Werner M. Dornscheidt has left his mark on Messe Düsseldorf: its corporate strategy, its international outlook, its state-of-the-art premises, its digital transformation and its financial stability. After almost 17 years as a President & CEO – and serving the company for about 37 years – Werner M. Dornscheidt will now resign from his office on 30 June 2020. “Trade fairs are my life,” says the outgoing CEO. “What we have built up together with my team over all those years benefits the company today. While conditions are difficult at present, it is comforting to know that ‘my’ company is in good hands. The team is already busy working on a re-start and developing further digital add-ons so that Messe Düsseldorf will also remain the successful, reputable company in future that it is today. I have made my contribution.”

PRINTING United, originally scheduled to take place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on October 21-23, 2020, will now move to a powerful online experience this fall due to constraints surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The health and safety of all attending and involved with the show remains paramount. The decision to terminate the in-person expo comes after extensive conversations, up-to-the-minute surveys, and projections that the team has been navigating since the onset of the pandemic. Details regarding the new online event experience are forthcoming.

Wide-format imaging leader Roland DGA Corporation will be conducting a series of informative, interactive ‘Business Builder” events – online virtual conferences and in-person, limited attendance appointments – through the remainder of 2020. Designed to help print professionals build their respective businesses with existing or new applications and technology, each Online Conference and Demo Days Roadshow event will provide valuable ideas and insights for maximizing business growth, productivity, and profitability. Additionally, with most physical tradeshows cancelled for the foreseeable future, these special events will offer convenient and safe ways for attendees to see Roland DGA’s latest devices in action and have their questions answered by Roland DGA experts.

Digital Signage Expo (DSE) announced today that registration for its 2020 exhibit hall is now open. The DSE exhibit hall will be open on Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Exhibit hall passes are free to qualified attendees.

The industry’s first virtual expo, the Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show, has smashed expectations with more than 5,000 visits clocked since its launch just two weeks ago.

thINK, an independent community of Canon Solutions America inkjet customers, today announced a game-changing move for their annual event, thINK Ahead. thINK Ahead is one of the largest inkjet user events in the country and has been widely attended and well-reviewed every year since its inception five years ago.

More than 560 subscribers, a third of them international. The Roto4All webinar, the first streaming event entirely dedicated to rotogravure, closes with very positive numbers. An event created by the Italian Rotogravure Group by Acimga, the confindustrial association that represents all printing technologies (roto, flexo, off-set and digital) and converting on all materials (paper, polycoupled and plastic) for applications on flexible, labels, corrugated cardboard, cardboard, tissue and aluminum. The Italian Rotogravure Group is the first group of a series of additional ones that Acimga is preparing on the different technologies and applications of the printing and packaging industry.

The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) today announces a new webinar series designed to address critical issues facing the printing industry today, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The free “COVID-19: Ask the Experts” webinar series, powered by PRINTING United, will be offered semimonthly and feature key updates on a variety of topics to help businesses overcome operational challenges.

Following extensive consultation with the industry AIPIA, the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association has decided that the 2020 World Congress will be run as a Virtual event, returning as a physical Congress in 2021. The date for AIPIA VC is September 10, 2020.

A business world almost came to a halt, but the right moment has come for executives to shift their focus onto new possibilities and the future. We have a great pleasure to invite you to a series of events within the Printbox Online Academy. In one thematic group, which is the Personalized Photo Products Business, we are running three unique events, each dedicated to a different market segment.

There has been a re-brand and re-naming of GlobalPrintExpo.online to Printingexpo.online.

Resolve Business Management has today announced the launch of Global PrintExpo - the world’s first Virtual Exhibition and conference facility for the printing industry. In developing this creative and innovative concept, Show Directors Wayne Beckett and Chris Watson of RBM have utilised their long standing technical experience managing cloud based products as well as expertise in running large-scale printing industry exhibitions.  The show will open in June 2020.

Ilford and Tecco invite to the premiere of their event series at the tourism fair Fotohaven (Hamburg, February 5th-09th) at their booth in hall B2.EG/225.

Imaginators are excited to launch PrintHub. A dedicated large format print service for the event, music and entertainment industry.

Philip Milburn owns the Minuteman Press design, marketing, and printing franchise located at 65 Ber Street in Norwich. On the 10th of December 2018, Philip and his team hosted their first Blogging Night where clients and members of the community came together to network and share ideas.

The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) has purchased the printing trade show Graphics of the Americas (GOA) from the Florida Graphics Alliance (FGA) (formerly the Printing Association of Florida). Following a transition period, GOA will relaunch in February 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. SGIA acquired the show in August 2018.

Color-Logic and their technology partners have announced their Autumn show schedule. "This Autumn, Color-Logic will demonstrate with technology partners at ten different events around the world," stated Mark Geeves, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing. "Color-Logic partners will show our samples for applications including direct mail, labels, cartons, signage, point-of-purchase, magazine covers, tags, and business cards to mention only a few."

Brands and suppliers in the packaging, sign and display supply chains face many challenges in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive marketplace. Esko can help: During this series of five seminars attendees will receive a wealth of new ideas and approaches for the future of their businesses.