2025 Disruptors Summit

Join the PAC Global Disruptors Summit 2025:
Call for Innovators & Attendees!

📅 Date: June 10, 2025 ⏰ Time: 7:30 AM – 3:00 PM
📍Location: Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation, Humber College, Silver Bell Ln, Etobicoke, ON M9W 5L7

Are you ready to put your innovation center stage? The Disruptors Summit 2025 invites cutting-edge thinkers and doers to present their bold solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced format — live in front of the packaging industry’s most forward-thinking minds. This high-energy, one-day event unites trailblazers from across the packaging value chain to explore what’s next. From sustainable design and circular economy strategies to smart technology, breakthrough materials, and the rise of AI — this is where the future takes shape.

How Will You Disrupt?

🎤 Take the stage as a Disruptor and share your game-changing idea

🧠 Showcase your brand with a tabletop display and connect directly with decision-makers

📦 Or attend to gain practical insights, spark new collaborations, and get inspired

Apply Now to Present, Purchase a Tabletop, or Register to Attend!

Keynote Disruptors

Vlad Rebellon
Senior Director,
Strategic Initiatives
Loblaw Companies Limited

Claudio Gemmiti
Senior Retail &
Manufacturing Executive

Shifting the Trajectory via Disruptive Innovation

Prepare to be inspired as Claudio Gemmiti (ex-Chief Innovator at Club Coffee) and Vlad Rebellon (Sr. Director, Sustainability and Strategic Initiatives at Loblaw) take the stage at the PAC Disruptors Summit to reveal how game-changing packaging innovation are rewriting the rules of consumer engagement. They showcase bold, sustainable solutions that not only filled gaps – they created entirely new material ecosystems, reestablishing brands like PC as consumer champion and a category leader.

Learn how disruptive thinking – backed by strategic marketing- can supercharge trust, distance your competitors and propel your business via increased awareness, trial and purchase. This is your playbook for transforming market challenges into opportunities and forging unbreakable bonds between suppliers, brands, retailers and consumers.

The future belongs to the fearless. Are you ready to disrupt?

Anthony M. Watanabe, Ph.D.
VP, Chief Sustainability Officer
Indorama Ventures PLC

Re-Imaging PET in a World Without Packaging Waste

Indorama Ventures is rethinking PET through bio-based innovation—targeting 16% bio-feedstock by 2030. With breakthroughs in Bio-MEG and Bio-PX, and a focus on carbon reduction, certified sourcing, and next-gen feedstocks, the company is paving the way for a circular, low-impact packaging future.

Randy Ko
Chief Executive Officer
namu robotics

Reforest the Future

To accelerate global reforestation through autonomous, AI-powered tree-planting systems that deliver high survival, lower costs, and full environmental traceability.

Full Disruptor Lineup

Unlock the Power of SPIR@L
Experience the Economy, Ecology, and Extra Convenience of ECO3’s patented SPIR@L screening. Our innovative technology replaces traditional ink dots with efficient spiral shapes ensuring superior print quality, ecology, & consistent brand reproduction.

EcoTank Canada: Clean Windshields, Cleaner Planet
EcoTank Canada delivers a smart, eco-friendly solution for windshield washer fluid. With easy-to-install, autonomous dispensers, drivers eliminate plastic waste while businesses gain real-time data, branding opportunities, and sustainability tracking. It’s a clean refill experience that’s good for the road and even better for the planet.

The Power of GMG ColorCard
GMG ColorCard is a disruptive technology for brands—replacing slow, inconsistent drawdowns with fast, digital precision. Achieve brand color accuracy, faster approvals, less waste, and full traceability. Get it right the first time—every time.

Revolutionizing Creativity – Digital Print X AI
Join Guy Bibi and Sima Tolzis-Morad for an inspiring session where he will showcase the latest advancements revolutionizing creativity in the digital print industry. Dive deep into the transformative capabilities of HP SmartStream Designer, innovative integration and usage of artificial intelligence, and the dynamic potential of variable data printing to increase ROI, increase consumer engagement, add storytelling, and heighten brand awareness.

Collaborate with the BCTI – Opportunities & Success Stories for Industry Working with the BCTI
In this presentation, industry attendees will learn of 3 different ways that they can collaborate with the BCTI on projects; in order to strategically work together on projects that will address industry’s business challenges, while being able to: access funding through Humber and leverage the BCTI’s resources, services & equipment. Real examples of projects will be showcased during this presentation in order to demonstrate the BCTI’s capabilities and industry success stories through working with the BCTI.

A Circular Mono-Material Beverage Solution
In a market long dominated by two-material bottle-and-closure combinations, Husky is reshaping the landscape with its all-PET closure solution. This fully mono-material design integrates effortlessly into existing PET recycling streams, simplifying material sorting, lowering environmental impact, and driving new gains in recycling efficiency and lightweighting.

Discover Modern Flexo!
Transform your flexographic print operations to meet brand demands with improved on press efficiencies and enhanced sustainability. During this session, attendees will discover how FLEXCEL Solutions unlocks modern flexo with its unique FLEXCEL NX plate technology and see real-world customer case studies.