We're heading to GS1 Connect 2026 — and we're bringing a working demo of what every regulated product will look like in 2026 and beyond.

ForgeStop and Maxim Label and Packaging are co-exhibiting at booth #601, in the AI Portrait Parlor Activation Area at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, June 9 to 11.

GS1 Connect is the industry's flagship gathering for product identity, traceability, and the standards that hold global supply chains together. It's the right room — and the right week — to show what's possible when a single smart chip carries every digital payload a regulated brand needs.

One tap to unlock it all. See it live.

We'll have working demos you can hold, tap, and scan:

• A pharmaceutical pack that authenticates with a phone tap and delivers EMA-compliant electronic product information (ePI) in the patient's language
• A consumer product that loads brand content, onboarding, and engagement experiences from the same chip
• The same chip read at warehouse range — track-and-trace, item-level inventory, and supply-chain telemetry, all on one piece of silicon
• Dual-frequency NFC + RAIN RFID demos showing how the warehouse and the consumer are now the same data point

Bring a phone. Bring a question.

The bigger picture

For years, brands have bought four different solutions to put four different things on the same square inch of label — anti-counterfeit verification, electronic product information, brand engagement, and supply-chain telemetry. Four vendors, four URLs, four trust chains, four contracts.

In 2026, that's collapsing into one connected-product layer. The connected-product layer is the architecture — chip, resolver, content delivery — that makes a single tap deliver every digital experience a regulated brand needs.

And on dual-frequency silicon, the same chip serves the warehouse at distance and the patient at one centimeter. Our recent piece on the new era of RFID in healthcare walks through why item-level RFID is hitting an inflection point right now — and why the chip on the pack is the same chip the warehouse reads.

Who should stop by

If any of these are on your 2026–2027 roadmap, the booth is the right place to have that conversation:

• Item-level traceability and serialization
• Electronic Product Information (ePI) — voluntary go-live Q4 2026 for oncology under EMA, mandatory once the revised EU pharmaceutical legislation enters into application
• Anti-counterfeit programs for pharma, consumer goods, or high-value brands
• GS1 Digital Link rollouts and Sunrise 2027 readiness
• Multi-vendor consolidation onto a single smart-label infrastructure

Find us

Booth #601 · AI Portrait Parlor Activation Area · The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas · June 9–11, 2026.

If you'd like to book a slot in advance — or if you're not making it to Las Vegas and want a remote walkthrough of the demo — drop us a note.

See you on the floor.