Playbooks, not pitches.
Every session is built for exchange, not slideware. You leave with what worked on someone else's operation, not a vendor's account of it.
Packaging World Forum — Packaging Strategy Conference, Chicago 2027
The agenda
Where brand owners, retailers, converters, and regulators converge on the pressures actually resetting packaging.
Why attend
Because the convergence of these specific packaging conversations rarely happen at one event, until now.
Get ahead of what's coming.
Regulation, operations, the shelf-and-package intersection: the forces resetting the category, unpacked by the people living inside them, not consultants describing them from outside.
Work your real problem.
Roundtables and matchmaking are built so you can put your toughest challenge on the table and pull answers from people who've run the experiment. You go home with a report of what was said, not a tote bag of literature.
Relationships that outlast the two days.
Brand owners, retailers, converters, and regulators together — the mix you almost never get in front of at once, and the reason your next twelve months get easier.
The room
This is where packaging's toughest decisions get settled.
For two days in Chicago, the people who move packaging share one room: brand owners, retailers, converters, regulators. No vendor pitches. Just peers comparing what worked and what didn't.
Three pressures set the agenda: regulation, operations, and retail/e-com.
Bring your challenges, leave with solutions and a network to support you.
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