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activities and discussions which truly held the event students from the top fashion institutes of Pakistan
together and the side events progressed side by participated. The What's New section, another side
side, each owning its own limelight. Starting off with event, introduced innovative textile products ranging
the presentations made by professional speakers from sustainable yarns to end products for the
who were very well-versed in the true language of attendees.
textiles. Panel discussions were held with panelists Inspiring Change's New Logo
showcasing their expertise and opinions relating to TEXtalks International also introduced a new logo for
their domains on topics that ranged from ICC events with a profound message. The
sustainability, environmental impacts, trade, and participants appreciated the new logo and hoped
global and local cotton. On the alternate side, the that through ICC, TEXtalks would bring more success
2nd Student Design Competition took place in which to such events in the future.

Continuing the legacy, TEXtalks International and brings experts to guide the stakeholders on how
organized the 5th Inspiring Change Conference (ICC) to ride the ships out of the storm. Conventional
2022 on the 31 of August 2022 in Pearl Continental events normally discuss only the current problems;
st
Hotel, Lahore Pakistan. ICC 2022 witnessed a huge however, ICC allows the participants to look closely at
success as more than 500 international and national current and future challenges and the successful
participants graced the event with their presence. strategies to overcome these. Briefly, the ICC 2022
With each passing year, the ICC event is getting more offered a conference for discussions, What'sNew
popular across the textile value chain of Pakistan as it section presented new textile products and ideas to
focuses on the challenges faced by the textile world visitors and student's design competition to foster

sustainable practices among youth that will help show their dedicated participation in the upcoming
Pakistan's fashion sector. events of ICC.

The participants applauded the theme of the panels, Distinguished Guests
which was evident from the interesting and active This year, ICC 2022 was graced by the presence of
discussions that took place there with contrasting Sadiq Sanjrani (Chairman Senate of Pakistan) as
opinions. The questions, technical solutions, and Chief Guest, William K. Makaneole (US Consul
energy of the panelists were inspiring. Furthermore, General Lahore) as Guest of Honor, representatives
the visitors rated the overall program " exceptional " for Cotton Council International (CCI) USA, Abdul
as it directly discussed their area of interest Rahim Nasir (Chairman APTMA), CEOs of various
irrespective of their domain, from fiber to finished textile firms, and key individuals from both industry
high-value products. The participants encouraged and academia.
the efforts of TEXtalks International to continue with
such inspiring events in the future and were eager to The ICC 2022 was power packed with different

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