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PACKAGING RESOURCE & INNOVATIONS MIDDLE EAST AWARDS | CONFERENCE | EXHIBITION 10-11 SEPTEMBER 2019, CONRAD, DUBAI, UAE

35+ 100+ 50+ SPEAKERS, PACKAGING INDUSTRY BRAND OWNERS, PANELISTS MANUFACTURES, PACKAGING CONVERTERS, PRINTERS, BUYERS SERVICE PROVIDERS 15+ 30+ 35+ GOVERNMENT BODIES, EXHIBITORS, INDUSTRY ALLIED REGULATORS SPONSORS SUPPLIERS SPONSORS AWARDS | CONFERENCE | EXHIBITION INVITATION

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Dear colleagues and friends, PRIME Summit 2019 t is a joint initiative of Packaging MEA and its esteemed sponsors and partners to help the industry stakeholders take On behalf of the PRIME Summit 2019 organising stock of their current and future decisions to committee, it is my pleasure to invite all of the sustain, consolidate and grow their business. Packaging Industry leaders, academicians, business and technology delegates from all over the The 2-day event will bring together more than world to attend PRIME Summit, September 10-11, 200 packaging industry professionals, besides 2019, at Conrad, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. selected Government Officials, Packaging Organisations, Compliance and Certification I feel humbled and grateful to have the Firms, Brand Owners, Supply Chain and opportunity that I’ve had over the past couple of Procurement Managers, Technology Consultants years to work with some amazing people. I think, together to highlight the biggest investment at this point, It is an honour and a pleasure to opportunities in the packaging industry. have you and your colleagues part of this unique platform for the indistry. With a proactive push to sustain and grow, PRIME Summit 2019 will help the industry Packaging sales supported by increased GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS around the MEA region to innovate, develop investment in food production and processing, and modernize their equipment, infrastructure significant investments in new packaging and systems to boost their capacity and to converting capacity and increased availability of accommodate the required growing volumes locally produced and competitively priced base of business. Packaging MEA has also been substrates are driving this burgeoning industry endeavoring in the quest to forge regional whilst on the flipside, regional slow-down and cooperation and improvement of current geopolitical bottlenecks are getting cleared as we government policies between Brand Owners, approach a promising Q4 and a highly expected Converters and Suppliers. business growth as we approach 2020. PRIME Summit is the only event platform for The MENA packaging market was earlier local, regional as well as international packaging valued at approximately $41.1 billion in 2014 industry stakeholders to seize and have a firm whilst during the period 2014–19, it grew at a hold on the MEA regional market. CAGR of 5.0% to $52.4 billion. Smithers Pira report now shows how a market valued at over With loads of benefits across the entire $60.1 billion in 2017 will increase to approach packaging value chain, we look forward to $71.5 billion by 2022. welcoming you to this exciting International summit. Innovations and multiple SKUs have made way for multiple options to consumers on the shelf. We hope that you will find the conference and All of these developments will be highlighted at your stay in Dubai both valuable and enjoyable. PRIME Summit 2019. Warm Regards, The summit is focused on the challenges and opportunities for Brand Owners, Packaging Ben Daniel Converters and key suppliers to the industry with Chief Editor loads of benefits across the entire packaging value chain. Packaging MEA

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Samir Khoudja Eric Pavone Francois Martin Sante Conselvan Managing Director Business Director, Senior President, Bobst Africa and Web-fed Business Unit Communication Advisor FTA Europe Middle East BOBST Group BOBST Packaging is a phenomenon that We are constantly trying to find Consumption of flexible packaging is Industry 4.0 is a new concept and it dramatically grew over the last 20 solutions to the challenges faced in growing both globally and regionally will impact packaging production. The years. It is already part of our lives: it the packaging industry today - rapid in MEA but the industry is currently Industry 4.0 principles will shape a new changes as we change our way of living changes in technology, shortage of and undergoing a major transformation future for packaging production and it adapts to the different necessities rising cost of raw materials, shorter and is under pressure to respond to At PRIME MEA, we will share how depending on the age and culture of time-to-market and new challenges the pledges of major brand owners data access will change packaging worldwide consumers. of producing quality products within to make all plastic packaging either production. The future will be built Circular Economy is inspiring us to a circular economy. Connecting with reusable, recyclable, compostable around connectivity and data exchange modify our approach towards the package the stakeholders is the key to finding or biodegradable by 2025. This is a from machine to machine and between of any product after we use it. This means the right solutions and I’m so glad that challenge as currently multi-material all key stakeholders (brand owners, that Brand Owners, Designers, Printers, Packaging MEA has been bringing packaging structures offer the high converters, tool makers, retailers). The Converters and Consumers must work the industry together. We’ve been barrier properties that the industry digitalization of processes together to create the best packaging working with them closely and now requires to maintain shelf life but from the original PDF to the final box without harming the environment. that they have elevated their Packaging are not recyclable. At PRIME Summit or pouch will be the new reality. The MEA Forum to PRIME Summit with 2019, BOBST will speak about ground- machine automation will further grow The Packaging Print community, using conference, exhibition and awards, we breaking solutions in this area and how incorporating Artificial Intelligence different process technologies, needs are excited to join hands in meeting the they along with pioneering industry and predictive and preventive more effective guidelines and deeper expectations of all the stakeholders of partners have taken the first step maintenance. Will it all happen knowledge than in the past to look to the industry. towards helping converters and brand overnight? No. Industry 4.0 opens a new future changes as concerns Automation. owners to achieve a circular economy. era where a well-established industry As FTA Europe, we are glad to be will reinvent itself associated with “Packaging MEA” and BOBST has been on the forefront of PRIME Summit 2019 to extend our innovations for almost 130 years and support and knowledge helping to lay will drive packaging production 4.0. the foundations for establishing a MEA Kaunain Shahidi Packaging Association. Technology Editor Debabrata Deb Packaging MEA Technology Editor The 2-day summit will be focused on the Packaging MEA challenges and opportunities for Brand Packaging has evolved Owners, Packaging Converters and key tremendously from being just a method PRIME Summit has been suppliers to the industry with loads of to keep products safe and secure in designed with greater care based on Biju George benefits across the entire packaging transit from manufacturer to the end extensive research on topics of critical General Sales Manager value chain. Let us together unpack the consumer and in today’s competitive interest to the packaging community. Heidelberg Gulf Est. world of packaging. market place, it has become the vital The best speakers and participants have tool to make products the face in the been chosen for each of the key topics Continued globalization, rising crowd rather than face of the crowd. As so that delegates can get a 360 degree demand for different types of packaging, a consumer’s first point of contact with exposition of the topics. The stress multiple SKUs and a shorter time to the product, packaging plays a critical is on expounding emerging concepts market are being accompanied by “The MENA packaging market was role in building brand differentiation, and solutions to important problems increases in complexity and thus the valued at approximately $41.1 awareness and positioning the products currently being faced by the industry risk of errors in production operations. billion in 2014 whilst during the and society and providing pointers to the in an effective manner to win the At PRIME Summit 2019 Dubai, period 2014–19, it grew at a CAGR of consumers loyalty. future. The technical team of Packaging Heidelberg and its partners would This session has been designed to MEA hopes you will find PRIME Summit demonstrate the benefits of Zero Defect 5.0% to $52.4 billion.

inspire you to think packaging in topical and very useful in your work and Packaging. Our product specialists The market valued at over $60.1 business.

different ways and to stimulate new would present case studies on how billion in 2017 will increase to insights to help you to unlock your own to master this growing complexity by creativity related to packaging design creating a smart print shop and using approach $71.5 billion by 2022. “ and innovations automated quality assurance solutions. – Smithers Pira Report

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AWARD CATEGORIES PRIME Awards 2019 will be judged by a jury Ceremony and Gala Dinner during the PRIME EACH CATEGORY & SECTOR WILL HAVE comprising FTA Europe and allied European Summit 2019, Conrad Dubai. PRIME Awards 2019 has been designed 1 GOLD, 1 SILVER AND 1 BRONZE AWARD Packaging experts in Italy. to recognise the contribution of To submit an entry in PRIME Awards 2019, please Q. How to enter the award? packaging professionals across the follow the steps below. CATEGORY 1 • Each entry must be accompanied by 4 identical entire Middle East & Africa region. The If you have any questions or require assistance, continuous print samples of the job. please do not hesitate to contact us. Awards would comprise entries for 2 • A signed copy of the entry form needs to be added categories covering Quality, Excellence SHELF READY with each Entry. and Innovation. Q. What the judges are looking for? • Total payment should be completed as per the PRIME Awards 2019 judges will be looking for entry form ENTRY SUBMISSION & DEADLINE: CARTON BOARD PACKAGING evidence of outstanding design, consumer impact, • Entries should be carefully compiled, packed and shelf appeal and excellence in print quality. sealed. 26 August 2019 FLEXIBLE PACKAGING The entry samples will be reviewed and Send by courier or contact for collection. Submit your entry samples on or before 26 August scrutinized on the following aspects: 2019 to JJ Media Fz LLC, Dubai UAE LABELS • How the print sample adds value to the brand JJ Media Fz LLC PRIME AWARDS 2019 - PURPOSE? • Packaging Print Quality Business Incorporation Zone, Our main aim to host PRIME Awards 2019 is to SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR PO Box 391186, Suite 17, • Packaging Innovation (Shape and structure) celebrate “Packaging Excellence” in Quality, The Iridium Building, Umm Suqeim Road, Innovation and Performance in the Folding Carton, • Shelf Impact Al Barsha, P.O.Box 391186, Dubai, UAE CATEGORY 2 Flexible Packaging and Label sectors Phone +971 4 387 3575 Q. What does an entry cost? Mobile +971 55 109 1889 BEST IN CLASS: PRINT Entry fee: Unit Price 1st Entry @ USD 75/- AWARD ENTRY 2nd and more entries @ USD 55/- Q. How to pay for the entries? AUG SUMBISSION CARTON BOARD: LUXURY PACKAGING • By Cheque to: PRINT QUALITY & INNOVATION The total fee should be paid on receipt of invoice JJ Media Fz LLC 26 from JJ Media Fz LLC FINAL DATE (Bank details mentioned below) or CARTON BOARD: FOOD & BEVERAGE Q. Qualification & judging process • Online / Bank Transfer to: PACKAGING SAFETY & COMPLIANCE • All Carton, Flexible and Label printers and JJ Media Fz LLC (Bank details mentioned below) converters in the Middle East & Africa region are FLEXIBLES: FLEXO PROCESS eligible for entry PRINT QUALITY & INNOVATION • The jury will judge each category individually BANK DETAILS: according to its specific task and requirement. Beneficiary / Account Name: • Each entry will be judged exclusively on the merits JJ Media Fz LLC FLEXIBLES: ROTOGRAVURE PROCESS of the submitted job. Bank Name: PRINT QUALITY & INNOVATION • The decision of the jury is final. Bank of Baroda, Deira, Dubai, UAE Account Number: Q. How many entries can an entrant submit? LABELS: ANY PRINT PROCESS 90030200018454 PRINT QUALITY & INNOVATION Entrants can submit an unlimited number of entries. IBAN Number: AE530110090030200018454 To submit your entries, Q. When will the results be announced? Swift Code: please log on to BARBAEADDEI www.prime.packagingmea.com/awards The prizes will be awarded to winning entries on the 11th September 2019 at the PRIME Awards

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SESSION 11:40 – 12:00 SPEAKER SS. KULKARNI Huber Group PACKAGING FOR FOOD SAFETY Technical Manager 01 CASE STUDY Safe Printing for Folding Cartons

09:45 – 10:00

MC INAUGURAL ADDRESS 12:00 – 12:20 SPEAKER DOAA BIN THABIT BEN DANIEL VIKRAM FOTEDAR Packageha, Saudi Arabia Packaging MEA Packaging MEA Founder, Author, Consultant Chief Editor Technology Editor

CASE STUDY 10:00 – 10:20 CHAIR Testing for Food safety of primary packaging DEB DEBABRATA Packaging MEA Technology & Business Editor Food safety accross Packaging Production & Filfilment 12:20 – 13:00 CHAIR Food safety has to be ensured in packaging material conversion, supply chain, DEB DEBABRATA packed products, transportation, storage, retailing and consumer usage. Technology Editor Packaging MEA

Therefore, packaging for food safety has multiple components and many PACK TALK: stakeholders. It is the combined effort that will ensure food safety. Food Safe Packaging: This session is designed to bring out the multiple facets of packaging towards Brand Owner and Converter perspectives food safety including hygiene during transportation and maintaining the stability of the cold chain. PANELIST PANELIST MARS GCC SHAHID SHAFIULLAH 10:20 – 10:40 SPEAKER BOBBY KRISHNA Integrated Plastics Packaging Senior Food Safety Specialist Director Dubai Municipality

Dubai Municipality Government policy and intervention towards food safety PANELIST PANELIST NESTLE MIDDLE EAST ROHIT GARG 10:40 – 11:00 SPEAKER TBC TBC Arabian Flexible Packging General Manager ANDREAS SCHELLENBACH Siegwerk Druckfarben AG & Co, Germany Regional Director, Application Technology, Flexible Packaging EMEA “Safe Printing for Flexible Packaging” PANELIST PANELIST NITIN SANKHE INDEVCO GROUP 11:00 – 11:20 Huhtamaki ROTOPAK COFFEE & Vice President - MENA Flexibles NETWORKING BREAK

11:20 – 11:40 SPEAKER 13:00 – 14:00 SAMIR AHMED LUNCH & Intertek Gulf Region General Manager NETWORKING BREAK Testing standards and complicance procedures for food packaging with focus on migration

15:10 – 15:30 SPEAKER SESSION MARIUS VAN LITH AUTOMATION IN Sales Manager, MPS Systems B.V., Netherlands

PACKAGING CASE STUDY “Looking towards the future and embracing IoT & 02 PRINT CONVERSION connectivity”

14:00 – 14:10 CHAIR 15:30 – 15:50 NICK COOMBES COFFEE & Packaging MEA Business Editor NETWORKING BREAK Introductory Message: 15:50 – 16:10 Automating the future of Package Print: SPEAKER NIELS SIEGEL “Workflow Automation” Gallus Ferd. Ruesch AG “With the continued growth in demand for printed packaging, as more Senior Key Account Manager & Sales Channel Support consumers move away from the ‘brown paper bag’ market and into the world of branded goods, so converters must improve their efficiency to CASE STUDY cope. Running speeds are only part of the answer – the real solution will Automate your packaging and labelling workflow come from improved efficiency, and this inevitably means a greater degree of automation – from initial job enquiry through to delivery of finished product. But, this will all come at a price and not just a financial one – the 16:10 – 16:25 industry needs a clear roadmap for the future and a strategy that is both MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER flexible and practical.” RUDRA DASGUPTA Your Bigger Impact (YBI) Founder and CEO “Realize who you truly are, not who you want to be” 14:10 – 14:30 SPEAKER PAUL THOMPSON Life takes a new meaningful turn when we start unpacking and start looking Product Manager - post press packaging, Heidelberg UK inside. In this introspective, inspirational and interactive session Rudra will take the audience through his journey underlying the importance of CASE STUDY returning towards who we “really are” which opens up fresh possibilities to Print Auomation: Transformational technologies for inline more freedom (or flow), more purpose (or meaning) and more impact. embellishment to enhance value

16:25 – 16:40 SPEAKER 14:30 – 14:50 SPEAKER DR. GEORGE SIMONIAN FRANCOIS MARTIN Packaging MEA Senior Communication Advisor, Bobst Group Switzerland Technology Editor

CASE STUDY Digital Print for Packaging “Digitisation, automation and connectivity” Drivers to shape the future of packaging production” 16:40 – 17:00 RECAP OF SESSIONS 1 & 2 14:50 – 15:10 SPEAKER ROMEO BADINI HIGHLIGHTS WITH KEY TAKEAWAYS General Manager, iPack, Abu Dhabi TBA

MODERATOR MODERATOR CASE STUDY DEB DEBABRATA NICK COOMBES “Implementing automation into the production process” Packaging MEA Packaging MEA How to improved data management, increace efficiency and Business Editor Business Editor accomplish zero defect

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11:40 – 12:00 JOINT CASE STUDY SESSION PACKAGING Circularity in Retail: Middle East Regional Perspective RANESH BAJAJ CARREFOUR UAE TOWARDS A Fasiculus SPEAKER TBA Consultant: Packaging 01 CIRCULAR ECONOMY Optimization & Brand Protection

10:00 – 10:20 CHAIR 12:00 – 12:20 DEB DEBABRATA SPEAKER DR. CARLOS MONTANA Packaging MEA DIDI (Dubai Institute of Design & Innovation) Business & Technology Editor Associate Professor Packaging to facilitate a Circular Economy Packaging design and innovations for the future

12:20 – 12:40 SPEAKER JEEVARAJ PILLAI 10:20 – 10:40 UFLEX Limited SPEAKER Joint President - Packaging & New Product Development TBA CASE STUDY Unilever Middle East & North Africa Sustainability - A 360 degree Perspective Circular Economy Implementation: Opportunities & Hurdles

12:40 – 13:00 CHAIR DEB DEBABRATA Packaging MEA Technology & Business Editor

PACK TALK: 10:40 – 11:00 SPEAKER ERIC PAVONE Packaging solutions for a Circular Economy BOBST GROUP Business Director, Web-Fed Business unit Bobst Group PANELIST PANELIST BOBST KIMOHA Total solutions for recyclable barrier packaging ERIC PAVONE ENTREPRENEURS LTD TBA

11:00 – 11:20 PANELIST PANELIST SPEAKER TBA BEEAH TADWEER DHARMESH ZAVERY EXXONMOBIL HUHTAMAKI PETROLEUM & Vice President Sales Business Development CHEMICAL BVBA

Blueloop: Consumer driven Circular Economy in Packaging PANELIST PANELIST Reaching sustainability goals with smart design and materials TETRAPAK AGTHIA TBC PRASHANT NATH

11:20 – 11:40 COFFEE & NETWORKING BREAK 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH & NETWORKING BREAK

15:00 – 15:20 SPEAKER SESSION AFSAL KOTTAL PACKAGING DESIGN & INNOVATION: Phoenix Technologies AE Business Director MINIMALISM. COLOUR, FORMATS, CASE STUDY 02 SUSTAINABILITY & SHELF IMPACT Making The Right Choice For Your Packaging Colours “Matching colours accross printers, processes and substrates”

14:00 – 14:20 CHAIR KAUNAIN SHAHIDI Business Editor (C) Packaging MEA 15:20 – 15:40 COFFEE & INNOVATIVE TOOLS TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES & MEET INDUSTRY TRENDS NETWORKING BREAK

Kaunain Shahidi along with some leading industry experts as speakers and panellists will demonstrate some of the contemporary innovations and 15:40 – 16:00 SPEAKER concepts of packaging materials/process. VATCHE KAVLAKIAN Ndigitec CEO

14:20 – 15:00 SUCCESSFUL INNOVATIONS ACCROSS PACKAGING CASE STUDY FORMATS: CARTONS, FLEXIBLES, LABELS Automation for premedia and prepress using advanced software and blockchain technologies

16:00 – 16:20 SPEAKER POINT GROUP HIMALAYA DRUG CO. Henriette Thomas Packaging design & New Product Development General Manager: Central Africa (EA and GWA) CASE STUDY SPEAKER Influence of Packaging on Consumer Buying Benaviour: JITENDER PURI Retail Perspective Senior Manager, Global Packaging Development

JOINT BRAND OWNER CASE STUDY TRIGON DIGITAL SOL. TBC Packaging design & New 16:20 – 16:40 CHAIR Product Development KAUNAIN SHAHIDI SPEAKER: ANIL NAMUGADE Business Editor (C) Packaging MEA Co-Founder and Managing Director SESSION 1 RECAP Q&A HIGHLIGHTS AGTHIA GROUP PJSC KEY TAKE AWAYS Innovation, Science and Sustainability in Packaging PRASHANT NATH Senior Packaging Developement Manager 16:40 – 17:00 BEN DANIEL Packaging MEA ChiefEditor

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