The eighth Aachen-Dresden International Textile Conference will be held from 27 – 28 November 2014 in Dresden, Germany. The event is organised by the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology (ITM) at TU Dresden in cooperation with the DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials at RWTH Aachen. The programme features 67 lectures in three parallel sections. In „Chemistry for Composites, Protective Textiles, and Textile Construction“, application-oriented polymer and fibre material developments as well as functionalisations and coatings will be presented. Trends and recent developments for high-performance materials, textile 2D and 3D reinforcement structures, simulation-assisted preforming/component production processes, and for the recycling of fibre-reinforced plastic composites will be the subject of the „Composites“ section. The „Saxomax - Textile Innovations“ section will present a new generation of multiaxial non-crimp fabrics for fibre-reinforced composites, and explain the exchange of expertise with industry and European co-operation partners. Conference languages are German and English with simultaneous translation.