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.

DRAFT AGENDA

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

  • D4PACK Project: Activities, Results and Future Perspectives

Welcome and Institutional remarks

The D4PACK Project

The D4PACKtool: functionalities, results and future perspectives

Presentation of D4PACK Hackathon Winners

  • Food companies and consumer behaviour on sustainability (tbc)
  • Roundtable: Sustainable Packaging for Food SMEs: a dialogue across the value chain

The roundtable will bring together representatives from the packaging industry, the packaging sustainability ecosystem, and the food value chain to discuss challenges, opportunities, and future perspectives for sustainable packaging solutions for food companies.

Participants: CONAI – Italian National Packaging Consortium; Europen – the European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment (tbc); GIFLEX – Italian Flexible Packaging Association; University of Ljubjana; Veronesi Group.

 

  • Q&A and Closing Remarks

 

Registration

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