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Upcoming Meeting Information

October 22-24, 2025

Boston Beer Company
Allentown, PA

Wednesday, October 22

4:45 pm
4:45 pm
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Steering Committee Meeting

Only Steering Committee members need to attend.

5:45 pm
5:45 pm
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Early Arrivals Activity: TBD

Thursday, October 23

7:15 am
7:15 am
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Walk to Boston Beer facility
7:30 am
7:30 am
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8:30 am
Check-in and Breakfast
8:30 am
8:30 am
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Morning Sessions
  • Welcome
  • PMC Chairman Update - Ron Yakubison
  • Member Roundtable
    • What is your company's current status?
    • What are you currently addressing?
    • How does the next 6 months look?
11:00 am
11:00 am
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Packaging Professionals - Attracting and Retaining

Speaker: Christian Ellis, Managing partner

The standing of Packaging professionals is critical to all packaging teams. The PackStaff team returns to the PMC to share their insights on job/career outlook, recruiting best practices, perks and candidate expectations for all PMC members to ponder.

11:30 am
11:30 am
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Member Led Discussion
12:00 pm
12:00 pm
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Lunch
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
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Boston Facility Tour and Discussion

Matt Krill and his team are planning a strong tour including processing, QA, packaging and logistics. We will provide further details on required shoes and jewelry restrictions closer to the meeting.

2:30 pm
2:30 pm
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Break
3:45 pm
3:45 pm
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Afternoon Sessions
  • Packaging Professional Market - Salary Survey (Pack Staff invited)
  • Matt Krill Presentation
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
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Walk back to hotel
5:30 pm
5:30 pm
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Group Networking Reception & Dinner

Location: TBD

Friday, October 24

7:30 am
7:30 am
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8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am
8:30 am
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Rutgers Packaging Program Advances

Speaker: Christopher Miller, Professor (invited)

  • This is the second opportunity to learn about the Rutgers program.  Presentation will include undergraduate students and program; co-op; industry projects; and AI in the classroom.
10:00 am
10:00 am
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EPR Legislation Update

Speaker: Ameripen staff

The Ameripen team continues their updates to the PMC members.  Their insights on regulations in effect plus pending legislation is a strong takeaway from the meeting.

  • PMMI takeaways

11:45 am
11:45 am
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Meeting adjourns

Questions?

Please contact Tom Egan, Vice President, Industry Services at tegan@pmmi.org.