SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PACKAGING - Women in Academia & Industry Together

9 November 2022 13:00-16:00Ingvar Kamprad Designcentrum (IKDC)

Women have a significant creative capacity for innovation, yet often face challenges when trying to transform new ideas into business opportunities. Come to our next Fempack gathering to find new paths for co-creation between academia and the industry. Let´s accelerate the development of sustainable, female-driven packaging innovations in our society!

The event is hosted by the Department of Design Sciences, Division of Packaging Logistics. Meet professional and inspiring female speakers from academia and the industry, each bringing their unique perspective.

Dear ladies, join us on November 9 to meet Fempack, start networking and contribute to the sustainable future of the packaging industry!

Moderator

Consuelo Giordani
Managing Director @ Ecol Studio Consulting

Una Tellhed
Senior lecturer, Department of Psychology @ Lund University

Why do so few girls choose a career path in tech?

20m

Una will present results from a study that tested psychological explanations of gender differences in educational choice. Data was collected from 2500 randomly selected Swedish school pupils and for this lecture she will focus on the results concerning the scarcity of girls in tech-heavy educations, like engineering. The study found that the main explanation of this gender segregation lies in young women doubting their competence for this domain. Also contributing to the explanation was women’s lower expectations of fitting in socially in tech career paths.

Una Tellhed

Una Tellhed is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Lund University in Sweden. Her dissertation from 2008 regarded gender-related stereotype threat. She is currently the leader of a research group in Lund who specializes in testing social psychological explanations of the horizontal gender segregation in the labor market, which includes the gender-skewed STEM-sector. As a side project she is also involved in research which tests psychological and physiological health effects of yoga.

Knowledge sharing between students and companies

20m

Sustainalink connects students and companies in sustainability projects. In this presentation, you will get insight and inspiration from some of the many projects Sustainalink facilitate each year.

Helena Ensegård

Helena is a MSc in Environmental Science working to help Scanian businesses in their green transition with help of university students.

Generating business value from long-term partnership Industry and Academia: Focus on paper physics

We will share how a close collaboration between Tetra Pak and Lund University has proven to show tangible business benefits, both long and short-term. The example is about modelling of paper board physical behavior and how we have built this competence over 20 years together to become one of the global leaders in this field.

Camilla Hägglund

With a passion for collaboration in the eco-system of business partners, developing people and change management, Camilla has an extensive experience as a leader in packaging industry. With her MSc in Chemical Engineering, Exec MBA and being a certified project manager, her focus areas are leadership, Product and Technology development as well as project management. Camilla is a member of the board for Packbridge and also active in an advisory board for food tech start up’s.

Sara will be presenting together with Camilla Hägglund

Sara Johansson

Sara has a MSc in Physics and a PhD in Engineering. She works with experimental mechanics as a postdoc researcher at Lund University. Sara has a great curiosity and interest for understanding physical phenomena within materials. This includes understanding the microscale deformation mechanisms governing the mechanical behaviour of paperboard in packages.

Gender equality and AI

1h 0m

Natasha Wrang

Jämställd Utveckling Skåne is an NGO working to raise awareness, produce knowledge, and further gender equality and social and economic growth in Skåne. Natasha is working with applying gender equality aspects on digitalization and AI in the initiative DigIT Hub AI.

Today´s challenges for a packaging company

20m

How is the women representation in a packaging company like Micvac? As more attention from the consumers has been put on the sustainability aspect of the packaging, Uli will reflect on the current challenges that a packaging company is facing nowadays. How is Micvac currently shaping their portfolio for the future? How does the female representation look like behind this work?

Uli N. Hosse Pastor

Uli Hosse is the Product Manager at Micvac, currently looking into their product portfolio planning and development. She holds a master's degree in Food Innovation and Product Design, and a bachelor's degree in production engineering. She currently works with the Marketing, Technology, and Sales teams within Micvac in topics as product improvement, claims and evidence, and the planning on the way forward with the product's roadmap. She is also a founder member at the first Foodbank in Bolivia, where she's originally from.

STEPS – A research program seeking Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways

20m

STEPS is a multi-stakeholder, cross-disciplinary research program that is looking for sustainable solutions throughout the value chain from renewable feedstock, conversion and design to post-consumer plastic waste handling. STEPS concept is to design sustainable plastics with desired material properties and life-cycle by matching suitable carbon-neutral building blocks.

Josefin Ahlqvist

During the last decades Josefin Ahlqvist has been working in cross-disciplinary research programs and projects at Lund university in close collaboration with industry to seek new solutions and opportunities to introduce sustainable and biobased solutions to society.

Preliminary Agenda

12:30

Registration

30m

13:00

Welcome

Pernilla Derwik @ Lund University & Fempack steering group

10m