SPOTLIGHT Talks & Trends

Daily programme

10:30 am: Welcome & opening

10:45 am: Empower your logistics with intelligent packaging
Stephen Gryczka, Director, Strategy and Corporate Development, Markem-Imaje, CH

11:15 am: Safe & ecological certification of load units at Mosca's TechCenter for Load Securing
Johannes Alois Wieder, Sales Manager Logistics, Mosca, GER

12:00-2:25 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:30 pm: Think about Postage first. Packaging - the hidden postage-saver: Why should you think about postage at the beginning and not at the end
Sven Schwope, Managing Director, Post +, GER

2:50 pm: The reusable shipping system for eCommerce and logistics
Dominik Moers, Business Development Manager, HeyCircle, GER

Daily programme

10:30 am: Welcome & opening

10:45 am: Green lifecycle management in industrial packaging
Axel Schaefer, Global Head of Commercial Product Management & Marketing, Schütz, GER

11:15 am: Innovative adhesives and coatings for sustainable solutions
Christina Ventayol, CCO, Morchem, ES

11:35 am: Advancing performance for circular packaging applications
technologies that improve recycling quality and durability to meet sustainability targets
Sebastian Heitkamp, Global Industry Segment Manager Packaging BASF Plastic Additives, BASF, GER

12:00-2:25 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:30 pm: Sustainable fibre-based packaging solutions for circular future
Anne Uusitalo, Product Safety & Sustainability Director, Metsä Board Development, FI

3:00 pm: Adhesives: Enablers of circular and sustainable packaging for consumer goods
Elizabeth Staab, Global Packaging Sustainability Manager, H.B. Fuller, USA

3:20 pm: Packaging DfR in action: Ecolutions to create a circular future
Anna Desrosiers, Corporate Sustainability Specialist  & Dr. Dietmar Lenko, Head of Group Technical Innovation / Strategic Product Manager Sustainability Constantia Flexibles International, AT

Daily programme

10:30 am: Welcome & opening

10:45 am: Panel discussion: Reusable packaging at all costs? Ecological, economical and hygienic consequences of the new PPWR.

• Floor Uitterhoeve, Director, European Market Sustainability, McDonald’s
• Guido Aufdemkamp, Executive Director, Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE)
• Matti Rantanen, Director General, European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA)  
• Andreas Helbig, Managing Director, Seda Germany GmbH

11:15 am: Panel discussion: Reusable packaging at all costs? Ecological, economical and hygienic consequences of the new PPWR
FSV - Forum Serviceverpackungen, EPPA – European Paper Packaging Alliance, et.al.

12:00-2:25 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:30 pm: Smart containers for sustainable packaging - Marek Wolf, Team Lead Sales, Packwise

2:50 pm: E-Commerce Packaging - A Sustainable Solution - Christian Putz, Co-Founder & COO, boomerang

Daily programme

11:00 am: Welcome & opening

11:05 am:  Recyda - Digitalisation as an Instrument to transition to Sustainable Packaging
Vivien Loftin, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Recyda

11:15 am: Smart engineering – the key to sustainable processing and packaging
Richard Clemens, CEO VDMA e.V., GER

11:35 am: Sustainable packaging in a multinational cooperative – a hands-on guide on managing recyclability
Sebastian Roth, Suststainable Packaging Manager Central Europe, Arla Foods, GER

12:00-2:00 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:00 pm: Label impact on Sustainability
Laurent Foldès, Global Development Manager - Labels, Klöckner Pentaplast

2:30 pm: Panel discussion: Sustainability goals 2025 – are we on track?

• Paul Jenkins, Managing Director, The PackHub, UK (Moderator)
• Ron Puvak, Executive Director, Contract Packaging Organization of North America, CPA, USA
• Dan Coppins, Packaging Technologist, KMI Brands, UK
• Marc van der Burgt, Chief Commercial Officer, Vetipak, NL
• Vincent Mooij, Director, CIRCPACK by Veolia, NL

3:30 pm: How production data can drive sustainability - Julius Scheuber, Product Manager, Enlyze

3:45 pm: A family of fully integrated and reusable packaging systems: container, dunnage, sealing and labelling.
Professor S.R.Vallabhaneni, Founder- Director, GaiaPod-Reuse by AlphaCath

Daily programme

10:30 am: Welcome & opening

10:45 am No more downtimes. The sensor system of the future - More efficiency through transparency, more flexibility through functionality
Stephan Langer, Director Application & Market Development, Balluff GmbH, GER

11:15 am: There is not one factory for the future
Dr. Kai Magenheimer, Partner, ROI-EFESO Mgt. Consulting AG, GER

11:35 am: The EU commission’s proposal for a regulation on packaging and packaging waste - Ready for Digital Technologies?
Dr. Wolfgang Trunk, European Commission

12:00-2:10 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:15 pm: Better machine handling and performance with dynamic process knowledge for frontline workers
Max Steinhoff, Co-Founder & CEO, Stryza

2:30 pm: Pay per Outcome – a new marketing model for a manufacturer of special machinery
Thomas Fuest, Head of Sales and Marketing, SN Maschinenbau GmbH, Wipperfürth
Bernhard Wieczorek, Global Account Manager for Jagenberg Group, Siemens AG

3:00 pm: BlowPack: Revolutionary container production, inspection and palletizing system (100% Integrated, Super Flexible and Autonomous)
Gintautas Maksvytis, CEO, FlexBlow, LT

3:20 pm: Digital heating for sustainable packaging without compromises
Marcus Stein, Commercial Director, Watttron, GER

3:40 pm: SUSY - Sustainability packaging score: How the sustainability of packaging becomes measurable.
Insights into the methodology of an initiative of science and industry
Dr. David Strack, CEO, Central Agency for Green Commerce, GER
Christian Leu, CFO & COO, Central Agency for Green Commerce, GER

Daily programme

10:30 am: Welcome & opening

10:45 am: Discover how x-ray inspection can help to increase productivity, reduce food waste and deliver product safety
Adam Green, Market Manager Safeline X-ray Limited, Mettler Toledo, USA

11:15 am: Automate production to increase productivity and reduce food waste
Wim Hermans, Regional General Manager, North East Europe, Ishida Europe Limited, UK

11:35 am: The role that packaging plays in minimizing food loss and waste; including Best Practice award-winning examples
Nerida Kelton, WPO VP Sustainability, World Packaging Organization (WPO)

12:00-2:05 pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:10 pm: Can we eliminate world hunger and cut food waste in half by 2030 with the New Circular System 2+12?
Christian Falkenstein, Network Manager „Neues Kreislaufsystem 2+12“

2:30 pm: Bio-based packaging using food waste student challenge – SAVE FOOD Initiative Messe Düsseldorf GmbH & BAU
Prof. Ebru Canan-Sokullu, (Director of CIFAL Istanbul, UNITAR & Dean of BAU Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences)
Dr. Zeynep Tacer Caba (Assist. Prof. at BAU Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences & Project Coordinator) Finalists of the challenge, Bahcesehir University (BAU) Istanbul, TR

3:15 pm: Safety and security saves food
Jan Bloksma, Sales Engineer, Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, GER

3:35 pm: Multi-Partner collaboration to SAVE FOOD
Robert van Otterdijk, Agro-industry Officer,

Daily programme

10:30 am: Welcome & opening

10:45 am: Packaging component innovations for tomorrow’s box
Jonathan Manterfield, E-Commerce Business Development, H.B. Fuller, USA

11:15 am: E-COMMERCE Beyond Retail 4.0
Daniel Breuer, Key Account Manager Industry Sector e-Commerce, DHL Express Germany.

11:35 am: Digitalization as a driver of agile organizational concepts in logistics & packaging
Prof. Dr. Martina Peuser, Associate Professor, Keynote Speaker, Business Consultant, GER