PLD Talks - Discover the future of premium drinks packaging
PLD Talks feeds your need for design, branding and technology inspiration with speakers from the world’s top drinks brands, design agencies and innovators.
Produced in association with the Pentawards, the world’s leading packaging design competition, PLD Talks tackles the key challenges for packaging specifiers and designers in premium and luxury drinks brands – from designing for digital-native consumers to sustainability, personalisation, premiumisation and much more.
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Panel Discussion: Revision of the packaging and packaging waste directive: Breakthrough or continuity…
- 25 January
- 9:30am - 10:30am
- Regulation, Waste
- French
More details coming soon.
Moderator: Henri Saporta
Editor in chief, Emballages Magazine
Romane Colleu
EU Policy Advisor, CITEO
Michel Fontaine
President, CNE (Comité National de l'Emballage)
Francesca Stevens
General Secretary, EUROPEN (European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment)
Regulatory news on packaging in the spirits industry
- 25 January
- 10:45am - 11:10am
- Regulation
- French
More details coming soon.
Lucile Talleu
Technical and regulatory affairs manager, Fédération Française des Spiritueux (FFS)
Young people and champagne: valuable insights into understanding (and changing) perceptions and behaviours
- 25 January
- 11:15am - 11:45am
- Gen Z, Trends
- French
Young French people can be a strategic target audience for the champagne industry, which is facing major challenges. This conference will present the results of a large-scale study that examined the perceptions and behaviours of these young people regarding champagne today.
Gordy Pleyers
Professor of Neuromarketing, University of Louvain and Coordinator of the scientific organization, Mind Insights
How to make a champagne label with light sustainable
- 25 January
- 11:45am - 12:15pm
- Sustainability, Luxury
- French
Discover the technical revolution of complex glass challenges in the world of packaging, such as the assembly of ultra-light glass bottles preserving the integrity of each of the two formulas until the last moment. Pierre-Samuel will be joined by two of the suppliers who contributed to the project.
Pierre-Samuel Reyne
Export Manager, Champagne Cattier
Cultural collabs
- 25 January
- 12:30am - 1pm
- Culture
- English
How the right collaborations can capture the zeitgeist and create packaging that elevates your brand from product to cultural icon.
Juliet Layard-Liesching
Associate Managing Director, Butterfly Cannon
Art at the service of packaging
- 25 January
- 1pm - 1:30pm
- Design
- French
It is in this same sharing of the values of an iconic and inspiring past that we create that we create new universes, whether they be gustatory or visual. In this common passion we have to create colourful, festive and offbeat works of art that adorn our cases at the end of the year. Thus illustrating a meeting between two arts: Mixology & Collage.
Sacha Cohen
Artist and illustrator ITCHI
Nicolas Varnier
CEO and Co-founder, Le Barteleur
John Doe
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John Doe
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Dom Pérignon’s luminous label: towards a more eco-responsible design
- 25 January
- 1:30pm - 2pm
- Sustainability, Design
- French
This conference will allow you to discover the history of the Dom Pérignon luminous label and the launch of the first generation, then its evolution ten years later towards a Lum Lab 2.0 connected label. Meiyume and Dom Pérignon are proud to present the latest generation in a separable version for better glass recyclability. Finally, we will present the challenges ahead, especially in the integration of recycled materials in mass production.
Karine Descotes
Sales Director, Meiyume
Yilie Tee
Technical Manager, Meiyume
John Doe
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John Doe
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When a project’s sustainability drives packaging innovation
- 25 January
- 2pm - 2:45pm
- Sustainability, Innovation
- French
Rémy Martin and Hucais Packing Arts Europe, two companies concerned about the environment, present their evolution in terms of packaging innovation, over many years of collaboration. It is through their various achievements and thanks to their strength of proposals that solutions have been found to the problem of sustainable development.
Marine Conti
Packaging Project Manager, Rémy Martin
Ting Sun
CEO, Hucais Packing Arts Europe
John Doe
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John Doe
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Directive 2014/47/EU, safety of palletised loads, are you in compliance with the law? Illustration with a pallet cover made of plant fibre
- 25 January
- 3pm - 3:30pm
- Legislation
- French
The aim of this conference is to present the provisions in force in France and throughout the European Union relating to the transport of loads, the associated physical constraints and their simulation in the laboratory. Consideration of the stability of a palletised load must therefore be an integral part of the development and validation of packaging. Thus, an example of application will be carried out on a reusable plant covering system.
Victor Huart
R&D Manager, Metropack
Preserving the value you create
- 25 January
- 3:45pm - 4pm
- French
More details coming soon.
Nicolas Koutros
Deputy General Director, François-Charles Oberthur (FCO) et Managing Directo, Bioguard & Co.
Anticipating future labelling rules: opportunities for wines and spirits
- 25 January
- 4pm - 5pm
- French
How will companies in the wine and spirits sector benefit from future labelling rules? What opportunities will nutritional, environmental and health requirements represent? A panel discussion to anticipate these changes and adapt to consumer expectations. Arnaud will be joined by three speakers from the world of wine, champagne and spirits.
Aranud Daphy
Associate, SOWINE
Champagne Networking Party
- 25 January
- 5pm - 7:30pm
- Networking
Join us at the networking party at the champagne bar to network with your peers in a more relaxed environment.
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