Manufacturing and the circular economy: Navigating opportunities and challenges in a volatile world

Registration and Welcome

Professor Kerry Kirwan, Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), Dean (elect) and Professor, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG)

Professor Giuliana Battisti, CO-Lead Warwick Sustainability Spotlight, and Professor of the Economics of Innovation, Warwick Business School (WBS)

10:00

Session 1 | The Critical Role for Circular Economy in our Worlds

A video-address by Lord Teverson, member, House of Lords (Industry and Regulators Select Committee) and Honorary Fellow, Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD)

An address by a Member of the Government TASK FORCE on Circular Economy UK (TBC)

Session 2 | 4 Steps to Circularity: Step 1 - Supply

led by Professor Stuart Coles, CO-Lead Warwick Sustainability Spotlight and

Session 3 | Design for the Future

led by Associate Professor Adela Glyn-Davies, member of the Sustainability Spotlight Steering Group, and Head of Design, School for Cross-Faculty Studies

Jake Morris, Product Sustainability Lead at Thorlux Lighting

Session 4 | Step #3 Manufacturing

led by Professor Kerry Kirwan, Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), and Professor, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG)

Session 5 | Step #4 End of Life

led by Associate Professor Frederik Dahlmann, member of the Sustainability Spotlight Steering Group, and Associate Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, WBS

Session 6 | 4 Steps into Practice

led by Professor Stuart Coles, CO-Lead Warwick Sustainability Spotlight and

Associate Dean (Research), WMG

Close

led by Christine Bell, Director, Centre for Facilitation, and Professor Elena Korosteleva, Chair of the Sustainability Spotlight, and Professor of Politics and Global Sustainable Development, and Director (IGSD)