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Packaging Première Talks

Discover the future of luxury packaging

Packaging Première Talks - Discover the future of luxury packaging

The Packaging Première Talks will immerse you in the luxury packaging landscape. Be inspired and discover the latest trends and challenges in the luxury industry from leading brands from the fashion, accessories, jewellery, watches, fine food, confectionery and homewear markets.

Packaging Première Talks Theatre sponsored by: 

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Denis Ferrand | PLD Talks

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Packaging Première Talks programme 2023

More sessions will be announced and added soon!

Simultaneous translation FR/EN – EN/FR available.

Opening to the Packaging Première Talks par James Cropper

In less than 45 minutes regardless of your role in packaging, you will be generating your own amazing packaging designs with AI. This is an introduction to AI that will cover the basics you need to design as well as understand the impact machine learning is having on global businesses. Don’t get left behind and get ahead of this trend that is changing how we work, think, and create.

Tricia Hartmann

Tricia Hartmann

Luxury Packaging Global Lead, James Cropper

Keynote: Interview with Josh Brooks

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Maud Funaro

Maud Funaro

Chief Transformation Officer, PRINTEMPS

The big questions for luxury decision-makers in 2023

The luxury sector, as a whole, is facing challenges to its fundamentals under the combined effect of the deleterious effects of the Covid crisis, the geostrategic situation and its consequences, notably on the cost of energy, the acceleration of the transformation induced by technology (we are thinking of blockchain, the metaverse and more simply of the irresistible rise of online sales), and the expectations of its clientele in terms of CSR.

Moderator: Alain Caradeuc

Moderator: Alain Caradeuc

Co-President, Imprim'Luxe

Gérard Laizé

Gérard Laizé

President and Founder, Designer’s Election

Maria Grazia Solimene

Maria Grazia Solimene

VP Luxury, Capgemini Invent

Alain Quillet

Alain Quillet

Senior Advisor et Consultant, ABAQAB & President, Comité Montaigne

The future of retail: how immersive technologies take the customer and brand experience into the 3rd dimension and reconcile the physical and digital journey

AB Agency, expert in Marketing, Business & Innovation in Beauty and Luxury, presents 2 immersive technological solutions in retail, which sublimate the story-telling of the brand, projecting the customer experience into a new sensory dimension, while reinforcing the purchase path in the here and now. In 2 concepts:
– Phygital, with the start-up UGLA, illustrated by its collaboration with IKEA
– The Metaverse, illustrated by the design proposal of the agency Chafik.Studio for the brand “Demain Beauty”

Moderator: Annie Begnaud

Moderator: Annie Begnaud

Business Development & Innovation Strategist & Founder, AB AGENCY

Chafik Gasmi

Chafik Gasmi

Founder and Creative Director, Chafik Studio

Sandra Gasmi

Sandra Gasmi

Founder, DEMAIN BEAUTY

Introduction to packaging design with AI – In collaboration with Pentawards

In less than 45 minutes regardless of your role in packaging, you will be generating your own amazing packaging designs with AI. This is an introduction to AI that will cover the basics you need to design as well as understand the impact machine learning is having on global businesses. Don’t get left behind and get ahead of this trend that is changing how we work, think, and create.

Evelio Mattos

Evelio Mattos

Host and Creative Director, Packaging Design Unboxd Podcast & IDPdirect.com

Luxury: the challenges of packaging, or the art of amplifying the consumer experience – In collaboration with Pentawards

More details coming soon.

Sébastien Erhet

Sébastien Erhet

CEO, Servaire & Co

Sustainability, challenges and best practices, how does it translate for fashion, jewellery, watch and wine brands – Hosted by Positive Luxury

Positive Luxury, creators of the Butterfly Mark certification, explore how luxury brands can win and create business value by measuring, managing and reporting their net positive impact across ESG indicators.

Moderator: Diana Verde Nieto

Moderator: Diana Verde Nieto

Co-founder, Positive Luxury

Dr. Markus Ernst

Dr. Markus Ernst

Owner, NosCo Couture

Nicole Rolet

Nicole Rolet

Co-founder, Chêne Bleu

The evidence of luxury: why the first launch of a new perfume license should not be creative

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Alnoor Mitha de Bharat

Alnoor Mitha de Bharat

Design thinker, Objets de convoitises

Champagne Networking Party

Join us at the networking party at the champagne bar to network with your peers in a more relaxed environment.

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