JOIN US IN LISBON CYBERSPACE We didn’t envisage the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2020 like this. We were supposed to be bringing the leaders of the packaging industry together in a charming Lisbon palace this month, conversations about how to drive sustainability forward overlooking the river Tagus and the Ponte 25 de Abril. Sadly, that kind of interaction isn’t possible this year.
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we’ve taken the opportunity to re-imagine the Summit as a virtual event. And we quickly discovered that it is indeed an opportunity. For a start, we have no space restrictions and no travel burden on our audience. Secondly, without our own venue and travel costs, we are able to offer participation for free this year. We can therefore look forward to welcoming a much larger and more global audience than would have been possible in lovely Lisbon. The other difference is that human beings don’t interact with digital content in the same way as physical events. Whereas we’re happy to spend two days in a conference centre, punctuated by coffee breaks, chance conversations and buffet lunches, no one wants to spend two days sitting in front of a webinar. Therefore, the Sustainable Packaging Summit this year is going to be a season of virtual events, stretching from late October to early December. | 38 | Packaging Europe
Sign up to our dedicated platform (there’s no cost – another advantage of going virtual) and you can join the live sessions you’re most interested in, network with the speakers and other attendees, and watch previous sessions on demand. As planned in the original programme for Lisbon, we will be presenting a range of talks, discussions, workshops and networking sessions ranging from the fundamental objectives and definitions of sustainability to the strategic challenges we need to circumvent, to the new ideas and cuttingedge technologies that can accelerate progress. Join us and some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in sustainability and packaging, join the conversation – in our virtual Lisbon.
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