May 13-15, 2008
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
(near Chicago's O'Hare Airport)
Rosemont, Illinois

THE CONFERENCE
Where Packaging's Leaders Come Together^TM

IoPP’s Packaging Summit Conference is your annual forum on focused, strategic packaging ideas. It gives you information on dealing with the real-world impact of sustainable packaging, innovation, and globalization.  It gives you answers that help you get the most out of what you create.

Speakers are packaging pros. They share their experience on innovation, sustainability, global packaging and outsourcing. They help make IoPP’s Summit one of the year’s best networking opportunities. Click here for the detailed agenda.

Look at just a few Conference highlights -

> Get Wal-Mart’s packaging plan right from Wal-Mart... Wal-Mart's Paul Lewellyn details the retail giant’s global strategy and U.S. scorecard status.

> See the impact of EU regs... from a packaging pro who deals with them daily. From England, Rickett Benckiser‘s Arno Melchior examines EU regs and directions that alter package development.

> Learn 12 ways to be part of your company’s innovation efforts... Lisa Bodell, CEO of futurethink, gives you the same strategies on innovation she delivers to Fortune 100 companies.

> Hear your peers in our "Innovation Think Tank." Peter Clarke, president of Product Ventures, gathers a unique panel of packaging pros and brand marketers to define what packaging innovation means in practical terms.

> Analyze the value proposition for sustainable materials... Susan Homan of DuPont’s Packaging and Industrial Polymers division dissects the drivers and the short- and long-term trends in materials. And she probes the question, “Renewable materials. How much is enough?

> Prepare for the influx of Middle East resins and materials... Tim Bohrer of PackAdvantage LLC examines how they will affect your packaging.

> Learn five steps to effective contract packaging... from Dwight Sevaldson, the long-time contract packaging pro who is now with General Mills.

And more . . .

• Get what you must have from Chinese packaging suppliers
• Explore both HP and Unilever’s strategies on integrating sustainability into their business plans
• Analyze design vs. procurement in your organization: Who drives the bus?
• Find out the five most common package failures, and how to correct them

Click here for the detailed agenda.