The IMRG – Woodway Packaging Best Practice Forum 2017 is designed to help online retailers address the conflicting challenges and increasing opportunities presented by packaging.
The forum will address these themes and more using the IMRG – Woodway Packaging Best Practice Review 2017 and advice from expert speakers and practitioners.
09:30 – Welcome and Context – the opportunity – IMRG 09:40 – Overview of best practice review – Jason Inwood 09:55 – Ben Farrell MBE, John Lewis 10:25 – Ed Roberts, Regional Sustainability Director EMEA, Sealed Air 10:45 – Facilitated discussion and Q&A 11:05 – Networking break 11:30 – Roger Wright, M&S 11:50 – Facilitated discussion and Q&A 12:20 – Wrap up – IMRG and Jason 12:30 – Close
This is a retailer only invitation event – those who will benefit from attending the Forum will be responsible for packaging procurement, supply chain, packing line, dispatch and returns operations
Over the course of the forum we will hear from these great speakers, and you will have ample time discuss your current issues.
In February 2014 Ben took up his current role as Head of Central Operations and Transport for John Lewis. He has a wide and varied array of responsibilities across John Lewis’ daily and future operations and loves the fast pace and challenges of the job! He joined the John Lewis Partnership as Group Head of Operational Risk Management in 2011 and was responsible for developing the John Lewis Partnership’s resilience and awareness of future risks to successful trading. Commissioned into the Irish Guards, Ben Farrell held commands during the invasion of Iraq, in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. He was awarded an MBE for his service in Kosovo. He commanded The Irish Guards between 2008-2010. He then held a variety of strategy roles in the Ministry of Defence for a number of years and led the team responsible for the day to day running of the British military operation in Iraq for two and a half years. He has a Master's degree from Cranfield University.
Roger is a packaging technologist with over 20 years’ experience designing out waste and designing in, solutions that work. He’s fortunate enough to work for a global retailer with the same beliefs and where quality, integrity and innovation are the corner stones of their shared success; one might say the three corners of the A in Plan. Roger’s inspired by a future where the ‘activity’ of packaging is understood more holistically and can evolve within the context of an effective circular economy. He also believes that when packaging is integral to building a successful brand, costing only a tenth of the goods it protects and promotes but with a net positive impact on the world, we should all “Love the Last 10%!”
In his position as Regional Sustainability Director, Ed Roberts is responsible for Sealed Air’s company-wide sustainable business practices in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. In this regional role, Ed works to advance sustainability initiatives across all of Sealed Air’s customers and divisions. His primary focus is ensuring alignment of customer needs, manufacturing platforms, business plans and technologies to improve sustainability of products, processes and services in support of the customers’ and Sealed Air’s sustainability goals. Ed represents Sealed Air on a number of NGO committees including EUROPEN Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs Committee, EUROPEN Task Force on Food Waste, EUROPEN Task Force on Circular Economy, and AISE Packaging Taskforce. Ed has bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and Environment, Health & Safety. He has over 38 years of commercial experience in technology and business development encompassing roles in R&D, sales and marketing as well as EH&S and sustainability. He has been employed by Sealed Air for the last 30 years and currently resides in Rugby, UK.
This forum will be hosted at BMA House.
BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP
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