PackTalk Live: Minneapolis, MN

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

PackTalk Live Event

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026

Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

Location: Minneapolis, MN
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 tips for how sealants and coatings can assist your design.
Seal Optimization
Learn how to optimize temperature, pressure, and dwell during process development in order to create visually consistent seals as well as repeatable and reproducible seal strengths.
Pouch Laminate Workshop
A hands-on exercise in developing your own pouching laminate structure to meet the needs of given applications.
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.
Playing Your Cards Right: 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.
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.
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

Director Global Product Strategy

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