Canadian Textiles: "Skills and Innovation"

HUMAN RESOURCES        BEST PRACTICES		TECHNICAL SESSIONS*
9:45-10:20	"Leveraging our Brand, Leveraging our Infrastructure and Leveraging our Talent" Ghyslain Bouchard, Gildan Activewear	"Polytrimethylene Teraphthalate (PPT) Fibres Bring Exciting New Properties to Diverse Textile Applications" Joe LeGrand, Shell Chemicals
10:20-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-12:00	"Innovative Training at the Department of National Defense (DND)" Major Dan Hansen, Department of National Defense Paul Hébert, ADGA Group	"Recent Advances in Woven and Knit Narrow Fabric Technology, with both Rigid and Elastic Fibres" Jacob Muller of America Inc.
	"Impact of the Project 'Clothe the Soldier' on Consoltex Personnel" Daniel Routhier & Yvon Duheme, Consoltex Inc.	"A Comparison of Features and Benefits of the latest Digital Printing Systems" Brooks Tippett, Pantone Inc.

12:00-1:00	LUNCHEON
13:30-15:45	"World-class Business Skills for Today's Workplace" Jean-François Goldstyn, Harvard Business School Online Jeff Mitchell, Thomson Learning for Cardean University "Critical Textile Environmental Issues" Djénéba Djiré, Hafner Inc. and Jacques Pierquet, Eco-Gestenv Inc. Marie-France Bérard, Environment Canada "Building an Innovative Business Development Process" Ward Metzler, DuPont Canada
15:45-16:00	CONFERENCE CLOSING John Alleruzzo Canadian Director of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees and THRC Co-chair Lucie Brassard Consoltex Inc. Program Subject to Change *In collaboration with the Textile Federation of Canada