Sustainable Packaging Innovation Forum, October 27-28 2026, Chicago, IL

Future 500 will be supporting Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Packaging Innovation Forum USA 2026, a two-day business conference bringing together key stakeholders from across the packaging and waste value chain to explore how packaging innovation can unlock long-term business value.

As organisations move beyond viewing packaging as a cost centre, the forum will examine how decisions around materials, design and end-of-life can drive efficiency, support compliance and create new market opportunities. With increasing regulatory pressure and shifting consumer expectations, the event focuses on practical strategies to align sustainability with commercial performance.

Key themes include:

· Material and design choices – Navigating trade-offs across cost, performance and recyclability to develop packaging solutions that are fit for the future

· Aligning operations, logistics and consumer experience – Leveraging packaging as a strategic asset across the value chain to enhance efficiency, brand value and customer engagement

· What’s needed for effective compliance – Understanding evolving regulatory frameworks and the infrastructure, investment and collaboration required to deliver meaningful outcomes

· Pathways to de-risk innovation – Scaling material innovation, data systems and emerging technologies while building the internal case for investment and managing competing priorities

Our VP, Brendon Steele will be moderating a to be announced panel. Speakers and participants will be announced in due course.

Register and save 10% by using the discount code FUTURE50010 during the registration process.

Find out more and register: https://www.innovationforum.co.uk/conferences/sustainable-packaging/