The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Textiles and Mass Customization (ITMC 2019) was held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 13 to 15 November 2019.

Dr Laetitia Marrot, InnoRenew CoE researcher, participated in the conference with her presentation “Introduction of biochar for the manufacture of flax conductive fabrics”. Dr Marrot also met with several representatives from industry and academia in the field of smart textiles and had fruitful conversations with them.

In addition to the oral presentations where participants discussed views and challenges in this research area, there was a poster session and Smart Textiles Salon where several prototypes from the participants were shown.