Flexoforum 2020

The 2020 speaker list will be released as it is completed

Sanny Lindström

Former international pro hockey player.
TV profile and columnist

Due to numerous concussions, he had to give up his career in 2013, at the age of 33. During his rehab process, Sanny learned a lifelong lesson how to be humble. Today he is working in media for Cmore/TV4 covering hockey, and he also writes in the Swedish newspaper Expressen. Sanny will give a lecture about leadership, and how to work in a group to achieve goals using experience from his career, and being the team captain for six years.

Antony Whiteside

Founder
Absolute

Harnessing technology to achieve colour consistency - Absolute produced the World’s first woven Carbon Fibre chamber and now have over 7500 installations worldwide. They recently introduced SONO, the first ever on press ultrasonic anilox cleaner. Antony will discuss how technology improves equipment performance and ultimately allows our customers to produce more consistent product.

Patrick Luedecke

Sales Director Sleeves
Flint Group

The next decade of joint value creation in the packaging & printing Industry - Paul Campbell and Patrick Luedecke, both seasoned professionals in the packaging and printing industry, will delineate how at Flint Group's Flexographic division, the focus is put into innovating new products which create value to the packaging and printing industry in terms of lowering costs, becoming more effecient and improving handling conditions.

Paul Campbell

Sales Director Northern Europe
Flint Group

Anna Jonhed

Sales and Business Development Director
Miller Graphics Group

Miller Graphics value proposition - Anna will introduce you to Miller Graphics newly developed full value proposition and strategy which centres around our ability to manipulate digital data to drive added value for our client base. The world is changing and Miller Graphics continue to evolve to capitalise on the opportunities that arise.

Dario Bruno

Sales Area Manager
Uteco Converting S.P.A

Digital printing for packaging: the UTECO way. Digital printing for packaging, a fascinating challenge that uteco faces with innovative and unexplored weapons.

James Cutting

UK Managing Director
Miller Graphics Group

Miller Graphics value proposition - James will introduce you to Miller Graphics newly developed full value proposition and strategy which centres around our ability to manipulate digital data to drive added value for our client base. The world is changing and Miller Graphics continue to evolve to capitalise on the opportunities that arise.

Magnus Wikström

Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
BillerudKorsnäs

Next Generation, investing for the future within packaging - Magnus Wikström, Chief Technical Officer at BillerudKorsnäs, describes the biggest investment within the packaging industry in Sweden for a decade. The investment “Next Generation”, which is the name for building one of the biggest and the most modern board machine in the world at BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön mill, will enable the production of the best paperboard in the world. What are the drivers for this investment and what are the challenges? And most important, what end products will we see in the future market?

Maria Strømme

Professor in nanotechnology

Maria and her research group at Uppsala university investigate many different phenomena in nanotechnology. They have recently become famous both for creating the material Upsalite® and the so-called algae battery. Scientists around the world have for more than 100 years claimed that Upsalite® was “impossible” to create but the material has now been proven to have revolutionary characteristics for various industries. The algae battery developed by the group is particularly environmentally friendly; It consists of a conductive polymer, small amount of saltwater and cellulose from algae. It is paper based and can be integrated in many different types of products.

Bo Wallteg

Editor in chief
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Lube Belokozovski

Design & Innovation Manager
Smurfit Kappa Sverige AB

Lube have great experience both from leading innovative projects-, processes and teams within the global packaging industry, but also as a Marketing manager within various international industries. He is also passionate about human-digital interaction, concept innovation, business development, B2C/B2B marketing and brand building. During his lecture he will share observations on how consumer’s craving for personalized and instant experience drive rapid change and greater complexity in the entire market.

Tobias Spieß

International Application Engineer
ORAFOL Europe GmbH

ORAFOL Europe GmbH is a global leading and innovative manufacturer of graphic films, reflective materials and industrial self-adhesive tapes. Tobias Spieß works as an International Application Engineer in the area of Paper und Print Industry. Tobias has a strong background in the Flexo Print Industry since 1999 and he works over ten years in the Tape Business.