Emanuele began his career as a commercial assistant and marketing manager for a large European paper and packaging producer. In 1999, he joined CEPIPRINT as Director of Market Research & Development in Zurich, before relocating to Brussels in 2002 to become Director General. In 2012, he was appointed Director General of EURO-GRAPH, the European Association of Graphic Paper Producers.

Since 2005, Emanuele has also served as Vice President, Europe, at the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC), where he heads the Brussels office and oversees services and market coverage for European-based members across graphic papers, consumer packaging, and pulp. He is a former Chairman of PRIMA, serving on its Board from 2005 to 2016. Emanuele holds a degree in Economics from the University of Turin in Italy.

Ford Bowers is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in North America. With decades of industry experience in flexo, screen, litho, and digital operations as a printer -- and in various leadership roles at Miller Zell, a preeminent wide-format retail services printer; Bowers was uniquely positioned to take on the role of CEO at the Alliance. Since becoming CEO of the Alliance in 2016, Bowers has led the transformation and unification of the industry through the integration of SGIA, Printing Industries of America (PIA), Idealliance, and NAPCO Media, creating a singular organization built to serve the full breadth of the print and packaging ecosystem.

Under his leadership, PRINTING United Alliance has expanded its role as a driving force for industry growth and innovation, delivering critical value through education and training (including iLEARNING+), G7+ certification, advocacy and government affairs, health and safety resources, and market research through Alliance Insights. The organization also connects the global print community through its leading media brands and flagship event, PRINTING United Expo, widely recognized as the most dynamic and comprehensive printing event in North America. Today, Bowers continues to champion the power of a unified industry, fostering collaboration, advancing technology adoption including AI, and ensuring that the Alliance remains at the forefront of supporting printers, suppliers, and the next generation of print professionals.

Mark brings extensive expertise in software marketing, business development, and workflow automation with almost 40 years in the printing industry. He spent the last five years leading global marketing initiatives at Xerox, as Global Head of Software Marketing, and played a key role in launching new software solutions, developing go-to-market strategies, and driving digital transformation across global markets.

As Principal Analyst, Mark focuses on analyzing market trends, evaluating emerging technologies, and providing strategic insights to help our clients optimize their production workflow processes and driving automation. He has discovered a passion for robotics and is investigating their emerging role on the print floor.

Håvard Grjotheim is an accomplished business leader currently serving as the Working Chairman of ScandBook Holding AB in Sweden. With a successful career spanning several major companies in Scandinavia, he brings a wealth of experience as a CEO.

He is the President of NOPA, the Nordic Printing Association. Håvard has also made notable contributions as the President of the Norwegian Printing Federation and former President of Intergraf.

Steffen Höntsch

Diplom-Kaufmann

6.5 years with VTT Verschleißteiltechnik GmbH

Previously: Managing Director of fehlhabermedien

Works as Commercial Manager – but also as Safety Officer, since VTT received the certification in 2024

Emil Knieszner graduated from the Budapest Technical University (BA), majoring in economics and economic informatics, in 2004. He joined the State Printing House (hereinafter: ANY Security Printing Company Plc.) starting a career as a production IT specialist, where he was involved in initiating and supervising production tasks.

Later, he started to work in the field of information security (GRC), leading this department as a manager from 2008 and as a director from 2014. During this period his expertise extended with all security related compliance activity including ISO 27001, Mastercard and Visa bankcard production and personalization licences (nowadays PCI CP) the NATO supplier licence, National Security Certifications and last but not least the CWA 14641 nowadays well known as ISO 14298 Intergraf Certification.

Until 2020 he led and drove the continuous maintenance and development of this integrated management system including but not limited to risk and business continuity management. Since 2021, he has been the operational director of the Security Printing Products Centre and also esteemed member of the Intergraf Certification Expert Working Group.

Laetitia Reynaud has 25 years of experience in EU policy affairs and is senior policy and economic advisor at Intergraf. Laetitia leads Intergraf’s advocacy on policy issues impacting the printing industry, with a focus on economic and sustainability matters. She is also responsible for the statistical analysis, including the production of the Intergraf Annual Economic Report.

A French national, she holds a university degree in economics from the Grenoble Alpes University as well as a master degree in European economics from the Free University of Brussels. Before joining Intergraf in 2012, she worked for 11 years in a similar role at the European federation of waste management (FEAD), where she was also responsible for policy matters.

Dr Roman Zenner has been involved in the e-commerce industry since 2001. Since then, he has witnessed every major paradigm shift first-hand: Mobile, Headless, MACH, Composable, and now Agentic Commerce. He spent five years as an industry analyst at commercetools, followed by six more at Shopify in the areas of education, partnerships and solution engineering. In parallel, he has been writing about e-commerce technologies on the ShopTechBlog since 2006, has published several specialist books with O’Reilly, and speaks at conferences, universities and on podcasts.

His current focus lies at the intersection of Agentic AI and e-commerce - specifically, on the question of what happens when autonomous agents take over product search, checkout and fulfilment. What role do protocols such as Google’s UCP play? How good does product data need to be for an agent to understand it at all? And what does this mean for retailers and platforms in Europe?

Through the recently founded Agentic Punks GmbH, he advises companies in a pragmatic and solution-oriented manner, with open source, the open internet and European data sovereignty forming part of the company’s DNA.