Packaging and Converting Executive Forum 2020

Keynote Address: Navigating a roadmap for circular packaging

• Understanding EU regulations and consumer behaviour
• Understanding what is expected from producers moving forward
• Opportunities and challenges of applying packaging in different ways

• Understanding material producers, brand owners and retailers commitments to the circular economy and packaging
• Where are the business and innovation opportunities in the new plastics or cardboard economy?
• What key challenges are the industry facing and will need to overcome in order to achieve that future circularity?
• How will current business models have to adapt to navigate through the existing landscape? How can companies work together to find a solution to the ongoing plastic waste problem?
• What’s the best approach to bring awareness to employees and consumers?
• 2020-2025 Vision – setting up targets and making a better footprint
• Creating a packaging revolution to save the planet through collaboration – future strategies, plans and projects towards CEP

• Consumer perspectives on packaging materials used by brand owners – is paper better than plastic?
• What solutions should retailers and brand owners be seeking? Plastic-free? Compostable? Recyclable?
• Understanding consumer desire vs usability and actual consumer experience
• How are packaging companies and consumer goods addressing consumers perception of plastic and getting it right

• Eliminating waste by implementing tools to facilitate right-first-time packaging
• Streamlining processes to improve control and eliminate redundancies or potential errors
• Diminishing excess materials by reducing packaging recalls and excess waste from damages packaging
• How packaging trends like innovation, agility, collaboration, and sustainability are connected
• Looking at collaborative digital packaging technologies which enable right-first-time packaging to help support sustainable practices
• The importance of a connected content management solution for packaging processes to increase sales and decrease time to marke

• How packaging can help to keep authenticity of the product and prevent fraud
• Analysis and practicalities of technology solutions available in the market to protect originality of the products in F&B and Pharma
• What works and outstanding concerns 

• What are the challenges and opportunities in terms of packaging materials and how does this affect your future strategy?
• How do these challenges translate in a strategic approach and impact the decision making process?
• What are the key environmental and economical strategies in packaging materials in multi sectors that reflects consumer needs and drives investment decisions?
• Where do we see the role of plastics, glass, metal and paper in 5 years? What can the industry do now to prepare for an uncertain future?
• Understanding which materials are more eco-friendly in terms of collection, production and conversion to increase sustainability in supply chains#
• How to respond to consumer demands for truly sustainable packaging materials?
• How to better communicate with the consumer regarding their expectations of sustainability?

• Ending the problem of packaging as an environmental issue worldwide: the PUMA project (Packaging Upcyclable Materials Accelerator)
• Statistics, definitions and challenges in becoming sustainable
• Environmental consequences and actions required

• What are the reality of biomaterials and recycling – its challenges and limitations
• TARGETS 2025: are they achievable?
• Cost of recycling of paper vs glass vs metal vs plastic- who is the winner?
• New materials that are easy to recycle: how their use can be expanded and cost issues resolved
• Examining water inks and biodegradable hot melt adhesives

• A vision of the circular economy and waste management – Insights from the EU on the main results of the first stage implementation
• Waste policy – Main targets and how the industry can work towards compliance
• Next steps – What is expected from the industry moving forward?

• Strategic efforts and approaches by the firm to drive waste control policies
• How to reduce costs whilst reducing waste in packaging manufacturing
• Practical examples of enhancing packaging in a sustainable way

Latest market trends of the packaging industry 2020

• An overview of the packaging market and how you can prepare for a post 2020 market
• Latest packaging trends, requirements and insights by segment
• Strategies of packaging companies and consumer goods in addressing consumer demands and perception of plastic, paper, glass and metal materials used in packaging
• The smart packaging as a new norm – how rapidly will the smart packaging market grow in the next 10 years?

Interactive roundtable sessions offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers to share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an exciting, interactive way to build your personal network and learn from the experience and expertise of others.

Each roundtable session lasts for 30 minutes, and delegates may attend up to 2 roundtables

1. The circular economy requirements on packaging
   1. Per Stoltz, Circular and Waste Manager of Sustainability, IKEA Group
2. Innovating in packaging design: Design for Intended Use ( DIU)
   1. Michaёl Nieuwesteeg, Managing Director, NVC – Netherlands Packaging Centre

Cost reduction by tailoring shipping packages to meet the needs of the end user through double stacking

• Updates about actual progress made by forward-looking brand owners towards achieving the circular economy goals
• Practical insights into how to make packaging more reusable and giving packaging longer operation
• What needs to change to accelerate their progress?
• Changing mindsets towards responsible packaging within industry

• How is Britvic positively responding to the rapidly changing packaging environment?
• What are the Britvic packaging choices for Soft Drinks and how do they compare? Is the consumer always right? Not when it comes to packaging sustainability!
• Data-driven decisions to deliver the right strategy

• Looking at “plastic free” plastics in compliance with new regulations to consider new packaging materials
• Enhancing recyclability of high barrier packaging to better achieve sustainability goals
• Analysing a newly developed eco-friendly alternative to barrier material to ensure food preservation
• Developing an innovative and client centric approach to create new business opportunities

Fireside Chat

Packaging; Communication, Collaboration and Change to deliver a successful product in the consumer eco-age

• What is the ethos of the brand and how did it start?
• What packaging goals have you achieved so far and what are you working on to increase your sustainability accomplishments?
• What are the challenges in developing 100% recyclable packaging in perfumery and what are the options to overcome this?
• How has the high-end consumer responded to your eco-packaging and eco-offering as a whole?
• What does the future of packaging look like in perfumery and body care?

• How to leverage latest technologies to get the WOW factor
• The evolutions of current printing – what works today? Is digital printing the way forward?
• Design & Artwork creation and effectiveness of the packaging to make an impact on consumers

• The evolution of the designer role from meeting production guidelines to end-user needs
• What design can do for recyclable packaging
• How to integrate packaging design into a pack that can be taken apart easily for a more healthy future?
• How to create pack design with customer DNA in mind and how customer want to be perceived by an end-user
• How to visualise effectively and what designer of the future looks like

• What are the main issues around reducing waste, collection and sorting waste in Europe and how to overcome them?
• Does composting exist or it is just a buzz word?
• What does real recycling mean and how is it understood by the industry?
• Do we have infrastructure in place in order to efficiently run collection, sorting and recycling systems?
• Limitations and opportunities with the deposit return scheme
• What needs to change in our current approach to recycling and how it can be achieved?