What's on - build your pefect experience
Every attendee is here for something different – breakthrough ideas, new connections, hands-on learning, or pure inspiration. Tell us what drives you, and we’ll curate the highlights, sessions, and moments you won’t want to miss.
Pentawards Festival
Recognised as the world’s leading packaging design competition and community, Pentawards will bring its renowned Pentawards Festival to Paris Packaging Week.
The collaboration will transform the show floor into a vibrant creative hub. Visitors can explore a dedicated village of world-class design agencies and a gallery showcasing the most innovative packaging designs from around the globe. The festival will also feature inspiring talks, alongside an immersive live art performance created in real time.
Future Leaders
The Future Leaders programme shines a spotlight on the next generation of packaging talent, giving emerging professionals under 30 a platform to connect, inspire, and lead.
Participants gain industry-wide visibility, build valuable connections with global brands and innovators, and share their ideas on stage with an international audience. As part of the programme, they become key voices within the Paris Packaging Week community – helping shape the future of packaging innovation.
Innovation Awards gallery
The Innovation Awards winners will be displayed in the central aisle of Paris Packaging Week, creating an inspiring new focal point for the year’s best innovations and designs across beauty, luxury, drinks and aerosols.
Discovery Zone
The zone brings together innovative start-ups showcasing the future of packaging. Visitors can discover breakthrough materials, smart packaging solutions, new products, and emerging technologies and AI shaping packaging.
Full-service Zone
PCD will host a Full-Service Zone, responding to growing demand from large and small brands for contract manufacturing and filling suppliers alongside R&D and formulation services.
915+ packaging suppliers
At Paris Packaging Week, you’ll connect with the world’s leading packaging suppliers and discover the innovations, technologies, and breakthrough solutions shaping the future of the industry.
Live insight from industry leaders
From future-focused sustainability talks to game-changing design trends and breakthrough technologies, Paris Packaging Week’s five live conference stages will bring the biggest ideas and brightest voices in packaging together under one roof.
NEW FOR 2027
POS & Retail Zone
This new zone will spotlight the fast-growing world of point-of-sale packaging. Bringing together specialist suppliers and innovators, the zone will showcase creative solutions designed to elevate the in-store customer experience.
NEW FOR 2027
Discovery Zone
The zone brings together innovative start-ups showcasing the future of packaging. Visitors can discover breakthrough materials, smart packaging solutions, new products, and emerging technologies and AI shaping packaging.
Full-service Zone
PCD will host a Full-Service Zone, responding to growing demand from large and small brands for contract manufacturing and filling suppliers alongside R&D and formulation services.
915+ packaging suppliers
At Paris Packaging Week, you’ll connect with the world’s leading packaging suppliers and discover the innovations, technologies, and breakthrough solutions shaping the future of the industry.
NEW FOR 2027
POS & Retail Zone
This new zone will spotlight the fast-growing world of point-of-sale packaging. Bringing together specialist suppliers and innovators, the zone will showcase creative solutions designed to elevate the in-store customer experience.
NEW FOR 2027
Discovery Zone
The zone brings together innovative start-ups showcasing the future of packaging. Visitors can discover breakthrough materials, smart packaging solutions, new products, and emerging technologies and AI shaping packaging.
Full-service Zone
PCD will host a Full-Service Zone, responding to growing demand from large and small brands for contract manufacturing and filling suppliers alongside R&D and formulation services.
915+ packaging suppliers
At Paris Packaging Week, you’ll connect with the world’s leading packaging suppliers and discover the innovations, technologies, and breakthrough solutions shaping the future of the industry.
Innovation Awards ceremonies
Bold ideas. Beautiful design. Game-changing innovation. The Innovation Awards at Paris Packaging Week celebrate the brands, designers, and creators pushing packaging to the next level — and setting the trends everyone will follow next.
Innovation Awards gallery
The Innovation Awards winners will be displayed in the central aisle of Paris Packaging Week, creating an inspiring new focal point for the year’s best innovations and designs across beauty, luxury, drinks and aerosols.
Pentawards Festival
Recognised as the world’s leading packaging design competition and community, Pentawards will bring its renowned Pentawards Festival to Paris Packaging Week.
The collaboration will transform the show floor into a vibrant creative hub. Visitors can explore a dedicated village of world-class design agencies and a gallery showcasing the most innovative packaging designs from around the globe. The festival will also feature inspiring talks, alongside an immersive live art performance created in real time.
Live insight from industry leaders
From future-focused sustainability talks to game-changing design trends and breakthrough technologies, Paris Packaging Week’s five live conference stages will bring the biggest ideas and brightest voices in packaging together under one roof.
Discovery Zone
The zone brings together innovative start-ups showcasing the future of packaging. Visitors can discover breakthrough materials, smart packaging solutions, new products, and emerging technologies and AI shaping packaging.
Pentawards Festival
Recognised as the world’s leading packaging design competition and community, Pentawards will bring its renowned Pentawards Festival to Paris Packaging Week.
The collaboration will transform the show floor into a vibrant creative hub. Visitors can explore a dedicated village of world-class design agencies and a gallery showcasing the most innovative packaging designs from around the globe. The festival will also feature inspiring talks, alongside an immersive live art performance created in real time.
Future Leaders
The Future Leaders programme shines a spotlight on the next generation of packaging talent, giving emerging professionals under 30 a platform to connect, inspire, and lead.
Participants gain industry-wide visibility, build valuable connections with global brands and innovators, and share their ideas on stage with an international audience. As part of the programme, they become key voices within the Paris Packaging Week community – helping shape the future of packaging innovation.
Student innovation challenges
Paris Packaging Week is proud to organise student innovation competitions with a number of French universities including ESEPAC, ESIReims and the Emballé 5.0 x Conseil National de l’Emballage (CNE).
The programmes offer students in packaging engineering and marketing the opportunity to respond to briefs from major brand owners like Merci Handy, and Brockmans Gin. Projects are then presented at the show – bringing inspiration to you and visibility to the sector’s newest talents!
Cocktail bar
Champagne bar
Beer bar
ADF drinks party
VIP Lounge & Ambassador lounge
