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The Sustainable Packaging Summit 2025 in Utrecht brought together the global packaging value chain for three days of intense discussions, practical insights, and new connections. The summit gathered more than 800 delegates, over 140 speakers, and close to 90 exhibitors to explore how regulation, innovation, and collaboration can accelerate the shift to a circular packaging economy.
ChemCon Europe 2025 took place in October in Venice. ChemCon is the leading global conference on chemical regulation, product stewardship, and sustainability. There were 60 speakers and delegates from more than 25 countries, covering key topics such as the EU’s regulatory roadmap (REACH revision), digital transformation, PFAS restrictions, risk assessment, and global regulatory frameworks across the world.
Some conferences bring people together. Others bring ideas to life. The SAP for EHS & Product Compliance Conference 2025 in Budapest did both - and it’s been an amazing time. We were there, experiencing firsthand how automation, SAP S/4HANA innovations, and smart compliance strategies are shaping the future.
As a trusted provider of SAP-based solutions for product compliance, we’re excited to connect face-to-face with our customers and forge new partnerships at the SAP for EHS and Product Compliance Conference in Budapest. This year, Mark Pfister will join Andreas Ehlers from Merck, Head of Digital Transformation and Hazard Communication, in taking center stage. They will present a case study titled "From Compliance to Confidence: Automate Your Product Notification Process", including information on how opesus solutions empower businesses to streamline compliance with confidence.
This year’s PSX 2024, hosted by the Product Stewardship Society, brought together professionals from across the world. It was our third consecutive year attending this conference, and we were thrilled to return and engage with the community once again. PSX is an excellent opportunity for attendees to exchange ideas, tackle common challenges, and stay up to date with the latest trends in regulatory compliance and product sustainability.
This year's SAP for EHS and Product Compliance Conference, presented by TAC Insights, brought together industry professionals in the area of environmental, health, safety, and product compliance. It's the first in-person conference since 2019. We were excited to be there, together with our esteemed reference customer, Belden. Together, we presented on "Connecting SAP Material Conformity to the World".
The next SAP EHS & Product Compliance conference will take place in-person and we're pumped! Taking place in Amsterdam, we're looking forward to two days of insights into the latest advancements in SAP EHS and Product Compliance solutions.
The PSX 2023 conference in Boston was a resounding success, bringing together professionals from various industries to delve into the world of product stewardship. The conference featured a plethora of engaging sessions and workshops, two of which were delivered by opesus' own John Falk.
ChemCon 2023 took place in Vienna from October 23 to 27. This conference brings together many experts from companies, authorities, and international organizations. The focus focus is the field of chemical legislation all over the world such as EU-REACH, UK-REACH, TSCA, K-REACH, GHS, upcoming PFAS regulations and many more.
We are excited to announce that we will be attending ChemCon Europe 2023 in Vienna, Austria, from 23rd to 27th October 2023. ChemCon is a global platform that brings together experts from companies, authorities, and international organizations to discuss the latest developments in international chemical legislation. We are proud to be a sponsor of this event and to share our insights and solutions with the chemical industry.
Chemical Watch Expo took place this year in Amsterdam on the 15th and 16th June. For two days, the event brings together the chemical regulatory community to get up to date with the latest global regulatory developments. Experts and service providers address key developments in chemicals management and regulations affecting the industry. The topics were divided into three streams: Europe, Global, and Asia.
ChemCon is an annual conference that brings together experts and professionals from a variety of industries to discuss the latest trends, regulations, and challenges facing the industry. This year's conference took place in San Francisco from March 13 - 17th. This time we were delighted to be official partners of ChemCon, debuting our new booth design and showcasing our Product Compliance Collaboration software.
"What do you do?" was probably the most heard question when we presented ourselves at the DHBW study information day on November,16th in Friedrichshafen. With a lot of nice chats with different people, we were able to spread "what opesus does" a little further into the world and to possible future opesians.
The annual DSAG conference took place from 11th to 13th October in Leipzig. The 3-day agenda was fully packed with keynotes, presentations, hands-on sessions from SAP, partners, industry, and DSAG. The DSAG work group EHS and Product Compliance also had a stream of three presentations, which was hosted by Markus Pogrzeba, co-chair of the working group.
The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is the appointed body for CLP Art. 45 in Germany. The institute receives product notifications and forwards them to the seven poison centres in Germany. The majority of product notifications are submitted centrally via the Submission Portal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which in turn forwards them to the BfR.
Finally, after being postponed due to the pandemic, ChemCon Europe 2022 took place! ChemCon Europe 2022 was held in London from June 20th to 24th. The first day was a workshop focused on IT tools followed by two seminars. Tuesday through Friday were filled with great presentations covering the field of chemical regulations - from the EU, the UK, Turkey, Asia, and the Americas.
On the 2nd and 3rd of May 2022, opesians Markus Pogrzeba and David Köhler led the ChemAcademy virtual workshop about CLP Art. 45 and beyond. On the second day, Sarah Hottenroth joined in as moderator and co-creator for the interactive World Cafe.
The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is the appointed body for receiving product notifications and forwarding them to the various poison centres in Germany. As the main responsible body, the BfR also checks product notifications for completeness and accuracy and work hand-in-hand with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
On November 8 and 9, 2021, SAP held a two-day conference the SAP Environmental, Health and Safety and Product Compliance Info Days. This conference, held annually, is targeted to customers using SAP sustainability solutions. As an SAP Partner, naturally we attended the virtual webinar to get to know the latest solution updates and planned developments in the area of SAP Product Compliance.
On the 25th and 26th of October 2021, we finally had the chance to be at an on-site conference again. After a year of virtual events, this was a much-welcomed change. The 13th annual conference on CLP Classification, Labelling, and Packaging organized by the Chem-Academy was a hybrid event. It gave the participants the flexibility to either be on-site in Bonn or participate virtually.