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Pentawards Festival

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 class of 2026

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

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.

PPW26 Discovery Zone

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.

PPW exhibitor interactions 7

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.

Exhibitor intercation

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.

Speaker at Paris Packaging Week 2026

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.

Exhibitor interaction PPW25

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.

PPW26 Discovery Zone

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.

PPW exhibitor interactions 7

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.

Exhibitor intercation

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.

Exhibitor interaction PPW25

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.

PPW26 Discovery Zone

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.

PPW exhibitor interactions 7

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.

Exhibitor intercation

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.

PCD Innovation Awards 2026

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

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

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.

Speaker at Paris Packaging Week 2026

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.

PPW26 Discovery Zone

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

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 class of 2026

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 competitions

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

Cocktail bar

Start the day with fresh smoothies and great conversations, then wind down at happy hour with refreshing cocktails, music, and industry networking at our stylish cocktail bar – the perfect place to meet, connect, and recharge between sessions.

 
Champagne bar

Champagne bar

The iconic Champagne Bar is the go-to destination for networking, celebrations, and spontaneous conversations. As Day 1 comes to a close, it transforms into the centrepiece of the show’s renowned evening party – bringing the packaging industry together over champagne, music, and unforgettable connections.

Beer Bar

Beer bar

ADF’s lively Beer Bar will bring the aerosol and dispensing community together in the heart of the show. With five beers on tap — including an alcohol-free option — it’s the perfect place to network, unwind, and continue the conversation long after the conference sessions end.

ADF Drinks party

ADF drinks party

Hosted by FEA in collaboration with ADF, the ADF Drinks Party is the perfect opportunity to reconnect with the aerosol community, meet FEA members, and enjoy relaxed networking with industry peers after a busy day.

Ambassador lounge

VIP Lounge & Ambassador lounge

Our cosy lounges are the perfect place to relax, network, and recharge in style. Enjoy great coffee, delicious bites, and inspiring conversations with some of the biggest names and brightest minds in the industry.
  

Chill lounge

Chill lounge

Need a moment away from the buzz of the show floor? The Chill Lounge offers a calm, comfortable space to relax, catch up on emails, hold informal meetings, and recharge both yourself and your devices with convenient charging points throughout the lounge.

NEW FOR 2026

Innovation Awards party

This exclusive Innovation Awards party will bring together top innovators from the worlds of beauty, drinks, aerosols, and luxury packaging, right in the heart of Paris’s luxury community.

Innovation Awards headline sponsor:

NEW FOR 2025

Future Leaders

The Future Leaders programme at Paris Packaging Week empowers emerging talent under 30 to become key voices in the global packaging industry. Participants gain visibility, connect with industry leaders, and share their insights on stage at the event. By joining the programme, they become an integral part of the Paris Packaging Week community while shaping the future of packaging innovation. 

NEW FOR 2025

Pentawards Festival

Pentawards is the world’s leading packaging design community and competition; and will host its Pentawards Festival at Paris Packaging Week.

The collaboration combines a village of top design agencies, a gallery of the world’s best packaging design and globally influential design speakers.

NEW FOR 2025

PCD 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.

NEW FOR 2025

Discovery Zone

The Discovery Zone is an exciting area that will host a true vision of the future – with start-ups, new materials and products and a view of new technologies shaping the sector such as AI and smart packaging. 

NEW FOR 2025

Co-working and exhibitor lounge

A space dedicated to a co-working area and an exhibitor lounge will provide a space for both visitors and exhibitors to meet and work while at the show, helping visitors stay longer and giving a quiet space for exhibitors to get away from the busy show floor.

NEW FOR 2025

ADF Beer Bar

ADF will have its own Beer Bar at the centre of the show, creating a focal point for the aerosol and dispensing community at the event. It joins the Cocktail Bar between Packaging Première and PLD and the Champagne Bar in PCD, plus the Ambassador Lounge, VIP Lounge and many catering points as hubs for networking and celebrating.

  • We’ll be serving five beers on draft: Belgium, French, German, US, and 0% alcohol free
  • Open from 9am on both days, have some tea and coffee to start the day
  • Beer will be serviced from 11am onwards 
  • Sip sustainably with our branded, reusable aluminium cups by Ball – a stylish and eco-friendly way to enjoy your drinks. When you’re ready for another round, simply rinse at our convenient wash station and refill with your drink of choice.
  • Every pour is redeemable with a drinks token 

Beer Bar sponsored by:

Logo website - Ball packaging

Innovation Awards ceremonies

The Paris Packaging Week Innovation Awards have been promoting and celebrating the very best in packaging innovation and design since 2001. Winners of this years’ awards will be announced in February 2026, hosted by our jury members.

PCD Innovation Awards sponsored by: 

Logo website - idpdirect

PLD Innovation Awards sponsored by: 

Logo website -estal

NEW FOR 2025

Enhanced 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 across beauty, luxury, drinks and aerosols.

Student innovation challenges

Paris Packaging Week is proud to organise student innovation competitions with a number of French universities, including ESEPAC, ESI Reims, IUT Évreux and the Emballé 5.0 programme in partnership with the Conseil National de l’Emballage (CNE). Together, these schools showcase projects ranging from eco-designed solutions for seniors to heritage-inspired cosmetics, responsible mascara concepts and full premium fragrance launches.

These programmes give students in packaging engineering, design and marketing the opportunity to tackle real industry challenges and imagine the next generation of beauty and luxury packaging. Their projects are then presented at the show – bringing fresh inspiration to visitors and giving the sector’s newest talents valuable visibility.

915+ packaging suppliers

Whether you are looking to source sustainable primary or secondary packaging, discover the latest breakthrough products to support your product launch or find a complete packaging solution, you will discover a world of technical advancements and innovations.

Agenda-setting conferences

Our five agenda-setting conferences will return, bringing the latest thinking from experts across premium and luxury packaging and the aerosol and dispensing sector.

Our five theatres are:
✔ The Future Innovation Forum
✔ The Circular Economy Stage
✔ The Pentawards Festival
✔ The Global Aerosol & Dispensing Summit
✔ Discovery Zone stage

Champagne Bar & Cocktail Bar

The perfect meeting place for an industry built on strong personal relationships. You can meet the most influential people, share cross-sector innovation and network throughout the event at our central Champagne Bar, and our Cocktail Bar.

The Champagne Bar

  • Champagne networking party: Day 1, 5 :30 to 7 :30pm – with a three piece band!
  • Open from 9am – tea, coffee and soft drinks available to buy
  • From 11:30 onwards on both days – champagne to be served
  • Every pour is redeemable with a drinks token


The Cocktail Bar

  • Open from 9am – grab a smoothie to start the day
  • Cocktails will be served from 11am onwards
  • Every pour is redeemable with a drinks token
  • Happy Hours: 12:30 to 1:30 and 3 to 4 on both days  

Champagne bar sponsored by:

HCT Group

Cocktail bar sponsored by

VIP Lounge & Ambassador Lounge

Meet the major players in your industry who share similar interests and to help you get ideas, advice and inspiration!

VIP Lounge sponsored by:

Ambassador Lounge sponsored by

Chill Lounge

Would you like to relax in a quiet space? Our Chill Lounge will allow you to relax for a few minutes, answer some e-mails, and have more relaxed meetings.

 

 

NEW FOR 2025

Bigger and better hall

Hall 1 at Porte de Versailles is the biggest hall in the exhibition centre and gives Paris Packaging Week space to accommodate the growing demand from both visitors and exhibitors, while staying under one roof. The expansion to a bigger hall not only accommodates for more exhibitors, it will also offer new and enhanced show features.

ADF Drinks Party

Hosted by FEA in collaboration with ADF.

FEA logo European Aerosol Federation | Federation Europeenne des Aerosols | ADF Paris

Join us and the FEA team on stand Z75 for some complimentary champagne and canapes! 

Friday 6 February 3:30pm – 4:30pm.

Eco Tour

Be ready for a special tour of the exhibition floor to find your next sustainable project. Our guided sustainable packaging tours will help you find the products and suppliers that will shape the future of your business.

Contact us

Jennifer Burley

Jennifer Burley

Co-Event Director

jennifer.burley@easyfairs.com
+44 (0)20 3196 4433

Christelle Anya

Christelle Anya​

Content & Community Director

christelle.anya@easyfairs.com
+33 (0)1 40 22 72 76 

Josh Brooks​

Co-Event Director

josh.brooks@easyfairs.com
+33 (0)1 40 22 72 72