Inkjet & Digital Printing
Xeikon announces speakers
Friday 23. February 2018 - Xeikon Café Exhibition and Conference (20-23 March 2018 in Belgium) will include an impressive set of speakers from both brands and printers with thought-provoking and inspiring presentations that will provide the audience with tangible ideas and concepts to implement in their own businesses.
The conference will explore how packaging innovation can enhance and elevate businesses through a series of strategic business-oriented presentations.
“We are excited to announce this years speaker line-up for the Conference element of the Xeikon Café,” says Danny Mertens of Xeikon Café. “We are proud to have such a high-calibre group of speakers, featuring key players from the label & packaging industry as well as some well-known and respected brands. The purpose of the Conference is to bring strategic views from printers and brands into the discussion and highlight what benefits they can each draw from digital production through sharing their own unique stories of innovation.”
Keynote: “Igniting Innovation Initiatives” by Andrew Vorster
“This years overall event theme is Learn. Connect. Discover. By bringing key players from across the industry together, we aim to educate and inspire businesses to recognise the enormous potential of digital production and discover how it can benefit their own businesses,” Mertens continues. “Introducing a new technology into the mix can be a daunting prospect and requires a leap of faith to embrace innovation and do things differently. This is why we have invited Andrew Vorster as our keynote speaker; he brings a wealth of experience in this area and is able to truly inspire an audience with his vision.”
With a background of 30+ years of experience driving innovation across a wide range of industries, Andrew has built a reputation as a passionate technologist, innovator and disruptor. Describing himself as an Innovation Catalyst, Andrew will explore ways in which an organisation can become more innovative and, intriguingly, discover what alcohol distillation and innovation have in common. Andrew is passionate about dispelling the common myth that innovation takes place in an innovation funnel – an attitude that often constrains organisational thinking and excludes valuable input from a much broader ecosystem. He will provide insight into the actions and activities required to engage a team, department or an entire organisation to move attitudes towards a spirit of innovation.