Editorial August 2016

Hello and welcome back after the summer break. Here in Sweden the weather has been somewhat varied, but it’s always relaxing to take some time off with family and friends.

As you can read in our newsletter, I visited Almedalen to see how we can achieve even higher visibility for Packbridge members and of course to participate in discussions related to the European project Food Nexus, where we are on the board.

As regards the autumn, we have a full schedule ahead and we are working hard to organise a number of events, conferences and meetings. The biggest of these, of course, is Top Packaging Summit by Packbridge which takes place on 18-19 October. This year we will be trying to create an environment that feels as natural to you as possible. So that, as participants, you can make new contacts, promote ideas and enrich yourself with new skills. TPS will be slightly different this year, and you can read more about it via this link. We have already lined up a number of both national and international participants.

Before that, we will be holding our e-commerce event at Mindpark in Helsingborg on 6 September, and this will help shape a new direction for our future events. There will be a more direct link between the speaker and attendees – who we like to think of as active participants, rather than an audience. This is because we want you to get more out of our events, with clearer points of contact and a structure that keeps interest levels high.

There are many other interesting news items to talk about, which you can read on our website or in our newsletter, but for now I just want to welcome you all to an exciting autumn with Packbridge. We look forward to meeting as many of you as possible!

Best wishes.

Johan Mårtensson