The forums address key topics of the future textile industry — from material development and production to sustainability and digitalisation. This generates new insights and impulses that have an impact far beyond the days of the trade fair.

Programme Committee

Experts from industry, research, and development can submit their contributions now. An international Programme Committee of experienced experts will review the submissions for relevance and quality and compile a versatile range of presentations.

Programme Committee Techtextil Forum

Programme Committee Texprocess Forum

Categories Techtextil Forum 2026

• Beyond Function – The Next Generation of Technical Textiles
• Engineered for Impact – Designed for lasting change
• Textile Intelligence – Smart, Connected, Responsive
• Manufacturing Intelligence – Digitalization, Automation, and AI
• Resilient Textiles – Solutions for an unstable World
• Pushing Boundaries – Interdisciplinary and disruptive Innovations

Submit your application: https://solutions.techtextil.com/

Categories Texprocess Forum 2026

• Sustainable solutions
• CAD/CAM
• Digitalisierung und KI
• Legal requirements
• Design Tools

Submit your application: https://solutions.texprocess.com/

Participate now and submit your contributions by 15 December 2025

Participation in the Techtextil and Texprocess Forums 2026 is free of charge. Short presentations should be written in English and supplemented with visualisations. The selected speakers will be announced at the beginning of February 2026. Their contributions will be part of the four-day programme of Techtextil and Texprocess 2026.

Further information on the Techtextil Forum 2026:

Techtextil Forum – https://techtextil.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/programme-events/techtextil-forum.html

Further information on the Texprocess Forum 2026:

Texprocess Forum – https://texprocess.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/programme-events/texprocess-forum.html

Techtextil and Texprocess will be held from April 21 to 24, 2026