Digital Packaging Summit's Hands-On Format Provides Exclusive Learning Experience
After its highly successful debut last fall, the Digital Packaging Summit returns, bringing leaders in the package printing community together to discuss the impact and opportunities in digital technology. The Digital Packaging Summit 2016 will be held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
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 technology, software and solutions will impact their business strategy and investment decisions. The program focuses on how widespread changes taking place today are redefining the future of label and package printing.
The conference program is led by Kevin Karstedt, CEO of Karstedt Partners and a team of key advisory board members. Attendees meet and learn from the "who's who" in the label and folding carton markets, as well as their peers and users who have installed or plan to install digital solutions.
“Being able to network with like-minded individuals heavily involved in the industry was extremely insightful," commented Steve Kirchof, VP/operations manager of Labels in Motion. "Having all the possible vendors you want to talk to, brought to you in one location was great."
The Digital Packaging Summit will return to the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.
In addition to being a valuable experience for printers and converters in attendance, the summit was also highly beneficial for its sponsors.
“Today’s communication is all about multi-channel," said Patrick Van Baelen, Xeikon America's VP of worldwide marketing. "The Digital Packaging Summit is the role model in ‘eventing,’ interacting with customers on three different levels - through general sessions, case studies and one-to-one meetings.”
Printing and converting executives who attend learn from top industry experts and their peers through keynote sessions, workshops, real-life end user panels, and segment-focused breakout sessions. They also have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with, and listen to focused case studies from leading solution providers and their customers, and build long-lasting relationships through numerous networking receptions and meals, among other activities.
One-on-one sessions help attendees learn more about various suppliers' digital solutions.
“The Digital Packaging Summit was an exceptional event!" said Scott Cotton, VP, BP Solutions Group. "I have never been to an event that covered so much in such a short time. The peer networking opportunities and broad spectrum of vendor information available was second to none."
Gary Bernier, strategic business and brand development manager, labels and packaging, HP Indigo and Inkjet Press Solutions, AMS, added, "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."
The Digital Packaging Summit is scheduled to take place from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. For more attendee and sponsor testimonials, or information on sponsoring and/or attending, please visit www.digitalpackagingsummit.com or contact David Pesko at dpesko@ngagevents.com.
About the Organizers
About NAPCO Media/packagePRINTING: Since 1958, NAPCO Media has been a leading information source in the markets it serves. NAPCO Media continues to evolve with information distribution methods and specializes in the creation and cross-channel distribution of exceptional content. Our mission is to build community between our audience and our clients. NAPCO's flagship publication, packagePRINTING, is the most influential and widely read resource for package printers and converters of labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and corrugated products. NAPCO Media also publishes several other well-known titles serving the direct marketing, promotional products and consumer electronics markets. For more information, visit www.napco.com.
nGage Events: nGage Events is the leading producer of host-based, invitation-only business events. These events bring together leading vendors with qualified decision makers in an exclusive and intimate environment. The team at nGage Events has successfully produced more than 200 events across all market sectors using this distinctive format, which guarantees access to key contacts in a private setting, fosters new relationships, improves existing ones, builds partnerships, and accelerates the sales process. For more information, visit www.ngagevents.com.
