Shifting landscape and global competitiveness

RISI International
Containerboard Conference

Networking At-A-Glance

November 12: Welcome Reception -
Denver Room, 5th Floor
November 13: 2 Coffee Breaks -
5th Floor Foyer
Networking Lunch -
Indiana Room, 6th Floor
Cocktail Reception
November 14: 2 Coffee Breaks -
5th Floor Foyer
Networking Lunch -
Chicago Ballroom A, 5th Floor

Preliminary Program




WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
6:00 – 7:30 PM   Pre-registration (5th Floor Foyer)
Welcome Reception
(Denver Room, 5th Floor)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
7:30 – 8:30 AM   Registration and Continental Breakfast
Session I: Supply/Demand Outlook and Consolidation
(Chicago Ballroom, 5th Floor)
8:30 – 8:35 AM   Welcoming Remarks
8:35 – 9:10 AM   Keynote Speech: The Changing World Containerboard Market
Carol Roberts, Senior Vice President, Industrial Packaging, International Paper
9:10 – 9:15 AM   Keynote Questions & Discussion
9:15 – 9:45 AM   Global Containerboard Supply/Demand Forecast
Ken Waghorne, Vice President, North American Packaging, RISI
9:45 – 10:10 AM   How Investors Look at Containerboard Companies
Mark Weintraub, Senior Vice President, Buckingham Research
10:10 – 10:20 AM   Questions & Discussion
10:20 – 10:45 AM   Coffee Break (5th Floor Foyer)
Session II: Shifting Global Cost Competitiveness
10:45 – 11:10 AM   Impact of the Weak US Dollar on Global Cost Competitiveness
Mike Jones, Senior Product Manager, Cost Benchmarking, RISI
11:10 – 11:35 AM   Europe: Challenges and Opportunities
John Williams, President, SCA Packaging Europe and Current President of FEFCO (European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers)
11:35 AM – 12:00 PM   Latin America – New Era of Sustained Growth
Speaker to be announced
12:00 – 12:10 PM   Questions & Discussion
12:10 – 1:45 PM   General Session Lunch (Indiana Room, 6th Floor)

12:10 – 1:45 PM   Mill Intelligence Luncheon - Analyzing Cost Sensitivity in Containerboard Markets
Surya Raina, VP of Mill Intelligence, RISI Michael Jones, Senior Product Manager, RISI

Session III: Global Containerboard Markets
1:45 – 2:20 PM   Is China’s Containerboard Capacity Growth Slowing and Implications for Global OCC Demand?
Rod Young, Chairman, RISI
2:20 – 2:50 PM   Sustainability—Turning Green into Gold
Speaker to be announced
2:50 – 3:00 PM   Questions & Discussion
3:00 – 3:30 PM   Coffee Break (5th Floor Foyer)
Session IV: Competitive Strategies
3:30 – 4:00 PM   Lightweight Containerboards: Fiction or Reality?
Simon Southern, Managing Director, Packaging Research Intelligence Strategies & Marketing (PRISM)
4:00 – 5:00 PM   Panel Discussion
Moderator: Emil Bruusgaard, Consultant, Paccess
Glenn Landau, Vice President and General Manager—Containerboard Business, International Paper
Michael Harwood, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Pratt Industries (USA)
William J. Sweeney, Executive Vice President, Packaging Corp. of America
Bob Kinstrey, Director of Process Engineering, Jacobs Engineering
5:30 – 5:40 PM   Questions & Discussion
6:00 – 8:00 PM   Cocktail Reception
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
7:30 – 8:30 AM   Registration and Continental Breakfast
Session V: Strategies to Improve Profitability
(Chicago Ballroom, 5th Floor)
8:35 – 9:05 AM   Keys to Achieving and Sustaining Profitability
Paul Stecko, CEO, Packaging Corp. of America (PCA)
9:05 – 9:35 AM   Strategic Initiative – What North America's Most Ambitious Box System Restructuring Program has Achieved
Steve Klinger, President/COO, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.
9:35 – 9:45 AM   Questions & Discussion
9:45 – 10:15 AM   Coffee Break (5th Floor Foyer)
10:15 – 11:30 AM   Panel Discussion: What Box Customers Really Want
Moderator: Dwight Schmidt, President, Fibre Box Association
Matt Unger, Purchasing Group Manager, Procter & Gamble
Roger Landrum, Purchasing Director, Conagra Foods
Russ Swansen, Director Paper Purchasing, Sara Lee
Additional panelists to be announced
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM   General Session Lunch
(Chicago Ballroom A, 5th Floor)
Session VI: Boxboard Dynamics in a Changing Global Marketplace
Moderator: TBA
1:15 – 1:40 PM   Boxboard Forecast and Market Review
Ken Waghorne, Vice President, North American Packaging, RISI
1:40 – 2:05 PM   Changing Demands in Retail Landscape
Speaker to be announced
2:05 – 2:30 PM   Flexible/Liquid Packaging
Speaker to be announced
2:30 – 2:40 PM   Questions & Discussion
2:40 – 3:00 PM   Coffee Break (5th Floor Foyer)
3:00 – 4:15 PM   Boxboard CEO/Executive Panel Discussion
Moderator to be announced
Panelists to be announced
Close of Conference

* All titles reflect possible topics and will depend on speaker availability and topics they choose. Order of talks also subject to change.