Resourceful Conference
Held in association with LCRN and the Circular Economy Club, this conference focuses on all aspects of resource flows, sharing and reuse, including the key participants in the circular economy sector and the development of the necessary resource efficiency infrastructure to expand the volumes and take-up by society. This conference is designed to be of real value to resource and sustainability managers within industry, commerce, the public sector and the community.
The programme for the 2019 event is currently under development. The outline involves:
Chair: Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP
10.30 Keynote: Sandy Martin, Shadow MInister for Waste & Recycling, to confirm
10.45 Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP in discussion with Sandy Martin, Shadow MInister for Waste & Recycling and Q&A
11.15 BREAK
11.30 Keynote: State of the UK Circular Economy Nation – Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP.
11.45 Keynote: Circular Economy Club – Dr David Greenfield, London Organiser, Circular Economy Club.
12.00 Panel
Chair: Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP
Dr David Greenfield, London Organiser, Circular Economy Club
David Warren, Head of Circular Economy Economic Policy, Welsh Government
Prof Edward Kosior, CEO, Nextek Ltd
13.00 LUNCH & EXHIBITION
Chair:
14.00 Dr Fiona Charnley, Senior Lecturer in circular innovation at the Cranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design
14.15 The Clean Conscience Story – Gwen Powell, CEO Clean Conscience
14.30 The Watson & Wolfe Story – Helen Farr-Leander, CEO, Watson & Wolfe
14.45 The Furniture Recycling Group Story – Nick Oettinger, Managing Director, TFR Group
15.00 Panel Q&A:
Dr Fiona Charnley, Senior Lecturer in circular innovation at the Cranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design
Gwen Powell, CEO Clean Conscience
Helen Farr-Leander, CEO, Watson & Wolfe
Nick Oettinger, Managing Director, TFR Group
15.30 BREAK
15.45
Keynote:
16.00 Company presentations
Panel:
Jamie Butterworth, Partner, Circularity Capital (Chair)
Mervyn Jones, Sustainable Global Resources
Jim Harvey, Circular Economy Lead, Opportunity Peterborough
Emma Burlow, Head of Circular Economy, Resource Futures
17.00 Close
The programme for 2018 was:
Chair: Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP
10.30am Keynote: State of the UK Circular Economy Nation – Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP. Presentation is HERE
10.45am Keynote: BS8001 – David Fatscher, Head of Market Development, BSI. Presentation is HERE
11.00am Keynote: Circular Economy Club – David Greenfield, London Organiser, Circular Economy Club. Presentation is HERE
11.15am BREAK
11.30am Panel:
Chair: Julie Hill, Chair, WRAP
David Fatscher, Head of Market Development, BSI
David Greenfield, London Organiser, Circular Economy Club
Nick Cliffe, Innovation Lead, Innovate UK
11.50am Changing the Design/ Business Model to effect Circularity
Case studies:
Wienerberger UK – Stephanie Palmer, Sustainability Manager. Presentation is HERE
Blume Labs – Gerry Conlon, CEO. Presentation is HERE
Jointechnix – Cedric Vanhoeck, Founder. Presentation is HERE
Panel:
Jamie Butterworth, Partner, Circularity Capital (Chair)
Peter Calliafas, Adviser, Accelerating Growth Fund (WRAP)
Rob Maslin, Director, We All Design
Katie Thomas, Circular Economy Project Officer, Opportunity Peterborough
Natalia Agathou, Business Advice Manager, Advance London
12.45pm LUNCH & EXHIBITION
Chair: Ken Webster, Head of Innovation, Ellen Macarthur Foundation
2.15pm Changing the Product Flows/ Remanufacturing to effect Circularity
Company Shop – Elin de Zoete, External Relations. Presentation is HERE
Circular Computing – Steve Haskew, Commercial Manager. Presentation is HERE
MDF Recovery – Rob Elias, Director of the BioComposites Centre at Bangor University. Presentation is HERE
Fiberight – Dhivya Puri, Senior Technical Lead, R&D. Presentation is HERE
ReusefulUK – Nikki DiGiovanni, CEO. Presentation is HERE
Rype Office – Greg Lavery, Managing Director. Presentation is HERE
Act & Sorb – Kenny Vanreppelen, Managing Director. Presentation is HERE
RAISE Global Services – Tom VanZeeland, President & CTO. His presentation is HERE and HERE
Panel:
Jamie Butterworth, Partner, Circularity Capital (Chair)
Peter Calliafas, Adviser, Accelerating Growth Fund (WRAP) and
Rob Maslin, Director, We All Design
Katie Thomas, Circular Economy Project Officer, Opportunity Peterborough
Natalia Agathou, Business Advice Manager, Advance London
3.30pm BREAK
3.45pm Getting the Circular Economy to happen
Keynote: The new solutions that exist and those that need to be found – Ken Webster, Head of Innovation, Ellen Macarthur Foundation. Presentation is not available.
4.00pm Panel:
Philippa Roberts, Head of Circular Economy, Low & Behold
Natasha Epstein, Contracts Manager, South London Waste Partnership
Rosi Fieldson, Sustainability Manager, Simons Design
Richard Boyd, Consultant, Arup
4.45pm Close