9:00 am Implementing how COVID-19 influences the sustainability agenda
- Understanding the impact of downsizing and minimising it’s disadvantages
- Optimising and developing your packaging to reduce costs as well as becoming eco-friendly
- Sourcing alternative packaging to ensure sustainabilitygoals are met without compromising the product
- Implementing new technologies to offer smaller packaging and reducing costs
Hans van Bochove
Vice President, Public Affairs & Government Relations
Coca-Cola
9:30 am REUSE: Out with the old, in with the new – implementing a modern returns system
- What does a modern time returnable model look like?
- Adapting the concept to reality – implementing a proactive approach for a returns systems
- Modernising the whole returns system to keep up-to-date with what consumers want
- Eliminating single-use throughout your supply chain to reduce the need for reuse
Miguel De Sousa
Acting CEO
ECM Portugal
10:00 am RECYCLE: Proving better solutions for the planet as an industry
- Elevating the role of packaging in consumer experienceto highlight the importance of a circular economy
- Assessing your packaging materials for better solutions and adhering to sustainability legislation
- Designing, testing and developing products to make it easier to recycle and close the loop
- Getting your message across to consumers to elevate your brand
10:30 am Circle of Life: Transitioning into a circular economy of packaging:
- Capitalising on the three ‘R’s – turning products into new high quality products
- Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SDG 12)
- Understanding the benefits of a circular economy for your business including lower costs and lower waste
- Improving approaches to your supply chain for a smooth transition into a circular economy
Michelle Norman
Director of External Affairs and Sustainability
Lucozade Ribena Suntory
11:00 am Introducing a Digital Revolution in beverage packaging
- How the power of a unique direct-to-can digital printing system is changing beverage can packaging in Canada
- Eliminating MOQ’s restraints and long lead-times, while reducing time to market, with increased creative flexibility
- Replacing single use plastics, resulting in a premium package for your beverage, regardless of the quantity needed
- True mass customisation, with the traditional look and feel expected of a beverage can
Marvin Foreman
Sales Director
Tonejet
11:30 am Case study: Packaging in ecommerce – sharing big e-commerce platform’s effort in promoting green and sustainable developments to the end-to-end supply chain
- Using alternative packaging to reduce waste and be part of a circular economy
- Discovering innovative solutions to be able to apply the three ‘Rs’ (reduce, reuse, recycle)
- Highlighting the key challenges faced with packaging during online shopping and delivery
- Next steps: informing consumers on disposing of packaging to adhere to your company’s sustainability policies
Raissa De Haas
Founder
Double Dutch
12:00 pm Educating the consumer– understanding how much your consumer understands and cares about the environment
- What do people understand about sustainability – do they think about the economy?
- Using your packaging as an opportunity to educate consumers on how to recycle
- Dull is boring – finding new, fun ways of getting your message to the consumers to ensure packaging is disposed in the correct way
- Ensuring the information is consistent and attractive to increase knowledge and awareness
Max Kaye
Director of Packaging Consultant
Global Data
12:30 pm Building a Sustainability Ecosystem – How to build an ecosystem to decrease plastics in packaging: Sustainable Packaging R&D with Startups and Suppliers
- Developing sustainable packaging programs within current business models to work towards a circular economy
- Reduce Plastics – defining the ambition of using plastics when it’s already low
- Building ecosystem to produce local solutions with collaboration of startups and suppliers
- Working together with consumers and increasing awareness
Tuba Gokcan
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Manager
Andalou Efes
1:00 pm Selfie time!How much does social media influence the decision to purchase a certain product?
- Connecting the dots: engaging with consumers through social media and other technologies
- Personalising products through package designs to encourage consumer engagement
- Maximising influencers to bring positive attention to your brand
- Less is more: Creating packaging that is shareable for easier brand recognition online
1:30 pm Nipping it in the bottle: taking action now through replacing materials and thinking about what the future will bring
- Allowing flexibility in your processes to ensure supply chain alignment to reduce delays and meet packaging requirements
- Diagnosing obstacles to change and map specific plans to overcome them when establishing new partnerships
- Optimising your packaging for an omnichannel strategy to keep up with consumer demands of both in-store and online shopping
- Love at first sight – engaging consumers from the first time they set sight on your package
Amelia Dales
Business Development Manager
Garçon Wines
Offering premium packaging without the premium price tag
- Taking your packaging over and beyond with unique designs to make consumers love the packaging as much as the product
- Adapting packaging to certain age groups and geographic relevance
- Being creative with waste reduction: thinking outside the plastic package for waste reduction
- Setting your product apart through sustainable packaging
Shopper brain – how bright lights and interesting designs attract shoppers in-store
- Using the latest innovative technological knowledge to understand the shopper
- Ensuring your packaging is not compromised when implementing new solutions and enhancing shopper experience
- Meeting the expectations of millennials and preparing for generation Z
- Diving into the shopper’s mindset to determine which behaviours influence their shopping journey
Capitalising on the opportunities smart packaging offers for market growth
- How can new smart packaging tools be used to improve functionality, reduce waste, enhance sustainability and engage users
- How is smart packaging evolving to enhance consumer engagement and product effectiveness?
- Investigating how smart packaging can be utilised cost effectively and efficiently introduced within production timelines
- What is the practical potential for enhancing the functionality of packaging and what do we really want it do?
SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES
This event offers multiple opportunities for solution providers, including thought leadership, exhibition space and networking packages. If you have a service or product you would like to showcase, please contact our team at:
David Johnson
T: + 44 (0)20 7936 6727
E: david.johnson@arena-international.com
SPEAKER OPPORTUNITIES
We identify and invite individuals we believe to be the best speakers in the market, if you think you can make a difference to the quality of our events please contact the programme director of the event:
Lu Tikrity
E: Lu.tikrity@arena-international.com