DTV/SBS-Workshop on Digital Skills
16-10-2025
Ort: Berlin/hybrid
Digital transformation presents major challenges – and opportunities – particularly for textile service providers and standardisation experts. New requirements in the areas of sustainability, traceability and automation are changing the industry, as are regulatory developments at European level.
We would like to invite you to our English-language workshop on digital skills for the digital transformation of the textile care, PPE and medical device industries. The event is a collaboration between Small Business Standards (SBS), SME Safety (the SME manufacturers' association for non-textile protective equipment) and the European Digital SME Association.
The workshop will take place as a hybrid event at the DTV office in Berlin:
On: Thursday, 16. October 2025
Start: 10:00
End: 13:00
Location: Deutscher Textilreinigungs-Verband (DTV)
Otto-Suhr-Allee 97-99
10585 Berlin
Germany
Key topics include:
- Technologies such as artificial intelligence, smart textiles and the digital product passport and their relevance to the textile service industry
- Best practices: SME experiences with digitalisation in textile care and medical devices
- The role of standards in enabling digital solutions
- European initiatives and support programmes for skills development and innovation
Programme highlights:
- Keynote speech by Joachim Schwerin, European Commission (DG GROW)
- Expert presentations on digitalisation, identification and traceability, cyber security and smart textiles
- Panel discussion: ‘Technologies, standards and next steps for the digital product passport’
- SME case studies from the textile services sector and related industries