The International Union of Shoe Industry Technicians (UITIC) is an organization, funded in 1972, which aims at developing technical knowledge in the footwear industry, in particular by organizing international conferences on a regular basis and by fostering information exchanges between its members, exclusively in the field of technology applied to footwear design and manufacturing processes. Members are from all over the world, and they include footwear association, technology centers, universities, private companies as well as individual experts in shoe technology.
70s
1972
EVIAN (France)
New materials, new processes
1975
ALICANTE (Spain)
Development and technical prospects in the footwear industry.
1977
MAYENCE (Germany)
Future prospects and development trends in the footwear industry in the European area. The use of computers in the footwear industry. Automation and flexibility.
1979
BRISTOL (Great Britain)
Successful footwear manufacturing in developed countries.
80s
1981
BELGRADE (Yugoslavia)
Footwear production in the microelectronics age
1983
MILAN (Italy)
Automation of processes that enhance productivity and avoid handling times
1985
BUDAPEST (Hungary)
Advances in CAD/CAM systems
1987
ALICANTE (Spain)
The footwear industry of the future
1989
NANTES (France)
"Just-in-time" or how to meet market needs reducing lead times
90s
1991
MUNICH (Germany)
Successful footwear companies of tomorrow
1993
ATHENS (Greece)
Industrial organisation, new materials, quality management, training and automatisms
1996
PORTO (Portugal)
Materials with better performance, new production and commercialisation tools, quality assurance systems and environmental management
1999
FERMO (Italy)
Evolution of the shoe technology in the last 3 years and prospects for the near future
00s
2002
BUDAPEST (Hungary)
Transnational production of footwear and its components as a result of the growing globalisation of the economy
2005
TUNIS (Tunisia)
Changes driven by footwear production globalisation and delocalisation
2008
ELCHE (Spain)
The advantages of technology for footwear trading and production processes
10s
2010
LEON (Guanajuato, Mexico)
Powerful ideas in the footwear market
2013
GUANGZHOU (Dongguan, China)
Social Responsibility: a challenge for the Footwear Industry
2016
CHENNAI (India)
The Future Footwear Factory
2018
PORTO (Portugal)
From Fashion to Factory : A New Technological Age
20s
2023
MILAN (Italy)