This sprint will bring together a select group of leaders in consumer electronics with expertise in design, engineering, marketing, supply chains and sustainability to explore collaborative opportunities, and build compelling concepts that can enable a circular economy for electronics.
Design for Collection: Electronics Sprint
IN PERSON DATE: NEW YORK, JULY 9 - 10
Electronic waste is growing five times faster than it is being recycled, and while critical raw materials power modern devices and facilitate global decarbonization efforts, less than 1% of these materials are recovered. Today's systems are also not designed for value-retaining strategies beyond recycling.
How might we reimagine collection systems and experiences to enable circularity at scale?
To find out, Join us for a two-day in-person design sprint focused on developing actionable concepts for e-waste collection systems that can better circulate valuable materials through repair, resale, refurbishment, and remanufacturing loops. Together we will develop concepts that can advance to pilot projects and scale solutions to e-waste. This is our first sprint focused on addressing the challenges of electronics waste.
This sprint will be delivered in collaboration with IDEO and supported by the Circular Electronics Partnership.
Sprint objectives
Collaborate with others from outside your organization and across your industry to identify common barriers and collaborative opportunities enabling innovative collection systems .
Generate a project concept note that can be prototyped and piloted. Hear best practice and analogous examples about successful approaches and insights from experts in the field.
Develop a shared view of the electronics ecosystem and intervention points within it. Identify who and where you need to engage to implement circular solutions to address electronic waste.
What will happen at the sprint?
The detailed agenda will be announced in the coming weeks, but the program will include working sessions and expert thought leadership.
What will I gain from being part of the sprint?
Sharing challenges with other organizations — from across industries and value chains — facing similar barriers to surface mutual learnings and ideate opportunities for commercially-driven collaboration.
Exploring strategies to unlock the business case for commercially viable circular economy solutions.
Gaining inspiration and ideas that equip you to articulate the value and future impact of innovative system interventions, with written and visual content to support your narrative.
Who should attend from my organization and what project focus do we need to bring? What level of knowledge and experience is needed to participate?
During this sprint we aim to unpack the systemic challenges preventing your circular business model from scaling and identify opportunities for industry collaboration as a mechanism for unlocking the business case. We recommend each organization sends two experienced participants to attend together. One senior business professional, plus one expert colleague from another relevant function including:
Sustainability | Procurement | Innovation | Psychology
Logistics | Operations | Design | Recovery
Strategy | Marketing | Engineering | Finance
Who else will be in the room?
This sprint is purposefully collaborative, so leaders from a range of organizations will present. It is designed for different industry clusters to collaborate and develop solutions together.
How much time is involved?
The sprint consists of:
In-person: 2 full days (in person in New York City)
Follow-up: one hour (virtual)
Focus Area
Electronics
