Having a brand purpose that stands out from the crowd is one thing. Connecting with your audience on a visceral level is quite another. Join Elmwood London’s Craig Barnes as he discusses the mindset required to build brands that people truly care about.

This session will be held in the Luxury & Lifestyle Unboxed Stage

Consumer behaviour is driving change, but are designers steering this change in the right direction? Producers & designers need to ensure the context & hierarchy of needs for refill solutions are being taken into consideration – such as making the choice between compostable or recyclable materials. James Melia probes the movement and its application, looking at how we can avoid accidental greenwashing.

This session will be held in the Beauty & Drinks Innovators stage

How do brands create a compelling brand vision in a world where consumer food scepticism is so powerful? The rise of plant-based foods and the subsequent decline of many leading plant-based meat brands illustrates the minefield that is consumer faith in brands that are perceived as planet friendly. How do brands create compelling vision that can inspire consumers through packaging? How do they live up to their own high ambitions? How are brands tackling this issue and bringing their own consumers into the conversation. And how is a vision best communicated when so many consumers shop on autopilot or by price?

This session will be held in the Food & FMCG Future Makers stage

One of our core beliefs is that change begins at the top. And as we are typically are involved in building brands from the ground up, we have the unique opportunity to be able to incorporate sustainable practices into client brand strategies from the off, and take a circular approach to packaging design prioritising restorative and regenerative materials into our solutions. By understanding the journey of materials we believe that by making sustainable choices at the beginning of the process we can help to remove the responsibility of waste and recycling from the end user, ultimately closing the loop on waste.

This session will be held in the Luxury & Lifestyle Unboxed Stage

As the food and drink category navigates these changing times, there has been a lot of talk about innovating to win. Is your brand being disrupted by the external, or are you in the driving seat, creating change? Challenger brands have been bringing fresh ideas and innovations to markets that were all too often becoming stale. To stay relevant, inspire devotion in your consumers, and avoid external disruption, large corporations need to start adopting some challenger behaviours too. Kelly will speak about how Challenger brands 'Design to Disrupt', from a brand story to building a brand, for effective challenger brand packaging.

This session will be held in the FMCG & Future Makers Stage