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Waste as a business model

Digitalt

Moderator: Hanna Nova Beatrice
Panelists: Erland Lavsen, Nora Eslander

What does circularity really mean and how do we create innovative and profit-driven furniture companies in a circular economy? How do we find processes that make a difference and how do we collaborate to make changes on a small and large scale? What policies are needed to view waste as a true resource?

Lecturers

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Hanna Nova Beatrice Moderator

Project Area Manager Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair/Stockholm Design Week & Creative Director, The New Era Magazine.
Stockholmsmassan

Hanna has worked as a design writer, moderator, and creative director in design and publishing her entire career and has a past as Editor in Chief for titles such as Residence and Form. Amongst her published books are Behind the Scenes in the Design Industry

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Erland Lavsen Panelist

Circular Business Designer
DUNI Group / Office Piccolo

The highly experienced circular business designer has been working with digitization and circularity e.g. for IKEA with Furniture as a Service - now helping the HORECA industry becoming more sustainable and circular. Erland is also co-founder of Office Piccolo, a product passport solution helping companies keep track of inventories and creating digital enablers for an eco-system around furnitures.

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Nora Eslander Panelist

Head of Communications
Renewcell

Nora holds a BS.c from Copenhagen Business School while the Swedish sustaintech company is producing a 100% recycled material for fashion, Circulose, that was included on TIME Magazine’s 100 Best inventions List of 2020. It’s currently building the world’s largest textile recycling plant in Sundsvall, starting production Q2 2022