REMADE Institute lays plans for April 2024 event

The Rochester, New York-based Reducing EMbodied Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute has opened registration for the 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference, to be held April 10-11 in Washington.

The institute, a 168-member public-private partnership established in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), says the 2024 event will be organized by REMADE in partnership with the London-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation with support from the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

The organizers have selected the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington as the event venue. They also say the event is being designed to “showcase breakthrough innovations capable of accelerating the nation’s transition to a circular economy.”

“REMADE and our partners are very excited to convene, once again, an in-depth, multidisciplinary, action-based scientific conference and international thought-leadership event addressing all aspects of the circular economy," REMADE CEO Nabil Nasr says.

“We strongly encourage industry innovators, academic and national laboratory researchers, business leaders, public sector representatives and others—from university students just starting out, to international experts renowned in their fields—to attend this critically important event.”

The institute also has announced that conference proceedings from its inaugural 2023 event have been published in a new book titled “Technology Innovation for the Circular Economy,” edited by Nasr. That publication is available for purchase as an e-book and for preorder as a hard copy.

That March 2023 event featured presentations from nearly 60 peer-reviewed research papers and attracted more than 300 attendees representing academia, industry and civil society from the U.S. and around the world.

The institute says its annual conference is intended to further conversation on a circular approach and how it can benefit nations in meeting their multiple energy, environmental, manufacturing, industrial decarbonization and economic goals.

"Following last year's hugely successful inaugural event, the foundation is delighted to be working once again with the REMADE Institute on this national thought-leadership conference,” Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO Andrew Morlet says. “As momentum continues to build toward circular economy strategies that accelerate the U.S.’s ambitious decarbonization agenda, now is the time to seize the opportunity with big ideas and bold actions.”

The 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference is open to REMADE members, nonmembers and university students from across the U.S. and around the world. More information, including how to register, can be found here.