Speakers

Keynote 1:

PPWR & CEN Standards: Impact on Packaging Design

Keynote 2:

Addressing the feedstock challenge

Keynote 3:

Packaging Transformation: Insights from the Retail Sector (Working Title)

Keynote 4:

Smart Solutions: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Plastic Recycling

Meet the minds shaping the future

Our speakers bring diverse perspectives from across the packaging value chain – from regulatory insights and sustainability strategies to retail expertise and cutting-edge innovation.

Keynote 1

Dennis Bankmann

Founder, Emerging Motif

Dennis Bankmann founded his consultancy ‘Emerging Motif’, focused on sustainability, circularity, and product safety in chemical industry and its downstream markets in 2021. This move follows more than a decade of experience in industrial research & development in packaging adhesives and coatings and a strategy development role focused on the circular economy strategy of a large chemical products company. Dennis has been involved in the development of numerous guidelines, whitepapers, experimental studies, and standards related to circularity and food and product safety and continues to apply his experience to facilitate science-based, clear, and impactful decision-making.

Session: PPWR & CEN Standards: Impact on Packaging Design

Keynote 2

Richard von Götze

Director Key Accounts Interzero

Richard is the Director for Key Accounts of the Interzero-Group, an international waste management and recycling company. Richard has a background in chemistry and a Ph.D. in polymer catalysis. Prior to joining Interzero, Richard worked as a consultant on international projects in the chemical- and pharmaceutical industry. Currently he overseas the development of large customer relationships in mechanical and chemical recycling.

Session: Addressing the feedstock challenge

Collaboration of waste management companies and their partners are necessary to be able to fulfil the challenging demands from the PPWR.

At current growth rates, influenced through the current political landscape incl. energy prices, recycling companies are struggling to provide the investments needed for long-term capacity growth. Partnerships along the value chain are necessary to be able to work towards the Interzero mission of “a world without waste”.

Keynote 3

James Bull

Head of Packaging and Food Waste Strategies, Tesco

A retail and operations change expert currently focused on leading packaging initiatives that drive circularity, prevent waste and deliver sustainable improvements that help make tomorrow's performance better than todays. Working to remove packaging where it’s not required, reduce the environmental impacts of packaging, identifying scalable reuse solutions to replace single use and improve the probability of recycling for our customers.

Session: Packaging Transformation: Insights from the Retail Sector (Working Title)

Insights from the retail sector on navigating change in packaging This session will explore how retailers are responding to shifting packaging demands and aligning sustainability targets with practical realities. We at Greiner Packaging are currently discussing details of the speech with James Bull and will update you here asap.

Keynote 4

Volker Muche

Managing Director and Partner, pacoon Sustainability Concepts

Volker Muche studied Packaging Technology at TFH Berlin (now the Berlin University of Applied Sciences). His extensive experience in the packaging sector includes a wide range of responsible roles on the side of brand manufacturers, packaging producers, and packaging consultants. Over the past ten years, he has specialized in the sustainability of packaging – the core of his company pacoon Sustainability Concepts’ business model.

Session: Smart Solutions: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Plastic Recycling

This presentation explores how artificial intelligence enables innovative applications throughout the entire value chain of plastic recycling. From sorting and reprocessing to product development – discover how AI is optimizing processes and driving sustainable solutions. Get ready for the future of recycling!