Panel Discussion:

Strategic Challenges of the Russian Packaging Industry during the period from 2009 –2010. Crisis–induced Changes.

Key Topics:

• The changes in the packaging market of Russia that the crisis will bring till 2010.
• Decline of demand in the consumer market of Russia; consequences for the packaging industry.
• Today’s industry efficiency and investment appeal of the packaging segment of Russia.
• M&A transactions in the packaging market in Russia.
• Solutions to put down the influence of a customer on the financial policy of a producer.
• Development strategies for the packaging industry up to the year 2020. Development strategies of the Federal Target Program on the Development of the Packaging Industry up to the year 2020.
• World crisis influence on the packaging market of Europe. Anti–crisis measures

Speakers:

• Mikhail Leonidovich Khazin, expert who described the crisis of the American economy 10 years before it took place; President of the NEOKON Company offering expert consulting solutions.
• Petr Borisovich Shelisch, Chairman of the Consumer Association of Russia; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of the Participants of the Consumer Market; Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
• Vladimir Alexandrovich Chuykov, President of the ROSUPAK Exhibition; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the GOTEK Group of Enterprises.
• Andrey Leonidovich Zagorsky, Candidate of Economics; President of the National Confederation of Packagers; Member of the Board of Directors of the World Organization of Packagers (WPO); Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EcoTech Company.
• Alexander Gavrilovich Boyko, CEO of the National Confederation of Packagers.
• Tkachik Stanislav, the president of Poland Packaging and Tare House, director of Packaging and Tare scientific and research centre (COBRO)

Participants:

Representatives of State Duma of Russian Federation, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Master–class:  Crisis as the Best Time for Growth. Ways to Attract a Client Pool.

Host: Igor Kachalov, President of the Kachalov and Partners Agency; author of the book “Sales Planning accurate to 90% and Higher” and “Crisis as the Best Time for Sales Growth”.
Part 1: Reasons of Crisis in 2007–2008 , where it’s going to be discussed why everything happened and how long it’ s going to last.
Part 2: How is it possible to increase the amount of b2b clients during crisis

Focus–Session:
Innovative packaging technologies that make you more competitive. Save on Package Production, Offer Superior Quality.  

Key Topics:

• Key trends in machine building. Russian experiences and practices.
• Innovation–driven solutions in packaging and labeling industries as the major competitive advantages for customers.
• Application of Barrier Materials in Modern Plastic Package Production.
• Innovative Solutions in the production of polymer materials and new production technologies that make you able to manufacture flexible packages.
• Application of laser technologies in the production of flexible packages.
• Transfer to the reduction of volume of packages and bottles for foodstuffs as a new crisis trend.

Speakers:

• Representative of  Reksam Company
• Representative of Huhtamaki Company
• Representative of the SOJITZ Company, Japan
• Andreev Aleksey, Representative of  Depot WPF Brand&Identity Company, co–president of Association of Russian Brand Companies

Issue: «Examples of effective usage of OVEN products in automation systems of equipment for the food and packaging industry»
Organizer: Company OVEN
Venue: pavilion 1, conference hall 4

The review of new OVEN products. Controllers, devices, gauges.
Examples of usage of OVEN products in automation systems:

• The Dairy industry
• Meat and a fishing industry
• The Baking and macaroni industry
• The Packaging industry

Variants of automation of:

• Greenhouses
• Manufacture of canned food
• Incubators
• Warehousing units

Open Mike. Exchange of opinions and dialogue.

International Business Forum on the Strategic Solutions for the Participants of the Russian Packaging
Industry. Organizers: The Congress Exhibition Company Imperia , National Packaging Confederation NCPack, MVK International Exhibition Company endorsed by Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of Russian Federation.

Focus–Session:
Packaging Business: Current State of Affairs that are setting the Development Trends

Key Topics:

• Global packaging markets; trends in the packaging business. Crisis–induced changes that are now taking place in Europe.
• Analysis of the Russian market of tare and packages; the development vector till the year 2010.
• Package in the modern consumer market in Russia; new developmental niches;
• Anticrisis strategies and tactics: ways to not only survive, but also to develop in times of crisis.
• After crisis development trends of the Russian packaging market.
• Technical regulations on Package Safety and Proof for this non–existing branch.

Speakers:

• Alexander Boyko, CEO of the National Packaging Confederation.
• Yulia Kislova, Head of Department of Marketing Analysis of Industrial Markets; The Research Institute of the Movement of Goods and Wholesale Markets Conjuncture (ITCOR).
• Anastasia Ptukha, Chairman of the Board of Directos of the Step by Step State Company.
• Ekaterina Pokrovskaya, senior analyst of the Department of Initiative Analysis, RosBusinessConsulting (RBC).
• Vladimir Kulakov, Director General of the UpackService Company.

Special Speech: Re–positioning as the Best Anticrisis Strategy and the Most Apparent Anticrisis Tactical Solution for the Packaging Industry.

Alexey Sukhenko, Managing Partner and Director of TROUT&PARTNERS. RUSSIA; Member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Guild of Marketing Experts; Member of the Committee on Marketing that operates under the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry; author of the books “Guide for a Top Manager”.

Round–table discussion:

Must cooperate, must not Cheat. Dialogue between a Customer and a Producer: developing an algorithm of efficient cooperation.

Moderator: Igor Bruk, an independent expert; Member of the Council of the Guild of Marketing Experts.

Key Topics:

• The reasons why the entry level of printing orders in Europe is ten times as less.
• Should the customer pay for adjusting services? If it should, then how much?
• Correspondence of color proof and printing – who is to blame for?
• Where do the broken and crumpled boxes come from? Ways to choose the most optimal packaging materials.
• Design solutions for exhibitions and distribution – seven distinguishing features and differences.
• Strategies on a supplier choice.
• Playing with order volumes. What to do?
• When does a customer pay in time?
• Personnel preparation tricks; everything you would want to know about internal marketing.

Key participants:

• Vsevolod Varshavchik, an independent artist and designer; Director of Varshavchik Studio.
• Zakatova Elena, head of supply department, Russian collection.

Invited  participants:

• Konstantin Sergeevich Malyshev, Director of the Department on Cooperation with Strategic Clients; managing Company of the GOTEK Group of Enterprises
• Alexander Mikhailovich Puzikov, President of the PackMash Association.
• Vladimir Grigorievich Dvorkin, President of the National Tare–making Association.
• Alexander Gavrilovich Boyko, Chairman of the Sub–Committee on the Development of the Packaging Industry of the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
• Andrey Leonidovich Zagorsky, Candidate of Economics, President of the National Confederation of Packagers.
• Tatiana Valentinovna Puchkova, Chairman of the Board of the Board of Directors of the Russian Perfume and Cosmetic Association.
• Vasily Alekseevich Mezhevikin, Head of the Department of Food and Processing Industry of the Russian Federation Ministry of Agriculture.
• Boris Alexandrovich Kuzmin, President of the Inter–Regional Association of Polygraphic Experts and Specialists.
• Valery Nikolaevich Elkhov, Managing Director of the Russian Union of Ice–Cream Producers.
• Victor Ivanovich Osipov, President of the National United Council of Glass Industry Enterprises.
• Tatiana Ivanovna Krikun, Head of the Information and Analytical Center of the Daity Association of Russia.
• Igor Nikolaevich Smirenny, Vice–President of the European Packaging Institute.
• Anatoly Petrovich Chernovol, Vice–President of BumProm RAO (Russian Stock Corporation)
• Igor Grigorievich Kukushkin, Director General of the Russian Union of Chemists.

Research and practical conference on the New Printing Technologies for Food Packages that illuminate the possibility of paint component migration. Perspectives of Polymerization Technologies usage within Inert Media. Global Experience.
Organizer: The Kursiv Publishing House supported by MVK International Exhibition Company.

Issue to be Considered: Inks that have Hardening Effects within the Inert Environment for the Food Packaging (A. Komarov, REALINE)
Issue to be Considered: New Plants and Machinery for UV–Polymerization of Inks and Lacquers in the Inert Environment (A. Semichev, UV–Service)
Issue to be Considered: Offset Printing Machines with UV and EV Drying. Examples of Application of Flexible Package Printing
Issue to be Considered: Use of Nitrogen Systems to Enhance the Production Efficiency 

Conference on The Superior Quality Printing with the usage of Cost–Efficient Paints and Dyes. Ways to Increase Efficiency of Printing Production based upon Application of Modern Dyes and Resource–Saving Technologies.
Organizer: Flexographia and Special Printing Technologies – Magazine supported by MVK International Exhibition Company.
Venue: pavilion 1, conference hall 3

Rotoflex Company
Issue to be Considered: Anticrisis Technological Solutions in Paint/Dye Application – Keeping Superior Quality under the Current Economic Conditions.

• Value Contribution of the Downtime when Producing Packaging Materials;
• Selection of the Materials to Be Used (paints, lacquers, priming materials, etc.); the role of economic and qualitative figures in package pricing.

S.A. Satushev, Candidate of Science, Technical Director of Rotoflex.

Norcross Company:
Issue to be Considered: Automated Viscosity Control System as a Means of Top Quality Printing and a Painting Material Saving Solution.

• Viscosity Measurement and Determination of Liquid Qualities and Characteristics;
• Viscosity as a part of Printing Process
• Automated Viscosity Control System
• Comparative Characteristics of  Industrial Viscosity Metering Devices and Units.

Konstantin Mikhailov, Eastern Europe Sales Director of Norcross

Tanzor Company:
Issue to be Considered: Cost–Effective Alternatives to Dyes and Paints by the INX International Company
Dmitry Pchelkin, Director General

Siegwerk Company:
Issue to be Considered: Ink Management. Ink Management in the Context of Modern Corrugated Board Production. T
Mikhail Yaklakov and Alexandra Kuzina, technical experts.

ReaLine Company:
Issue to be Considered: Printing solutions for food packages with the use of the UV–curable inks that eliminate the possibility of penetration of unwanted components to the package.
Andrey Komarov, product expert

Siegwerk Company:
Issue to be Considered: UV–curable and traditional inks for offset sheet printing machines designed for primary food packages. This niche in the Western Europe and Market Expectation for Russia.
Martian Buttin (France), Product Manager of Offset and Label Printing Inks. Report in English with consecutive interpretation.

Professional sessions on logistics and run under the following motto – Where they see a crisis, we see new opportunities!
Organizer: Mizunov Media Group, Russian Union of Enterparises of Refrigerating Industry, Logistics Coordination Council, Information and Consulting Company Logist–ICS, Recruiting agency AVANTA, endorsed by MVK International Exhibition Company
Venue: pavilion 1, conference hall 2

Issue to be Considered: Warehousing Activity Optimization. Analysis of Solutions and Efficiency evaluation.
Issue to be Considered: Logistics Personnel. Head Hunting and Trainings. Candidate Search for Part time work.