EIT Climate-KIC - SPARK! Lecture #1- Circular Electronics
A tale of procurement, disassembly and e-waste management
Interested in climate innovation, clean-tech and circular electronics? Are you an entrepreneur, an accomplished professional, a young starter, or a student? You’re more than welcome to join the SPARK! Lecture of EIT Climate-KIC Benelux!
With great joy, we would like to invite you to the first of our SPARK! events of this year, where we will be discussing the implementation of Circular Economy and the achievement of positive climate impact along the electronics value chain. What better place to hold this event than Fairphone’s creative workspace, located inside one of the famous Pakhuizen of Amsterdam!
A panel of expert speakers of the field will share their experiences, providing us with great insights regarding the current challenges that the electronics industry is facing and what will be the potential circular solutions in the way forward. Sustainable procurement, design for disassembly and e-waste management will certainly be in the agenda!
- 18:30 Welcome
- 19:00-19:15 Inspirational Keynote Speech
- 19:15-19:45 Panel discussion: The challenges of the electronics industry towards the transition to a Circular value chain; the role of sustainable procurement, product design, and e-waste management
- 19:45-20:30 Breakout sessions: Workgroups lead by the panelists will develop and present their proposals for “The 10 commandments of Circular Electronics”
- 20:30-20:40 Video screening
- 20:40-20:50 Closure
- 20:50 New Year’s Festive Drinks
Miquel Ballester – Product Manager and Fairphone co-founder
Closing the Loop – nominated as one of The Netherlands’ top-5 Social Enterprises by Chivas – the Venture; they are helping organizations reduce their mobile footprint.
Gerrard Street – a very promising EIT Climate-KIC startup, developing circular consumer products; first of which, high-end headphones via a lease construction with regular updates and repair service.
Event Moderator: Sybren Bosch– Consultant at Copper8
You will also have the opportunity to meet and connect with members of the entire EIT Climate-KIC community – including members of our Alumni Association – as well as other like-minded professionals, entrepreneurs and students! The extra interactive sessions which will be organized, together with our New Year’s festive drinks will offer the perfect setting for that… More details and updates about our program are coming soon! Stay tuned!
The amount of participants is limited for this event, so please register – for free – on our event page to reserve your spot!
For any further questions, please feel free to contact Gareth Wakeling, Education Manager via NLEducation@climate-kic.org.
EIT Climate-KIC Education offers added value to Master’s and Ph.D. degree programmes at the best academic institutions across Europe as well as an annual summer school. Moreover, our pre-incubation programme “Greenhouse” helps entrepreneurs to explore their business ideas. SPARK! Lectures are community events of EIT Climate-KIC which take place five times a year. These thought-provoking events are held by climate innovators and opinion leaders in their field and are meant to inspire and trigger fruitful discussions.
Fairphone is a social enterprise that is building a movement for fairer electronics. By making a phone, we’re opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We’re making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first. Together with our community, we’re changing the way products are made.
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