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Some of Canada's Most Influential Retailers & Brand Owners
want to Fast Track Your Sustainable Innovation

Submit your entry now for a
Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to pitch your concept

• Private Meeting with some of Canada's most influential retailers & brand owners
• Present to Industry Expert Panellists for constructive feedback
• Present in a public forum up to 300 packaging community leaders

Innovator Deadline EXTENDED to February 5, 2010

Packaging Community: Attendee Registration NOW OPEN!

Reality comes to town... Are you a fan of the Dragon’s Den
 or the Shark Tank ? Then this is for you!

Sustainability entrepreneurs and inventors are all around us. And they want to sell their ideas to the marketplace but can’t get in the door.

Brand owners and retailers are bombarded with inquiries from inventors and wish to explore every new opportunity and retail ready packaging ideas but don’t have the time.

The PAC Green Den is the ultimate networking event that will enable you to Fast Track Your Sustainable Innovation and Retail Ready concepts.

The buyers are ready, willing and able. The challenge has been cast to the innovators.

Innovators... If you are selected by the committee of matchmakers this is what you get for your investment.

PAC Green Den
Hosted by
 Anthony M. Watanabe, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Innovolve 		Anthony Watanabe

Private Meetings:
Select the company you want to pitch your idea to and leave the matchmaking to us. Committee Members are:

  • Kraft – Jonathan Ingram, Director of Procurement and Sustainability

  • Loblaws – Walter Kraus, Senior Director, Environmental Affairs

  • Maple Leaf Foods - John Stipan, VP Purchasing, Direct

  • Molson Coors – Bruce Smith, Director of Packaging, Global

  • Sobeys – David Smith, VP of Retail Strategy & Sustainability

  • Tim Hortons - Greta Najcler, Manager of Environmental Affairs

  • Walmart – Leon Hall, Director of Sustainable Packaging

  • UPGC (Pizza Hut/KFC/Taco Bell) – Christine Moore, VP Supply Chain

Industry Expert Panellists Our expert panellists including our keynote speaker will provide constructive feedback.

  • TerraCycle – Tom Szaky, Founder & CEO

  • Waste Diversion Ontario – Glenda Gies, Executive Director

  • Le CIRAIG - LCA Institute - Daniel Normandin, Executive Director

Public Forum
 Up to 300 packaging industry professionals will cheer you on and rate your creation.

Innovators click here to register now
 There is no investment required until you have been selected. Deadline for Submissions is February 5, 2010. Finalists will be notified on February 12, 2009.

* Note: Committee Members will make the final selection of innovators participating in the PAC Green Den.

Open to the Packaging
Community:
 Attendee Registration NOW 0PEN!
 The panellists will offer constructive feed-back but an audience of packaging industry executives like YOU will select the People's Choice Best of Show.

Hear one of the greatest innovators of UPCYCLING packaging of our time tell his TerraCycle story.
PAC Green Den
Keynote Speaker
 Tom Szaky
Founder & CEO,

TerraCycle enables consumers to collect waste which it then upcycles into thousands of various consumer products that are sold at the world's biggest retailers from Wal-Mart to Whole Foods. TerraCycle has been named the producer of most eco-friendly products in America, has won over 100 environmental and social awards, received the Home Depot Environmental stewardship award twice, been featured in Wal-Mart's sustainability report and been repeatedly named the ultimate eco-friendly brand.
www.terracycle.net

For more information , contact Lindsey Ogle at logle@pac.ca or 416-490-7860 x222

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