Jury 2024
The jury evaluates packaging from the point of view of innovation, product protection, user requirements and environmental impact, as well as in terms of legislation and marketing.
Chair of the jury
Jana Žižková
packaging specialist
For Jana, the fascinating thing about packaging is that humanity can't do without it, even though it tries sometimes. Once she entered the world of packaging many years ago, she became engrossed in it and she doesn't want to or can't leave it... In other words: She believes in packaging; there is no world without packaging.
Jurors
Hanka has been working with packaging, or packaging waste, its sorting and recycling for almost thirty years, for the last 25 years she has been part of the team of EKO-KOM Authorized Packaging Company. She loves packaging that works well and if it can be sorted and recycled well, her garbage heart rejoices.
As a representative of the National Institute of Health on the jury, Jitka is interested in the main critical function of the packaging. That the packaging protects the product and thus the health of the population.
Jiří Hejduk
researcher, teacher with a focus on practical subjects
Jiří works at the University of Pardubice, Department of Polygraphy and Photophysics. He is a real expert in printing technologies.
David's area of expertise is transport packaging across the logistics chain, from Chicago to Tokyo. He enjoys devising ways to get completely unsuitable goods for transport, ultimately to their destination safely and securely.
Packaging is a great inspiration for Zuzana and she admires designers and manufacturers for their ability to combine functionality, design and innovation in a way that is in line with the sustainability trend.
It is interesting to see how over the years the function of packaging has shifted, or rather expanded, from a transport and protective to a marketing level, consumers buying with their eyes. I am fascinated by how product packaging and innovations in GS1 standards are enabling us to communicate much more than we could have imagined when connected to the digital world.
As director of the producer responsibility organisation for packaging NATURPACK, he is an environmentalist at heart, rejecting greenwashing practices. There is a dog in the life of the packaging after its useful life.
Václav is a director at Panflex and chairman of the Press Society. The most important thing about packaging for him is the harmony of functionality and design. Packaging is a daily challenge for him.
For Stanislav, the package is a detective story, and he still doesn't know how it will all turn out. He likes packaging because to him it is the dress of the product and the best thing about dresses is when they come off.
