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  • Twin Rivers Paper Company to Exhibit at Sustainability in Packaging Conference

    08 March 2013

  • Packaging Equity vs. Material Optimization

    15 February 2013

    Shriram Venkataraman, Sr. Director, Beverage Packaging R&D, PepsiCo will be presenting at Sustainability in Packaging 2013 on Striking the right balance: Packaging Equity vs. Material Optimization. Leading into this year's conference, Shriram previewed thoughts with us about the importance of this topic.

  • Packaging as a solution to food loss and waste - UN SAVE FOOD initiative

    05 February 2013

    Interview with Joseph Mpagalile, Agro Industry Officer, Agro-Food Industries Group, Rural Infrastructure & Agro-Industries Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations. Mpagalile is one of the keynote speakers at Sustainability in Packaging 2013 and will be addressing Food Waste and Food Packaging: Extent, Causes and Solutions, and the Link with Developing Countries.

  • Interview with Gary Piwko of Kellogg Company

    22 January 2013

    Gary Piwko, Director of Remarketing and Returns Management of Kellogg Company will be speaking at Sustainability in Packaging 2013 on Building More Value: Improved Packaging and Process Performance throughout the Product Lifecycle. Leading into this year’s conference, Gary shared with us why he thinks that the topic of ‘unsaleables’ is key for all packaging and sustainability professionals to get up-to-speed on and much more.

  • Top 10 Stakeholder Issues 2013 from Future 500

    15 January 2013

    Sustainability in Packaging 2013 is pleased to have the support of Future 500, a non-profit organization that builds alliances between adversarial stakeholders. We encourage you to learn more about their recent look at the "Top 10 Stakeholder Issues for 2013"

  • The UN, IDEO, the World Wildlife Fund and International Paper headline Sustainability in Packaging

    07 January 2013

    "Sustainability in Packaging 2013 offers our most ambitious look into the sustainable packaging supply chain ever. The 2013 agenda brings together a diverse group of brand owners Dell, Office Depot and Hasbro are just a few who will be presenting to share their views on everything from their market research into what consumers want to how they are looking to reduce waste in the future," says Barbara Fowler, conference director at Smithers Pira.

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Key Speakers

Joshua Onysko
Pangea Organics

Some call him sagely, most call him a wunderkind, yet everyone can agree on one thing: Pangea Organics’ founder and CEO, Joshua Onysko, is an exemplary model for smart, successful eco-living for both civilians and corporations alike. He thinks outside the landfill, and it shows in the company he runs, the products he makes, and the people he inspires.

Joshua Onysko
Beto Lopez
IDEO

Beto Lopez is the Global Lead of IDEO’s Systems Design discipline. A Senior Product Designer based in Palo Alto, Beto realizes new-to-the-world innovations within established, complex systems by applying IDEO’s broad industry and technology experience. As a complement to design thinking which helps understand and envision what people need, Beto applies systems thinking to help frame, change and sometimes disrupt how those value propositions are delivered to people. Beto’s expertise is continuously nurtured and advanced by IDEO’s global work in Medical Products, Food & Beverage, Packaged Goods, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Furniture and Sporting Goods. His passions include traditional product design, business and innovation strategy, and futures projects that assess emerging trends.

Beto Lopez
Joseph Mpagalile
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN)

Joseph Mpagalile (47) is an agro-food processing engineer (PhD), and he graduated from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom in 1999. He currently works with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as an Agro Industry Officer in the Rural Infrastructure and Agro Industries Division (AGS) and his main responsibilities are on logistics and value addition. Prior to joining FAO in 2010, he worked at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania as an Associate Professor of Agro Food Processing Engineering and Technology Transfer Coordinator dealing with Intellectual Property Management matters. Joseph has won several awards including the prestigious Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar award that enabled him to spend nine months doing research on the use of renewable energy in agro-food processing at the Industrial Agricultural Products Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, USA.

Joseph Mpagalile
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Sponsors & Exhibitors
  • Yupo Corporation America
  • Omya Inc.
  • Innovia Films
  • Indorama Ventures
  • ZUND America LLC
  • Zip-Pak
  • Orbis Corporation
  • Outlook Group Corp
  • Unisource Worldwide Inc
  • Ecosynthetix Inc.
  • Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
  • Schneider Electric
  • Arizona Chemical
  • Biopolymer Network Limited
  • M & B Procurement Consulting
  • Pack2Sustain, LLC
  • Twin Rivers Paper Company
Media Partners
  • Sustainable Biomaterials Collabrative
  • Recycling Today Media Group
  • Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News
  • Packaging Digest
  • Package Print Worldwide
  • Labels & Labeling
  • Green Manufacturer Magazine
  • Future 500
  • Container Recycling Institute