Preliminary Conference Agenda 2025
| DAY 1 – Wednesday 11 June 2025 E-Waste & WEEE Recycling Conference |
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| AM Opening Keynote Working towards more meaningful WEEE management targets that usher in circularity in the EU economy Pascal Leroy, Director General, WEEE Forum |
| AM Transforming E-Waste into Resources: The Aurubis Lünen Recycling Model Tobias Kuhm, Head of Supply Chain Management, Aurubis |
| AM Advancing Copper Recycling and E-Waste Management: Tailored Solutions for Sustainable Progress Dr. Nikolaus P. K. Borowski, General Manager Non Ferrous Metals & Alloys, SMS Group |
| AM Turning e-trash into treasure - Supporting the electronics recycling to maintain valuable materials in the loop and to realize a more sustainable world Martina Walzer, Manager, Technical Concepts, Siemens AG |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM Keynote: Global E-Waste Policy and Perspectives Josephita Harry, Chair, BIR Committee |
| AM 2050 Outlook on WEEE in the European Union Kees Balde, Senior Scientific Specialist, UNITAR |
| AM PANEL: Basel E-Waste Policy – Six Months On Julie-Ann Adams, CEO, EERA (Moderator) Yorg Aerts, Policy Officer DG Environment, European Commission Kamila Slupek, Sustainability Director, Eurometaux Christian von Holton, Portfolio Manager Electronics - WEEE & PCB, Aurubis Jussi Peltomaa, Purchasing Manager Secondary Raw Materials and Copper and Precious Metals concentrates, New Boliden Ruth Lambrechts, Director of Government Affairs, Umicore |
| Lunch Break |
| PM PANEL: Report from the frontlines: How to implement Digital Product Passports Mark Hoff, European Head of ESG and Finance Sector Lead, SLR Consulting (Moderator) Carsten Stöcker, Founder, Spherity Paul Davies, Account Manager, Heavy Industry, Fortescue Zero Dr. Marvin Böll, Project Manager, DKE German |
| PM SHOWCASE: Strategies and perspectives for End-of-Life management of photovoltaic panels Claire Agraffeil, Team leader / Senior scientist - Microelectronic Process & Metrology, CEA (Moderator) Fridolin Franke, Managing Director, Solar Materials Lisa Wendzich, Co-Founder, SunCrafter (SOLMATE Project) Jan Clyncke, Managing Director, PV CYCLE Francesca Fattori, Strategic Development & Innovation Specialist, ERION |
| Afternoon Coffee Break |
| PM PANEL: GRINNER: tackling the challenges of lithium battery fires in the management of e-waste James Horne, Project Manager, WEEE Forum (Moderator) Bogdan Ene, Production Manager, GreenWEEE Marius Costache, General Manager, GreenWEEE Isabelle Radovan, Junior Policy Officer, EuRIC Simonetta Cota, Strategic Development and Innovation Specialist, ERION Compliance Organization |
| PM PANEL: Documenting, integrating and scaling global informal e-waste sectors Jana Mandel, Advisor Circular Economy for Electronics/Batteries, GIZ (Moderator) Stefan de Linde, Founder, Minimise GmbH Andrea (Dea) Wehrli, Co-Founder, E[co]work Neirin Jones, Managing Director, Landbell GreenForest Solutions Stavros Mylonas, Managing Director, Xermes |
| PM Addressing behavioural sciences to improve the collection, reuse and repair of electrical and electronic appliances Dimitri Naczaj, Behavioural science consultant & researcher, Bellegarde Scientific Consulting |
| PM Closing Remarks |
| EXHIBITOR AND DELEGATE AFTER PARTY |
| DAY 2 – Thursday 12 June 2025 E-Waste & WEEE Recycling Conference |
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| AM Opening Remarks |
| AM Opportunities and challenges of the European e-waste policy framework - Revision of the WEEE Directive Rafael Basciano, Environmental Policy Officer, European Waste Management Association |
| AM PANEL: Focussing on e-waste in Africa Federico Magalini, Director Sustainability Services UK, dss+ (Moderator) Nana Yaw Konadu, CEO/Co-Founder, Electro Recycling Ghana Mark Williams-Wynn, CTO, EWaste Africa Catherine Masolia, Chief Operations Officer, WEEE Centre Garam Bel, Circular Economy Coordinator, International Telecommunication Union Ibukun Faluyi, Executive Secretary, EPRON |
| AM A New XRF Methodology For Quick and Reliable Screening of PCBs - Case Study on Trends in the Material Composition of Mobile Phones Aleksander Jandric, Project Manager, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM Research Insights on Electrohydraulic Fragmentation for WEEE Recycling and Safe Battery Removal Wladislaw Benner, Research Associate, Fraunhofer IWKS |
| AM Clearing Hard Drives: Shredding is an ANALOG solution to a DIGITAL problem Michael Harstrick, Chief Global Development Officer, Garner Products |
| PM PANEL: Right to repair: What's changed one year on? Steffen Vangerow, Managing Director / Member of Board, Vangerow GmbH (Moderator) Ayushi Sachan, Circular Economy Engineering Specialist, Landbell AG |
| Lunch Break |
| PM PANEL: Minimum Requirements for E-Waste Compensation - Safeguarding its integrity Reinhardt Smit, COO, Closing the loop Andreas Manhart, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division, Öko-Institut |
| PM PANEL: Overcoming Financial Barriers in the Recycling Ecosystem Max Shertle, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Finmid |
| PM Environmental and economic assessment of producing high-quality plastic recyclates from WEEE David Pfeffer, PhD Researcher on Recycling and the Circular Economy, ETH Zurich Theresa Aigner, Researcher on Sustainability in Electronics, Fraunhofer IZM |
| END OF DAY 2 |
| DAY 1 – Wednesday 11 June 2025 Battery Recycling Conference |
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| AM Opening Keynote Eric Ruyters, Sectretary General, EUCOBAT |
| AM Reality Check: Where is the European battery market going? Hans Eric Melin, Managing Director, Circular Energy Storage |
| AM Showcase: Focussing and discussing the implementation of battery passports Tilmann Vahle, Director, Sustainable Mobility and Batteries, Systemiq GmbH (Moderating) Veronika Karpiel, Product Owner Battery Passport, Siemens Kathrin Adam, Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting, EY Simon Ziegier, Doctoral Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC |
| AM Challenges in (household) battery collection and recycling Andreas Opelt, COO, Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM "Design for Circularity" Innovations in Tracing and Sorting Battery Materials for Sustainable Recycling Simon Ziegler, Doctoral Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC |
| AM Circularity in End-of-Life: Driving Forward Carbon and Material Tracking Johanna Lettgen, Project Manager, RLG |
| Lunch Break |
| PM PANEL: How to close the loop for EU batteries today Cameron Lippert, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, ElectraMet Lukas Brandl, COO, BLC |
| PM Showcase: An assessment of the Black Mass market in regulations and trading categorization Frederick Bloomfield, Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Nathan Day, EMEA Cobalt & Black Mass Editor, S&P Global Commodity Insights Luke Sweeney, Senior Battery recycling and black mass analyst, Fastmarkets |
| Afternoon Coffee Break |
| PM Recovery of valuable metals of spent lithium-ion batteries: Black mass characterization and leaching aspects Bruna Castanheira, Researcher, Centi |
| PM Automation of R&D as a tool to accelerate recycling process development Robert Mitchell, Principal Scientist, CPI |
| PM Laser applications in battery recycling Max Rettenmeier, Industry Management Mobility - Battery Recycling and Disassembly, TRUMPF |
| PM Pre-treatment in Europe or Pre-treatment in Asia? A comparison Jodok Reinhardt, CEO, Librec |
| EXHIBITOR AND DELEGATE AFTER PARTY |
| DAY 2 – Thursday 12 June 2025 Battery Recycling Conference |
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| AM Opening Remarks |
| AM Costs and trade-offs in building a global battery recycling network Hongqiu Su, Battery Metals Analyst Associate, Shanghai Metals Market |
| AM International certification standards for critically defective lithium-ion battery packaging: Differences and challenges Steffen Kück, Head of Sales Europe, DOLAV |
| AM Battery recycling in Europe for Europe Jaakko Savolainen, Head of Battery Recycling, Fortum |
| AM Turning waste into opportunity: H.C. Starck’s sustainable black mass recycling and beyond Dr. Alexander Zeugner, Senior Project Manager - Technology & Innovation Global, H.C. Starck |
| AM Implementation of recycled active materials in lithium-ion battery production - From fundamental principles to industrial applications Miriam Keppeler, Project Manager, Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Warttemberg (ZSW) |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM Investigation of national battery stocks and flows with focus on the availability and recoverability of secondary raw materials Franziska Maisel, Researcher, Technische Universitat Berlin Max Tippner, Researcher, Technische Universitat Berlin |
| AM Lithium first: The future of industrial-scale lithium recycling Gideon Schwich, COO, Cylib |
| AM BatteREstore: How to lengthen a battery's lifespan to induce prosperity for all Mark de Pooter, Policy Consultant / Project Coordinator, Municipality of Tilburg (The Netherlands) |
| PM Materials analysis for battery recycling Hugo Knobel, Scientist, Eurofins EAG |
| PM PANEL: Implementing EV batteries in second life Robert Wilschrey, Head of Specialists Group Battery Systems, EDAG Production Solutions GmbH & Co KG (Moderator) Nick Lommers, Manager New Business & Operations, EcarACCU Efrat Avnet Steinberg, CEO, Innertech |
| Lunch Break |
| PM Closing the loop: integrating cathode material synthesis into hydrometallurgical recycling of lithium-ion batteries Néstor Antuñano, Senior Engineer, CIC energiGUNE |
| PM Process optimisation via efficient thermal and mechanical separation in hydrometallurgy process Tom Bell, Business Development - Battery Value Chain, Alfa Laval |
| PM Closing Remarks |
| END OF DAY 2 |
| DAY 1 – Wednesday 11 June 2025 Metal Recycling Conference |
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| AM Opening Keynote: The IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 Shobhan Dhir, Critical Minerals Analyst - Office of the Chief Energy Economist, International Energy Agency |
| AM PANEL: Expert discussion on recycling and critical raw materials policy Stephen Hall, Member, MMTA Board of Directors Kees Baldé, Senior Scientific Specialist Sustainable Cycles, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Maurits Bruggink, Senior EU Policy Advisor, CRM Alliance |
| AM Driving Innovation & Understanding Raw Material Needs: Insights from Hessen Felix Kaup, Director Industrial Technologies, Hessen Trade & Invest Simon Schneider, Leading Project Manager, Material Technologies, Hessen Trade & Invest |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM Unlocking the Value of EU Precious Metals: How LCA Supports Manufacturing Feedstock Recovery Miguel Gorriz, Associate Consultant Manufacturing & Electronics, Sphera Claudia Romero Jones, Ecosystem & Project Manager, EIT Manufacturing |
| AM Keynote Speaker James Watson, Director General, Eurometaux |
| PM PANEL: From Waste to Gold: Can recycled metals compete with virgin metals? Christine Nikander, CEO, Palsa & Pulk (Moderator) Davide Labolani, Co-Founder & CEO, Hiro Robotics Gabriel Trottier-Hardy, Director Development & Legal affairs, enim Pietrogiovanni Cerchier, CEO, 9-Tech Timm Lux, Associate Director & Expert in Non-Ferrous Metals, BCG |
| Lunch Break |
| PM A Case Study on Recycling Residuals from the Steel Industry Linda Ahl, Chief Technology Officer, GreenIron H2 |
| PM PANEL: Horizon scanning: Addressing the metal recycling sector's challenges with the drive to decarbonisation, the shift to EAFs and dealing with shredder residues Antonia Grey, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, British Metals Recycling Association Veronica Plazinic, Technical Advisor, EuRIC Linda Ahl, Chief Technology Officer, GreenIron H2 Emmanuel Katrakis, Director for Regulatory and Public Affairs, Galloo |
| PM Precision Recovery: Engineered Proteins as the Next Frontier in Sustainable Critical Raw Material Extraction Pierre Salvy, PhD, CTO, Cambrium GmbH |
| PM Autonomous recovery of neglected materials from non-ferrous metals Artur Klauson, CEO, ImpactPCB |
| Afternoon Coffee Break |
| PM Optimising Aluminium Scrap Utilization in Recycling - Preventing Downcycling of Twitch and Increasing Recycled Content in New Aluminium Production Frank van de Winkel, Market Strategy Manager – Metal, TOMRA Sorting GmbH Wilhelm Kiefer, Metal Optimization Lead, Novelis Koblenz GmbH |
| PM Process development and scaling up capabilities for metallic raw materials from secondary resources Ajay Patil, Head of the department and Adjunct Professor, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) |
| PM Rare earth recycling: Straight through reprocessing from metal to metal Clem Chambers, Founder, Silex World |
| PM 7 myths about closing the metals loop - and what we can learn from them Christian Hagelüken, Member, UBA Ressourcenkommission |
| PM Closing Remarks |
| EXHIBITOR AND DELEGATE AFTER PARTY |
| DAY 2 – Thursday 12 June 2025 Metal Recycling Conference |
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| AM Opening Remarks |
| AM Discussing imports of recyclable materials into India and the Middle East Suneel R. Mardia, Board Member, Bureau of Middle East Recycling (BMR) |
| AM Critical material recycling: Market trends, emerging technologies, and 20-year outlook Jack Howley, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx |
| AM Managing critical materials circulatories with waste flows Emeric Malefant, New Loops of Material Director, Veolia |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM Journey of metals in E-waste: Diverting valuable metals from landfills through innovative processing Kamlesh Melana, Vice President - Global Sales & Customer Care, emew Clean Technologies Dr Daniel Ray, Lead Scientist, Bioscope |
| AM Flowsheets optimization for selective recovery of cobalt, nickel, manganese, and lithium from black mass using ionquest sx phosphinic, phosphonic, and phosphoric acids Chiara Carrozza, Technical Development Manager, Italmatch |
| AM Recovery of Rare Earths from End-of-Life NdFeB Magnets through a Hydrometallurgical Process at Pilot and Industrial Scale Pietro Romano, PhD Assistant Professor, Universiti degli studi L'Aquila |
| PM Critical and strategic minerals from secondary resources, aspects of emerging economies Lúcia Helena Xavier, Researcher, CETEM – Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation |
| Lunch Break |
| PM Advanced methods for recycling the platinum group metals used as mixed metal oxides anodes’ catalysts-coating material Rafael Armbruster, Senior Vice President Global Project Management Office, Heraeus Precious Metals |
| PM Design for recycle: enhancing efficient recovery of technology-critical metals from devices Molly Keal, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Leicester |
| PM GANZ Recycle: Silicone and metal recycling of power electronics for their reuse Ben Ebersbach, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, TU Bergakademie Freiberg |
| END OF DAY 2 |
| DAY 1 – Wednesday 11 June 2025 ITAD & Circular Electronics Conference |
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| AM UN Digital Economy Report Torbjorn Fredriksson, Head E-commerce and Digital Economy Branch, UN Conference On Trade and Development |
| AM PANEL: Implementing Circular Practices in private industry Kathrin Adam, Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting, EY Christoforos Spiliotopoulos, Project Officer, European Commission Virginie Kristell Mari Le Barbu, Lenovo |
| AM PANEL: Enabling reuse of data center equipment |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM Enabling Reuse in Business |
| AM Keynote speaker Craig Campion, Vice President of IT Recycling, Converge Technology Solutions |
| PM Regulating circularity in electronics Christine Nikander, CEO, Palsa & Pulk |
| PM Aftermarket on the rise due to support from EU Legislation Jan Hoogstrate, Executive Director, Free ICT Europe Foundation |
| Lunch Break |
| PM The best and brightest reuse techs live in non-OECD emerging markets Robin Ingenthron, CEO, Good Point Recycling |
| PM PANEL: Complying with EU Regulations |
| PM PANEL: How to be an ITAD vendor Jennifer Foxworthy, Director, Certified Refurbished Partner Program, HP (Moderator) John Sherigan, CEO, Electronic Recyclers International Ross Thompson, CEO, Greenbox |
| Afternoon Coffee Break |
| PM PANEL: Lifecycle of a laptop Austin Turpin, Founder, Fliptech (Moderator) Heidi Dumeshich, Sustainability Manager, Ventia Thomas Pinn, Head of IT, Royal Far West Sophie Hollingsworth, Director - Climate Change & Sustainability Services - Head of Circular Economy, KPMG |
| PM Closing Remarks |
| EXHIBITOR AND DELEGATE AFTER PARTY |
| DAY 2 – Thursday 12 June 2025 ITAD & Circular Electronics Conference |
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| AM Opening Remarks |
| AM Electronics repair in the context of the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products framework Christoforos Spiliotopoulos, Project Officer, European Commision |
| AM Sustainable and circular electronics Emma Armstrong, Sustainable Electronics Ambassador, In2tec Ltd |
| AM Robot-based disassembly as driver of sustainable treatment of electrical waste and X Anwar Al Assadi, Team Manager, Fraunhofer IPA |
| AM Desiging phones designed for repair |
| AM The future of sustainable design for reuse, repair, and recycling Cassie Gruber, Director of Business Solutions, Jabil |
| Morning Coffee Break |
| AM (Q&A) Extending the life of electronics Emma Armstrong, Sustainable Electronics Ambassador, In2tec Ltd Anwar Al Assadi, Team Manager, Fraunhofer IPA |
| AM Workshop session - Sharing design ideas that can increase device longevity: Circular Design Guide |
| AM Reuse opportunities for electronic components Andjela Pasi, Director of Sustainability, Waldom Electronics |
| Lunch Break |
| PM PANEL: Consumer Electronics Challenges in repairing our own devices Mariusz Ryło, CEO, FIXIT SA (Moderator) Yaroslav Levinsky, Head of Supply Chain and Logistics Department, Pocketbook |
| PM Data Erasure: The Silver bullet to Mitigate Data Security Risk, Reduce E-Waste, Bridge digital divide Sunil Chandna, CEO, Bit Raser |
| PM Closing Remarks |
| END OF DAY 2 |
