11:00-11:30

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14:00-14:30

Unlocking Success with Major Brands: An Outcome-Based Approach

In today’s competitive landscape, brands like Nike seek more than just technical advancements—they demand solutions that drive real outcomes. Join Chris Vacca, a seasoned product innovation and supply chain leader with 22 years at Nike, as he shares insights on how technology companies can better serve global brands by shifting their focus from features to impact-driven solutions.

Through real-world case studies, Chris will demonstrate how strategic thinking, vendor collaboration, and innovation in sustainability, automation, and digitization can provide a competitive edge. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to win new business and grow existing partnerships with top-tier brands.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain expert insights from an industry leader who has shaped some of Nike’s most disruptive innovation platforms, including Nike Flyknit, Nike Forward, and Nike ColorDry.

14:30-15:00

Functional Screen Printing in Production: Smart Textile Applications Explained through Stress-Detecting Socks

This presentation explores the role of Printed Electronics in smart textiles, demonstrating how electronic sensors and heating elements can be directly integrated into fabrics. Metafas has evolved from a traditional screen-printing manufacturer to a high-tech developer and producer of Smart IoT applications, such as Smart Socks—a breakthrough in stress detection. Using the successful business case of the Smart Sock, we will not only explain the development and production process of these advanced sensors but also share insights into Metafas’ organizational transformation towards Printed Electronics. Additionally, we will highlight real-world applications such as pressure sensors and heating elements in textiles, showcasing the vast potential of functional screen printing in smart wearables.

11:00-11:30

Press moment

14:00-14:30

Unlocking Success with Major Brands: An Outcome-Based Approach

In today’s competitive landscape, brands like Nike seek more than just technical advancements—they demand solutions that drive real outcomes. Join Chris Vacca, a seasoned product innovation and supply chain leader with 22 years at Nike, as he shares insights on how technology companies can better serve global brands by shifting their focus from features to impact-driven solutions.

Through real-world case studies, Chris will demonstrate how strategic thinking, vendor collaboration, and innovation in sustainability, automation, and digitization can provide a competitive edge. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to win new business and grow existing partnerships with top-tier brands.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain expert insights from an industry leader who has shaped some of Nike’s most disruptive innovation platforms, including Nike Flyknit, Nike Forward, and Nike ColorDry.

14:30-15:00

Screen Printing in the Next Generation of 5G and 6G Antennas

Screen Printing is very versatile and can reproduce electronics in the nanometer to micrometer scale. Using this versatility screen printing enables transparent conductive patterns for the next generation of 5G and 6G antennas.

15:00-15:30

Tailored Production with Printed Electronics: Innovations in Elderly Care

A key challenge in the development of this medical device, besides ensuring the reliable performance of the sensors, was primarily the cost and scalability of the solution. Printed electronics offer clear advantages over traditional designs of electronic components in this regard. Through additive manufacturing using printing machines, very lightweight, flexible, robust, and cost-efficient electronic components can be produced. Due to their unique properties, they are particularly suitable for use in wearables and medical technology applications. Production on specialised roll-to-roll printing machines enables high-volume manufacturing.

15:30-16:00

Application of Screen Printing for the Production of Bipolar Plates for Fuel Cells and Electrolysers

Screen printing shows its strengths particularly in small quantities, fast processes and the generation of unique selling prepositions (USP). It is precisely that these attributes are also at the forefront in the production of fuel cells and electrolysers, especially at the production of bipolar plates. By implementing screen printing, preliminary products can be manufactured faster and in significantly shorter product development cycles, resulting in products that perform significantly better and as well offer new product properties. In the field of bipolar plates, the focus is particularly on no or very little permeability and high electrical conductivity – two properties that are not necessarily associated with 3D printing. Here they can be realised in the fields of material, process, post-processing and the QA process chain in conjunction with the adaptation of screen printing. This results in applications in the fields of electro-mobility, hydrogen, fuel cells and electrolysis are not (on the first view) necessarily obvious. With these new approaches, Whitecell AG, together with Whitecell Eisenhuth and Whitecell Systems, is achieving a good deal closer to achieve the goal of emission-free green kilometres.

16:00-16:30

New Frontier: Integrating Security into Raster Printing

The ScreenX raster process enables the integration of logos, characters, or individual symbols as raster dots in the single or multi-color separation process of raster printing. By adapting to the underlying motif, the specific and individually defined raster dot, and the RIP parameters, customer-specific, batch-specific, or year-specific print images are created. This precise customization makes the process difficult to replicate due to its high technical complexity, providing an additional layer of security. This technique allows the production of tamper-resistant and flexibly designed print images, making it particularly suitable for security-critical applications. The process represents a technological advancement of conventional raster methods and expands their application spectrum specifically in the field of security printing.

10:00-10:30

Screen Printing: The Unrivaled Production Technique for Industrial Parts

The advantages of screen printing remain undeniable today. Versatility, cost-effectiveness for both small and large batch sizes, and adaptability, to name just a few. But how does screen printing, still characterized by craftsmanship, hold its own in times of technological change? New technologies are emerging and developing rapidly, product life cycles are becoming ever shorter, and disruptive technologies are causing technological disruptions – thus creating innovative products that pose entirely new challenges for screen printing. How is screen printing dealing with these challenges? A look back and a look ahead.

10:30-11:00

Next Generation of Formable Substrates: Unlocking Innovation in Automotive and Flexible Electronics

This session will cover the evolving landscape of lighting technologies, focusing on high-efficiency diffusion films for automotive applications and printed/flexible electronics. You can expect an innovative approach to decorative surface production using formable pre-cured hardcoat PC for automotive interiors.

11:00-11:30

Sustainable Solutions for Screen Printing: The Rise of Plant-based Inks and Exploring their Applications

Innovations are essential for the development of a modern circular economy. The piColor research project focusses on the development of environmentally friendly and biodegradable screen printing inks based on polysaccharides. For the coloration of the ink sustainable pigments are used, such as plant-based or microorganism-derived pigments. The greatest challenge is to expand the available colour range, reaching good light and wash fastness, optimal shear behaviour, good mechanical properties, and stable adhesion. Cooperations with industrial partners enable the development of inks that comply industrial requirements. Meanwhile, promising results are achieved, which give the opportunity to create products with lower fastness requirements, such as textile bags and paper packaging.

11:30-12:00

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