EskoWorld 2017 user conference set for May

Esko has announcing the latest edition of EskoWorld user conference scheduled from May 9-11, 2017 at the Sheraton Charlotte/Le Meridien Charlotte complex located in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina.

EskoWorld 2017 user conference set for May

‘This 26th edition of EskoWorld has taken a very pronounced focus on user education and training,’ said Mark Quinlan, president of Esko Americas. ‘There will be more workstations than ever before, ready for more hands-on training and more opportunity for one-on-one interaction with experts.’

The three-day event will include more than 75 educational sessions, helping attendees to enhance their knowledge of Esko solutions they currently own—or expand their education on the industry’s latest trends. Interspersed will be sessions explaining specific product roadmaps, product training, and lectures on relevant topics—including two keynotes.

EskoWorld will focus on a number of tracks, allowing attendees with varied backgrounds and interests to attend sessions that most apply to them. They include:

• Brands, specification and briefing focuses on the holistic go-to-market process, including project and asset management and the packaging production workflow from idea to shelf, connecting stakeholders including brands, designers, premedia and converters.

• Design sessions will help attendees make packaging and display designs better and faster.

• The artwork and repro track covers ways to produce print-ready artwork efficiently and avoid rework.

• Flexo platemaking showcases how companies can take control of their flexo plate production.

• Printing presents ideas to help tackle the increased complexity of mixed printing environments (digital, flexo, gravure, offset) with extra attention to achieving color consistency and improving printing press uptime.

• Finishing shows how companies with digital finishing departments can get the absolute most out of their equipment, their workflows and their staff.

For the first time, there will be a one-day concurrent Executive Summit. While EskoWorld always focuses on sessions that benefit those who build workflows and operate Esko tools, the Executive Summit will focus on inspiring business owners and decision makers about solutions and opportunities to improve their businesses. The objective is for customers to develop deeper trust relationships with Esko, built on intensive interaction among decision makers on relevant business, technology and economics subjects.

In addition, EskoWorld will be the home, once again, for a Brand Owner track. Those responsible for brand packaging can understand how to efficiently manage packaging and packaging assets as part of the go-to-market process and work with partners throughout the complete packaging supply chain.

With the addition of the Executive Summit, it is appropriate that Dr. Alan Beaulieu, President ITR Economics, will offer the keynote, ‘A perspective on the US Economy.’ Beaulieu has been providing workshops and economic analysis seminars in countries across the world to thousands of business owners and executives for the past 25 years. He is considered one of the country’s most informed economists.

‘EskoWorld has become a very productive and meaningful event for our users. In fact, EskoWorld 2016 was the largest and best-attended edition ever. As we build a portfolio of solutions that support a wide variety of interests up and down the supply chain, it is even more imperative that users have significant knowledge of how to best use our products,’ Quinlan said. ‘We are particularly excited that the event this year will help users bring back tangible, useful ideas.’