Applied Research on User Experience Design Concept in Sneakers design
– (Shuwen WU – China)
– The REACH consequences, to be able to get used to moving legislation and standardization (Jean-Claude CANNOT – France)
– New possibilities to predict the speed of childrens feet growing up
(Petr HLAVACEK – Czech Republic)
10:50 am Coffee break + Poster presentation
11: 20 am Session 5: Business practices and CSR implementation
– The CSR of Anta (Tao ZHANG – China)
– Servitization: an innovative model of client – supplier relationship
– (Sergio DULIO – Italy)
– Implementing a Social Responsibility project in a SME acting in an economical crisis environment: challenges and opportunities (Daniel PETCU – Romania)
– Be ethical (Massimo DONDA, Italy)
1: 00 pm Closure ceremony Florian BERANEK
President of UITIC Yves MORIN and President of CLIA – Su CHAOYING
