London’s Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel will be hosting guest speakers including Paperlinx chief executive Dave Allen and Eduard De Voogd, secretary general of Eugropa, the European paper merchants association, between 1 and 5pm.

This is to be followed by the black tie Annual Dinner from 6.30pm, with comedy anecdotes from former England cricketer Geoff Miller and Tullis Russell’s Chris Parr.

NAPM director Tim Bowler said: "The forum title is ‘What’s around the corner for the next five years’: it’s a topic that everyone in the sector should be focused on.

"The main thrust will be to discuss if the current rate of decline in fine and graphic paper consumption will start to level out. In the last four years to 2012 merchants have lost 26% of their volume. That will not be coming back but how much more will be lost?"

Day tickets are £92, and can be upgraded to include dinner for £102.

Visit www.napm.org.uk to book tickets.