Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Washington D.C.

AboutThis year's member meeting

The Member Meeting is taking place on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, the day before the 2026 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference this spring. If you are a REMADE Member registration is handled through our Conference Registration Portal.

LOCATION

The National Press Club

529 14th Street N.W. in Washington D.C.

Holeman Lounge Room

Speakers

Mark Newton - Samsung

Mark Newton

Head of Corporate Sustainability

Samsung Electronics North America

Mark Newton is head of Corporate Sustainability at Samsung Electronics in North America, where he leads operational sustainability strategy and governance for one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers in its largest global market. Mark’s specialty is cross-functional stakeholder engagement and corporate strategy with a focus on risk management and product and business process innovation. Mark has led corporate social responsibility, ESG, and sustainability for some of the world’s most respected companies, including Motorola, Apple, Dell, and VF Outdoor brands, including Timberland, Vans, and The North Face, achieving top rankings for sustainability and environmental performance. Mark holds a Doctorate and Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Chemistry from the University of New Hampshire. He has served on numerous advisory boards and panels, including the National Academy of Sciences, the SC Johnson Foundation, the World Resources Institute, Clean Production Action, and E-Stewards, and he is a director of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance, an agroforestry social enterprise operating in Haiti

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Kate Peretti

Program Manager

U.S. Department of Energy

Kate Peretti, PhD, is the Program Manager the Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) Secure and Sustainable Materials subprogram. Prior to this, she was the Program Manager for the AMO Consortia pillar. She came to AMO as a AAAS Science and Technology Fellow in 2018, where she worked primarily on projects funded through the RAPID Institute on process intensification and modularization. Her portfolio includes material sustainability where she works on material recyclability, particularly of plastics, and topics related to the circular economy.

Prior to arriving at DOE, she spent a decade in industry where she worked in chemicals research as a lab supervisor and product manager.

She graduated with a BA in Chemistry and Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and earned her PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cornell in 2007.

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Jeffrey Pacuska

Lead - Office of Future Technology Transition

US Army DEVCOM-Soldier Center

Jeff Pacuska leads the Office of Future Technologies Transition at the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Soldier Center
(DEVCOM-SC, Natick MA), and as the DOD Program Manager for the Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles Manufacturing Innovation Institute supporting the
Undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Directorate. He previously worked as a DEVCOM Portfolio Manager, and as an Assistant Product
Manager within the US Army PEO-SOLDIER.  In
those roles, Jeff has been responsible for the development and fielding of new capabilities in the areas of environmental protection, water purification, wearable technologies, and CBRN defense. He is an expert in all aspects of Program Management and Systems Engineering. Jeff received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Tufts University, an M.S. in Materials System Engineering Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

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Corey Dehmey

CEO

SERI

Serving as the CEO of SERI, a global non-profit organization based in the United States, Corey Dehmey is a champion of building practical solutions toward electronics sustainability, with the goals of protecting the planet and enriching lives around the world. Spanning over 25 years in the electronics industry, Corey’s diverse background touches nearly the entire electronics lifecycle, including having worked in IT support, ITAD, data destruction, reverse logistics, reuse, and recycling. It’s this wide range of experience that gives Corey a broad view of the electronics sustainability challenge, simultaneously considering the varied perspectives of many stakeholders including the electronics industry, businesses, government, manufacturers, and individual consumers.

 

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David Wagger

Chief Scientist & Director of Environmental Management

Recycled Materials Association (ReMA)

Dr. David Wagger is Chief Scientist and Director of Environmental Management at the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) in Washington, DC. He has more than 30 years of experience in environmental engineering, policy, regulation, science, and technology, including 20 years at ReMA. He assists ReMA members with environmental compliance and management, represents ReMA and the recycled materials industry on federal and state environmental regulatory matters, and serves on external panels and working groups on R&D, science, and sustainability, including the REMADE Institute in various capacities. David holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from, respectively, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow and minored in political science.

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Erica Terek

Senior Director, Sustainability Criteria Development

Global Electronics Council

As Senior Director, Sustainability Criteria Development, Erica leads the development of lifecycle, science-based sustainability criteria for GEC’s EPEAT ecolabel product categories.

Erica has decades of professional experience in the environment, health, safety, and sustainability field. She has worked across disciplines and geographies to facilitate the development and communication of consensus positions for a range of product environmental issues in the electronics industry, from best practices to reduce embodied carbon to circularity and supply chain due diligence.

Erica is passionate about bringing diverse sets of stakeholders together to find common ground on complicated sustainability issues and making a difference.

Prior to joining GEC, Erica held various positions including most recently as a Senior Product Environment Regulatory Engineer with Dell Technologies. Erica has a B.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology, an M.S. from the University of Rochester, and a Masters in International Public Policy (MIPP), environmental policy focus, from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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AgendaSubject to Change

9:30 AM

Registration & Networking

Coffee & Light Refreshments

10:00 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Nabil Nasr

CEO, REMADE Institute

10:07 AM

U.S. Department of Energy Welcome

Kate Peretti

Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy

10:15 AM

State of the Institute

Nabil Nasr

CEO, REMADE Institute

10:45 AM

Keynote Speaker

New Era Economics & the Case for Circularity

Mark Newton

Head of Corporate Sustainability, Samsung Electronics North America

11:15 AM

Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat

Jeff Pacuska

Lead - Office of Future Technology Transition, US Army DEVCOM-Soldier Center

11:45 AM

Lunch

12:45 PM

Keynote Panel

Corey Dehmey

CEO, SERI

David Wagger

Chief Scientist, ReMA

Erica Terek

Senior Director, Global Electronics Council

1:45 PM

Technology Portfolio Review

Magdi Azer

CTO, REMADE Institute

2:15 PM

REMADE Project Updates

Commercial Removal of Fe & Mn from Molten Aluminum Scrap Melts

Subodh Das

Phinix LLC

2:30 PM

Advancing the Sorting of Textiles for Recycling

Paschalis Alexandridis

University of Buffalo

2:45 PM

Remaking of Recyclable Multilayer Barrier Films

Hengxi Chen

UMass-Lowell

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Strategic Interest Groups Overview

Ed Daniels

Senior Project Manager, REMADE Institute

John Kreckel

Director of Membership & Workforce Development, REMADE Institute

3:45 PM

Education & Workforce Development

Overview & Updates

John Kreckel

Director of Membership & Workforce Development, REMADE Institute

4:00 PM

Short Courses in Software Tools for Alloy and Process Optimization

Eric Payton

Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati

4:15 PM

Closing Remarks

Magdi Azer

CTO, REMADE Institute

4:30 PM

Adjourn

Questions?Email us your questions at contact@remadeinstitute.org

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October, 8-9, 2024in Rochester, New York

October, 8-9, 2024in Rochester, New York

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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The MEETING Location

This year’s Member Meeting will take place in REMADE’s headquarters city of Rochester, NY, located in Upstate New York’s beautiful Finger Lakes Region and wine country and an hour’s drive from Niagara Falls.

Rochester Institute of Technology CampusGolisano Institute for Sustainability’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) Conference Center - Located in Louise Slaughter Hall (Bldg 78)

Last Year's Member Meeting

More than 130 REMADE members and partners from across the country joined us at the Institute’s 2023 Member Meeting in Rochester, New York. Attendees heard insights from renowned keynote speakers, explored emerging technologies, discussed industry trends, heard the latest innovation updates from project teams, and learned more about the Institute’s newest education and workforce development offerings. 

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