Tech Topic Series: Eco-Design for Circular Electronics Economy
Series partners
Project Leadership Award
Congratulations to the Eco-Design Best Practices for a Circular Electronics Economy project team for receiving a 2022 iNEMI Project Leadership Award. These awards recognize projects that have demonstrated superior performance of electronics manufacturing practices, provided solutions that enable significant technology and business results and/or had a positive impact on the electronics manufacturing value chain and its ecosystem. The project team members are:
- Jason Lee, Celanese
- Tom Okrasinski, Nokia
- Kelly Scanlon, IPC
- Karsten Schischke, Fraunhofer IZM
- Julio Vargas, IBM
About the Series
iNEMI’s Eco-Design for Circular Electronics Economy was a series of six interactive webinars featuring experts from leading organizations that are doing innovative/beyond-compliance eco-design work. The series provided an avenue for eco-design leaders to showcase their thought processes, strategies, successes and failures. The goal was to capture the best and most innovative practices being used today and to highlight the processes these leaders follow to determine where to focus their eco-design efforts.
Final Report (Videos)
Eco-Design Series Final Webinar: Lessons Learned
March 17, 2022
Series Introduction
Download an introduction to the series.
Webinar Presentations
Session 1: Tuesday, May 25
- Pia Tanskanen, Nokia Corporate Affairs, Head of Environment
- Mark Newton, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Samsung Electronics America
- Webinar synopsis & recording
Session 2: Thursday, June 17
- Christophe Garnier, Global Environmental Standards Manager, Schneider Electric
- Miquel Ballester, Product Management, and Thea Kleinmagd, Circular Material Chains Innovator, Fairphone
- Webinar synopsis & recording
Session 3: Tuesday, July 27
- Klaus Grobe, Director of Global Sustainability, ADVA Optical
- Katie Morgenroth & Adi Narayanan, Google
- Webinar synopsis & recording
Session 4: Thursday, September 9
- David Schönmayr, Program Lead for Sustainability, Fronius
- Maxwell Giammona, Lead Scientist, heavy-metal free battery research, IBM Almaden Research Center
- Webinar synopsis & recording
Eco-Design Series Wrap-Up Report, October 12 & 13
Session 5: Thursday, October 14
- Nirav Patel, Founder & CEO, Framework
- Webinar synopsis & recording
Session 6: Thursday, November 4
- Jan Daem, Eco Officer, Barco
- Webinar synopsis & recording
Conference Presentation
- “Eco-Design Best Practices for a Circular Electronics Economy,” Mark Schaffer (iNEMI), Chemical Watch’s Global Electronics Summit, Day 2/Session 1: E-Waste, Batteries and Eco-Design; September 22, 2021 (virtual event).