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This session promises valuable insights for professionals seeking to enhance their packaging management practices. Whether you are embarking on a new digital journey or refining existing processes, our Packaging Maturity Model offers a strategic roadmap for transitioning from uncertainty to comprehensive control. Participants will be invited to discuss their unique positions within the digital maturity model.

Esko Category Specialists & Antony Conway

• Enhancing traceability throughout the supply chain to manage risks effectively
• Implementing circular economy practices to promote sustainability
• The Role of Technology in Green Supply Chains
• Strategies to prevent unintentional greenwashing
• Improving Operational Efficiency for Sustainability

Interactive roundtable sessions within the conference offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers, share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an energizing way to meaningfully build your professional network and learn from the experience and expertise of others.

Each roundtable session lasts for 40 minutes and delegates may attend up to 2 roundtables.

Roundtable 1: Hosted by Aquacycl

Session 1: Turning High-Concentration Wastewater Into ROI: How One Beverage Facility Reduced Costs and Increased Operational Stability

• A major beverage producer achieved a 5-month ROI by treating high-concentration batches on-site instead of hauling.
• Why bad batches and variable-strength flows strain existing systems and increase operational risk.
• How a modular, low-operator-burden system stabilized daily operations and reduced administrative workload.
• Strategies to manage limited holding-tank capacity during peak production periods.
• A practical decision framework beverage manufacturers can use to evaluate whether on-site treatment is the right fit.
• Lessons learned that apply broadly across beverage operations of all sizes.

Orianna Bretschger, CEO and Founder, Aquacycl 

Session 2: Beyond a Single Product Line: Consistent, Reliable Treatment Across the Full Beverage Portfolio

• How advanced bioelectrochemical treatment handles the full beverage range: juice, tea, coffee, sports drinks, energy drinks, spirits, and carbonated products with predictable performance.
• Why traditional systems struggle with high variability and how decentralized treatment reduces this burden.
• Maintaining efficiency even as product mixes shift, SKUs expand, or production schedules fluctuate.
• Designing for growth by building treatment capacity that scales with innovation and seasonal demand.
• Strengthening plant safety and asset protection, including how SulfideFix mitigates odors, corrosion, and exposure risk.
• Simplifying internal workflows for operators, EHS teams, and plant managers when managing diverse waste streams.
• Key considerations for implementing a consistent treatment approach across multi-site beverage operations.

Orianna Bretschger, CEO and Founder, Aquacycl

Roundtable 2: The Three Levers of Hidden Energy

1. Using Waste Steam to Generate Power
2. Reusing Waste Heat in the Process
3. Decarbonising Heat: Electrification & Onsite Generation

Aujla, Strategic Energy Partner, DCC Energy

Greg Brown, Strategic Energy Partner, DCC Energy

• Innovations to inspire 

• How consumer motivations and drivers are changing 

• How your competitive landscape looks to 2030 

• How brewing presents an opportunity to repurpose hotspot waste streams
• Circular Case Studies in retail and food service
• The potential for scaling sustainability across the industry