PDIT conference in December '16

The first edition of Packaging Design, Innovation and Technology conference will be held alongside the ninth edition of the International PackTech India. The show is scheduled from 15 to 17 December 2016 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai.

14 Nov 2016 | By Krishna Naidu

With a theme to save food, the conference will also be focusing on food processing and packaging for emerging economies, organised by IppStar in collaboration with Messe Düsseldorf.

At the conference, Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, president and CEO Messe Düsseldorf and initiator of save food, will be the keynote speaker. Debabrata Deb, director at Future Formats, Gerard Caron, co-founder of Carre Noir, William Perell, president and founder at PopPack, Prabodh Halde, head regulatory at Marico, Swati Singh Sambyal, programme manager in environmental governance (Municipal Solid Waste) team at CSE. Sukhdev Singh Saini, packaging design and development lead for AMEA region at General Mills International, Cheryl Harrison, directs creative strategy, branding, design and marketing communications to meet strategic goals for PopPack and Deepak Manchanda, an associate with The Packaging Consortium are the speakers at the conference.

The conference will be attended by designers, packaging developers, and product managers of global and Indian consumer product companies in the food, FMCG and pharmaceutical sectors, influencers from printing and packaging companies and converters, contract packaging and bottling companies, pre-media and design companies, consumables, materials and equipment suppliers for the packaging industry.

The exhibition represents a conglomerate of food processing, liquid food beverage and packaging technology, and showcases the solution for international packaging, and packaging in printing and processing.