Gulf Print & Pack adds summit event to portfolio

The first Gulf Print & Pack Summit will take place March 4-5, 2018 at the Roda Al Bustan Hotel, Dubai. Sister event to the Gulf Print & Pack exhibition, the summit is targeted at commercial and packaging printers, design professionals and brand owners.

Featuring a full conference program and table-top exhibition, Gulf Print & Pack Summit will examine the issues and opportunities in accessing new markets and discuss the future shape of the region’s printing business. Subjects covered in the two-day summit will include: digital print and finishing; workflow automation; new in-line converting technologies; track and trace, logistics and brand security labeling; and new market opportunities in personalization, internet-of-things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 technologies. Content-rich, it is aimed at allowing local printers to differentiate themselves from competition within the region and grow their business. The summit will be chaired by Tarsus Labels & Packaging group strategic director Andy Thomas-Emans.

Content-rich, the summit is aimed at allowing local printers to differentiate themselves from the competition within the region and grow their business. James Samuel, event portfolio director, Gulf Print & Pack, said: ‘The Gulf Print & Pack Summit will bring the major issues facing the printing industry to the fore.’

The Middle East print market value is to reach 24 billion USD in 2017 as forecasted in the Smithers Pira report The Future of Global Printing to 2020. Overall market value will pass 28 billion USD by the end of the decade with growth in excess of the of around three percent a year, meaning the industry plays a pivotal role in promoting economic growth and trade for the whole UAE. 

Samuel continued: ‘In a fast and ever changing business environment where innovation drives standards and competitiveness, the summit will give printers, large and small, the chance to be heard and focus on what they can and need to do to edge their business upwards.’

The most recent Gulf Print & Pack exhibition took place earlier this year, and returns in 2019, April 15-18, at Dubai World Trade Centre. 

See the L&L Events diary for information on this and other industry events