DigitX Innovation Hub
From AI to DPP: making European textile businesses fit for the digital future
In partnership with Lectra (FR), TrusTrace (SE), SmartexAI (PT), ITA Academy (DE), CITEVE (PT), Finnish Textile & Fashion (FI) 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.
Combining online and in-person events, the Innovation Hub offers a wide scale of formats and targets a broad range of textile sustainability and circularity topics, so that textile professionals from different backgrounds can all find relatable and valuable content.
We look forward to welcoming you among our Innovation Hub members!
Driving Digital Transformation in European Textiles
As the European textile industry embraces the digital age, adapting to an evolving landscape of efficiency, customisation, and sustainability becomes essential. The DigitX Innovation Hub offers a platform where professionals can explore the potential of digital technologies to redefine their businesses.
Aligned with Europe’s ambitions for a green and digital transition, this hub focuses on critical themes such as AI-driven product creation, digital manufacturing, and innovative supply chain solutions. Participants will gain access to resources, collaborative opportunities, and cutting-edge insights to navigate challenges and shape a resilient, digitally empowered future.
Together, we accelerate innovation and empower European textiles to thrive in the digital era.
Discover the calendar of activities in the brochure
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The Innovation Hub Activities
Learn
Gain knowledge through attending monthly webinars that focus on addressing the gaps within the value chain and staying updated on the most recent innovation trends. Delve into our Textile Digitalisation Masterclass video library and discover over 15 hours of recorded expert presentations.
Network
Connect with stakeholders through engagement on the Community Platform and participation in trade fairs and events held within the Hub.
Collaborate
Meet relevant partners to establish business collaborations or build a European consortium to participate in projects.
Share
Publish your news in the Innovation Hub newsletter and share it with your fellow Hub members. Boost your visibility by sharing your content also via our LinkedIn.
Pricing and packages
A full-year learning and networking programme for the price of a 2-day conference ticket.
The membership in the Innovation Hub is a yearly recurring subscription, automatically renewed each year in January (see FAQs for the cancelations conditions). New joiners subscribing as of 1 July each year will be invoiced 60% of the yearly fee for the running calendar year. They will be automatically invoiced the normal yearly fee in January of the next calendar year, and all following years.
Who should subscribe and why?
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
The webinars and workshops are structured around the three most important innovation themes of digitalisation. They cover:
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More and more textile manufacturing processes move from analogue mechanical or chemical to fully digitally controlled and operated processes massively increasing the generation and exploitation of digital data. One of the most desirable features of digital processes is their extremely agility and efficiency even at small lot sizes. When digitally operated technology is seamlessly interconnected with real-time digital data flows, very precise and responsive on-demand production becomes possible, which is a massive value creator in highly complex and volatile end markets from fashion to niche technical textiles. Digitised and automated on-demand production systems have the potential to fundamentally transform todays global on-forecast textile manufacturing model and must be understood and explored by all forward-thinking companies.
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Being strictly data driven at the point of product conception/design allows to optimise the product not only for its functional performance and aesthetical value, but also enables smart decision making about production strategies & planning, sustainability and compliance, product placement and marketing messages as well as service and end-of-life aspects. For this designers and product developers need access to rich real-time data and powerful, but intuitive tools to rapidly turn creativity and innovative ideas into successful products. Understand what data is needed, what functionalities are offered by innovative AI-enabled technologies and what skills are required by industry professionals.
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The capacity to collect, analyse, exchange and strategically exploit digital data all along the supply chain will not only be a massive competitive advantage but literally a business license to operate. Regulators, public authorities and any consumer-facing company will simply demand all manufacturers, brands, distributors and retailers to produce reliable and verifiable data about all their processes, material, energy and other resource use, management and human resource practices. Companies that cannot deliver on those demands reliably and efficiently will risk being dropped from their respective supply chains. Whether such data becomes part of mandatory reporting, digital product passports, marketing claims, certificates, digital data spaces or blockchain ledgers is case-dependent, but companies without a digital data strategy will find it increasingly difficult to stay in business.
DigitX Innovation Hub’s News and Events
