Join us for the first strategy co-creation session of the year, a new flagship activity bringing Innovation Hub members together to jointly explore emerging opportunities and translate them into concrete EU funding prospects.
This session marks the starting point of a structured series of strategic co-creation activities, leading to the development of a strategic paper on “Strategy Roadmap for the Digital Transformation of the European Textile and Apparel Industry ”.
This event is open to DigitX Innovation Hub members only. Interested in joining? Get in touch to find out more, or subscribe directly below.
Why now?
The launch of this new activity for DigitX Innovation Hub, at this particular moment and on these specific topics, is driven by many factors:
First and foremost is the Regulatory Imperative: the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, specifically the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), mandates that by 2030, every product must possess a digital record (DPP) verifying a broad range of technical, performance and sustainability attributes. Without this digital infrastructure, market access will essentially be denied.
Simultaneously, the industry faces an Economic Necessity to adopt to a new agility over low-cost paradigm. The traditional, long-lead fashion calendar is no longer sustainable against fluctuating raw material costs and the competitive onslaught of algorithmic ultra-fast fashion.
Finally, the Circularity Requirement dictates new ways of product development and data exchange along the full product life cycle. Circular business models like resale, repair and fibre-to-fibre recycling are structurally impossible without deep data integration. Automated sorting for recycling, assessment for repairability or authentication for resale rely entirely on automated digital identification and AI-supported decision-making, making immediate digital adoption the only path to closing the loop on waste.
About the DigitX Innovation Hub
In partnership with Lectra (FR), SmartexAI (PT), ITA Academy (DE), CITEVE (PT), Finnish Textile & Fashion (FI), Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Design (IT) and EURATEX, Textile ETP launched the DigitX Innovation Hub to serve as a central hub for textile companies, research organisations, brands, and retailers to converge, learn, network, and collaborate on the key topics related to the digitalisation of the textile sector.
As the textile industry faces growing demands for efficiency, sustainability, and customisation, digitalisation offers transformative solutions, ranging from AI-driven design to digital product passport (DPP) that streamline and modernise workflows, minimise waste, and enable more agile responses to market trends. This new DigitX Innovation Hub presents a unique platform for professionals from diverse backgrounds to engage in discussions, collaborate, access information, and collectively address the challenges on the horizon.
A full-year learning and networking programme for the price of a 2-day conference ticket.
The Innovation Hub is designed for textile professionals with a keen interest in artificial intelligence, digital supply chain and manufacturing.
Small, medium and large companies across the entire supply chain
Research/testing institutes and university departments
Professional associations and clusters
Consultancies and independent experts