Chloé Templeman began her design career at Brand Union London. After three years, she joined Design Bridge in 2010 where she worked her way up to become Creative Director counting Fortnum & Mason, Diageo, Sacha Lichine & Unilever among her varied client list. A Scottish lass through and through Chloé’s energy and passion for the big idea, beautifully crafted shines through in her work winning her many international awards including Pentawards, D&AD, New York Festivals, Design Week, FAB Awards and DBA Design Effectiveness.

More recently her big move to big fish sees her in the Executive Creative Director role where she now leads the creative in the studio and champions her clients to start, transform and grow businesses as forces for good. With nearly 15 years experience in packaging & branding and one of the few female Executive Creative Directors in the industry, she is an advocate for female leadership as well as diversifying the industry as a whole and likes to give back to others by giving talks, playing an active role in nurturing young design talent and mentoring on various programmes championing diversity of all kinds.

John’s roots as a printmaker and street artist have never left him. He co-founded Vault49 in 2002 and inspires the effective integration of strategy and creative image-making. He promotes a crafted process and leads our team in developing bold artistic solutions that delight audiences and disrupt everyday experiences.

John is committed to encouraging cultural diversity within the design industry. He spearheads a Vault49 initiative giving students from low-income backgrounds the opportunity to work on projects and broaden their networks.

Jon Marshall is an industrial designer whose work fuses product design with strategy, branding, packaging and digital experiences.

He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1996 and began his professional career working for Ross Lovegrove before moving to Pentagram, where he worked as a designer for Daniel Weil. In 2003 he joined Barber Osgerby as Studio Director and developed some of the studio’s iconic furniture and product designs including the London 2012 Olympic Torch.

In 2012 together with Barber & Osgerby he co-founded and directed industrial design consultancy Map, where he created products and user experiences for some of the most innovative companies in the world including global brands like Google, Virgin Atlantic, Honda and IBM as well as ambitious startups like Kano, BleepBleeps and Sam Labs.

In 2018 he joined Pentagram’s London office as a partner. Notable projects include the design of an immersive exhibition for UNIQLO LifeWear Day, generative hardware design for semiconductor company Graphcore and the design of Yoto Player, an interactive speaker for children, which was listed as one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2020.

His interest lies in working with abstract and emerging technologies, creating accessible user experiences and sustainability.

Senior Global Brand Manager (Global Dove Men+care Skin Cleansing)

I’m Lebanese, born in Australia and I’m a big fan of spinning, improv as well as baking layered cakes (in no particular order). I’m also a global brand manager with 9+ international experience in global power brands across various categories in the FMCG world. I’m obsessed with turning insights into real products that consumers want to buy and brag about. I have experience in strategy development, innovation management, and building brands across the globe, with unlimited creativity yet detailed and hands-on. I’m extremely passionate about working with diverse teams and developing talent to unleash their potential and bring disruptive innovations & communications to life.

Amanda is the Global Branding and Packaging Manager for consumer products at Netflix, the world's leading internet entertainment service. Her role sees her lead the development and execution of branding and product packaging across iconic titles including Stranger Things, Squid Game, Bridgerton, The Witcher and many more future hits.

Before working in entertainment, Amanda was the Creative Director of Jackdaw Design, an award winning design consultancy in London. She has been part of the design industry for 18 years. Over the course of her career Amanda has created a wide range of diverse design work and identities for the likes of Pernod Ricard, Nestlé, Unilever and Urban Cordial to name a few. Prior to this, Amanda has an extensive agency background including time spent in Shanghai, China.

She has won and judged many international awards including Pentawards, Transform Awards and D&AD New Blood. Alongside design work for clients Amanda spent 3 years as a Visiting Tutor at Arts University Bournemouth, to nurture young creative talent for the design industry.

Geordie by birth, French by name and Scottish by training, the Glasgow School of Art graduate landed in London over 20 years ago to pursue her passion for building an emotional connection with consumers through exceptional creative thinking and beautiful craft. During her career, MT has established a track record for success and built an impressive design portfolio, working with some of the world’s leading brands for companies including Unilever, Diageo, PepsiCo, P&G, Mondelez, AB InBev & Coca Cola.

Teru is a Creative Director at Elmwood Shanghai. Teru is an internationally recognized creative leader who brings decades of international experience to drive creative & branding excellence. Teru is both a team collaborator and a creative leader. He combines his traditional passion for detail, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural experience with a love for fresh creativity that pushes boundaries and, most importantly, gets in-market results. A hands-on pragmatist with an understanding of real-world branding issues, Teru’s international career spans China, Singapore and Australia, leading ground-breaking projects for global companies including TMIC, Danone, Nestlé, Suntory, and Coca-Cola.

Lee is a creative leader with over 20 years of international experience, working across the UK, USA, Australia and Asia. He has been influential in developing strategy and innovation for brands in Global markets, as well as developing and growing existing design agencies and start-ups.

Over the course of his career, Lee has worked with some of the world’s biggest FMCG businesses; Nestlé, Heineken, Unilever, GSK and Tesco to name but a few. Today he is part of Reckitt, leading brand experience for consumers, and helping to shape a world class internal function with a focus on innovation via design.

Vincent is a product, packaging and retail designer with a career-long focus on the Luxury and Beauty sectors.

His approach is resolutely three-dimensional. From perfume bottles to retail packaging, Vincent leverages his understanding of form, materials, and processes to imbue his work with structural and tactile qualities, delivering uncompromising and emotive brand experiences.

Vincent helped turn Burberry into the n.1 British luxury brand, working closely with Christopher Bailey and the senior creative team. His achievements include fragrances “Burberry Body”, “My Burberry” and “Burberry Bespoke” amongst others, as well as the multiple re-design of the retail and digital commerce packaging. Over his eight-year tenure with the brand, he gained an understanding of production, development and commercial matters rarely seen in a creative.

Prior to joining Burberry, Vincent ran his own business with his wife Angela, producing designs for beauty brands including Givenchy, Yves St Laurent and Issey Miyake.

Primarily recognised for his work in luxury packaging, Vincent’s recent clients include British beauty brand Molton Brown, luxury menswear label Dunhill, exclusive fragrance house Clive Christian and sustainable fashion pioneer Pangaia.

He also designs and produces the Vincit Vincit range of luxury gifts, in celebration of the simple moments afforded through analog experiences. Vincent’s work has been recognised by multiple accolades, including a Gold Pentaward, a Dieline Award and two D&AD Pencils. He is also a member of the Jury for the prestigious D&AD awards.

Based in Wimbledon, he now provides support to luxury and creative brands globally as a consultant.

Born in the UK, and raised in Brazil, Olivia’s choice of becoming a graphic designer was directly influenced by the multicultural background in which she grew up.Through art, she understood she could surpass language barriers and connect with people regardless of where they came from.. Currently, as Omnichannel Design Strategist for Nestlé Purina, she continues to explore those complexities by guiding brand teams in creatively developing their design strategy at a European level for both physical and digital environments.

With a trajectory that spans across agencies and multinational companies, Olivia believes that a solid design strategy gives brands the means to permeate cultures and bring people together. During her 5 years working for Nestlé, she has been an advocate for building a stronger design community, forging connections between different teams to leverage design thinking from product conception to delivery.

Jokin Arregui is an industrial designer with expertise in packaging and product design and development. In 1992 he was one of the founding partners of SERIESNEMO, a design firm that he still leads as Project Manager. He graduated from Escola Massana (Barcelona, Spain) and throughout his career he has collaborated with institutions such as ESADE, Fundación Alicia (Food and Science), Design HUB Barcelona, BCD. Jokin is internationally recognised for his disruptive innovations, through design and packaging, in the beverage industry.

As the leader of SERIESNEMO, he has made the company internationally widely awarded. The most significant recognition has been the Pentawards Agency of the Year 2022, coinciding with the company's 30th anniversary.

Under the claim “Brave beverage brands through packaging", SERIESNEMO has become a benchmark agency among those specialising in the development of brands and products marketed in bottles. For Jokin, the ideal project is that of "a brand that has not been born yet, where the essence of the brand and the positioning of the product are still key to be defined".

Pippa is a multi-disciplined conceptual creative and leader with over 12 years of integrated brand and agency experience. With an entrepreneurial spirit Pippa co-founded CreativeLab at Ravensbourne in 2019 and has since been instrumental in building this into a successful purpose driven creative agency with clients such as NHS, Deloitte and Nike.

Pippa is proud to have a varied creative background that spans film, video art, animation, graphic design, web design, music and social content and is always seeking out opportunities to expand her creative practice to make the most innovative and exciting work possible.

Pippa recently established Palice Studio, of which she is Founder and Creative Director, to work alongside underrepresented and marginalised artists and musicians to create outstanding visual identities and successful content strategies with the power to increase their audiences. Palice’s first project garnered much public support, was funded by Arts Council England and PRS Foundation and received features in Wonderland and Clash magazine.

Pippa is an active member of the LGBTQ+ community and proudly campaigns to change our industry for the better through inclusive practices. Pippa has also just been named a trustee for the newly developed charity Say Something Collective which aims to raise the voices of artists of all kinds from underrepresented backgrounds based in rural areas.

I’m a designer from Florence currently based in my hometown. I’ve started working as a designer after graduating at the IED, Rome HQ, in 2005. Over the years I’ve collected several experiences across both design studio and communication agencies in London, Turin, Milan and Florence. Currently I'm working at Auge Design where I started in 2016 initially as a Senior Designer and since October 2021 as an Associate Creative Director. Auge Design is an award-winning Italian agency focused on Packaging and Branding. Over the years I’ve worked for Italian and international brands such as Barilla, Giovanni Rana, Bahlsen, Diners Club, Sky, Palazzo Strozzi, Richard Ginori, Pitti immagine and have won national and international awards.

A design graduate from London College of Communication, Neha spent her post graduation days working at some global design studios in London. She was a member of the revered ISTD before she came back to India. India saw her working with Ray and Keshavan – The Brand Union and Vyas Giannetti Creative (VGC). At VGC, she played a dual role of Creative Director and Business Head, where she set up their Bangalore operations. 

In 2013, Neha started NH1 Design in Gurgaon, a boutique design studio that marries design, science, logic and magic. NH1 has already picked up eight Blue Elephants, Designomics Awards and the global Pentawards in 2019. The work has also been featured in leading global design magazines and blogs. Neha’s work has been showcased at ‘20 Under 35’ at Alliance Françoise De Delhi – an event showcasing the work of 20 emerging designers in India. She has also been on the judging panel at events like Kyoorious Awards, Abby Awards, Designomics Awards and has been invited as a keynote speaker and panelist at various marketing and design forums. 

Neha is a London Business school alumnus, where she pursued her executive education in strategic branding and consumer insights in 2018.

Paula is WWF-UK’s Senior Policy Adviser - Consumption. As well as working on the Eliminating Waste workstream of the Tesco partnership, she provides internal and external technical expertise on materials issues including plastics, with her policy and advocacy work focusing more broadly on resources and waste.

Her background is in packaging and product development, working at several touchpoints of the packaging supply chain and within FMCG and retail for over 20 years at businesses including Proctor & Gamble, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and Pret. Her food retail experience over the past 10 years has given her the opportunity to get involved in sustainability-focused industry initiatives such as WRAP’s Glassrite project and coffee cup recycling.

NOSIGNER Representative, JIDA President, Evolution Thinking Inventor, Design strategist, Keio University Graduate School SDM (Associate Professor) / The committee member to create a basic policy for the Japan pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.

Tachikawa is a design strategist who designs alternatives for a hopeful future and aims to renew creativity education. In order to foster change-makers in various sectors of industry, academia, and government, he advocates "Evolution Thinking," which tells the essence of creativity from the natural phenomenon of biological evolution, and continues to work to spread creative education. He has gone beyond the realms of products, graphics, and architecture to create comprehensive strategies for countless next-generation energy, regional revitalization, and SDG related projects, and lead them all to success.

Caitlin’s childhood spent working and playing on her family’s cattle ranch in Montana imparted on her an early appreciation for big sky country, as well as the big, blue-sky ideas inspired by that same expansiveness. A graduate of Montana State University, she cut her teeth at Seattle agency Hornall Anderson (now Sid Lee), where she implemented her strategic, customer-first mindset while leaving her optimistic mark on brands across the travel, entertainment, and CPG industries, gravitating always toward thoughtful, tactile brand expression.

In 2017, Caitlin parlayed her love of brand and expertise in packaging to work inhouse at Amazon, where she has since been a lead designer in developing a portfolio of private label brands across the food, pet, and personal care categories (including Revly, a Pentawards 2019 Bronze finalist) and mentor to fellow female designers. Outside of business hours, she may be found furthering her illustration and design practice at her art studio.

Wendy Annonay, Didy for Friends - Passionate and out of the box thinker, Wendy has been working for 10 years for global brands like YSL, Lancôme, Armani, Valentino, L’Oréal Paris, Maybelline New York, Mixa and more...

Back in 2018 when he decided to give an international dimension to his career by managing the Packaging & Design innovation of an FMCG brand wishing to work on the complete overhaul of its brand strategy.

Afterward, Wendy took over the management of the Packaging Design and Development Department for Huda Beauty brands (Huda Beauty, Kayali, Wishful, Glowish).

Over the last 2 years, he has been leading, thinking, designing every aspect of the process, design structure and graphic designs envisioned by the Owner and led by the S.VP of the Product Dev department. He also makes his strategic thinking to the environmental policy while preserving the brands' DNA.

Andy is one of China’s most respected FMCG product designers, focusing on product design for more than 20 years. He advocates and practices the "minimalist and extraordinary" design concept, and constantly explores and leads the commercial aesthetic trend of the new consumption era.

His works cover packaging, branding, space design and business model innovation for tea, beverages, and FMCG goods. He created a number of Chinese liquor that worth hundreds of billions of yuan with his unique commercial innovative thinking design.

Andy is also a guest professor and school manager of many art and design colleges, fully promoted school-enterprise cooperation and integration of industry and education, won more than 200 design awards, and actively built a global creative ecosystem with dozens of international top design studios. The alliance promotes design exchanges and learning at home and abroad and builds the most cutting-edge and most powerful creative design platform in China's FMCG field.

Philip Neufeldt, is a Creative Director at the Estée Lauder Companies EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Russia & India) headquarters in Paris. He’s in charge of all multi-branded campaigns at the region, featuring brands such as : Estee Lauder, M.A.C, Clinique, Aveda, Bobbi Brown… as well as ensuring brand consistency and local relevancy on all consumer touch points for the brands Smashbox, Glamglow and Bumble and bumble. This includes all projects related to : video production for online, in store and TV, social media, packaging, events, visual merchandising and store design.

With more than 15 years of experience in building strong brand identities while ensuring brand consistency aimed at multi-cultural audiences. Nurturing a deep understanding of the consumers in a digital age and a passion for storytelling, Philip combines strong analytical and executive skills to develop locally relevant creative strategies across all consumer touch-points. Philip grew up in Germany and studied graphic and product design in Italy and in the US. He moved to Paris in 2006. Before joining the Estee Lauder Companies, he worked as a creative director in publishing.

Hernán Braberman is Partner and Executive Design Director at Tridimage, the packaging redesign agency for leading brands in Latin America. He helps top-performing consumer goods companies evolve their packaging to keep their brands distinctive and memorable, adapting them to a sustainable and digital future.

In 1995 Hernán´s passion led him to found Tridimage. Since then, he has not stopped revitalising and creating brands, achieving a positive impact on consumers, the market, and society. Tridimage's reputation attracts the attention of both established and emerging companies operating in Latin America, the USA, and Europe.

Tridimage has developed packaging design projects for more than 30 countries. His projects have been awarded several Pentawards, Vertex Awards, A' Design Awards, Ameristar, POPAI, Southern Star, and Pack Andina awards.

Hernán hosts the podcast BRANDERMAN, focused on packaging design. His work as a designer continues to take him around the world, sharing his experience and knowledge with all those who recognize the unlimited power of design.

Marta’s packaging design journey started back in 2012 during her studies of Industrial Design in Berlin. Together with a classmate, she designed the packaging concept “Butter Plus” that was eventually patented and sold to the Weidenhammer Packaging Group. The idea was voted amongst the 50 best projects of 2015 by “Packaging of the World”.

Her professional background includes agencies, start-ups, and R&D departments with projects for companies such as Henkel, Conde Nast, or McKinsey. After working for several years as a packaging concept designer at Beiersdorf for brands such as NIVEA, Labello, or Eucerin, Marta recently started her new position of a sustainability manager for product innovation. She is responsible for the launch of the first ever NIVEA shower gel refill station which promotes the idea of a circular economy and has won major industry awards. She was also the lead designer for Beiersdorf’s newly launched skincare brand “O.W.N” that combines the two key trends of sustainability and personalization.

Marta believes in lifelong learning and is continuing her education on topics related to the circular economy in addition to her regular job. Last year she was a selected participant on Ellen MacArthur Foundation's “From Linear to Circular London'' online programme where she had the chance to learn from major experts in the industry and to connect with pioneers from around the world.

Marta believes in a holistic, both scientific and artistic approach towards design and the idea of “design doing” and “STEAM learning”: “Nowadays the connection between sustainability, creativity and technology is the major challenge the industry has to face. Only a product that perfectly unites all these aspects can convince the consumer - The search for new technologies, the creation of a distinctive design and the ability to set new technological trends are key to success.”

Luke Li. otherwise known as lukeiscrazyman . Awards winning art director with more than 11 years global communication and marketing experience both at agency and Company around the world. currently he is working as Associate Creative Director Sportstyle at Puma in Sweden, and previous work as senior art director at The LEGO group in Denmark.

Evelio is an industry-recognized packaging design expert known for his ability to engineer strategic user experiences. His focus on user experience coupled with sustainable systems and packaging allows him to share this knowledge to elevate our industry.

Evelio’s passion for designing and engineering memorable #unboxing experiences for global consumers can be seen in his creative collaborations with many of the world's most sought after brands. He’s bridged the gap between design and flawless manufacturing for brands that include Sephora, Urban Decay, Michael Kors, Tiffany & Co., Sonos, and Google.

Studio Kluif is a design studio set up by Jeroen Hoedjes and Paul Roeters in the summer of 1999. Currently, the Kluif team has 10 people all of whom are home-grown or foreign designers. Without losing sight of the original core values, that is, simplicity, humor and putting things into perspective, Studio Kluif has developed during the past 10 years into becoming a fully fledged and multifaceted design studio.

Kevin is a multi-award-winning creative director at global brand agency, Superunion. He leads Superunion's global creative team for Nespresso, working across a multitude of programmes, including brand strategy, identity, packaging design, and communications. His other clients include Samsung, Stella McCartney, Boots, Vodafone, and Jaguar. He is the recipient of a D&AD Black Pencil for his work with The National Gallery, and his work has also been recognised by over 80 creative industry awards, including Gold and Silver trophies with Art Directors Club, New York Festivals, Graphis, Campaign, D&AD, Clio and Pentawards.

Eminente, Moët Hennessy - France

Enthusiastic and passionate brand builder, Camille has spent the last 10 years working for internationally recognized brands like L’Oréal Paris, Parfums Christian Dior, Moët & Chandon and Hennessy.

Over the last 3 years, she has been thinking, designing, test-proving and even tasting every aspect of a new Cuban rum brand: Eminente. An adventure she orchestrated with her co-founder and some of the best creative talents in the industry.”

David is the Global Design Director for Mars Food. David is responsible for driving locally and globally consistent brand identities for the Mars Food portfolio as well as bringing in the application of design thinking and innovation methodology to tackle brand, business, and innovation challenges.

David joined Mars in 2011, and spent 10 years working for the Mars Wrigley division both in the UK and US (Chicago). In those roles, he developed exciting identities and expansive innovation pipelines for iconic brands such as Dove/Galaxy & M&M’S across emerging markets, China, Europe and the USA.

Prior to Mars David worked in the aviation industry and previously the agency world, building consumer experiences. One of his proudest initiatives was being part of the team that designed a full cabin refresh across the fleet at Virgin Atlantic as well as designing an award winning high quality meal experience that saw a 45% reduction in greenhouse gasses.

On a personal level David enjoys playing tennis, all forms of geekdom and entertainment, gaming and discovering new places to have fun in the city with his friends.

Gaël Le Bourgès, COTY R&D Packaging Senior Director, has been developing cosmetic packaging for the last 20 years as part of the COTY company. Prior to this, he worked at a large packaging supplier in the food industry in the UK.

In his early years at COTY, Gael worked on developing mass makeup lines, with a particular focus on the global brand Rimmel. His expertise then moved to Luxury Fragrances when he joined the Chartres factory in France, managing launches for fragrances by Davidoff, Jennifer Lopez and Jil Sander.

Now based in Paris, Gael is leading the global packaging development of Luxury and Mass Fragrance launches for Gucci, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Burberry, Chloé, Davidoff, Joop, Escada, David Beckham, Bruno Banani (to name a few!), whilst also leading the Luxury Make Up lines of Gucci and Burberry.

Over the course of his career, Gael has developed multiple award-winning packs, including Gucci Alchemist Garden and Balenciaga Florabotanica.

Design Director Jennie Potts is passionate about driving diversity within the industry. At B&B, she manages the internship programme and regularly mentors and trains the next generation through partnerships with Creative Lives and university design departments.

While Jennie’s portfolio includes some of the world’s most recognisable brands – from Miller Lite to The Glenlivet – she now helps B&B create and build the entrepreneurial brands that are shaping the future of food and drink through sustainable and ethical mindsets, including Well & Truly, Bio & Me, Raw Halo, LiQ and Goldling.

A lover of purposeful and meaningful design, Jennie has judging experience at both the Fabs and The World Whisky & Gin Awards, and has herself been recognised at D&AD, the Pentawards, the FABs, New York Festival, Transform, Mobius, Brand Impact and the Design Effectiveness Awards.

Teman Evans is Global Head of Design at General Mills and a faculty member of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he teaches courses in design thinking, branding, and strategic innovation. Prior to this, he was the global director of brand design and customer experience design at PepsiCo.

Previously, Evans was vice president of branding and strategy at Foote, Cone, and Belding and worked with architects David Rockwell in New York and Rem Koolhaas in Europe and Asia, where he created innovation strategies for global brands from Prada to the Beijing Olympics. Teman also co-founded the DIOSCURI design and brand consulting agency, where he was chief creative officer.

Jamie is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and awarded member of D&AD. He started his design career at hat-trick design consultants in 2001 after graduating from Somerset College of Arts where he was taught by Malcolm Swatridge (founder of The Partners).

While at hat-trick, he worked with a diverse group of clients including Fairbridge, BBC Books, The Royal Mail, Natural History Museum, Capital Radio, Land Securities and NESTA. In 2005 he became senior designer at Blast, where he designed the award-winning Inuit Paper identity and campaign for Arjowiggins, as well as work for BBC Events, University of the Arts London and the Arts Council.

In 2007 as a freelance designer, Jamie worked with The Partners (now Superunion), 300million, fivefootsix and Wiedemann Lampe before establishing Magpie Studio in a pub in early 2008 with two of his best buddies. Magpie Studio went on to become one of the UK’s most internationally awarded agencies (6th in the Design Week Creative Survey 2013) working with household names from Apple to the British Heart Foundation, Nike to Royal Mail.

In 2013 Jamie relocated to Bath where he started Supple Studio. Supple now boasts an enviable list of clients including Arjowiggins Paper, Channel 4, Childline, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Royal Mail, The Royal Mint, University of the Arts London, The Royal Institution, National Trust, NSPCC, Thames & Hudson and National Museums of Scotland.

JIANG was born in Dalian, China in 1978. He graduated from Industrial Design Department, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University and then achieved the master degree of Arts in France.

During working in Paris, he participated in the core creative work of many international first-line luxury brands. After returning to Shanghai, he founded Nianxiang Creative Company in 2013.

He advocates that the brand’s mission is to Create Actual Consumption Meaning for consumers, and Creating An Immersive Brand Resonance for consumers is his creative purpose appropriately.

Pavla Chuykina is a multi-award winning graphic designer from Russia originally. She has been working in packaging design and branding since 2011. Her work experience includes companies across Russia, China and Australia.

Pavla has a combined experience in FMCG, which she gained while working with global brands in Asia Pacific, and boutique branding in spirits and beverages from her work for the European market. Her biggest strength is in creating elaborate stories for each project, adding a strong personality, handsome craft — and creating unique and beautiful brands that stand out. Her biggest passion is in creating bespoke bottles and packaging.

Pavla loves building new brands from the ground up or helping established brands win new markets and increase sales.

Mario Di Paolo, founder and creative director of Spazio Di Paolo, grew up in the world of contemporary art working alongside some of the most notable and important international artists. As a world-famous designer and photographer, but also as an editorial artist, Di Paolo defines his studio as “an experience of unprecedented life”.

Spazio Di Paolo has a creative and revolutionary stylistic approach which goes beyond the thought of a traditional communications agency. Artistic contamination, search for unexplored motivations and meanings, detailed market analysis and deep technical knowledge of the product and its production, from the soil to the bottling, and of the printing and dispensing processes of the label make Spazio Di Paolo an international trendsetter.

Mario Di Paolo is the man behind some of the most revolutionary and recent innovations in the field of industrial printing of high-end labels, which offer to brand owners new languages and the possibility of standing out on the shelf. Spazio Di Paolo has launched actual trends: multilayered labels, pigments extracted from volcanic dust, gypsum and soil, and also three-dimensional labels which turn packaging into real sculptures interacting with space and the consumer.

Graduate in Design and with a Master’s degree in Neuromarketing, Beatriz Suárez is co-founder and Head of Strategy at MABA. Founded just 5 years ago, this Spanish studio has managed to find a space for itself in the design of brands, which arrive in the consumers’ hands in the form of packaging. The studio’s work has been awarded in LAUS, VERTEX, ADCE, or A'DESIGN. After its third year of participation, MABA has now won 7 Pentawards, as well as having won the People’s Choice award for its Códice wine design in 2020.

“At MABA we feel a great sense of responsibility in connecting people to the brands’ value proposals. As designers, we make promises, trigger emotions and try to make things beautiful too, no matter how ordinary the product is. Good design is almost like magic, it can contribute to making people’s day-to-day lives nicer, more pleasant and more inspiring.”

Leveraging his background in Industrial Design, Jon has spent the past 14 years bringing products and brands to life through thoughtfully crafted packaging experiences. With time spent on both agency and in-house teams, he’s been fortunate enough to develop for some of the world’s leading CPG and Tech companies, including Proctor & Gamble, Mars & Co., Microsoft, and Oculus VR.

Currently fascinated by “the space between”, Jon brings a multi-faceted approach to design, exploring the interplay of 2D and 3D touchpoints, as well as the necessary journeys that allow seamless transitions between physical and digital space. Working as intimately with challenges as possible, he strives to deliver packaging strategies that deliver equally across brand, business, and consumer needs.

Jon now leads structural packaging design for Meta, where he oversees creative packaging development for their Oculus and Portal hardware portfolios.

Cam started SharpEnd in 2014 as the world’s first IoT agency with a mission to transform the real world into a connected platform via experience-led innovation in-store, on-product and at-home. SharpEnd proudly supports a wide range of the world’s most ambitious brands across fashion, beauty, drinks and fmcg in more than 50 countries (and counting). 

He is a regular speaker, writer and podcast guest exploring how to build brands in a connected world and has spoken on many of the world’s biggest stages.

Brian Rice recently joined 3M, the global innovation company, as Vice President, Chief Brand and Design Officer. Serving as an executive leader for the 3M Brand and Design functions, Rice oversees 3M’s endeavors to leverage brand and design to connect with consumers and continually deliver on the company’s legacy of science applied to life. Under his purview, Rice leads the global design function and design thinking as a mind-set and approach to drive growth, brand experience, customer engagement and efficiency programs across the enterprise.

Bringing more than 25 years of experience, Rice has bridged the power of design thinking with business strategy for some of the world’s most valuable, trusted and iconic brands including Georgia-Pacific, Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company and Bristol Myers Squibb. Throughout his career, Brian has led brand design, packaging development, product design, content and creative communications to drive business growth.

Rice holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Graphic Design and Management from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida where he currently serves as a board member for the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication. Rice has also completed management and supervisory programs at Cornell University and The Center for Creative Leadership, and has taken executive innovation courses and design thinking training at the Stanford University school.

Uwe Melichar, born in 1968, studied communication design at the Muthesius University in Kiel and worked at the brand agency FACTOR for 25 years. He was managing partner and built up the packaging division.

In 2020, he left the FACTOR and started his new business, MELICHAR Bros. Under the slogan »Increase Value, Decrease Waste« the company focuses on sustainable packaging solutions. In his work-life, Uwe Melichar has implemented projects for Adidas, Bosch, C&A, Gardena, Omron and Miele. Together with his team, he develops packaging and communication design for clients in Japan, Russia, China, the USA and various European countries.

He is also a lecturer at several universities, such as the University of Augsburg and the Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, is a member of the Type Directors Club New York and president of the European Brand & Packaging Design Association (epda).

With over ten year's experience in the design industry Jenny has used her designthinking combined with her love of creative problem solving to provide innovative solutions for a wide range of clients across FMCG and Luxury sectors.

Focusing on production, R&D, innovation and sustainability she has worked with a variety of household-name brands including the likes of Burberry, Jo Loves, Pernod Ricard, Wagamama, Imperial Leather, NERD beauty and Bang & Olufsen. In her role at Butterfly Cannon Jenny helps to bring ideas to life, pioneering new ideas with asustainable first approach essential for the agency’s craft and prestige client list.

Jenny has a passion for innovation and materials and her expertise focuses onproviding detailed knowledge about suppliers, costings, research data, trend insights, timings and sustainability. She keeps an on-going dialogue with materials producers and convertors and keeps the Butterfly Cannon samples library up-todate and well informed. Her background includes working in-house at Burberry and with Pearlfisher Design Agency. She is well known within the technical and production design field, havin g written multiple articles, sat on industry panels, given lectures and been interviewed on the subject of sustainability for broad/podcasts.

Jenny has a fantastically wide understanding of packaging design and production. She supports this with a healthy attitude of “if I don’t know something I will definitely be able to find the person who does - very quickly!”

Robert Taylor is a a UK Chartered Forester who graduated from Scottish School of Forestry in 1994. Robert has worked 25 years for UPM, 17 of which have been based in Finland in various senior global positions in the global sustainability team.

In recent years his task has been to lead a team of experts in developing strategy and supporting the UPM Raflatac business in sustainability issues related to responsible sourcing, product ecodesign, factory performance, the recycling and reuse of waste and developing partnerships with a range of stakeholders including customers, suppliers, authorities, associations and NGO’s.

Bored to tears after working on tech advertising in the 1990’s Kevin founded Stranger & Stranger in order to design wine labels as a bit of a hobby.

Stranger is now one of the leading firms in the field of alcoholic beverage packaging with studios in London, New York and San Francisco and advises everyone from global players like Bacardi and Beam Suntory on international brands like Jack Daniels and Martini, all the way down to one man startups.

Stranger labels up over a billion bottles and cans every year winning hundreds of awards along the way and has created brands worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Silke Bochat is a Design Executive with +15yrs of international experience in complex, large FMCG and non-FMCG corporations such as Colgate, PepsiCo, Vodafone, Mars and Beiersdorf and an outstanding track record of award-winning, highly performing design leadership approaches and brand designs, brand experiences and innovations.

For more than 10yrs, Silke is focusing on transforming organizations through design (at scale): implementing, integrating, leading and scaling design and design teams and weaving in new capabilities, technologies and work(force) models vertically & horizontally into business (e.g as part of Marcom, Marketing Excellence Programs). As a strategist and system thinker at heart, she envisions the future of design (value) for ambiguous organizations, scales teams up from task, to project, to x-functional, system-thinking programs and platforms of tomorrow, up to the level of rethinking organizational architectures and flows e2e and CX-led based on a design vision, framework & roadmap (incl DesignOps) delivering towards an overarching 5yr business strat plan.

Silke builds on a highly diversified experience having worked at both, corporate and agency side, in headquarters and regions, reporting to functions from R&D, Marketing, Marcom to Supply Chain, working on global multi-billion icons as well as small local brands, on mono product and multi-layered complex portfolios, leading design throughout the entire process from FEI to production.

She has studied at the KISD Koeln International School of Design Germany and the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial, Havana Cuba. At Colgate, she currently elevates the EU AED team and sparks and drives the Global Design strategic transformation framework to integrate and elevate the company’s Design IQ. Prior, she was transforming and leading PepsiCo’s Eastern Europe Design Team and won the Design Management Europe Award for implementing design at the organization Beiersdorf whilst being one of two women behind NIVEA’s iconic Rebranding.