Expo Hightex is the leading convention and largest exhibition in technical textiles and advanced materials technology in Canada. Industry leaders and scientific researchers working in these fields converge at Expo Hightex to share the latest technical developments and bring new products to market.

1. DISCOVER THE PROGRAMMARCH 25TH AND 26TH
AT THE HOTEL MORTAGNE (MONTREAL AREA)
DISCOVER
EXPO HIGHTEX 2015 PROGRAM

2. Customers’ Choice – Innovative Products
Dr. Jacek Mlynarek, President and CEO of the CTT Group
Robert Bélanger, President and CEO of Belt-Tech
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH
EXPO HIGHTEX OPENING
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM

3. CONFERENCE 1
Ultra-Deep Mines: When the Heat and Humidity
Become Unbearable
Dr. Stéphane Hallé, Deputy Director of the Work
Health and Safety Team Research of the École de
Technologie Supérieure
Dr. Sylvie Nadeau, Professor in the Mechanical
Engineering Division of the École de Technologie
Supérieure
CONFERENCE 2
Challenges Facing the Textile Industry –
Antistatic Issues in Protective Equipment
Applications
Dr. Steve Fowler, Fowler Associates Inc
CONFERENCE 3
Kinetic Energy Harvesting for Dismounted
Soldiers: Kinetic Boot Proof of Concept
Michel Bisson, President and CEO of STC Footwear
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH
PROTECH / WORKWEAR
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM

4. KEYNOTE
Health and Personal Care Application: Trends
and Opportunities
Dr. Jacek Mlynarek, President and CEO of CTT Group
CONFERENCE 4
Quebec’s Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Industry: an Industry with Many Aspects
Michèle Houpert, Director of the Direction de la Santé
et des biotechnologies du Ministère de l’Économie, de
l’Innovation et des Exportations
CONFERENCE 5
Fast, Reliable and Convenient Protective
Solutions for Paramedics
Charlene Vacon, Analysis and clinical research advisor
with Urgences-Santé
CONFERENCE 6
Integration of Biometric Sensors
François Couderc, Solutions Health / Defense and
Security Specialist with Thales Canada Defence &
Security
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH
MEDITEX DIALOGUE
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

5. CONFERENCE 7
Adaptive Clothing: a Market to be Discovered
Christine Harding, Technical Director of Vestechpro
CONFÉRENCE 8 (to be confirmed)
Therapeutic or Medical Devices... Textiles
become really Smart!
Karine Théberge, President and CEO of Biomod
Concepts
ROUND TABLE
Personal and Health Care - Skills, Capabilities
and Canadian Added Value Textile Technologies
Moderator: Diane Côté, President and CEO of MEDTEQ
B2B SESSION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH
MEDITEX DIALOGUE
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

6. Economic and Financial Outlook 2015
Pierre Cléroux, Vice President Research and Chief
Economist of the Business Development Bank of Canada
René Leduc, Vice President Business Restructuring of the
Business Development Bank of Canada
THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH
KEYNOTE
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM

7. CONFERENCE 9
Collaborative Automotive Research in Canada –
Key Issues in Materials & Manufacturing
Dr. Peter Frise, Scientific Director and CEO of Auto 21
CONFERENCE 10
Infused Large-Scale Composite Parts
François Trochu, Scientific Advisor with ERFT
Composites
CONFERENCE 11
Overview RTM Research Project Using Braided
Preforms
Didier Hoste, Section Chief in the Aerostructures
Technology Development Team of Bombardier
Aerostructures and Engineering Services
CONFERENCE 12
Textile Preforms For Composites
Jonathan Lévesque, 3D Textiles Group Leader with CTT
Group
THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH
TRANSPORTECH
9:30 AM – 11:45 AM

8. Innovative Technical Textiles: Emerging Trends and
Technologies
Dr. Olivier Vermeersch, Vice-President R & D at CTT Group,
Chair Leader of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in
Innovative Technical Textiles
Justine Decaens, Project Leader with CTT Group
THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH
KEYNOTE
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM

9. CONFERENCE 13
Technical Aramid solutions for protection
against heat and flame, Personal Protective
Clothing Market (PPE)
Romain Zeganadin, Project Manager - Industrialisation
& Sourcing Textile with Kermel
CONFERENCE 14
Key Considerations for Balanced Chemical-
Biological Protection for the Soldier
Scott Duncan, Head of Chemical Biological Assessment
and Protection section of the Defence Research and
Development Canada Suffield
CONFERENCE 15
Flash Fire Man™ - Capacities Serving Industry
and Development
Yann Sadier, Project Leader with CTT Group
THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH
PROTECH / WORKWEAR
1:45 PM – 3:30 PM