Packaging trends and innovations on menu for 2013 Technical Dinner

Packaging trends and innovations will be key topics of conversation at the Australian Institute of Packaging’s (AIP’s) first NSW Technical Dinner for 2013. The dinner will feature speakers Kane Hardingham from Woolworths and Daniel Bone from Datamonitor.

Hardingham’s presentation is entitled “Woolworths’ packaging trends: balancing efficiency, costs and sustainability for retailers and suppliers.” With a background in environmental management and sustainability, Hardingham has held the position of Environmental Manager at Woolworths Limited for the past five years.

Hardingham works with the business to achieve the targets and commitments set out in the company’s Sustainability Strategy 2007-2015, and deliver all regulatory and voluntary reporting in this space. He works with sustainable packaging specialists to implement processes to review packaging on own-brand products and to introduce packaging improvements.

Daniel Bone is the Global Director Consumer Insights at Datamonitor. Using Datamonitor’s packaging innovation platform, PackTrack, Bone will showcase packaging innovations from around the world, demonstrating how they work and come together.

Bone will explore and challenge the economic difficulties brands face by drawing on this webinar and inspiring attendees’ thinking by showing the opportunities these packaging innovations can offer. Bone will use PackTrack to share detailed packaging innovations, with HD images and zoom-in capabilities, new ideas and ‘mouldings to foldings’ across a wide range of formats and product categories.

The dinner will be held on Wednesday 27 February at the Oatlands Golf Course Club House. Bookings close on Friday 22 February 2013. To book, click here.