Schedule
NAPIM’s 2025 Annual Convention/Technical Conference Schedule
September 8 - 11, 2025 | Omni Charlotte | Charlotte, NC
Annual Convention Schedule
*Sessions and times may be subject to change.
| Time | Event | Room |
| Monday, September 8 | ||
| 2:00 PM | NAPIM Board Meeting | Willow Room |
| 5:00 PM | Opening Reception | Pomodoro Room |
| Tuesday, September 9 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Networking Breakfast | Cypress Room |
| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Agitating the Ink with AI: Crafting Your Enterprise AI Strategy for Immediate Impact, Steve Metcalf | Birch Dogwood |
| 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
AI Technical Applications to Impact the Manufacturing Floor Willem Sundblad, Oden Technologies |
Birch Dogwood |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Digital Technology: Paul Edwards, INX | Birch Dogwood |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | Cypress Room |
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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
Explore Charlotte |
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| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Reception and Tabletops | Grand Foyer |
| Wednesday, September 10 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Cypress Room |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
Joint Keynote Session: Alex Chausovsky Economic and Policy Update and What to Expect for the Remainder of This Year and Beyond |
Birch Dogwood |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Joint Roundtables: facilitated by Alex Chausovsky Roundtable Discussions on Economic Policy |
Birch Dogwood |
| 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | Technical and Regulatory Update: George Fuchs | Birch Dogwood |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | Cypress Room |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Joint Session: How the Printing Ink Industry is coping with European Regulation, Cornelia Teitz EuPIA | Birch Dogwood |
| 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
State of the Industry Richard Romano, WhatTheyThink |
Birch Dogwood |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Member Roundtable Discussions - Facilitated by Richard Romano | Birch Dogwood |
| 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Awards Reception (Dress Code: Business formal, black tie optional.) | Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | Awards Dinner (Dress Code: Business formal, black tie optional.) | Birch Dogwood |
| Thursday, September 11 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Cypress Room |
| 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Joint Session: US Food and Drug Administration Panel Discussion Panel Discussion: Bethany Woods - BASF; Naeem Mady - InterTec; Jim Bishop - Sun Chemical; Daniel; Rubenstein - Steptoe & Johnson; Phil Berrier - PrintPack | Birch Dogwood |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Joint Session: State Legislative Update for Ink and Packaging, Rebecca McPail, American Chemistry Council | Birch Dogwood |
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Joint Session: Color Management Panel, Jay Sperry - Coca-Cola, Jack Frank - Smurfit Westrock, DJ Cabler - Smurfit Westrock Dr. Mark Bohan - Konica Minolta Business Solutions |
Birch Dogwood |
| 12:30 PM | Raffle | |
Technical Conference Schedule
*Sessions and times may be subject to change.
| Time | Event | Room |
| Monday, September 8 | ||
| 2:00 PM | Technical Board/EHS Meeting | Poplar Room |
| 5:00 PM | Opening Reception | Pomodoro Room |
| Tuesday, September 9 | ||
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Design Plastics Packaging for Recyclability using the APR Design® Guide, Scott Trenor, Association of Plastics Recyclers | Poplar Room |
| 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Microplastics 2025: Lindsey Foster, BASF | Poplar Room |
| 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Key Technical Considerations in Food Packaging Development (including formulation, design, and chemical aspects) : Keith Vorst, Iowa State Polymer and Food Protection Consortium | Poplar Room |
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | PAGES: A Novel Solvent Free, Degradable Resin for Vat Photopolymerization - Maddy Segal, Duke University - | Poplar Room |
| 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM | Lawter Lecture Series TBD | |
| 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Showcases | Poplar Room |
| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Reception and Tabletops | Grand Foyer |
| Wednesday, September 10 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | Cypress Room |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Joint Keynote Session: Alex Chausovsky | Birch Dogwood |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Joint Roundtables: facilitated by Alex Chausovsky | Birch Dogwood |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Printing Inks and Coatings as Packaging Circularity Enablers: Nikola Juhasz, Sun Chemical Corporation | Poplar Room |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | Cypress Room |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Joint Session: How the Printing Ink Industry is coping with European Regulation, Cornelia Teitz EuPIA | Birch Dogwood |
| 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Package Migration Testing - Factors/Influences, Natasha Banke, INX International | Poplar Room |
| 2:30 PM 3:15 PM | Packaging and Printing Innovation Deep Dive and Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: Lokendra Pal, North Carolina State University | Poplar Room |
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | G7/ISO Standard Compliance and Digital Ink and Print, Mark Bohan and Konica Minolta | Poplar Room |
| 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM |
How Manufacturers are Increasing Uptime and Run Speeds in Sheetfed Offset Technology, Jeff Powalisz, Heidelberg |
Poplar Room |
| 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Awards Reception (Dress Code: Business formal, black tie optional.) | Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | Awards Dinner (Dress Code: Business formal, black tie optional.) | Birch Dogwood |
| Thursday, September 11 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Joint Session: US Food and Drug Administration Panel Discussion: Bethany Woods - BASF; Naeem Mady - InterTec; Jim Bishop - Sun Chemical; Daniel; Rubenstein - Steptoe&Johnson; Phil Berrier - PrintPack | Birch Dogwood |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Joint Session: State Legislative Update for Ink and Packaging, Rebecca McPhail & Adam Peer, American Chemistry Council | Birch Dogwood |
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Joint Session: Color Management Panel, Jay Sperry - Coca-Cola, Jack Frank - Smurfit Westrock, DJ Cabler - Smurfit Westrock Dr. Mark Bohan - Konica Minolta Business Solutions |
Birch Dogwood |
| 12:30 PM | Raffle | |
