PackTalk Live: Salt Lake City, UT

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

Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Time: 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
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

Packaging Expert

Kevin Zacharias

Technical Manager

Kevin Fisher

Director, Packaging Engineering

Jeremy Elwell

Director, Global Product Strategy

Haley Schrauben

What I Didn’t Expect Before Surgery: A Teen Athlete’s Perspective

Vincent Hecker

3 minute read

Investigating Seal Creep: Testing for Medical Packaging

Education

Investigating Seal Creep: Looking Beyond the Packaging

Lee Hyland

2 minute read

Regulations and Standards

Preventing Packaging Failures with HDPE Cards

Christian Packard

1 minute read

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