📅 June 3-4, 2026
📍Singapore | Hybrid Event
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Filipe Vieira de Castro leads Recycling Intelligence operations at CIRCPACK, where he drives projects on targeted recycling topics and the development of the unique ReCoRe platform. With a strong international background in sustainability and specialised consulting, Filipe applies his knowledge to bridge theory with practical operations, delivering real solutions in an industry that is constantly evolving. He specialises in global collection, sorting, and recycling systems, as well as supporting systems including, EPR, DRS, and labelling, as well as the production of real recycling rates, among other areas.
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Alina is Head of Global Sustainability & Circular Economy at Siegwerk, a global packaging ink & coating producer. With her teams she drives the transformation towards a sustainable and circular packaging industry. Before joining Siegwerk, Alina worked for SYSTMIQ, a company driving system change towards sustainable economic systems. At SYSTEMIQ, Alina consulted companies on Circular Economy and co-led the Circular Economy Initiative Germany. Before focusing her professional life on sustainability, Alina has held positions in the metal industry and consulting, focusing on strategy development & implementation as well as M&A. Alina holds a B.A. (European Studies), a LL.M (European and International Business Law), and an Executive MBA.
Im a passionate individual with keen interest in Packaging Engineering – machine & materials. I appreciate the dynamic nature of this industry, the advances we have made in the last few years and amazed at how every single problem is converted into an opportunity. I also have the opportunity to observe and learn about the consumer preferences in various geographies.
Abhinav is a Partner in McKinsey's Pittsburgh office with ~15 years of expertise across plastic, glass, paper, and metal packaging, and is a core leader in McKinsey's Paper, Pulp, and Packaging practice. He specializes in long-term strategy, mergers & acquisitions, and commercial growth, having led significant projects in NA and EMEA, and has driven holistic transformations for multiple companies in the paper and packaging space.
Highly experienced, research-oriented, proactive and flexible professional with over 19 years of core experience in Regulatory Affairs and Compliance, Government and Public Affairs and Clinical trials Operations Project Management in diverse fields of various of pharma products, vaccines, medical devices and food product categories segment across geographies.
Started with Sanofi Pasteur as Clinical Associate leading the operation of clinical trials and regulatory registration for almost 10 yrs with an exposure of India and Asia across, followed by Abbott Healthcare Regional Manager (Asia) for Regulatory Affairs, Quality Compliance and Clinical Operations handling China, India and South East Asian countries. Currently Leading Scientific and Regulatory Affairs function of Mars Wrigley India for the last 10 yrs years driving an effective regulatory compliance culture and driving advocacy agenda across various product categories.
Post graduate Pharmacist from Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (DIPSAR) with specialization in Clinical Pharmacy and M Phil – Biotechnology along with Post Graduate in Business Management.
Emily holds an B.Eng in Food Engineering and M. Eng. Studies in Packaging Technology from Massey University in New Zealand, and has 20 years’ experience working in technical, quality and operations roles in the New Zealand food industry. In her role at Fonterra she is responsible for leading strategy development and technical initiatives in the space of sustainable packaging across Fonterra’s global footprint. Her areas of focus include metrics and reporting, global portfolio review, market insight, life cycle assessment and use of recycled content.
Veronica is a Marketer and Sustainability Leader at Sealed Air for the Asia Pacific region.
For the past 10 years, she has immersed herself in understanding customer challenges and identifying ways to help solve them. Her experience spans across various industries including electronics, ecommerce, food manufacturing, and other industrial manufacturing sectors. As businesses start prioritizing their environmental impact and becoming more conscious about the way they operate, Veronica is excited to share her knowledge and work together navigating through the ever-changing and often complicated world of ‘sustainability’.
A firm believer of “total value consideration” in product designs, Veronica actively promotes Life Cycle Analysis including all positive and negative impacts of a product rather than just designing for composting, recycling or circularity in isolation.
Sandra is a key member of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), where she contributes to the development of strategies that unite businesses, governments, and industries in pursuit of a circular economy for packaging. With over 30 years of experience in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector, Sandra has held leadership roles at Kraft Foods, Mondelez International, and Bega Cheese.
Her career began in packaging development, providing expertise across virtually all food packaging mediums. Sandra has led both domestic and international Research and Development teams, overseeing markets in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Europe, and South America. Her leadership spans multiple critical functions, including Packaging Development, Product Development, Process Engineering, Consumer Science, Regulatory Affairs, and Nutrition, supporting both local and global FMCG operations.
Sandra is deeply committed to advancing recyclability and sustainable practices in packaging. Her work focuses on supporting industry to create products and packaging solutions that align with sustainability goals while resonating with consumers.
Sze is the Regional Business Director responsible for sales in Greater SEA/South Asia/Australasia for Global Paperboard and Business Development in APAC within the Consumer Packaging Group focusing on innovation with integrated packaging solution working closely with major food & beverage and FMCG brand owners in the region, which include home/health and beauty (HHB) segments.
Sze has worked at WestRock for 36 years, across various business units and responsibilities.
Current responsibilities include the following –
• Innovation in the food and beverage packaging segment and more recently in business development offering enterprise wide solutions to brand owners in the region.
• WESTROCK aspires to achieve the vision to become the world’s best paper and packaging company
• Global Paperboard offer a fully integrated range of fiber based specialty materials across consumer and container mills to meet the growing demand of sustainability in packaging for brand owners
• WestRock in Singapore achieved consecutive wins toward sustainability in packaging – SINGAPORE STAR PACKAGING AWARDS in 2019, 2020 and most recently in 2022.
Ciaran is responsible for delivering Smithers global growth initiatives and supporting Smithers Asian client base.
Ciaran has been working for Smithers for nearly twenty years supporting the packaging, print and paper value chains with key market and technical information in the form of conferences, reports and consulting. Ciaran has worked on winning and delivering a wide range of market consultancy projects to major industry players, recent projects include a global assessment of printing and packaging growth trends and market assessment for a major new product launch for one of the world’s largest packaging converters.
Ciaran has launched and managed many international conferences in this sector including Digital Print for Packaging, SustPack, Specialty Papers and Print Futures.
Ciaran is responsible for delivering Smithers global growth initiatives and supporting Smithers Asian client base.
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