The 13th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium

• Conference date: July 7-10, 2020,
• Format of the conference: video conference.
• Organizes: TBIS,  Ensait, institutes and  the companies supporting the videoconference

TBIS 2020 is a peer-reviewed conference.

On 11-12 March, 2020, WHO announced that the global COVID-19 outbreak become a pandemic.

“This is a controllable pandemic. Countries that decide to give up on fundamental public health measures may end up with a larger problem, and a heavier burden on the health system that requires more severe measures to control. All countries must strike a fine balance between protecting health, preventing economic and social disruption, and respecting human rights. We urge all countries to take a comprehensive approach tailored to their circumstances – with containment as the central pillar. We are calling on countries to take a four-pronged strategy:

• First, prepare and be ready. There are still 77 countries and territories with no reported cases, and 55 countries and territories that have reported 10 cases or less. And all countries with cases have unaffected areas. You have an opportunity to keep it that way. Prepare your people and your health facilities.
• Second, detect, prevent and treat. You can’t fight a virus if you don’t know where it is. That means robust surveillance to find, isolate, test and treat every case, to break the chains of transmission.
• Third, reduce and suppress. To save lives we must reduce transmission. That means finding and isolating as many cases as possible, and quarantining their closest contacts. Even if you cannot stop transmission, you can slow it down and protect health facilities, old age homes and other vital areas – but only if you test all suspected cases.
• And fourth, innovate and improve. This is a new virus and a new situation. We’re all learning and we must all find new ways to prevent infections, save lives, and minimize impact. All countries have lessons to share.”

On 3 March 2020, WHO announced worldwide shortages of personal protective equipment endangering health workers. Every month, frontline health responders around the world need 89 million masks, 30 million gowns, 1.59 million goggles and 76 million gloves.

In the view of the critical challenges from the global COVID-19 outbreak, textile industry plays an extremely important role in providing personal protective equipment for combatting coronavirus infections.  Responding to these urgent societal needs, TBIS Board of Directors, TBIS International Executive Committee, TBIS 2020 organizing committee and international scientific committee would like to change the focus as “Combatting COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks with protective and smart textiles”.

Considering the risk of infection and travel restrictions implemented in many countries,   and for the interest of the health, well-being and safety of all attendees and delegates of TBIS, given the ever-changing situation surrounding the pandemic COVID-19, the format of conference changed as video conference.

Topics:

• Advanced functional materials for antiviral and anti-infection , antiviral penetration
• Advanced smart materials for viral detections
• Advanced textile functional material manufacturing technology
• Personal protective facemasks
• Personal protective clothing and other devices
• Design and manufacturing PPEs
• Testing methods and testing standards for PPEs
• Export control and technical requirements for PPEs
• Global PPE markets and supply chain platform 
• E-textile wearable for detection, diagnosis, tracking and management of COVID-19 infections
• E-textile wearable based big data cloud platform and AI for managing COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks
• International research funding sources for combatting COVID-19 outbreaks
• Establishing international research collaboration platform (virology, bioengineering, textile, materials, design, healthcare, information technology, management engineering) for combatting COVID-19 outbreaks

The publication of TBIS2020 conference papers will proceed as scheduled.

For delegates who have already submitted their papers, should you wish not to have your proceedings to be published in TBIS2020, there is the option to have your paper published in the TBIS2021 proceedings, if so, please kindly let us know.