Circular Economy & Product Sustainability: For Industry Professionals

Guest lecturers from UK’s Cranfield University will provide participants with an interactive workshop leaving attendees with an understanding of what a circular economy is and how they can implement circular innovation to create new value for their business.

Participants will use state of the art tools and approaches to assess their current capability levels for the integration of circular economy principles into their business operations.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Mariale Moreno is a Lecturer in Data-Driven Innovation. Since completing her Ph.D. in Sustainable Consumption and Design in 2013, Mariale has specialized in using and refining a mix-method approach to interpret and analyze consumer data from digital and ethnographic sources to enable innovation.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Fiona Charnley joined Cranfield University as a Lecturer in Sustainable Product and Service Design in 2011 after working as a research fellow at De Montfort University where she managed an EPSRC funded project to engage school communities in sustainable design principles. Her Ph.D. focused on the factors that enable and inhibit the process of whole system design for the development of more innovative and sustainable products, services and systems.