SmartIndumI 2026 is Russia’s first large-scale trade fair and congress devoted to the complete digitalisation of the domestic light-industry supply chain. Scheduled to take place at the IEC Expocentre in Moscow, the three-day, in-person event will gather spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, sewing, footwear, leather-goods, accessory, sportswear and home-textile producers with suppliers of Industry 4.0 hardware, software and services. The exhibition will occupy two halls and will be flanked by a multi-stream congress, master-classes and live demonstrations of robotic sewing lines, digital twins, AI-driven cutting, automated warehousing and blockchain-based product passports. The organisers – the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Russian Union of Textile and Light Industry Entrepreneurs, and Expocentre – state the overriding goal is to accelerate mass adoption of smart manufacturing technologies so that domestic companies can halve production costs, shorten time-to-market and meet the state’s import-substitution targets by 2030. Keynote speakers already confirmed include Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov; Chair of the State Duma Committee on Light Industry Viktor Zubarev; President of the Russian Union of Textile Producers Andriy Razbrodin; Director of the Department of Digital Economy at the Ministry of Digital Development Kirill Gevorgyan; and global technology leaders from Siemens, Bosch, ABB, Lectra, Gerber Technology, Shima Seiki, Stoll, Kornit Digital and Yandex. The congress is divided into eight thematic blocks: digital design and PLM, additive manufacturing, smart textiles and wearable electronics, resource-efficient dyeing and finishing, AI-based quality control, sustainable materials and recycling, supply-chain transparency, and workforce re-skilling. Parallel sessions will present case studies from Russian factories that increased OEE by 30 % after installing MES, and from Turkish and Bangladeshi plants that reduced fabric waste by 12 % using AI nesting. A start-up pitch contest will award grants to developers of nano-fibre sensors, AR maintenance glasses and low-cost cobots. Visitors may also tour the “Factory in One Day” interactive zone where a garment will be designed, prototyped and labelled within 30 minutes. SmartIndumI 2026 is free to attend after online registration; simultaneous translation will be provided.