2021 Speakers
Circular City Week is an opportunity to meet and learn from circular pioneer, international frontrunners, local champions and innovative business professionals.
Below overview is a guide to which event they spoke at. In 2021 almost 300 speakers contributed to making this the biggest circular economy festival in the US.
2021 Speakers
From A-K
Adam Friedberg
Principal
Buro Happold NY
Event: Prosumer Energy Network for New York and Beyond
Alessio Franconi
Research Fellow
CERC & CEA
Event: Upskilling and Reskilling: Building a Foundation for the Circular Economy
Alice Henry
Senior Project Coordinator
Share Reuse Repair Initiative
Event: Sharing, Reuse, and Repair
Anastasia Plakias
Co-Founder
Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farms
Event: A Conscious Kitchen
Anoop Nannra
Chair
Open Sustainability Collaborative
Event: Launch of the OSC
Amy Musanti
Director of Sustainability
ASSA ABLOY
Event: Powering Circularity through Product Transparency
Anna Sherman
Donations Coordinator
Remix Market NYC
Event: Creative Reuse & Public-Private Partnerships
Antto Kauhanen
Business Development Manager
Stora Enso
Event: Skyscraper of Wood?
Ash Richards
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Event: Municipal Parks & Composting
Barent Roth
Circular Economy Manufacturing
Event: Get Started Composting: Supporting the Biological Cycle
Benjamin Rodney
NY President Elect
ASHRAE
Event: Prosumer Energy Network for NY
Circular Sys & Built Environment
Bob Guarnaccia
Vice President
Major Accounts, Royal Waste Services
Event: Waste & Energy
Camilla Haustrup Hermansen
Director and co-owner
Plus Pack
Event: The Big Circular Ambition
Cassia Patel
Program Director
Oceanic Global's SUPR
Event: The Power of Sport for a Circular Economy: A Philly Special
Celeste Rose
Circular Economy Manufacturing
Event: Get Started Composting: Supporting the Biological Cycle
Chizoba Nwobodo
- Pioneer Speaker
Senior Engineer
Arup
Event: Inspiring Circularity Through Different Lenses
Chris Voell
Head of Waste & Biogas
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Trade Council
Event: Food Waste & Biogas
Cody Irwin
Founder
ShareWares
Event: Launch of the OSC
Dan Bergsagel
Structural Engineer
Schlaich Bergermann Partner
Event: Accelerating The Circular Transition In The Built Environment
Daniel Lawson
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Event: Municipal Parks & Composting
David Rachelson
- Pioneer Speaker
Chief Sustainability Officer
Rubicon
Event: Opening Ceremony
Deb Singer
Cofounder
BRINGiT
Event: Circular Collaborations for Change
Dylan Beach
Sustainability Manager
GOJO
Event: Innovating Personal Care & Cleaning Products for Tomorrow
Elizabeth Balkan
Director, North America
Reloop Platform
Event: Maximizing Circularity in US Beverage Packaging
Using Policy to Enable Circularity
Enzo Favoino
Scientific Committee Chair
Zero Waste Europe
Event: Using Policy to Enable Circularity
Faith Legendre
Circular Economy Solutions Strategist
Event: Launch of the OSC
Francois Souchet
Lead of Make Fashion Circular
The Ellen Macarthur Foundation
Event: From Waste to Fashion
Gabriella Constantinou
Fashion & Textile Designer
Lifestyle & Design Cluster
Event: Internationalization Strategies for Sustainable Fashion & Textile
Gavin White
Director
Ramboll UK
Event: Accelerating The Circular Transition In The Built Environment
Ginger Spencer
Director, Public Works
City of Phoenix
Event: Using Policy to Enable Circularity
Hossein Rezai Jorabi
Director
Web Structures
Event: Accelerating The Circular Transition In The Built Environment
Henrik Grand Petersen
CEO
Stena Recycling
Event: The Big Circular Ambition
Igor Bronz
Co-Founder of Leaf Island, Geotechnical Engineer of Hydrologist
Event: Ecological Infrastructure: Key to Carbon Capture in The Evolution of Cities
Jaclyn Hochreiter
Director of Client Services
Foodprint Group
Event: Lessons from a Resilient Restaurant During Covid
Jasmine Johnson
Horticulturist & Zero Waste Team Leader, Battery Park City Authority
Event: Tour of Battery Parks Zero Waste Facility
James Souder
Circular Economy Consultant
Metabolic
Event: Maximizing Circularity in US Beverage Packaging
Jennifer June
Founder of Loose Parts, Part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design
Event: Full Circle Furniture
Jessica Becker
Project Coordinator Architect
Föreningen Trästad Sverige
Event: Skyscrapers of Wood?
John Holm
VP of Strategic Initiatives
PYXERA Global
Event: Inclusive Circular City Design
John Mascari
Co-Founder & COO
Blueland
Event: Innovating Personal Care & Cleaning Products for Tomorrow
Jonathan T. Scott
Senior Research Fellow
CERC & CEA
Event: Upskilling and Reskilling: Building a Foundation for the Circular Economy
Joyce Halloun
Project Coordinator
CERC & CEA
Event: Upskilling and Reskilling: Building a Foundation for the Circular Economy
Joshua Singer
DC Parks and Recreation
Event: Municipal Parks & Composting
Kara Napolitano
Education and Outreach Coordinator
Sims Municipal Recycling
Event: Tour of Sims Municipal Recycling
Kate Daly
Managing Director, Center for the Circular Economy
Closed Loop Partners
Event: The Future of Furniture?
Kathrine Overgaard Warberg
Head of Program, Circular Economy Copenhagen
City of Copenhagen
Event: Making public-private innovation work
Kellan Stanner
Compost Operations Coordinator
The Lower East Side Ecology Center
Event: LES Ecology Center Tour
Keri Browder
Cities Project Director
Ocean Conservancy
Event: Circularity for Clean Healthy Cities & Seas
Kristy Caylor
CEO & Co-Founder
For Days
Event: Insights Into Financing the Circular Economy
Kyle Jeremiah
Comm. and Community Engagement
Energy Vision
Event: 3rd Annual EGE
Alan Cohn
Managing Director of New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Event: Water In The City: Bringing Circularity To Urban Water Management
Alejandra Arce-Gomez
Material Repurposing Program Lead
Madrone/GCI General
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse
Alissa Baier-Lentz
Co-Founder and COO
Kintra Fibers
Event: The Future of Fashion is Bio-Based and Compostable
Anders Lendager
Founder and CEO
Lendager Group
Event: Challenge: Carbon & Circularity
Amanda Parkes
Chief Innovation Officer
PANGAIA
Event: The Future of Fashion is Bio-Based and Compostable
Anna Dengler
Senior Sustainability Advisor
Great Forest
Event: Commercial Properties and CE
Anthony Abbotts
Director Group Sustainability
ROCKWOOL International
Event: Closing Celebration
Amanda Kaminsky
Founder + Principal
Building Product Ecosystems
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse
Recycling Glass to Improve Concrete
Ashima Sukhdev
North America Programs Lead
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Event: Opening Ceremony
Bella LaMartina
Circular Economy Manufacturing
Event: Get Started Composting: Supporting the Biological Cycle
Beth Zonis
Director
Cleantech Open Northeast
Event: Cleantech Open Kickoff Webinar
Bridget Croke
Managing Director
Closed Loop Partners
Event: Inclusive Circular City Design
Caroline Brown
Managing Director
Closed Loop Partners
Event: From Waste to Fashion
Cecelia Mercer
Sustainability Coordinator
Chipotle
Event: Creating Resilient Food Systems
Cheryl Smyre
Director of Advanced Materials
Parkdale Mills
Event: Textile-to-Textile Circularity
Christine Facella
Founder of Modest, Product Designer and Landscape Architect
Event: Full Circle Furniture
Clare Miflin
Founder
Center for Zero Waste Design
Event: #SaveOurCompost
How Can ESG Help in Buildings?
Colin Rose
Architect, Researcher
UCL
Event: Accelerating The Circular Transition In The Built Environment
Cisco Pinedo
Co-Founder & CEO
ReFoundry
Event: The Future of Furniture?
Darryl Young
Director, Sustainable Cities Program
Summit Foundation
Event: Using Policy to Enable Circularity
Daniela Pigosso
Associate Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Event: Making the Transition to a Circular Economy (MATChE)
Denis Hayes
CEO
Bullitt Foundation
Event:The Big Interview: Denis Hayes
Eleanor Ansell
Data Analyst, Metrics Team
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Event: Circulytics - How Measurement Can Empower Companies
Emily Bachman
Compost Program Manager
GrowNYC
Event: #SaveOurCompost; Visions for composting in NYC
Eva Gladek
Founder & CEO
Metabolic
Event: Inclusive Circular City Design
Fernando Ramirez
Managing Director
Hydraloop Systems
Event: Water In The City: Bringing Circularity To Urban Water Management
Frederic Clerc
Director, Carbon to Value Program
Urban Future Lab
Event: Challenge: Carbon & Circularity
Garr Punnett
Chief of Staff & Circular Economist
Rheaply
Event: Making public-private innovation work
Georg Spindler
Business Development Manager
Lenzing
Event: Circular Collaborations for Change
Harry Etra
CEO
HXE Partners
Event: How Can ESG Goals Help the Zero Waste Operations in Buildings?
Helena Glantz
Partner
Urban Design
Event: Prosumer Energy Network for New York and Beyond
Henrik Marstrand
Founder and CEO
Mater
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design
Jacob Kjeldsen
Director
Confederation of Danish Industry
Event: The Big Circular Ambition
Jason Phillips
Vice President
Phillips Collection
Event: The State of Circular Practices
Jasper Steinhausen
Fulfilment Director & Co-founder
Ouroboros
Event: Understand the Business Side of Circular Economy
Jane S. Wu
Waste Management Expert
Arcadis New York
Event: Measuring the Circular Economy in Cities: Learning from Best Practices
Jennifer McDonnell
Resource Recovery Program Manager
NYC Environmental Protection
Event: Waste & Energy
Jessica Schreiber
Founder
FABSCRAP
Event: Textile Waste with FABSCRAP
John Elkington
Founder and Chief Pollinator
Volans
Event: Inclusive Circular City Design
John Mongello
Vice President of Buidling Service
The Durst Organisation
Event: Commercial Properties and CE
Joost van Dun
Sustainable Finance & Circular Economy Lead
ING Wholesale Banking
Event: Are We at a Turning Point?
Justin Green
Executive Director + Founder
BIG Reuse
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse
Visions for composting in NYC
Jørgen Therkelsen
Houe
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design
Karin Calvinho
CTO
RenewCO2
Event: Cleantech Open Kickoff Webinar
Kate Kitchener
Chief of Staff Bureau of Recycling
NYC Department of Sanitation
Event: Textile-to-Textile Circularity
Kathy Pazakis
Executive VP, Commercial, TerraCycle
Event: Sustainable Beauty Circle
Kendall Christiansen
Principal
Gaia Strategies
Event: Recycling Glass to Improve Concrete
Kim Berg Jacobsen
CCO
Kvist Industries
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design
Kristen Fulmer
Founder
Recipric
Event: The Power of Sport for a Circular Economy: A Philly Special
Aguinaldo Dos Santos
Professor of Design
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Event: Making Circles
Alice Tedesco
Founder
MACTE STUDIOS
Event: Making Circles
Ana Carolina Oliveira
Director
Head of Sustainable Finance Americas
ING Capital LLC
Event: Are We at a Turning Point
Ann-Sofi Gaverstedt
Managing Director
Urbs Urban Systems
Event: Prosumer Energy Network for New York and Beyond
Amy Marpman
Director of Sustainability
SBM
Event: Commercial Properties and CE
Anna Sacks
Senior Associate
Think Zero LLC
Event: #SaveOurCompost; Visions for composting in NYC
Anthony Rossi
VP of Global Business Development
Loop
Event: Zero Waste Showcase for Business
Allison Arlotta
Board Member
Build Reuse
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse
Ausharre Harvey
Co-Founder and Head of Operations, Open Sustainability Collaborative
Event: Launch of OSC
Ben Kogan
Founder
Reusable Solutions
Event: Zero Waste Showcase for Business
Birgitte Langer
Business Development Director
SPOOR
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design
Camilla Haugsten
CEO & Co-founder
Ouroboros
Event: Understand the Business Side of Circular Economy
Caroline Priebe
Director of Sustainability
Center for the Advancement of Garment Making
Event: The Future of Fashion is Bio-Based and Compostable
Celeste McMickle
Director, TRUE Certification
US Green Building Council
Event: Zero Waste Showcase for Business
Commercial Properties and CE
How Can ESG Help in Buildings?
Defining & Verifying Material Circularity
Tour of Battery Parks Zero Waste Facility
Cheryl McCulloch
Senior Project Manager
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce
Event: Making public-private innovation work
Christina Grace
CEO
Foodprint Group
Event: Lessons from a Resilient Restaurant During Covid
Claus Mortensen
Business Development & Incubator Manager
Food & Bio Cluster Denmark
Event: Food Waste & Biogas
Connor Barwin
Founder
Make the World Better Foundation
Event: The Power of Sport for a Circular Economy
Daniel Larkin
Direct Donations Coordinator
Materials for the Arts
Event: Creative Reuse & Public-Private Partnerships
David Briefel
Sustainability Director
Gensler
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse
Deborah Nartey
Research Analyst
Footprints Africa
Event: What Can America Learn From Africa?
Devin Reitsma
Compost Project Director
Big Reuse
Event: Compost Tour, Queens Plaza
Eliza Edge
Co-Founder
Cahoots Co
Event: The Life of Jeans
Emma Gains
- Pioneer Speaker
Sustainable Development Lead, Arup Denmark
Event: Circular Economy – Looping on Data
Evelyn Ritter
Director of Customer Success
Toxnot
Event: Powering Circularity through Product Transparency
Florinda Saieva
General Director
FARM Cultural Park
Event: Making Circles
George Alexandris
Research Fellow at the CERC
Ecole des Ponts Business School (EPBS)
Event: Workshop: Digitalisation and Skills in a Circular Economy
Garry Cooper
CEO
Rheaply
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse
Giorgos Demetriou
Director of the CERC
Ecole des Ponts Business School (EPBS)
Event: Digitalisation & Skills in a Circular Economy
Upskilling and Reskilling
Herman Quarles
Consul General of the Netherlands in New York
Event: Maximizing Circularity in US Beverage Packaging
Hernan Ruiz
Research Fellow at the CERC
Ecole des Ponts Business School (EPBS)
Event: Workshop: Digitalisation and Skills in a Circular Economy
Hilari Varnadore
Vice President
LEED for Cities
Event: Defining & Verifying Material Circularity
Jacqueline Cramer
Professor of Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University and former Dutch Minister of Housing
Event: Measuring the Circular Economy in Cities: Learning from Best Practices
Jason Moore
Director of Service Solutions and Marketing
Grundfos
Event: Circular Economy – Looping on Data
James Ankenman
Harlem Grow
Event: Tour of IMPACT Farm
Dr. Jenna Jambeck
Professor of Environmental Engineering
University of Georgia
Event: Circularity for Clean Healthy Cities and Seas
Jerome Tinianow
Proprietor
Western Urban Sustainability Advisors
Event: Defining & Verifying Material Circularity
Joanna Bingham
CEO
Footprints Africa
Event: What Can America Learn From Africa?
John Lochner
- Pioneer Speaker
Vice President of Innovation
NYSERDA
Event: Closing Celebration
Challenge: Carbon & Circularity
Johnny Huang
CEO
Teratonix
Event: Cleantech Open Kickoff Webinar
Joppe Van Driel
Programme Developer CURe
AMS Institute
Event: Measuring the Circular Economy in Cities: Learning from Best Practices
Joshua Harrison
Co-Founder
Leaf Island
Event: Ecological Infrastructure: Key to Carbon Capture in The Evolution of Cities
Jyri Arponen
Senior Lead, Sustainability solutions
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund
Event: Making public-private innovation work
Kate Bailey
Policy and Research Director
Eco-Cycle
Event: Maximizing Circularity in US Beverage Packaging