Katarina teaches product development and teaches almost finished civil engineers to develop the plastic products of the future together with brand owners and industry. Wise material choices and smart functionalities create products that fit well in the circular society. Her experience in the field of packaging also covers production processes.

He is involved in developing the criteria for the Nordic Swan Ecolabel. On a day-to-day basis, he is the head of Danish Grakom’s CSR and environment department. With 30 years of experience, he advises the packaging industry on sustainability, life cycle analysis and resource utilisation and often participates in the public debate with articles on these topics.

I work with packaging issues as a marketing and strategy consultant. With a background in the packaging and food industry, I have gained experience of the entire value chain, in Sweden and internationally. I have worked with all packaging materials and the major product categories.

Ulla Risager primarily teaches the BA program in Graphic Design. One of her key research areas is packaging design, where she both teaches and runs research projects. She has a professional background as a graphic designer, art director and photographer.

The jury is chaired by Bo Wallteg, editor-in-chief of Packnews magazine and Packnews.com. He is the founder of Europe’s largest packaging network, Packbridge, and the founder of the Nordic Bioplastics Association. For a period he was also chairman of the global packaging journalists’ organisation IPPO, the International Packaging Press Organisation. For over thirty years, he has been covering developments in the packaging industry.