Officiating guests at the International Scientific Symposium are: Dr Trisha Leahy, Chief Executive of the HKSI (4^th of right); Professor Ingvar Holmér, leader of the Thermal Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering of Lund University, Sweden (3^rd of right); Professor Tao Xiao-ming, Head and Chair Professor of Textile Technology, The Institute of Textiles and Clothing ("ITC") of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ("PolyU") (4^th of left); Professor Li Yi, Chairman of Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society and a professor of ITC of PolyU (3^rd of left); Dr Hu Junyan, a research fellow of ITC of PolyU (2^nd of left); Dr Maurice Wong, President of Genexy Company Limited and Director of The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (1^st of left); Professor Daniel Fong, Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2^nd of right), as well as Dr Raymond So, Sports Science & Medicine Coordinator of the HKSI (1^st of right).