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Session Descriptions
1:40-2:30 pm
Weaving the Future: How Textiles
Ensure Astronaut Survival in Space
Salman Chaudhry, Senior Technical Advisor for KBR
Inc., partnering with Axiom Space to support the
NASA Artemis III Mission
ACC NORTH
The presentation will highlight the harsh space
environments in low earth orbit and the lunar surface.
Flammability, extreme temperature swings, UV
radiation and atomic oxygen influx, micro-meteoroid
orbital debris risks and how it correlates to textile
material performance for the space environment
qualification will all be discussed. We'll examine
how advancement in textile developments is pushing
the limits for not only protecting the astronauts but
enabling the next generation of space exploration.
2:40-3:20 pm
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Challenges in Making the
Ideal Sensor Fabric
Dr. Nic Brownless, COO / VP R&D, Eeonyx Corp.
ACC NORTH
This is a general firsthand account of the challenges
faced by a small company in making customized
coated sensor fabrics for a number of different
applications. The presentation will discuss challenges
faced in this endeavor, including but not exclusive to
learning to speak the same language as the customer,
bridging the performance specification gap, typical
behaviors of sensor fabrics when placed under duress
with compression and achieving consistency from
batch to batch.
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Informing Design of Apparel for a
Hotter World: Human-Surrounding
Interactions in Extreme Heat
Konrad Rykaczewski, Associate Professor,
Arizona State University
ACC NORTH
Understanding how the human body is heated
and cooled in extreme heat can inform the
design of textiles and garments that can support
thermoregulation. This presentation will cover new
methods used to understand these processes in
sunny and extremely hot conditions (up to 119 F).
It will cover radiative and convective body heating
measured using the first outdoor thermal manikin
and discuss evaporative skin cooling from the
perspective of a single sweat pore.
3:35-4:25 pm
Beyond the Chatbots:
AI in the Physical World
Anirudh Sharma, Researcher, MIT Media Lab
ACC NORTH
Anirudh will delve into his journey evolving from
research labs to startups on wearable computing,
material science, AI and its impact on the fashion and
print industry. He will focus on climate impact and
CO2-to-new-materials innovations developed at the
MIT spinoff Graviky Labs and will demonstrate novel
approaches and techniques using advanced sensing
techniques combined with Artificial Intelligence and
LLMs to interpret and understand information from
the physical world.
4:35-5:25 pm
The Well-Dressed Spacecraft:
Academic Partnerships for
Accelerating Advanced Textiles
Into the 'New Space' Economy
Dr. Juliana Cherston, Postdoctoral Fellow
at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard
University & Smithsonian Institute;
Consultant on Emerging Technology
ACC NORTH
Dr. Juliana Cherston will offer a case study on a
partnership between her research group at MIT and
collaborators from industry to bring the first electronic
textile to the International Space Station. In addition
to sharing details on the project itself, she will offer a
retrospective on successes and challenges in how to
structure partnerships, scope project timelines, and
manage deliverables. Juliana will also offer a broad
sense for the landscape of opportunity when it comes
to textiles in space, both near term and far future.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
8-8:50 am
Greener Chemistry: The Path to
Protecting People and the Planet
Jamie Griggs, Senior Brand Partner, Hohenstein;
Will Troutman, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
ACC NORTH
How do you balance risk and budget while protecting
customers, workers and the environment?
Complicated supply chains with global legal
compliance? Reputations and performance with claim
validation? The challenges surrounding sustainability,
regulatory and industry compliance require greener
chemistry - proactively reducing or eliminating
chemical hazards. This means predicting restrictions,
preventing hazards from entering supply chains and
strategic testing based on risk. Join us to discuss
the legal and technical considerations that go
into a greener chemistry approach.
9-11 am
Biomaterials Workshop:
Crafting Biobased Materials
for Interactive Interfaces
Eldy Lazaro, Ph.D. Student, ATLAS Institute,
CU Boulder
ACC NORTH
This workshop will teach participants biobased
material development and implementation via handson
explorations and brainstorming activities. We will
discuss the material's life cycle, design opportunities
for disassembly, and end-of-life of soft electronics
and interactive interfaces. Attendees will leave with
the knowledge of being able to:
* Make agar-agar bioplastics and biofoams.
* Integrate biobased materials into woven structures
to make interactive interfaces.
* Imagine applications of biobased materials
in soft electronics or wearable technology.
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