WHAT IS CIRCULAR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT? INTRODUCTION TO ECODESIGN SPRINT Date: 12th Feb 9 – 16 Venue: Kalvarijų St. 1, 2nd Floor, Vilnius
This one-day event is an inspiring combination of learning, doing and brainstorming! The day is based on EcoDesign Sprint, a holistic 3-day business development programme aiming to find new business opportunities. The Sprint was developed as part of EU project called EcoDesign Circle, and to date the Sprint has been successfully run together with six client companies and six design agencies in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. During this introductory day the participants will learn the key principles and tools of EcoDesign Sprint through various workshop exercises. The participants have an opportunity to test the tools, discuss and reflect the ideas on their own business operations. The event is targeted at SMEs, designers and innovators, but we welcome everybody who is interested in learning more about a circular economy and how the circular economy approach can help identifying new business opportunities as well as developing new products and services.
Programme:
9:00 Coffee and registration 9:15 Welcome! Lithuanian Design Forum 9:25 Introductions 9:30 Circular economy: key principles, Anne Raudaskoski 10:20 Exercise I (team work) Coffee break (15min) 11:00 Circular design & lifecycle model 11:45 Exercise II (team work) Lunch 12:30 Exercise II continues 13:00 Circular business models & exercise III 13: 45 Working on the lifecycle model (team/individual work) Coffee (15min) 14:15 Prioritising new business opportunities 15:15 Taking next steps 15:45 Discussion and wrap&up 16:00 Goodbye!
Anne Raudaskoski
Anne Raudaskoski is a Co-founder and Principal Consultant of Ethica, an internationally recognised circular economy consultancy. Anne managed the consumer interface project in the Relooping Fashion Initiative, which was highly commended at the prestigious Circulars2016 competition and chosen as one of the most innovative circular projects in Sustainia 100 publication. In addition to working with a number of companies, some of her current works include the development of circular narrative – a marketing tool for circular products; Circular Economy Ecosystem development as part of the European Raw Materials programme and collaboration with the Finnish Technology Industries. Anne was one of the ten international experts invited to Reunion Island to contribute to the circular economy strategy of the region in 2016. She has given international key note presentations in Beijing, Amsterdam and Berlin and has written the 'Boosting circular design for a circular economy' report (2015) together with the Dutch partner called De Groene Zaak. In her previous role she used to work as a Sustainability Manager at the University of Westminster, London. Together with Design Forum Finland Anne has developed and facilitated EcoDesign Sprint, a business development programme for SMEs interested in boosting competitive advantage through circular economy approach. To date the Sprint has been successfully piloted in Finland, Sweden and Estonia with six client companies and six design agencies.