Driving Sustainable Packaging Innovation for Food SMEs

Hybrid
Location: Verona, Italy
Date: 27.10.2026
By: D4PACK
 

The D4PACK Partnership is pleased to invite its stakeholders, policymakers, associated partners, and all interested representatives from the food and packaging sectors to the D4PACK Final Conference, which will take place on Tuesday, 27 October 2026, in Verona, Italy, at Confindustria Verona (Piazza Cittadella 12).

The event will provide a unique opportunity for dialogue among institutions, industry representatives, and key actors across the value chain. The conference will also be available to follow online.

The event will be held in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Italian and Czech.

 

AGENDA

Moderates Davide Miserendino – Editor in Chief ItaliaImballaggio and Kairos Media Group

10: 00 Welcome and Institutional remarks

Giangiacomo Pierini – Vice-Chair for Internationalisation Confindustria Verona

Luca Ferrarese – Director at Joint Secretariat Central Europe Programme

10:15 D4PACK PROJECT: Activities, Results and Future Perspectives

  • The D4PACK Project

Valentina Bottega – D4PACK Coordinator Confindustria Verona-Cevi

  • The D4PACKtool: functionalities and key value points

Krzysztof Wójcik – Łukasiewicz – Łódzki Instytut Technologiczny

Enrico Zuppini – Confindustria Verona-Cevi

  • Presentation of D4PACK Hackathon Winners

Zsófia Kertész – Campden BRI Magyarország Nonprofit Kft.

11:10 Food companies and consumer behaviour on sustainability

Agnieszka Kawecka – Krakow University of Economics

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 Roundtable: Sustainable Packaging for Food SMEs: a dialogue across the value chain

Monica Aversa – Policy Advisor at Confindustria, EU Delegation

Michele Gelmi – R&D Packaging Manager, Veronesi Group

Diana Gregor Svetec – Professor at University of Ljubljana

Neni Rossini – President GIFLEX Italian Flexible Packaging Association

Luca Stramare – Director of the Center for Circular Economy Studies CONAI (Italian National Packaging Consortium)​

12: 45 Q&A and Closing Remarks

 

Registration

Participation is free, but registration is required at the following link: Final Conference of the D4PACK Project | Survio®