SPARK! Lecture #1 2017A tale of procurement, disassembly ande-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 Climate-KIC Benelux!

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New year, new SPARK!

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. Address: Fairphone headquarters, Jollemanhof 17, 1019 GW Amsterdam .

Challenges of the electronics industryA 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!

Programme18:30 Welcome19:00-19:15 Inspirational Keynote Speech of Douwe Jan Joustra 19:15-19:45 Panel discussion The challenges of the electronics industry towards the transition to a Circular value chain; the role of sustain- able procurement, product design, and e-waste man- agement19:45-20:30 Breakout sessions Workgroups lead by the panelists will develop and pre sent their proposals for "The 10 commandments of Circular Electronics"20:30-20:40 Video screening20:40-20:50 Closure20:50 New Year's Festive Drinks

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Interactive sessions to meet and connectYou will also have the opportunity to meet and connect with members of the entire Climate-KIC community- including members of our Alumni Association– as well as other like-minded professionals, entrepreneurs and students! Our interactive sessions, together with our New Year’s festive drinks will offer the perfect setting!

The number of participants is limited for this event, so please register - for free - on our registration page to reserve your spot! Or visit the event page at www.climate-kic.org. For any further questions, please feel free to contact Gareth Wakeling, Education Manager via NLEducation@climate-kic.org. Please, do not forget to bring your old mobile phones! They will be of great value!

New Years Festive Drinks, with: o The “Fairphone disassembly challenge”; how fast can you dismantle it? o The “CTL old phone disassembly (more of a challenge)” lead by Niels Hazekamp (Closing the Loop) o E-waste Arcade games; insert OLD PHONE to play!

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Registration and information

Experts’ LineupKeynote:

Douwe Jan Joustra Director and Owner at ICE-Amsterdam

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Douwe works on inspiration, innovation and implementation on circular business- and policy development. He identifies trending topics in circular economy and sustainability and translates these

to businesses and governments. Currently he is chair of the Amsterdam Resilience Collective and owner/director of Implement Circular Economy (ICE- Amsterdam). He is also partner in the Dutch Accelerator Circular Economy and the CIRCO-program on design.

Eelco Smit Director Sustainability, Group Sustainability, Philips International B.V.Eelco is a Director at the Philips Group Sustainability team where he is responsible for the overall sustainability performance of the

Personal Health Business Groups in Philips. In this role he works with Innovation teams and factories on developing and managing their sustainability programs. In recent years he has actively worked on the implementation of the Circular Economy program at Philips with a specific focus on business model innovation and increasing the use of recycled plastics. In this role Eelco represents Philips at Industry Associations CECED and DIGITALEUROPE where he is actively involved in the lobby work on waste legislation in Europe. After completing an MSc degree in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2003 he has held several positions in Environmental Affairs at LG Electronics and Epson Europe before moving to Philips in January 2011.

Expertise: Circular Economy in business, performance of governments in enhancing circular economy initiatives, design & trending topics in circular economy and sustainability, communication, societal changes, strategist, coaching, government policies on new economy.

Experts’ panel:

Reinout Wissenburg Sustainability Manager at Stedin, Performance ladder and PR at the Fair Meter projectReinout is an ambitious sustainability professional who puts a sustainable future at the centre of his career. A sustainable future and idealism are a source of inspiration for him, feeding

his persuasiveness and enthusiasm. He started at Greenpeace campaigning towards the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. This was followed by developing offshore wind farms in the Dutch North Sea for British energy giant SSE and lobbying on behalf of them for sound climate and energy policy in Brussels. Since 2014 he works at making Dutch DSO Stedin embrace sustainability. One of his leading projects is the Fair Meter, aimed at responsible procurement and development of the smart meter.

Miquel Ballester Product Manager and Co-founder at Fairphone

Miquel is co-founder and responsible for Product Management and Innovation at Fairphone, a social enterprise which uncovers complex production systems to change how things are made. Sustainable

development is what drives his work. Whether it is sustainable engineering, marketing or business development. He believes in the new and brave companies that are re-shaping the world today. After graduating in Industrial Design Engineering specializing in technologies for sustainable development, Miquel has contributed to Fairphone in both product and system design. He participated in the exciting process of turning this organization from a non-profit to a social venture.

Joost de Kluijver Director and founder at Closing the Loop

Joost is the founder of Closing the Loop, an organisation that buys broken mobile phones (e-waste) in Africa and Asia. Joost previously co-owned an electronics re-use company, which led him to Africa.

The idea behind Closing the Loop was conceived during a project in Tanzania in 2010, where he saw that e-waste led to huge problems at the end of its life-cycle. As a result, he founded the company in 2012, with the mission to ensure that these devices are collected in developing countries and recycled responsibly. Closing the Loop aims for profit, but also for ‘a world where waste is not wasted’.

About Fairphone 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. See also www.fairphone.com

Eva Gladek CEO and founder at Metabolic Eva is the founder and CEO of Metabolic, which has the mission to transform the global economy into one that is fundamentally more circular, regenerative and equitable by design. Eva is a

molecular biologist and industrial ecologist. In her years of consulting work and concept development, Eva has advised over 150 companies and industry leaders. She is an expert in technical environmental management techniques and has developed many frameworks for systems thinking and sustainable design. In 2015 Eva was listed #5 in the Trouw’s Sustainable 100 list for leadership in sustainability in the Netherlands.

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Tom Leenders Co-founder at Gerrard Street

Tom is co-founder and responsible for Product and Operations. He holds an MSc in Integrated Product Design from the Technical University of Delft. Gerrard Street aims to develop circular consumer

products, starting by offering high-end headphones via a lease construction with regular updates and repair service. They offer a durable framework (speakers + frame) that lasts over 10 years. The wear sensitive parts, such as the paddings, casing and cable, can be modularly attached to the framework. Customers can easily replace their worn/broken parts. The annual updates keep the product updated, both in terms of technology and style. The modules are made of recyclable material, when a module is replaced it will be re-used to make new ones. Gerrard Street strives to expand their circular business to new product categories.

Sybren Bosch Consultant at Copper8

Sybren is an expert in the world of circular economy. With a BSc in Innovation Science and an MSc in Sustainable Development is constantly seeks new alignments between people and supply chains

to accelerate a sustainable world. This acceleration is only successful if people trust each other when they work together. Trust gives people strength and will make them more creative to find innovative solutions for building a new economy. Sybren is an active member as Junior Counselor at the Council for Environment and Infrastructure (Raad voor de Leefomgeving en Infrastructuur).

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About Climate-KIC Education 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 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.

About Climate-KIC Climate-KIC is the EU’s largest public private partnership addressing climate change through innovation to build a zero carbon economy. We address climate change across four priority themes: urban areas, land use, production systems, climate metrics and finance. Education is at the heart of these themes to inspire and empower the next generation of climate leaders. We run programmes for students, start-ups and innovators across Europe via centres in major cities, convening a community of the best people and organisations. Our approach starts with improving the way people live in cities. Our focus on industry creates the products required for a better living environment, and we look to optimise land use to produce the food people need.Climate-KIC is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. See also www.climate-kic.org