Textile Today Innovation Hub organized a launching ceremony of Textile Talent Hunt (TTH) 2023-24 competition at a hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Faruque Hassan, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), was the chief guest at the event.
Mohammad Ali Khokon, president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), and Engr Md Shafiqur Rahman, president of Institution of Textile Engineers and Technologists (ITET) attended as special guests.
"I thank the organizer for successfully launching the 8th season. In the 21st century, innovation and sustainability are no longer optional issues. Now, it is a necessity as the industry is continuously evolving with innovative products. To keep pace with this, Bangladesh’s textile and apparel industry must adopt innovation to optimise processes," said Faruque.
"Therefore, taking initiatives like the Textile Talent Hunt (TTH) 2023–24 competition by the Textile Today Innovation Hub is absolutely paramount to foster innovative processes, and for that, we need to develop innovative minds and leaders who will serve the textile and apparel industry in the long run," he added.
The launching programme was chaired by BUTEX Vice Chancellor Dr Shah Alimuzzaman Belal and moderated by Tareq Amin, founder and CEO of Textile Today Innovation Hub.
"I believe Textile Talent Hunt (TTH) 2023–24, like always, will uplift innovativeness in all over the industry by creating future leaders and by solving current challenges of the industry through innovativeness. BUTEX will provide all the support the event needs," said Alimuzzaman.
"Bangladesh’s apparel export industry wants to achieve $100 billion in exports by 2030. And as the BTMA president, I am really proud that we have a very strong backward linkage in the textile sector to support our apparel sector, said Khokon.
This time TTH is looking for students to transform them into Innovation Masterminds (IM) through training and grooming, idea audition, aptitude test, and supervised research or innovation project execution.
About 2,000 students are expected to join the competition from universities all around the country. Around 100 will be selected from them for the national-level competition to transform them into IMs.
"Textile Talent Hunt in its previous season was affluent to get right talents for the industry and in the 8th season we will put our best effort to discover right talents which will help them to be Innovation Masterminds for the sector," said Tareq Amin.
Title sponsor of the TTH 8th Season is Centro Tex Ltd, which is powered by Archroma (Bangladesh) Ltd.; Platinum Sponsors are Dysin Group and Jay Chemical Industries Pvt Ltd; Sponsors are Sameet Dye Chem and Sota Ghar Colour House; and Quality Partner is SGS Bangladesh Ltd.