PackTalk Live: Austin, TX

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Experience this one-day educational seminar in Austin, TX. Hear from leading healthcare packaging experts on topics like material selection, package design, sealing optimization, and more.

Austin, TX Medical Packaging Company Event

Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

Location: Austin, TX
AGENDA
Topic
Description
Material Selection & Peelable Technologies
Material selection is crucial when designing for your sterile barrier system. Walk through material considerations based on your application, and learn tips for how coatings can assist your design.
Seal Optimization
Learn how to optimize temperature, pressure, and dwell time during process development in order to create visually consistent seals as well as repeatable and reproduceable seal strengths.
Pouch Design Elements
An overview of common pouch types and features to consider when designing.
Sustainability for Healthcare Packaging Professionals
The term "sustainability" is thrown around generously in our industry. In this session, we will discuss industry drivers for sustainability, "recyclable" vs "sustainable" packaging, and review healthcare packaging solutions that can make an impact on corporate sustainability targets and industry goals.
HDPE Cards: Case Studies and Best-In-Class Design Practices  
We’ll dive deep into a few specific device packages. We’ll show how errors were detected and how you can learn from others’ mistakes.
Break Out Session: HDPE Card and Packaging System Design Workshop
In this session, we'll review performance testing procedures and the hazards your package is subjected to when shipped to the end user. Then we'll share ways to optimize the sterile barrier system while still meeting tight timelines.
Avoiding Defects During Performance Testing and Sterilization
In this session, we'll review the impact of performance testing and sterilization to your packaging system, and will share risk mitigation tactics for avoiding breaches in your sterile barrier
Case Studies in Root Cause Analysis
Test your knowledge as we review packaging scenarios from the field. We will review a variety of real life case studies and determine optimal solutions live with the audience.
Open Q&A with Oliver Healthcare Packaging 
Join us for an open forum to ask our experts everything you want to know.
Happy Hour
Networking

Meet Your Speakers

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Kevin Zacharias

Technical Director
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Jeremy Elwell

Technical Services Manager
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Kevin Fisher

Technical Manager
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Haley Schrauben

Group Product Manager
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Christian Packard

Design Coordinator

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