TUE 14 MAY
09:00 Exposition and conference registration
10:00 Welcome address
LEGISLATION AND EMERGING TRENDS
10:15 Recent changes in Colombian legislation and the impact on the printing industry
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What is ICIPC and what research and development is carried out?
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Leading the first Colombian Packaging Cluster Initiative
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Predicting the challenges with future projects and private initiatives
10:45 Influential trends and the use of new technologies to support start-ups
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Using product development and packaging design to generate organic growth and an increase in retail margins
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Integrating marketing campaigns into product design
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How sustainability and materials will shape packaging in the future
11:15 Networking break and exposition
12:00 Keynote presentation: labeling a smarter future
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Global and local packaging trends to watch: how a label can build a brand
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High quality pressure-sensitive label materials
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Sustainability and the circular economy: what you need to know
12:30 Ten packaging trends shaping up for 2020
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Identifying new packaging formats
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Exploring new print finishing techniques
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Anticipating, and responding to, consumer trends
13:00 Networking lunch and exposition
PACKAGING DESIGN AND BRANDING
14:15 Targeting different consumer groups with distinctive packaging
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How packaging influences purchasing decisions
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Understanding what is important to different consumer age groups
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Executing innovative packaging styles and structures to increase sales
14:45 Design playlists for Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z
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What are the key emotional drivers for Baby Boomers and Gen X?
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How should a product look to appeal to Millennials and Gen Z?
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How do you establish an emotional connection with customers?
15:15 Networking break and exposition
16:00 Panel discussion: creating products with stand-out presence
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Building successful relationships with converters
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Designing more elaborate packaging and the reality of execution
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From the drawing board to the shelf – refining the process
16:45 Digital moment of truth: designing and creating packaging for e-Commerce
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Optimizing packaging for customers, companies and the environment
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Heightening the consumer experience with right-sized and frustration-free packaging
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Enhancing the experience of opening an online package by replicating the retail experience
17:15 End of conference sessions
17:30 Networking Party at Caja de Madera
21:00 End of networking party
WED 15 MAY
09:00 Exposition and conference registration
10:00 Welcome introduction
BUSINESS MARKETS AND OPPORTUNITIES
10:05 Business diversification: from commercial printing to folding cartons and labels
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Moving into label production from other printing industries
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Making the move into mid and narrow web
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Attracting new clients by diversifying your product offering
10:35 Mergers and acquisitions: overcoming the challenges for a successful transition
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Forming new business partnerships
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Advantages of being both ‘local’ and ‘global’
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Acquisition of Etiquetas Rodak and the All4Labels Group global merger
11:05 Networking break and exposition
11:50 Lean manufacturing and just-in-time production
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Moving into new markets and managing international growth
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Exporting from Paraguay and to neighbouring countries
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Making manufacturing more environmentally sustainable
12:20 How to implement a positive company culture to grow your business
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How do you attract fresh talent, with new ideas, for a constantly evolving industry?
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Maintain staff loyalty by developing the skills of talented employees and future leaders
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Re-evaluation of service: gain a competitive advantage by improving customer service
12:50 Networking lunch and exposition
14:05 Label and packaging industry trends: A Global Perspective
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Explore different regional markets around the world
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Global analysis: labels, shrink sleeves, flexibles and folding cartons
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Key trends and technological developments which are driving the sector
14:35 Combating counterfeiters and diverters with invisible serialization
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Overt, covert and ultra-covert features providing layered protection
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Increasing the level of sophistication of brand protection for packaging
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Fully integrated state-of-the-art variable data printed technology
15:05 Panel discussion: the future of print
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Emerging intelligent and connected products
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Price pressures in the supply chain with increasing raw material costs
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Consumer expectations for the environment and how the industry is/should respond
15:50 Networking
17:00 End of conference