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

  • icons (1) Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2026
  • icons (3) Time: 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
  • icons (2) Location: Salt Lake City, UT

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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

Speakers

Kevin Zacharias
Packaging Expert

Kevin Zacharias

Kevin Fisher
Technical Manager

Kevin Fisher

Jeremy Elwell
Director, Packaging Engineering

Jeremy Elwell

Haley Schrauben
Director, Global Product Strategy

Haley Schrauben

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