
Darin Olien
Author, Fatal Conveniences
Co-host, Down to Earth with Zac Efron

Why this room
Packaging is no longer a sustainability line item. It sits on top of the materials, energy and water your business already depends on, and all four are changing at once. These are the questions leaders are carrying into 2027.
Are we changing fast enough to stay competitive?
How do we protect growth while the ground keeps moving?
Can the energy, water and infrastructure we depend on carry the next decade?
Is circularity a side initiative, or is it business infrastructure?
The systems
Four systems, one room, and the voices that rarely sit in it together: the scientists measuring what is happening, the regulators writing what comes next, and the operators who have to build it.
What our materials leave behind. End of life, soil, and where packaging actually goes.
Cleaner inputs, safer outcomes. Emissions, spoilage and contamination across the chain.
Purity that protects people and ecosystems. PFAS, microplastics and what reaches the body.
The law, the fees and the reporting behind all three. What it costs to move, and to wait.
The day
High level for now. Session titles and speakers firm up as the program locks.
A curated room
The room is built around people who can change a spec, a supply chain or a statute. The balance is deliberate, so no one spends the day being sold to.
The mix we build for, by seat.
Typical titles: Founder and CEO · Chief Sustainability Officer · VP Packaging · Head of ESG · Director of Procurement · General Counsel
The 2027 stage
Keynote and additional names announced this fall.

Author, Fatal Conveniences
Co-host, Down to Earth with Zac Efron

Environmental and reproductive epidemiologist
Author, Count Down

Co-Founder, A Plastic Planet
Designing plastic out
Partner, Cooley LLP
EPR policy
Special Counsel, Cooley LLP
Compliance
CEO, Kingdom of Joy
Water and infrastructure

Previously on this stage
From the 2026 program.

Author, entrepreneur and climate strategist

Director, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Author, Sicker, Fatter, Poorer

Executive Director, Shaw Institute
Former Director of Science, Plastic Oceans Intl
From the floor








Join us
Tuesday, February 9, 2027 · Hotel Valley Ho, Scottsdale