Industry Experts Invited to Share Their Insights at TAPPICon 2025
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TAPPI is excited to announce the upcoming TAPPICon 2025, May 4-7, 2025 in Minneapolis, MN. With the theme Collaborate, Educate, Elevate: A Confluence of Ideas & Solutions, this year's event will be the ultimate platform for professionals across the global forest products industry to exchange ideas, gain knowledge, and contribute to the future of the industry.
We invite you to become a key part of this gathering by presenting your innovations, research, and insights to a global audience of industry leaders and peers. Whether you're topic is cutting-edge technologies, sustainability practices, or operational excellence, TAPPICon is the ideal stage to showcase your contributions.
New Program Format
TAPPICon 2025 offers a new program format designed to address current trends, challenges, and innovations, delivering a comprehensive view of the industry's evolving landscape.
The 2025 program will feature six core areas of focus:
- Equipment, Processes & Operations: Exploring advanced solutions aimed at optimizing processes and equipment to enhance production efficiency, product quality, and operational reliability.
- Emerging Technologies & Methodologies: Showcasing the latest technological advancements transforming the pulp and paper industry, including new and online tools and methods for assessing and enhancing production processes.
- Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability & Environmental Impact: Addressing how corporate citizenship integrates with sustainable practices and strategies aimed at reducing the environmental footprint and promoting a circular economy.
- Innovative Technology for Products & Processes: Focusing on methods and innovations to improve quality of product properties, and overall production reliability.
- Pulp & Fiber Innovations, Alternative Materials and Applications: Highlighting advancements on using high aspect ratio fibers and sustainable fibers to reduce environmental impact and improve sustainability in pulp and fiber materials.
- Talent Development, Safety & Best Practices: Focusing on career development, industry trends, and best practices aimed at attracting, training and retaining talent.
Learn more about each topic area.
In addition to paper, tissue and sustainability, programming areas has expanded to include other segments within the forest products industry such as pulping, engineering, nanotechnology, and bio-based materials, ensuring even broader and deeper coverage of key industry areas.
Why Present?
Whether you are working on groundbreaking research, developing new technologies, or implementing best practices in the field, TAPPICon is the perfect platform for you. As a speaker, you will:
- Showcase your expertise: Present your latest research, case studies, or technology advancements to a global audience of industry professionals.
- Engage with peers: Join discussions with fellow experts and gain insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping the industry.
- Expand your network: Connect with decision-makers, innovators, and influencers from across the industry.
- Enhance your professional profile: As a speaker, your contributions will be highlighted, positioning you as a thought leader.
Abstract Submittal
The Call for Papers is now open, and we invite you to submit an abstract by December 1, 2024 through TAPPI’s Speaker Management System. Abstracts should align with one or more of the six core topic areas. Selected presentations will be featured in sessions that encourage in-depth discussions and collaborative learning.
For more information, visit TAPPICon.org or contact Tyler Mast, TAPPI Division Manager.