FuturePrint Virtual Summit organisers are delighted to announce that Dr Jonas Ridderstråle will deliver one of the opening talks to Days 2 on Leadership and Adaptation!

Dr Ridderstråle is one of the world’s most influential and respected business thinkers and speakers. Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestselling book Funky Business, co-authored with Kjell A. Nordström, Jonas has remained at the forefront of management thinking. Global Gurus, the research company has ranked him as one of the World’s Top 30 Management Professionals and placed him in the top 5 in Europe.

Inca Digital is well known as a leader for high quality, high-speed wide-format digital inkjet printing machines for point of sales applications. The Onset has led the way in this sector as the best of class for many years. Now, their strategic attention is focused on a far more challenging and arguably exciting sector, packaging. In this interesting interview, we talk to Matt Brooks of Inca and Richard O’Neill from Tinmasters about the needs for printing technology in metal packaging printing and what is needed from digital to meet the expectations of an almost entirely offset lithographic dominated market.

Following on from the success of the first FuturePrint Virtual Summit which took place 2-4 June, the next edition takes place 12-16 October. Leading digital print manufacturer, HP, has confirmed they will be participating as Content Partner with a focus on corrugated packaging.

GIS and SAKATA INX will work together on specific projects, leveraging SAKATA INX’s ink expertise and access to large end-users and major OEMs, and GIS’s expertise in providing complete workflow solutions for industrial inkjet applications.

The following copy is taken from Heidelberg’s website and is news about their decision to not participate at Drupa and focus on virtual events.

The trend towards ever shorter innovation cycles in the print media industry has accelerated very quickly. Data-based digital business models are emerging in very short time intervals and are constantly being modified to align with current specific customer requirements. Customers thus need to be informed about the latest trends quickly, flexibly and on an ongoing basis. This trend also affects customer communications at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg): The company will focus on offering more new, digital options to present products and innovations.

The demographics of FuturePrint Virtual Summit visitors contrasted with live print events, particularly summits, which are defined as exclusive events attended only by senior-level people. At the first summit in June, over 55% of visitors fell into the 18-35 category, and as a result, organisers want to build a content programme that includes more inspiring talks from younger people.

Following the success of the first FuturePrint Virtual Summit which ran 2-4 June, FM Future co-founders have announced the date of 12-16 October for the second edition to inspire and connect as many people as possible in the global community.