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WORKSHOP: The Changing Landscape for Digital Printing in Labels Packaging in a drupa Year
Workshop Topics
Introduction – Packaging and Labels
  • Where digital fits into the packaging world
  • Choices for printing labels, cartons, corrugate, flexibles, rigid plastics, glass, and metal
  • Litho, flexo, gravure, relief, and special decorating methods

Changing Functions of Packaging and Markets
  • The changing role of packaging, new functions enabled by digital print

Digital Print Technologies Used in Packaging and Labels
Developments from drupa
  • Electrophotography SWOT
  • Inkjet SWOT
  • Developments from drupa – integrated manufacturing
  • The importance of workflow and digital finishing
  • Emerging routes to market
  • Comparing analogue and digital printing
Drivers
  • Sustainability
  • Changing retail landscape
  • The opportunities in e-commerce packaging
  • Changing customer requirements, how big brands are being disrupted by smaller brands
  • Changing supply chains enabled by digital print – the democratization of label and packaging production
Run Length Developments

Economics of Digital Print Mainstream Production
  • Capacity of equipment, time to market – complementary or competitive to analogue print
New Technologies and drupa Developments
Digital Labels and Packaging Round Up
  • Digital printing technology map, and digital finishing
  • Workflow
  • Materials
  • Finishing
Beyond Printing

Digital Finishing
  • Integrated Label and Packaging Manufacture

Sean Smyth | Print Expert, Smithers
Registration and opening remarks
Chair's opening remarks
Session 1: Market and Regulation Drivers
Keynote: Digital packaging update in a drupa year
  • Impacts of new technology launches
    • New at drupa
  • Market updates
  • Changing legislative landscape
  • Moving supply chains
    • Packaging as a revenue source rather than a pure cost
    • Shifting the location of packaging printing

Sean Smyth | Print Expert, Smithers
Joint presentation: Title tbc
Nick Clements | Strategic Planner, HP Inc.
Jan de Rock | Director of Marketing, Industry Relations & Strategy, Eskoustry Relations & Strategy, Esko
A roadmap to compliance: Navigating the packaging and packaging waste regulation
  • Overview of PPWR-requirements
  • Impact assessment for digital print industry
  • Practical guidance for producers and manufactures

Charlotte Neumair | Teamlead Circularity, Circular Analytics
Panel discussion: "Digital printing's role in adapting to changing packaging regulations"
  • Leveraging digital printing to comply with emerging EU environmental policies
  • Current industry progress on product passports and Single-use plastics directives
  • Proactive strategies for anticipating and addressing future regulatory challenges

Ian H Schofield, End User Collaboration, Cabot Corporation
Charlotte Neumair, Team Lead Circularity, Circular Analytics (tbc)
Thomas Vollmuth, Head of Brand Owner Management, Koenig & Bauer 
Simon Daplyn, Product & Marketing Manager, Digital, Sun Chemical

Networking coffee break
Session 2: Digital Innovations for Brand Protection and Packaging Efficiency
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Keynote: Protecting Brands and Customers Against Counterfeit
This presentation will cover Amazon transparency service, enabled by digital printing to protects brands and customers against counterfeit
 
Lior Krasnovsky | Senior Program Manager, Amazon
The best of both worlds: flexo and digital synergy in flexible packaging
Lasers. (should be enough of an argument, but lasers will be SWOT-ted.)
Lasers are the ‘Tesla of printing’. Hardly any moving parts, zero fluid consumption and yet 100% ready for the digital age and Industry 4.0. EKYW wants to fully utilize the laser’s potential and demonstrate it as a viable alternative for ink, stickers and cutters for the packaging industry

Edwin Kroon | Laser Expert & CEO, ekyw
Networking lunch break
Session 3: Workflow, Efficiency, and Operational Strategies in Digital Packaging
Presentation tbc
Steven Steenhaut, Group Marketing Director, Hybrid Software Group
Digital folding carton packaging production - Driving efficiency and profitability for folding carton converters
  • Integration insights: Learn how to successfully incorporate a digital single-pass press into a traditional packaging business, including overcoming the learning curve and managing substrate variability.
  • Market demand focus: Gain an understanding of which applications face the highest market demand and how digital printing meets these needs.
  • Brand perspective: Discover the capabilities that brands demand from digital printing and get insights into operating high-quality digital equipment effectively.

Daniel Velema | Managing Director , Koenig & Bauer Durst
Enhancing value and engagement in digital print for corrugated packaging
Gain insights from a real-world example. Russell Weller will be discussing how our customer, Independent II (now part of Hood Container), have boosted their capabilities with digital printing, increasing economic efficiency and market competitiveness while achieving their goal of going from a 'brown box' to a 'digital performing box'. As part of his presentation, Russell will be discussing how Independent II have:
  • Increased economic benefits - reducing setup costs, allowing for shorter production runs, and minimise waste, making high-quality packaging more accessible and cost-effective.
  • Enhanced brand storytelling - how personalised, visually compelling packaging through digital printing has strengthened brand differentiation, customer loyalty, and engagement.

Russell Weller | Head of Product - Digital Colour , Domino Printing
Digital printing from a corrugated business perspective
  • Digital printing benefits today and tomorrow for corrugated
  • Customer/brand owners feedback and sales experience
  • The challenge to confidently investing in digital printing

Robert Olsson | Divisional Print Performance Development Manager, DS Smith
Networking coffee break
Achieving production run lengths & mass customization at scale in flexible packaging
  • Brands now require faster turnaround and advanced customization from flexible packaging converters.
  • Converters can achieve "mass customization at scale" with a hybrid approach combining flexo printing's volume capabilities and digital printing's customization advantages.
  • The ION Hybrid Digital Press by BW Converting PCMC enables this hybrid approach, showcased through its pilot installation with LaCore Printworx

Windell McGill | ION Launch Manager, Paper Converting Machine Company
End of day open discussion round with the audience
Chair's closing remarks and end of day one
Networking Drinks Reception
Registration and morning refreshments
Chair's opening remarks
Session 4: Digital Transformation in Packaging: From AI to Connected Experiences
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The Future of AI in Packaging Print - tbc
  • What is AI and Generative AI?
  • What are the opportunities (sustainability, safety, etc.) for the packaging printing sector when AI is integrated?
  • What are the challenges related to this?

Serra Anker | Manager Packaging Materials and Processes, NVC Packaging Centre
Print, connect, engage: The new era of packaging
Part 1 - Digital printing 
  • Discovering latest digital printing possibilities for variable data like QR codes
  • Impact on sustainability and on-demand printing 
  • Digital printing: A game changer for brands
Part 2 - Connected packaging
  • Introduction of the connected packaging platform follow
Part 3 - Engaging the customer: 
  • "Turning connection into conversation"
  • Understanding modern consumer behaviour
Case studies in consumer engagement
Sandra Wagner - VP Digitalization - Koenig & Bauer
Jenny Stanly - Founder - Appetite Creative
Power to Move - Insights from beyond the print industry
  • The communications landscape is constantly changing as our individual habits evolve, influenced by societal shifts, major events, and access to a growing array of technologies and media choices
  • Canon has sought insights from beyond the print industry to understand what the latest consumer behaviours and technology advances could mean for the future of print businesses
  • In his talk, Mathew will explore how to turn these ideas into actions, empowering both print businesses and brand owners to be proactive, remove barriers to growth and unlock new opportunities

Mathew Faulkner | EMEA Director, Marketing and Innovation, Wide Format Printing Group, Canon Europe
Panel discussion: The next trillion - a new ecosystem for the digital age
A new approach is being created to seamlessly integrate connected experiences via QR codes into the printing ecosystem. We hear from the major players creating the new future to understand what challenges need to be overcome and what opportunities this new approach is opening up.

Moderator: 
Stefan Casey, Global Front End Innovation Packaging and Digital Transformation Senior Specialist, former Nestlé
Panellist: 
Amir Raziel, Strategy Director, HP Industrial
Cameron Worth, Founder, SharpEnd / io.tt
John Lawrence, VP Global Consulting, SGK
Jan de Roeck, Marketing Director - Industry Relations & Strategy, Esko
Networking coffee break
Session 5: Inkjet Innovations in Packaging Production
X5 Nozomi: the next evolution of digital print for corrugated packaging
  • Packsize, a leader in on demand packaging, and EFI, a leader in digital printing, have announced a strategic partnership, integrating the best technology from both companies
  • Launching the X5 Nozomi, a completely automated system that produces up to 600 corrugated boxes per hour that are digitally printed, right-sized, and ready to pack (erected)

Kerry Sanders | VP Market Development, EFI
Challenges for Corrugated Packaging Using Inkjet Technology tbc
Speaker tbc, Ricoh Europe
Production inkjet-solutions for metal decoration – bottle-caps, aerosol-spray, beverage kegs and more
  • Production inkjet in metal decoration: competitive scenarios in co-opetition with offset
  • Neos’ modular concept – suitable to design bespoke solutions for various metal decoration applications
  • How to meet the high quality standards of the metal printers: Bespoke quality management and software solutions for metal decoration by inkjet
  • Co-operation with Koenig & Bauer Metalprint GmbH: Benefits for the metal decorator

Frank de Jonge | Commercial Director, Neos SpA
Networking lunch break
Session 6: Hybrid Digital Printing
Panel discussion - Hybrid printing in labels
What are the Do’s and Don’ts
Panellists:
Francisco Eichhorn, Business Development Manager, Durst
Dario Urbinati, CEO, Gallus Group
Lee Metters, Group Business Development Director, Domino Printing
Benji Ruhm, Director, Bobst
Combining digital printing technologies and marketing strategies for customer satisfaction. Best practices from a label printer in Greece
  • Digital printing integration for efficient label printing - Insights from a label printer in Greece
  • Workflow structure of combined traditional and digital label production
  • Marketing strategies and policies towards customer satisfaction - The Forlabels way
  • Best practices and cases studies with examples and what the customers say
  • Maintaining the family spirit in the company -  A key-success parameter
Anastasios E. Politis | Vice President - R&D and International Relations, HELGRAMED - the Hellenic Union of Graphic Arts and Media Technology Engineers
Dimitris Kotsiviros | Business Planning Manager, Forlabels S.A., Greece
Hybrid Success: Integrating Digital Printing and Colour Consistency
  • Colour consistency: Integrating colour management minimizes reprints, reduces costs, and ensures consistent quality across multiple output devices.
  • Hybrid printing challenges: Synchronizing digital (short runs) and conventional (long runs)
  • Brand Colour Replication: Brand colour replication is a key focus, with the latest insights from GMG projects.
  • Balancing technology and process: Successful hybrid printing balances technology, process and skills

Johannes Betz | Head of Academy, Print & Color Specialist, GMG GmbH
Conference ends
Chairman's closing remarks

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