Why Attend
With many brands, retailers and packaging companies only having five years to find alternative solutions to plastic packaging, external innovation has never been more crucial. As a result, investments and partnerships in the sustainable packaging space are booming, with Chanel’s investment into biodegradable material company Sulapac and Coca-Cola’s deal with Ioniqa.
The inaugural Sustainable Packaging Investment Summit will bring together the entire ecosystem, introducing innovative start-ups to brands needing greener packaging solutions and investors keen to learn more about this lucrative market.
Registered delegates will have an opportunity to book up to nine 20-minute-long networking meetings during the conference.
Who Will Be There
Sustainable Packaging Disruptors Showcase
10 sustainable packaging innovators (who are actively seeking investment, acquisition or partnerships) will be hand-picked by our prestigious selection committee of investors & industry leaders to showcase their innovations on the main stage in a quick fire round of five-minute presentations to a room full of investors, multinationals and packaging companies. Each company will also be able to show a one-minute video to support their presentation.
Applications can be submitted by companies that have just started generating revenue all the way up to larger players who have already received investment and/or are in business partnerships.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
Finalists announcement: 11 June 2019
Selection Committee
Author:
Bridget Croke
Bridget Croke leads external affairs including investor partnerships, industry partnerships, communications and special projects at the Closed Loop Partners. Bridget has been been working on sustainability, circular economy and turning waste into value for 20 years through organizations including Fair Food Project of Philadelphia, Recyclebank and Purpose before Closed Loop Partners
Author:
Jim Totty
Jim has been an investor in sustainability focussed companies and infrastructure for 20 years, after a prior career in advisory and academia. He has worked in sectors such as FMCG, Agriculture, Pollution Remediation and Logistics. Jim was previously at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citigroup and Earth Capital. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Author:
Arjune Shukla
Arjune is a member of the investment team at Circularity Capital, working on origination and investment due diligence. There he helps fund growth stage businesses operating within the circular economy, with equity investments of c.£1m - £6m. Prior to joining Circularity Capital, Arjune spent four years at Sustainable Ventures in London where he was responsible for their sourcing and due diligence operations, and previously held roles in natural resources private equity and environmental policy. Arjune holds an honours BA and MSc from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Each of his three degrees focused on the intersection of the environment, mathematics, and policy.
Author:
Alexis Figeac
Alexis has been a pioneer throughout his career. Looking into Artificial Intelligence and human-computer interaction in the 80’s, he seized the opportunity of German reunification to be at the forefront of economic transformation in East Germany at the Treuhandanstalt. He was involved with privatisation further afield in Eastern Europe before leading teams in the area of business restructuring at PriceWaterhouse.
Wanting to back good advice with money he joined Deutsche Telekom’s corporate venture capital entity, T-Venture, investing in and serving on the boards of numerous young ICT businesses.
Recognising the opportunity and necessity of a greener economy (he had invested in wind farms since 1995), he sought to establish one of the 1st cleantech Venture Capital funds in Germany in 2003. Alexis has been an early-stage investor and board member in a host of innovative green technology companies, also during his time as Partner at the Entrepreneurs Fund in London.
Through his 5-year tenure as Head of Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship at the UNEP Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Wuppertal, Alexis took his thinking on sustainability to a new level and implemented its practice at DAX-30 clients as well as advising developing countries. Moreover, he has been instrumental in furthering knowledge on the business models of Circular Economy, as the instigator and coordinator of the R²π consortium: highlighting successful cases, accompanying businesses on a Circular Economy ‘innovation journey’ and drafting policy recommendations for the EU, from which it received € 3 Mio. in funding. Alexis is recognised as an expert on CE and has published articles on the topic. As Head of Circular Economy at KPMG Germany, he advised a major Tier-1 automotive supplier on transforming its lead product according to Circular Economy principles.
His Venture Capital experience and sustainability expertise have led him presently to establishing Sustainability Investors’ 1st fund: it brings technology solutions to the challenges facing our resource-constrained world in the 21st century. By providing much needed equity capital and value-creation to young businesses, Sustainability Investors will help disseminate real environmental solutions, protecting our planet while promoting prosperity.
Author:
Anne Sutton
Over 40 years’ experience in the retail, vending, distribution & packaging sectors.
Previous employers include Marks & Spencer, Autobar Group, King UK & Solo Cup Europe
Until recently, held various senior Innovation Director roles throughout career. Huge passion for new products/ technologies.
Now focusing on government affairs/ environment in EU for Dart Container Corporation.
Current Industry positions:
Board member for Packaging Federation
Board member of Pack 2 Go Europe
Trustee Recoup
Chair, Environment Committee FPA
Community Involvement:
Governor St Peters School, Huntingdon/ CAM Academy Trust
Over 40 years’ experience in the retail, vending, distribution & packaging sectors.
Previous employers include Marks & Spencer, Autobar Group, King UK & Solo Cup Europe
Until recently, held various senior Innovation Director roles throughout career. Huge passion for new products/ technologies.
Now focusing on government affairs/ environment in EU for Dart Container Corporation.
Current Industry positions:
Board member for Packaging Federation
Board member of Pack 2 Go Europe
Trustee Recoup
Chair, Environment Committee FPA
Community Involvement:
Governor St Peters School, Huntingdon/ CAM Academy Trust
The Speakers
Andrew Griffiths
Brian Powers
Frederic Dreux
Isabel Sloman
Jurgita Girzadiene
Jurgita Girzadiene, with educational background of Business Management, started in Smurfit Kappa in 1998. After gaining experience in various roles in sales and commercial activities with customers and suppliers, innovation and logistics, in 2010 was promoted to Sustainability Manager for Smurfit Kappa Corrugated division as part of European Innovations and Development organization. The main focus of Jurgita is to drive Smurfit Kappa sustainability agenda from the brand owner, retailer and consumer point of view. In this role she functionally heads a team of specialists in 10 regions in Europe to ensure a close link between operational and strategic sustainability topics.
Richard Kirkman
Santiago Navarro
Santiago Navarro is a serial entrepreneur with previous startup experience in the wine industry. His first start-up in 2011, Vinopic Wines, was an online retailer which was the first to use science to judge and score wines for their intrinsic quality. Following this, he went on to co-found Nightly.travel, the world's only hotel booking site to split a traveller’s stay across two hotels to enable them to save as much as 70%. Santiago’s now focused on Garçon Wines, as CEO and co-founder, innovating the 35 billion bottles used annually in wine and aiming to make flat, sustainable bottles the dominant primary packaging in wine.
Arjune Shukla
Arjune is a member of the investment team at Circularity Capital, working on origination and investment due diligence. There he helps fund growth stage businesses operating within the circular economy, with equity investments of c.£1m - £6m. Prior to joining Circularity Capital, Arjune spent four years at Sustainable Ventures in London where he was responsible for their sourcing and due diligence operations, and previously held roles in natural resources private equity and environmental policy. Arjune holds an honours BA and MSc from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Each of his three degrees focused on the intersection of the environment, mathematics, and policy.
Daphna Nissenbaum
Monika Romenska
Monika Romenska has held senior positions in public administration, Local authorities’ and Industry organizations in Bulgaria. Since 2014, Ms Romenska is Regulatory & Public Affairs Manager at the Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA) based in Brussels, which acts as the authoritative voice and common policy platform representing the interests of all its 26 member packaging recovery and recycling organizations founded and run by or on behalf of obliged industry. She has extensive experience in sustainable development, waste management (with a focus on packaging), local and regional self-government, regional development, communications and project management.
Over the past 25 years, industry-driven Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has contributed to significant increases in recycling rates and public spending savings on waste management, and helped to achieve a reduction in the environmental impact of products, through their lifespan, from production (via prevention and eco desgin) through end-of-life. Innovation has played a vital role in this occurring. As the link between industry, local authorities and recycling industry, EPR organizations contribute significantly to sustianable production and cosnsumtion.
Marcel Arsand
Pierre Paslier
The Agenda
To find out more about the Sustainable Packaging Investment Summit, please download the agenda.
Some highlights of the summit:
- Sustainable Packaging Disruptors Showcase
10 start-ups will have the chance to present their innovation on the main stage. Winners will be handpicked by our prestigious selection committee of investors & industry leaders. Apply for the showcase here.
- Learn about Consumer and Regulatory Pressures
Identify key indicators that drive consumer brands and packaging companies to find sustainable, alternative solutions to traditional plastic packaging.
Download Agenda
Senior Event Partner
Novolex
Website: http://www.Novolex.com
Novolex™ develops and manufactures diverse packaging and food service products that touch nearly every aspect of daily life for multiple industries ranging from grocery, food packaging, restaurant and retail to medical applications and building supplies. The Novolex family of brands provide customers innovative paper and plastic solutions for their business needs today while investing in research and development to engineer more sustainable choices for the future. With more than 10,000 employee families, Novolex operates 60 manufacturing plants in North America and Europe, including two world-class plastic film recycling facilities. To learn more about Novolex, visit www.Novolex.com.
Media Partners
Green Alley Award
Website: https://green-alley-award.com/
The Green Alley Award is Europe’s first startup prize for the circular economy. It was created in 2014 by Landbell Group, the leading supplier of global environmental services, along with Germany’s crowdfunding pioneer Seedmatch.
Landbell Group’s declared goal is a climate-neutral circular economy. For a fundamental change, policies like the ban on single-use plastics in the EU are not enough. This is why we see our future in startups: Together with our partners, we nurture and promote promising business ideas that use new services, products and technologies to make the most efficient use of resources and reduce waste drastically.
In it’s seventh year now, more than 1,200 startups from more than 50 European countries have applied for the Green Alley Award since it’s start. Altogether we have supported 36 successful finalists with an investment of more than one million Euros.
Pearlfisher
Website: http://www.pearlfisher.com
Pearlfisher is a global brand design agency. From their studios in London, New York, San Francisco and Copenhagen, they design for the lives people want to live. Pearlfisher believes in a better future by design to create positive, lighter, more desirable ways of living. They design for life.
Packaging Herald
Website: http://www.packagingherald.cz
Packaging Herald is a state-of-the-art B2B magazine about news and contemporary trends in the packaging industry and related fields. Every two months it gives practical tips for daily business and provides readers with innovation insights. Its mission is to create communication and an information exchange platform for all participating parties that deal with packaging and related services: the packaging users, the packaging producers, packaging technology providers, designers, service partners and retailers.
The digital version of the magazine can be downloaded from www.packagingherald.cz and readers have unlimited access to the magazine archive. The portal www.packagingherald.cz also offers segment news on a daily basis. We also publish fortnightly online newsletter.
Retail Packaging Magazine
Website: http://www.retailpackagingmag.co.uk
Retail Packaging is the UK's premier trade magazine with complete coverage of the retail packaging market. Retail Packaging targets core decision makers and is essential reading for both manufacturers and end-users, keeping readers informed with the latest news and developments.
Packaging Scotland
Website: https://packagingscotland.com/
Packaging Scotland has been uniquely placed to reflect industry thinking north of the border for over 30 years. The quarterly title features a wide variety of news, features, events and commentary articles – covering both the local market and beyond. The ABC audited publication targets key decision makers across the whole of Scotland and is a trusted and well-read title among industry figures.
Plastech
Website: https://www.plastech.biz/en
Plastech is one of Europe's leading industry vortals for plastics and packaging companies.
Daily industry information, reports from trade fairs and events, company directory, current price trends on the plastics market are an invaluable source of information.
The central place of the service is the B2B offer exchange, where several dozen new offers of raw materials, packaging, machinery and recycling appear every day.
Over 4 milion pageviews and half a million users of the service per year makes it an extremely effective marketing tool, enabling market participants to establish new business contacts.
Today, the Plastech vortal is translated into four languages: Polish, English, German and Russian, thus enabling contacts between companies from all over the world.
Pack2Go
Website: http://www.pack2go-europe.com/en/
Pack2Go Europe is a not-for-profit association of companies that manufacture packaging for the food and beverages consumed on-the-go every day by millions of Europeans. Our companies have a common vision about doing things better and a clear mission. We want Europeans who eat and drink on-the-go to know that health, safety and environmental considerations have been thought through and factored into production plans.
Pack2Go Europe has engaged to work with all relevant stakeholders to ensure that all food and beverage service packaging has access to separate collection and recycling by 2025.
Pack2Go Europe has launched also a Quality Guarantee Programme (http://www.p2g-e.com/en/) that includes a trade mark, label and logo. The Quality Guarantee attests to the commitment of Pack2Go Europe member companies to manufacture and market quality products in a responsible way to ensure hygiene, safety and sustainability.
Euromonitor International
Website: https://www.euromonitor.com/
Euromonitor International is a global market research company providing strategic market intelligence on industries, companies, economies and consumers around the world. Comprehensive international coverage and insights across consumer goods, business-to-business and service industries make our research an essential resource for businesses of all sizes
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