AboutThis years' member meeting
The Member Meeting is taking place on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the day before the 2025 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference this spring.
The Member Meeting is taking place on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the day before the 2025 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference this spring.
UK Circular Economy Taskforce
Ms. Ligia Noronha joined the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in April 2014 as Director of UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE), and on 1 April 2021 took up her current role as United Nations Assistant Secretary-
General and Head of the UNEP’s New York Office. An economist with over 30 years of international experience in the field of sustainable development, Ms. Noronha has led work in UNEP on climate mitigation and just energy transitions; on circularity and sustainable consumption and production; on extractives and responsible mining; and the nexus of environment, pollution and health. Through her leadership of the
New York Oice, she seeks to raise awareness of environmental issues, the outcomes of the United Nations Environment Assembly and the interconnections between a healthy planet and collective well-being in intergovernmental processes, the wider UN System and in inter-agency mechanisms.
Before joining UNEP, Ms. Noronha was Executive Director (Research Coordination) at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Director of the Resources, Regulation and Global Security Division. She was Secretary of the Asian Energy Institute – a network of Asian and non – Asian institutes, (2005-2011); Coordinator, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnerships (REEEP) South Asia, (2005-2009); and Michael Hintze Energy Security Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney, Australia (2009-11). In 2004-2005, she was Team Leader, Ecosystem approaches to Human Health, at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.
She has served on the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India, and on several expert committees and panels of the Government of India and the Government of Goa. Ms. Noronha has published nationally and internationally on issues relating to energy and resource security, climate change, environmental and coastal policy, sustainable consumption and production, responsible mining, and natural resource federalism. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mumbai, and a Master’s degree in Sea Use Law, Economics, and Policy and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
Brunswick Corporation
Dr. Kevin Anderson is the Senior Technical Fellow for Brunswick Corporation and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his work on sustainable aluminum alloy design. Dr. Anderson has over 40 U.S. patents, is a fellow of ASM, member of the U.S. National Materials and Manufacturing Board, chairperson of the NAE committee on membership, and past chairperson of the Advanced Casting Research Consortium and the Materials Innovation Committee of TMS.
Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, NIST
Mike Molnar is the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, the interagency team responsible for the Manufacturing USA program. Mike also leads the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing and serves as co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council, Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing – the team responsible for the National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing.
Prior to joining federal service in 2011 Mike had a successful industry career, including 25 years leading manufacturing and technology development at Cummins, a U.S. based global company that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines and power generation products. Midcareer he served as the first Manufacturing Policy Fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He earned a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and Master’s in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and an Executive MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Manufacturing Engineer, and was elected a Fellow of SME and a Fellow and Honorary Member of ASME.
9:30 AM
Registration & Networking
Coffee & Light Refreshments
10:00 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Nabil Nasr
CEO, REMADE Institute
10:00 AM
State of the Institute
Nabil Nasr
CEO, REMADE Institute
10:45 AM
Keynote Speaker
New Era Economics & the Case for Circularity
Andrew Morlet
Chair, UK Circular Economy Taskforce
11:15 AM
Keynote Speaker
De-Risking Your Business with Sustainability
Kevin Anderson
Senior Technical Fellow, Brunswick Corporation/Mercury Marine
11:45 AM
Keynote Speaker
Convening U.S. Manufacturing Ecosystems for Global Leadership
Mike Molnar
Director, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, NIST
12:15 AM
Lunch
1:15 PM
Technology Portfolio Review
Magdi Azer
CTO, REMADE Institute
1:45 PM
REMADE Project Updates
Data-Driven Design Decision Support for Remanufacturing of High-Value Components in Industrial & Agricultural Equipment
Dr. Chao Hu
University of Connecticut
2:00 PM
Analysis & Design for Sustainable Circularity of Barrier Film in Sheet Molding Composites
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Arizona State University
2:15 PM
Achieving 100% Recycling Aluminum in Die Casting Applications
Dr. Alan Luo
The Ohio State University
2:30 PM
Development of an Automated Method for Disassembly & Separation of Apparel for Recycling
Dr. Michael Thurston
Rochester Institute of Technology
2:45 PM
Chemical Recycling of Mixed PET/Polyolefin Streams Through Sequential Pyrolysis & Catalytic Upgrading
Rui Shi
The Pennsylvania State University
3:00 PM
Strategic Interest Groups / Education & Workforce Development
Overview & Updates
John Kreckel
Director of Membership & Workforce Development, REMADE Institute
3:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Magdi Azer
CTO, REMADE Institute
3:45 PM
Adjourn
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REMADE members nationwide are invited to join us for the Institute’s Annual Member Meeting on Tuesday through Wednesday, October 8 – 9, 2024, in REMADE’s headquarters city of Rochester, N.Y.
REMADE’s 2024 Member Meeting will take place at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) Conference Center, located in Louise Slaughter Hall, Building 78, on RIT’s main campus.
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