2025 eSummit Agenda
Four Packed Days of Learning, Networking, & Collaboration
A WHOLE LIFECYCLE APPROACH WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS, ALL IN ONE PLACEHere is a glimpse of some of the sessions and activities at the inaugural eSummit in Austin.
FULL LINEUP AND SCHEDULE COMING SOONMonday, September 8
KICK OFF-
Carolyn Hoskinson, Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, U.S. EPA
Enforcing the law to prevent pollution from e-waste management has historically been the primary function of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, but realizing a circular economy requires more forward-thinking leadership. Hear how the U.S. EPA leads through policy and programs to help the US transition to a sustainable future for electronics.
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Jeff Seibert, Chief Provocateur, SERI
The disruptors. The challengers. The leaders. They go above and beyond what is required or expected. They dare to ask “what if” because doing the same things in the same ways gives us more of the same. We’re debuting a new awards program to recognize and celebrate these organizations and their ReThinking.
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Sarah Kim, Director, Electronics Sustainability Summit
Tom Marieb, Vice President, Product Integrity for Hardware Engineering, Apple
Apple’s strategy is to design products that last. However, longevity often requires striking a balance between durability and repairability while not compromising on safety, security, and privacy. This session will discuss how designing for longevity informs Apple’s earliest decisions, guided by historical customer-use data and predictions on future usage. Hear how Apple is navigating challenging sustainability decisions.
RECEPTION AND EXPOEvening Welcome Reception + Repair Off: 5:00-7:00 p.m. - Zilker Foyer
Tuesday, September 9
MAIN STAGE-
Walter Alcorn, VP Environmental Affairs and Industry Sustainability, Consumer Technology Association
Mark Newton, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Samsung Electronics America
Mel Gregg, Sustainability Consultant, Meta Reality Labs
Sean Magann, Chief Commercial Officer, Sims Lifecycle Services
Smart appliances, connected homes, EV's, wearables, batteries, and AI… IOT has integrated smart technology into all kinds of things that would not traditionally have been thought of as electronics. Hear what’s coming next from those who will bring it to you!
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Scot Case, VP Sustainability, National Retail Federation
Scott O’Connell, Senior Director, Global Product Compliance Engineering, Dell Technologies
Jason Brown, Director, Device Repair Operations, Microsoft
Cassie Gruber, Director of Business Development, JABIL
New technology always brings new challenges and new opportunities. Looking forward, we’ll explore the impacts of what’s coming next on circularity and sustainability throughout the value chain. How does the world as we know it change with these new technologies? What will be the impacts? And how do we proactively prepare to ensure future tech is circular and sustainable?
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Bob Mitchell, CEO, Global Electronics Council
Dan Reid, Head of Secretariat, Circular Electronics Partnership
Ecodesign enables sustainability in electronics. Learn about the efforts to design more sustainable electronics and the ecolabels that distinguish sustainable options. This session explores sustainability from the beginning of the electronics lifecycle where products are created and purchased.
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Clare Hobby, Director, External Engagement, Global, TCO Development
Scott Shackelford Repair and Environmental Policy, Google
Mark Schaffer, Sustainable Electronics Lead, iNEMI
The best case for sustainability is often keeping electronics in use longer. Learn about the practical challenges and how the industry is working to enable longer first use through extended warranties, support, software updates, and increased durability.
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Paul Ryznar, Founder & CEO, LightGuide
Petri Hayrynen, Global Head of Product Marketing, Human Mobile Devices (HMD)
We know how critical repair is to keeping electronics in use longer. In this session we’ll look at how advances in repair are enabling longer first use and opportunities for reuse, as well as explore what’s new in repair.
REUSE STAGE-
Luke Smith, Senior Manager, Circular Economy Services, Lenovo
Get an inside look at Lenovo's Programs that support the Circular Economy, from Asset Recovery Services to Recertified and management of obsolete product, designed to enable reuse from desktop to commercial data centers.
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Jennifer Foxworthy, Head of Certified Refurbished Licensing Program, HP, Inc.
HP's new certified refurbished program is enabling independent refurbishers to resell HP products with a HP warranty that drives consumer confidence in buying refurbished. Learn how HP is enabling reuse in the market
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Susan Krautbauer, Senior Director, Advancement, Digitunity
Jesse Rodriguez, Program Manager, City of Austin
Jared Bodine, Executive Director, AZ StRUT
Dylan Zajac, Founder & Executive Director, Computers 4 People
When we hear about the impacts of used electronics, too often it’s framed as an e-waste story, talking about harm to the environment. But what we don’t hear enough about is all the good that’s being done, especially the positive impacts from used electronics right in our own communities. Hear the real stories of how used electronics are getting into the hands of people who most need them, and the positive impacts that are being made.
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Steve Mellings, Founder and CEO, ADISA Certification
Jonmichael Hands, Secretary, Circular Drive Initiative
Sunil Chandna, CEO & Co-Founder, BitRaser
From phones to desktops to data centers, using electronics longer is critical to sustainability. But to reuse electronics, the previous data needs to be properly sanitized to prevent data breaches. The fear of a breach is causing organizations to destroy storage devices instead of wiping them, which works directly against sustainability. This session will explore the progress being made in data sanitization, the purpose that data recovery can serve in creating confidence, and the opportunities to handle data to enable reuse.
RECYCLE STAGE-
Daniel Ott, Managing Director, LatAm, Reverse Logistics Group
Joost de Kluijver, Director and Founder, Closing the Loop
David Hirschler, Chief Sustainability Officer, ERI
What capacity does the world need to build to fully recycle electronics? Where are the gaps? What attracts investment to build new facilities in new regions? This session looks at the global infrastructure required to transition from the safe disposal of e-waste to a circular economy for electronics.
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Jim Puckett, Executive Director, Basel Action Network
Rawan Chaker, Senior Manager of Sustainability, ITI
Adam Shine, President, Sunnking Sustainable Solutions
Exploring the practical logistics of international trade in the complex network of regulations like Basel, OECD, and bilateral trade agreements, this session will look at how to enable the responsible reuse and recycling of electronics through legal transboundary trade mechanisms and practices.
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Nabil Nasr, CEO, REMADE Institute
Jeff Gloyd, Founder, Gloyd Recycling Solutions
Sean Grixti, Director, Circular Partnerships, Cyclic Materials
Ed Daniels, Director, Strategic Initiatives, The REMADE Institute
Innovation is key to enabling the greatest volume of materials recovery from electronics. Learn about developments in technology and processes that are enabling more sustainable recycling of electronics.
MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS-
The Global Electronics Council will launch its next generation EPEAT® Ecolabel criteria for ICT products in 2025, elevating the market expectation for sustainable ICT products. Join GEC and guest speakers for this session to learn about the updated EPEAT criteria covering four priority sustainability areas: climate, circularity, chemicals and responsible supply chains.
Stakeholders – from purchasers to component suppliers and recyclers – will share their perspectives on the criteria, directional alignment with organizational goals, and implementation challenges with a focus on circularity criteria.
Contact us at [email protected] for questions or more information.
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Jordan Rivera, Principal Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Logan Blizzard, Transportation Specialist, Communications, US Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
In this panel, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) discuss the hazards of lithium batteries in transportation, the basics of regulatory compliance, and current safety issues in the lithium battery stream, including batteries for reuse, for recycling/disposal, and damaged, defective, or recalled (DDR) batteries.
RECEPTION AND EXPO-
Meet with friends and colleagues in the eSummit Expo for networking and engaging with a wide range of exhibitors
Wednesday, September 10
FIRST USE STAGE-
Tony Sciarrotta, Executive Director, Reverse Logistics Association
Joyce Cruts, VP of Supply Chain & Operations, ACER
Bob Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Reconext
Keeping returns in the market is essential to sustainability, but many challenges impede this key function. How can we reduce returns and send electronics back into the market with velocity and quality? This session will explore opportunities that connect returns of new products with recommerce and reuse.
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Bo Guilbeault, ITAM Practitioner & Evangelist, Starbucks
Lee Read, Partner, Regional Service Lead for Sustainable Products and Supply Chain, ERM
Decisions about IT equipment at every business can positively or negatively impact sustainability and the bottom line. Learn how businesses can make better decisions in managing their IT assets and enable sustainable outcomes while meeting other business goals.
Thursday, September 11
FIRST USE STAGE-
Amanda Tischer Buros, Vice President of OEM Solutions, Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations
Ted Briggs, Sustainability Program Manager, Google
Sebastian Foot, Founding Partner, Bloom ESG
Emily Farrant, ESG Standards Lead, SERI
Electronics repair, reuse, and recycling are positively affecting people and the planet but there is little data to measure the impact. This session will explore the needs for reporting to promote the positive impacts of the electronics value chain and enable more sustainable decisions by users and businesses throughout the lifecycle.
REUSE STAGE-
Craig Boswell, President, HOBI International, Inc.
Kim Allison, Vice President Supply Chain Strategy & Execution, Assurant
Michael Babbar, WW Head of Ops, Pre-Owned & Trade-in, Amazon
Greg Skinner, President, Leopard Mobility Inc.
From warranty repairs to trade-in programs, this session takes a deeper look behind the scenes of the mobile industry to reveal how mobile devices are being reused over and over again to maximize life.
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Ben Daniels, Customer Success Manager, SMART DPK
Aakshay Kripalani, CEO, Injured Gadgets
Louis Kotsakis, Director - Cloud Supply Chain, Microsoft
This session explores what’s new and innovative in reuse, from managing product license keys to the case for used and aftermarket parts, robotics, and more.
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Rohi Sukhia, CEO, Tradeloop Corporation
Keaton Shuttlesworth, WW GM, Amazon Renewed
From B2B platforms enabling the bulk sale of working electronics to B2C channels enabling the resale of fully refurbished devices, this session will explore marketplace opportunities for the recommerce of electronics.
RECYCLE STAGE-
Natalie Messer Betts, Assistant VP of Sustainability, ReMA
Holly Evans, Senior VP of Enviornmental Policy and Legal Affairs, Responsible Business Alliance
Join ReMA and RBA in an interactive discussion about the transition to a circular supply chain for batteries, consumer electronics and electric vehicles, and how the growing prevalence of batteries is impacting the entire recycling system. Attendees will also get a preview of ReMA’s forthcoming roadmap on safe and circular electrification.
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Christopher Newman, Electronic Waste Management Specialist, U.S. EPA Region 5
Carlos Hernandez, L.A.C. WEEEE Coodinator, UNIDO
Adiliz Barrera, National Consultant BCRC/SCRC Panama, PREAL
Paz Maluenda, Circular Economy Office Professional, Ministry of Environment of Chile
Learn from regulators from countries around the world about new efforts to enable the collection of used electronics and the recovery of materials to manufacture new products and prevent pollution from irresponsible recycling.
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Rike Sandlin, CEO, Rivervista Partners
Sofia Peruzzo, Group ESG Manager, SK tes
Clive Hess, President, CompuCycle
Evelyn Butler, Vice President, Technical Services, Solar Energy Industries Association
A look forward at where recycling may be headed in the future including new product streams, new systems, and new markets.