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r-pac International

Güneri Tugcu is a global thought leader with 25 years of experience in connected merchandise, digital transformation, and brand innovation. Having held senior roles at SGK, Digimarc, and Amazon, he now leads global partnerships and business development at r-pac International. As the founder and host of the acclaimed CoCo: click. consume. connect.podcast, Güneri brings together industry experts to explore the future of connected packaging, brand protection, and consumer engagement.

Droptimize

Raphaël Wenger co-founded Droptimize with Florian Bourguet after 10 years of inkjet R&D at the iPrint Institute. They turned their vision of streamlined printing optimization into a cutting-edge dropwatching instrument. Today, Droptimize offers waveform optimization services and supplies the tool for in-house R&D.

Physik Instrumente

Beate van Loo-Born is a corporate executive specialising in financial services, data and sustainability. Her leadership spans UBS, the Swiss Stock Exchange and the non-profit Climate Arc. In January 2025 she became Group CFO of Physik Instrumente (PI), driving finance transformation, performance management and responsible growth at the precision-motion manufacturer.

GREWUS GmbH

Elisa Santella, founding member and Managing Director of GREWUS GmbH, leads Haptic Key Accounts. GREWUS develops acoustic components and haptic actuators, supporting customers integrating active haptics. With 20+ years in the automotive industry, she chairs the Haptics Industry Forum’s Automotive Working Group, serves on its Board, co-founded the Haptics Alliance, and founded the interACTIVE HAPTICS conference.

Lubrizol

Christophe Imbert is Global Market Manager at Lubrizol, based in Barcelona. An engineer with a PhD in polymer chemistry, he began in paper and packaging before joining Lubrizol in 2008. He has held laboratory, technical and marketing roles and now leads development of colour dispersions and components for inkjet inks, leveraging deep chemical innovation expertise.

Cabot Corporation

With a background in polymer and formulation science, Lionel led R&D teams developing pigment dispersions for coatings and inkjet, later overseeing sourcing. He then moved into speciality chemical distribution as an account manager. Now Cabot’s Senior Technical Services Manager for inkjet, he advises on water-based pigment dispersions and steers innovation around unmet needs and market trends.

Plasmatreat

Bas Buser is Global Market Segment Manager for Printing Applications at Plasmatreat. An expert in plasma-enhanced printing, he previously served as a process improvement engineer in manufacturing. He helps customers deploy plasma technologies to boost adhesion, print quality and efficiency across packaging, labels and industrial components, translating process know-how into measurable production gains.

IACS

I am the co-founder of IACS, an engineering company specializing in compact and robust industrial inkjet printing systems. With over 30 years of experience in business development, strategic marketing, technology sales, product management, and relationship building in international B2B environments, I’m passionate about taking on new challenges and continuously learning.

42 Technology

Dr Peter Brown, a Cambridge-trained physicist (PhD in semiconducting polymers), develops innovative manufacturing methods in digital deposition and precision coating. He specialises in printing challenging functional fluids beyond conventional inkjet. At 42 Technology, he leads business development and proactive networking for Manufacturing Innovation, with a particular focus on US clients and partnerships.

Kelenn Technology

Dr Anaïs Bianchi is a nanotechnology specialist with academic research in France and Japan and entrepreneurship training at CentraleSupélec. Former CTO of Bichromatics and CEO of Cocapec, she developed conductive inks for electronics. Since 2023 at KELENN Technology, she leads R&D and industrial projects; in 2024 she became Director of KTLabs and joined the executive committee.

ChemStream

Els Mannekens is an organic chemist who received her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2001. She has now worked at ChemStream for 14 years as senior formulation chemist and specialises in the development of UV-curable inkjet inks for both 2D and 3D IJ printing applications, in the development of stable nano-pigment dispersions and in the synthesis of superabsorbent polymers.

Matti Group

Since 2023, Martin Letzner has served as Matti Group’s Chief Sales Officer, responsible for global marketing, sales and strategic direction. His strengths include capital-goods sales consulting, organising and managing subsidiaries across Europe, Asia, the USA and the UK, and long experience in product management, project management and marketing in SMEs and large companies.

Seiko Instruments

Aliasgar Eranpurwala heads the Inkjet Printheads department at Seiko Instruments. An experienced sales executive in the inkjet sector, he holds an MSc in Automation Engineering from FH Aachen and an MBA from PowerMBA. He leads commercial strategy, OEM partnerships and solution integration, combining technical depth with global account development across industrial printing markets.

Kelenn Technology

Founder and CEO of KELENN Technology, Didier Rousseau is a veteran technology leader driving innovation in digital printing, printed electronics and image processing. With 25+ years’ experience, he has built high-tech companies, led international teams and forged strategic partnerships with major OEMs and institutions, cementing Kelenn’s position as a sector leader.

EIT 2.0 UV Instruments

Jim Raymont is the Director of Sales for EIT 2.0 LLC. He joined the predecessor to EIT 2.0 (EIT) in 1993 and has been involved with the sales, marketing and product development of EIT’s UV products since 1996. Jim co-holds four patents on UV measurement.

Jim frequently contributes of articles on UV Measurement & Process Control and regularly presents talks, seminars and webinars on UV Measurement and Process Control. A quarterly column appears in RadTech’s UV & EB Technology publication.

IST INTECH

An Integration Engineering graduate, Holly Steedman has devoted her career to print and coatings, delivering scalable, application-fit solutions. She has held senior product management and technology roles at Marabu GmbH and Industrial Inkjet Ltd, after starting at Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems, combining cross-functional leadership with deep materials and process expertise.

Xaar

Justin Noble is a senior leader across high-tech development and manufacturing, spanning R&D, operations and commercial roles. Skilled in change management, strategy and process design, his expertise covers NPD, design for manufacture, root-cause analysis and production. He holds a First-Class BSc (Hons) in Computer-Aided Product Design from the University of Portsmouth.

Engineered Printing Solutions (EPS)

Ken Stack is a seasoned leader in digital printing. He co-founded Jetrion, a trailblazer in digital label printing later acquired by EFI, where he helped advance UV inkjet for packaging. Through Proximus, he advised companies on adopting advanced print technologies for manufacturing. Today, as Chairman of Engineered Printing Solutions (EPS), Ken guides the company’s strategy as a global leader in industrial inkjet integration, continuing to shape the evolution of digital and industrial printing worldwide.

Inkatronic

Experienced Development Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the printing industry.

Matti Group

Thomas Amrein leads global marketing and sales and sets company strategy at Matti Group. Drawing on extensive experience across firms of all sizes, he acquired Matti Group in 2015 and has served as CEO since, overseeing international growth, commercial execution, innovation programmes and long-term direction with a strong customer and partner focus.

Global Inkjet Systems

Richard Darling is a pragmatic champion of industrial inkjet, known for challenging assumptions to uncover where inkjet delivers real value. He has worked with leading printer and printhead manufacturers, advising on applications, strategy and adoption, and bridging commercial insight with technical implementation to accelerate practical deployment from pilot to scaled production.

Tigres

Peter van Steenacker is Sales Manager for northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the UK, with extensive expertise in plasma treatment and coatings for 3D objects. Active since 1998, he works across corona systems, vacuum plasma and plasma nozzles, delivers seminars and international training, and leads the PlasmaXperience programme for advanced applications.

Bergstein

Peter is a successful serial entrepreneur, who continued the family business in 2001. With his long experience in the traditional pad and screen-printing business, he has achieved a great reputation and network in this area. Knowing that these techniques will be slowly replaced by more advanced techniques, he created a new business model for Single Pass printing.

Meteor Inkjet Ltd

Clive is an industrial inkjet veteran with over 25 years of experience in digital printing. In 2005, he co-founded TTP Meteor (now Meteor Inkjet Ltd), becoming Managing Director in 2016 after its acquisition by Global Graphics plc (now Hybrid Software Group plc). He previously consulted at The Technology Partnership plc and was an R&D engineer for Schlumberger Industries.

Sun Chemical

Dr Simon Daplyn is Product & Marketing Manager for Sun Chemical’s digital inks. With 20+ years in digital print, he has worked across product development, commercialisation, sales and marketing, specialising in aqueous technologies. Since joining in 2020, he leads product strategy to support inkjet adoption and advance sustainable technology across digital print markets.

FuturePrint

Marcus entered print in 2006 at FESPA, becoming Sales & Marketing Director and helping globalise its exhibitions. In 2011 he left with Frazer Chesterman to establish FM Brooks, launching InPrint in Germany, Italy and the US; sold to RELX in 2019. He later co-founded FM Future and built the 16,000-strong FuturePrint community.

FuturePrint

Frazer began in recruitment, then publishing and events, and has 25+ years running shows. Joining FESPA in 2003, he revived a declining exhibition into a market leader. In 2011 he co-founded FM Brooks with Marcus Timson to launch new print events, notably InPrint. He sold the business to RELX in 2019.

Industrial Inkjet

John Corrall is founder and chairman of Industrial Inkjet (IIJ) Ltd and IIJ Inc. With 35 years in inkjet, he previously held senior roles at Domino, Videojet, Xaar and Xennia. He now guides IIJ’s technology roadmap and client solutions, bringing deep market and engineering experience to complex integration projects worldwide.