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The team behind OPS
The ONLINE PRINT SUMMIT is organised jointly by VDM Beratung and zipcon consulting. Without the team behind it, OPS would not be what it is today: the largest and only event for the international online print industry.
About the ONLINE PRINT SUMMIT
From the industry,
for the industry
Together with the Bundesverband Druck und Medien and Fogra, Bernd Zipper, CEO of zipcon consulting, launched the Online Print Symposium in 2013. It was designed as an event devoted entirely to online print, from the business model through to the technical implementation. That closeness to research shaped the character of OPS from the very first edition: grounded in expertise rather than in promotion. Nothing about that has changed since.
Everything else has grown: from the Hilton Munich Airport by way of the Science Congress Center in Garching to the Alte Kongresshalle, and from a German-speaking industry gathering to an internationally recognised platform that draws speakers and attendees from all over the world. In 2026 the symposium became the ONLINE PRINT SUMMIT (OPS).
The organisers are zipcon consulting GmbH from Essen and Verband Druck und Medien Beratung GmbH near Munich. One of them comes from strategy consulting, the other is rooted in association work. Bernd Zipper and Jens Meyer are jointly responsible for the concept, the organisation and the direction of the event, and almost every decision is taken by the two of them together.
Since 2026 an advisory board with industry representatives from several markets has also been advising the people behind OPS. It meets several times in the run-up, contributes topics and reviews the programme critically. Not as a figurehead, but so that what makes it onto the stage is what genuinely moves the industry forward.
Organisers
Who runs OPS?
Bernd Zipper and Jens Meyer do more than host the ONLINE PRINT SUMMIT. They are the faces of the event and shape OPS from the first minute of planning through to the follow-up. They design the programme, organise the team, the technical setup and the catering, and talk to speakers and partners. At the same time, they curate the sessions and take attendees on a journey into the future of online print every year.
Both companies are organisers on an equal footing. Responsibilities are clearly divided so that each brings its own strengths to the event. Contracts and invoices run through whichever company is responsible.
Verband Druck und Medien Beratung GmbH
The consultancy of the German print and media associations, based in Aschheim near Munich and formed by the merger of the regional association consultancies. It advises print and media companies at several locations on business management, production and sustainability, neutrally and independently.
Einsteinring 1a85609 Aschheim near Munich
Germany
+49 89 33 03 62 40
zipcon consulting GmbH
A consultancy for the communication, print and media industry, based in Essen. zipcon has many years of expertise in strategic analysis and in developing digital business models for print, and publishes the industry magazine beyond-print.de.
Am Buchenhain 445239 Essen
Germany
+49 201 81175-0
Jens Meyer
Managing Director, Verband Druck und Medien Beratung GmbH
Jens Meyer is the managing director of VDM Beratung GmbH and has been closely involved with the economic and strategic issues facing the printing industry for many years. He focuses on strategy, profitability, controlling, and change processes. At OPS, he contributes his perspective on business models, the market, and business implementation.
Bernd Zipper
Founder and CEO, zipcon consulting
He used to be a PDF expert. Today Bernd Zipper is known above all as a strategist and forward thinker on the digital transformation of print businesses, mass customization and agentic print. He co-founded OPS in 2013, and his keynote on developments in online print is a fixture in the programme.
Your contacts
The OPS team
Partners, press, attendance, communication and design. There is someone to talk to for every topic.
Contact
Your direct line to us
- contact@online-print-summit.com
- Postal address
- ONLINE PRINT SUMMIT
c/o zipcon consulting GmbH
Am Buchenhain 4
45239 Essen, Germany - Event
- 13 and 14 April 2027
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