Implementing Digital Product Passports in construction sector - Main take-away

In the push towards a circular economy, data plays a pivotal role in tracing assets and creating product passports, which serve as digital identities for products throughout their lifecycle. This presentation explores how product passports not only comply with emerging legislation but also enhance transparency and value for all stakeholders involved. By ensuring high-quality reuse of assets, product passports can lead to significant environmental benefits and financial gains, contributing to a more sustainable and efficient economy.

However, the implementation of product passports is not without challenges. This session will share practical examples, tips, best practices, and lessons learned from real-world applications. Attendees will gain valuable insights into overcoming obstacles and effectively leveraging data to drive the circular economy forward.

Redesigning everyday necessities for circularity

Bare Necessities tackles global garbage crisis, where single-use plastic packaging clogs landfills and waterways through zero waste products and sustainability education, offering handcrafted alternatives to conventional plastic-packaged home care products.

Developed earth-friendly powder-to-liquid home care products reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80-90%. 10% active ingredients, when mixed with tap water, create effective, eco-friendly home care solutions. Packaging the products in compostable sachets and using forever glass dispensers, Bare Necessities aims to eliminate waste from the system.

This revolutionary approach minimizes retail space, shipping constraints, and reduces packaging footprints, all while offering convenience and cost savings to the customers. The products are made with ethically, locally, and naturally sourced ingredients by a strong, women-run manufacturing team, ensuring responsible end-of-life disposal.

10 ways to turn waste into profit at Ehfaaz

Ehfaaz is pioneering a radical shift towards a profitable and regenerative Circular Economy. This presentation unveils Ehfaaz's groundbreaking multi-revenue ecosystem, demonstrating transformation of seemingly worthless waste into 10 distinct revenue streams, each underpinned by core Circular Economy principles.

Presentation will dive into the practical application of these principles, showcasing how Ehfaaz designs out waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, regenerates natural systems and supports the UAE Circular Economy Policy.

Not only Ehfaaz diverted over 5,000 tons of organic waste from landfills, but also increased perter company revenue by 15% and saved the waste disposal costs for its clients by 20%.

Attendees will gain valuable insights into the financial viability of circularity, the power of innovation to tackle waste challenges, and practical strategies for building a profitable, resilient, and environmentally responsible business model.

Circular strategies to Net Zero

50%+ emissions and 90% biodiversity losses are linked to material extraction. Yet we extracted half a trillion tonnes of materials during the last 5 years.

There is an urgent need for decoupling resource extraction and their negative environmental and social impacts. Circular Economy strategies and business models can help keep materials in use for longer, regenerate nature etc.

Presentation will include as the following topics:
1. Role of regulations
2. Circular sourcing and procurement
3. Financing circular projects
4. Designing eco-friendly and sustainable products
5. Role of various stakeholders including consumers
6. Standards, tools and techniques like Digital Product Passport, Measurements, ISO 59000 etc.

Presentation will be supported with credible well researched facts, real-life inspiring examples and best practices across industries and regions including the UAE.

Circular Economy job opportunities in the UAE - research study findings

Inspired by the emerging Economy of the Future – Circular Economy – group of students at S P Jain School of Global Management took up and completed the research to understand:

• Drivers of employment of Circular Economy professionals in various segments of the industries in the UAE
• Types of competencies needed at different levels in different types of organisations such as Government, Academia, Industry
• Readiness of the UAE organisations to hire Circular Economy professionals to support the UAE Circular Economy
• Levels of compensation various sectors of the industry are willing to pay to Circular Economy professionals at different levels
• Way forward with recommendations based on the research outcomes.

Building your career in circular economy

CircX: Designing Human-Centered Experiences for a Circular Economy

How can we make the circular economy irresistible? Can circular experiences transform users from passive consumers to active co-owners? Join me to explore how experience design unlocks the circular world's true potential.

In the shift toward a circular economy, success hinges not only on closing material loops but also on fostering human connections to circular solutions. CircX bridges this gap by focusing on Circular Experiences, ensuring users embrace and sustain the transition from product consumers to co-owners within circular systems. This talk explores how CircX integrates physical and digital touchpoints to create engaging product-service systems, fostering long-lasting relationships between people, products, and brands. Using an in-depth case study and additional industry examples, I will demonstrate how CircX reshapes linear products into circular ones, driving environmental impact while benefiting both producers and consumers. Discover how designing for memorable, holistic experiences can advance a thriving, circular future.