Digital Packaging Summit Receives Excellent Reviews
The 2015 Digital Packaging Summit, held November 9-11 at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, was a major success for both sponsors and attendees. The Digital Packaging Summit is an invitation-only, hosted summit designed for senior managers and business executives who want to understand how current and future digital production printing, finishing technology, supplies, software and solutions will impact their business and investment decisions.
“I have chaired and spoken at many conferences on this topic and while most were good events they were one dimensional with information coming down from the podium or ‘snip-its’ from tabletops during breaks," Kevin Karstedt, CEO of Karstedt Partners and chair of the 2015 Digital Packaging Summit, said. "This is a totally different kind of event that immerses the attendees and sponsors in a bi-directional dialog that benefits both. The information sharing and ‘roll your sleeves up’ interaction that occurs leaves everyone with extensive "to do" lists. The ‘deep dive’ format and informational exchange is just what the fast changing package printing industry needs right now.”
While users are looking for information and guidance, suppliers are looking for ways to identify and develop relationships with these potential buyers specifically interested in digital solutions. The Digital Packaging Summit was able to meet both of these needs, making the conference a tremendous success for both attendees and sponsors.
2015 Digital Packaging Summit Keynote level sponsors included HP, Mark Andy, and Xeikon. For a full list of sponsors please visit www.digitalpackagingsummit.com. Here is what they had to say.
“I’ve experienced many different types of printing industry events over the last 30 years and the format, content and networking at the recent Digital Packaging Summit seriously raises the bar versus other venues.” - Gary Bernier, Strategic Business & Brand Development Manager, Labels & Packaging, HP Indigo and Inkjet Press Solutions, AMS.
“The Digital Packaging Summit was an outstanding and highly beneficial event providing a refreshing, unbiased look at how digital print technologies will impact us all. The exposure to high level converting executives, case studies and one-on-one meetings is a unique event format that truly over-delivered. A great outcome for all who attended.” - Jeff Feltz, Director of Business Development, Mark Andy Inc.
“Today’s communication is all about multi-channel, the Digital Packaging Summit is the role model in ‘eventing’, interacting with customers on three different levels - through general sessions - case studies and one2one meetings.” - Patrick Van Baelen, Vice President WW Marketing, Xeikon America Inc.
The Annual Digital Packaging Summit Awards were also presented on the final night of the event. Attendees voted on the sponsor-focused awards and Advisory Board members voted on the attendee award. Award categories and winners included:
“Best Sponsor Case Study Presentation: Folding Carton Segment”
Winner: MGI
Runners-up: Brandtjen & Kluge, HP, Xerox
“Best Sponsor Case Study Presentation: Label Segment”
Winner: Gallus
Runners-up: Fujifilm, Screen USA, Xeikon
“Company to Watch”
Winner: HP
Runners-up: Fujifilm, Mark Andy, Memjet
“Overall Contributing Attendee”
Winner: Dwane Wall, President, Creative Labels of Vermont
“Our goal with the Digital Packaging Summit is to provide maximum value to our attendees as well as our sponsors and, based on initial feedback, I believe we achieved that,” Brian Ludwick, publisher/brand director at packagePRINTING, said. “This is accomplished through a strong conference program and the right mix of networking and relationship building activities. Attendees learned from experts, suppliers and, most importantly, their peers on how to approach digital and how to be successful.”
For information on sponsoring and/or attending Digital Packaging Summit 2016 please visit www.digitalpackagingsummit.com or contact David Pesko at dpesko@ngagevents.com. And don’t miss the 2016 Inkjet Summit in April. Visit www.ijsummit.com for more details.
