
2021 Speakers
From L-Z

Laksh Sampat
Sr. CBG Manager
Bank of the West
Event: Inspiring Circularity Through Different Lenses

Laurence Carr
CEO
Laurence Carr Inc.
Event: The State of Circular Practices

Lars Olesen
Partner & Chairman
Better World Fashion
Event: Internationalization Strategies for Sustainable Fashion & Textile

Leslie Rodgers
Director, Education & Business Dev.
Atlas Organics
Event: Creating Resilient Food Systems

Lindsey Casella
Senior Global Marketing Manager
Loop
Event: Sustainable Beauty Circle

Louis Grasso
Managing Partner
Urban Mining Northeast
Event: Recycling Glass to Improve Concrete

Manuel Maqueda
CEO of SUPER
CE Teacher, University of California
Event: Making Plastic-Free Cities a Reality

Márcia Álvaro
International Business Development Manager
Montana Furniture
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design

Matthew Tonello
Project Executive
Consigli Construction Company
Event: Skyscrapers of Wood?

Meagan Knowlton
Director Sustainability
Optoro
Event: Circular Economy – Looping on Data

Michael Lundgaard Thomsen
Managing Director
Aalborg Portland
Event: Challenge: Carbon & Circularity
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Michael Reed
- Pioneer Speaker
Team Lead, Advanced Efficiency Solutions
NYSERDA
Event: Challenge: Carbon & Circularity

Michelle Wiseman
Director of Waste Diversion
City of Atlanta
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse!

Mike Izzo
Vice President of Construction
Hines
Event: Circular Systems and The Built Environment

Nanna Høegh Ravn
Co-owner
LNH Water
Event: Water In The City: Bringing Circularity To Urban Water Management

Nina Goodrich
Executive Director
SPC, GreenBlue
Event: The Big Interview

Oliver Dudok van Heel
- Pioneer Speaker
Head of Client Sustainability & Environment
Freshfields
Event: Opening Ceremony

Paul Mankiewicz
Co-Founder and Ecological Engineer,
Leaf Island
Event: Ecological Infrastructure: Key to Carbon Capture in The Evolution of Cities

Peter Kelly
Group Director of Sustainable Operations
ISG
Event: RIBA Stage 5, Manufacturing and Construction

Peter Tzannes
Compost Operations Manager
The Lower East Side Ecology Center
Event: LES Ecology Center Tour

Philip White
Chair, Sustainability Section IDSA Assistant Professor, ASU
Event: Close That Loop Ideathon

Rachel Kibbe
CEO and Founder
Circular Services Group
Event: From Waste to Fashion

René Stenvang
Founder
Hoppekids
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design

Rob Kaplan
CEO
Circulate Capital
Event: The Big Interview: Rob Kaplan

Robin Nagle
Clinical Professor, Anthropologist
New York University
Event: Energy & Waste

Rune Kirt
CEO
KIRT x THOMSEN
Event: Prosumer Energy Network for New York and Beyond

Ryan Kanzler
Head of Sustainability for North and Latin America
HP
Event: Are We at a Turning Point?

Sam Bennett
Co-founder of Clever/Slice, Design Researcher and Educator at Parsons School of Design
Event: Full Circle Furniture

Saman Sarbazvatan
Research Fellow
CERC & CEA
Event: Upskilling and Reskilling: Building a Foundation for the Circular Economy

Sarah Currie-Halpern
Co-founder and Partner
Think Zero
Event: Commercial Properties and CE

Scott O’Connell
- Pioneer Speaker
Director of Environmental Affairs
Dell Technologies
Event: Opening Ceremony

Sinead Flanagan Murphy
Policy and Planning Strategist, Circular Economy
City of Toronto
Event: Making public-private innovation work

Stan Chen
Co-Founder & CEO
RecycleGO
Event: Leveraging Blockchain to Verify a Circular Value Chain for Recycled Plastics

Stephanie Potter
Executive Director, Sustainability and Circular Economy Program
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Event: Are We at a Turning Point?

Susan Ruffo
Senior Advisor to Circulate Capital, The Circulate Initiative & the UN Foundation
Event: Circularity for Clean Healthy Cities and Seas

Tamara Cohen
Executive Director
Remix Market NYC
Event: Launch of the OSC

Teemu Halme
Anttinen Oiva Architechts
Event: Skyscrapers of Wooed?

Tok Michelle Oyewole
Policy and Communications Organizer
NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
Event: #SaveOurCompost; Visions for composting in NYC

Tone Søndergaard
Founding Director of Circular City Week
Danish Cleantech Hub New York
Event: Opening Ceremony
Closing Celebration
Challenge: Carbon & Circularity

Troels Dam Madsen
Project Manager
Henning Larsen Architects
Event: Accelerating The Circular Transition In The Built Environment

Ursula Kaczmarek
Lead Researcher
Open Trash Lab
Event: The Circular Economy - The Role of Citizens

Vik Rai
Organizer
The Uptown Fridge in Manhattan
Event: Making Circles

Vlatka Katusic
Research Fellow at the CERC
Ecole des Ponts Business School (EPBS)
Event: Workshop: Digitalisation and Skills in a Circular Economy

Will Sibia
Founder
Urban Systems
Event: Circular Systems and The Built Environment

Laura Beres
Sr. Director, Strategic Portfolio Delivery
Ulta Beauty
Event: Sustainable Beauty Circle

Laureen Meroueh
CEO
Alchemr
Event: Cleantech Open Kickoff Webinar

Lars Ravn Nielsen
CEO
Gemidan Ecogi
Event: Food Waste & Biogas

Lexi Schladenhauffen
Chief Experience Officer
1888 Mills
Event: Textile-to-Textile Circularity

Liza Lubell
Founder
Garbage Goddess and Peartree Flowers
Event: Making Circles

Lotte Breengaard
Program Director of Urban Partnerships
BLOXHUB
Event: Co-creating a Circular Campus

Mark Phillips
President
Phillips Collection
Event: The State of Circular Practices

Matthieu Soulé
Head of Innovation Lab
BNP Paribas
Event: Inspiring Circularity Through Different Lenses

Mayealie Adams
Director of Compliance, Political and Government Affairs
Philips, North America
Event: Are We at a Turning Point?

Michael Cyr
Co-Founder and Chief Cup Officer
Cup Zero
Event: The Reusable City

Michael Martinez
LA Compost
Event: Municipal Parks & Composting

Michael Van Brunt
Sr. Director, Sustainability
Covanta
Event: Waste & Energy

Midushi Kochhar
Designer and Founder
Ylem Lab
Event: Making Circles

Mike DeLucia
Principal
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Event: Insights Into Financing the Circular Economy

Nick Johnson
Founder
Open Trash Lab
Event: The Circular Economy - The Role of Citizens

Norman Vossschulte
Director of Fan Engagement
Philadelphia Eagles
Event: The Power of Sport for a Circular Economy: A Philly Special

Oskar Norelius
Architect SAR/MSA
White Arkitekter
Event: Skyscrapers of Wood?

Paul Humphrey
Donations Coordinator
Materials for the Arts
Event: Guided Tour of Materials for the Arts

Peter Swallow
Associate
Grimshaw Architects
Event: RIBA Stage 5, Manufacturing and Construction

Phoebe Mankiewicz
Head of Research of Leaf Island, Interdisciplinary Scientist
Event: Ecological Infrastructure: Key to Carbon Capture in The Evolution of Cities

Pia Huusfelt
Business Leader of Circular Economy, Transformation and Innovation,
Ingka Group (IKEA)
Event: The Future of Furniture?

Rama Chorpash
Associate Professor of Product Design
Parsons The New School
Event: The State of Circular Practices

Ricky Silver
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Daily Harvest
Event: 3rd Annual EGE

Rob Watson
Founder & President
SWEEP
Event: Defining & Verifying Material Circularity

Rolf Ekroth
Fashion Designer
Event: From Waste to Fashion

Rusne Sileryte
Co-founder & CTO
geoFluxus
Event: Measuring the Circular Economy in Cities: Learning from Best Practices

Ryan Torres
Assistant Vice President of Parks Operations, Battery Park City Authority
Event: Tour of Battery Parks Zero Waste Facility

Samuel Pressman
Ecological Systems Designer
Natural Works
Event: 3rd Annual EGE

Sandra Goldmark
Associate Professor, Director of Campus Sustainability & Climate Action
Barnard College
Event: Co-creating a Circular Campus

Sarah Templin
Product and Material Designer, Part-time faculty of product design at Parsons School of Design
Event: Full Circle Furniture

Shruti Parikh
Co-Chair, Sustainability Section IDSA Associate Director, Takeda Pharma
Event: Close That Loop Ideathon

Simonil Rustomji
Former COO
mebl | Transforming Furniture
Event: The Future of Furniture?

Stephanie Benedetto
Founder and CEO
Queen of Raw
Event: The Future of Fashion is Bio-Based and Compostable

Steven Usdan
Founder
Giotex
Event: Textile-to-Textile Circularity

Sophie Liu
Business Development Manager for North America
Loop
Event: Circular Collaborations for Change

Tara St James
Founder
Re:Source(d)
Event: The Future of Fashion is Bio-Based and Compostable

Tim Conway
VP of Sustainability
Shaw Industries
Event: Powering Circularity through Product Transparency

Tanya Woods
General Council
Hut 8 Mining Group
Event: Launch of the OSC

Torsten Andersen
Deputy Director
Danish Business Authority
Event: Circular Economy – Looping on Data

Umaimah Sharwani
Vice President Operations
Bravo Sierra
Event: Innovating Personal Care & Cleaning Products for Tomorrow

Ushma Pandya
Co-Founder & Partner
Think Zero
Event: Dishwasher Roles are Green Jobs
How Can ESG Help in Buildings?
The Reusable City

Vigga Svensson
CEO
Continued
Event: Circular Economy – Looping on Data

Walter Brigham
Senior Business Development Manager
Lenzing Group
Event: The State of Circular Practices

Xander Shaw
Compost Operations Coordinator
Big Reuse
Event: Composting Tour, Gowanus Canal

Lauren DeSteno
Corporate Executive Chef
Altamarea Group
Event: Lessons from a Resilient Restaurant During Covid

Larissa Lai
Community Development Researcher
MicroFood Hub
Event: 3rd Annual EGE

Lars Schrøder
CEO
Aarhus Water
Event: The Big Circular Ambition

Lise Walbom
CEO
Food Nation
Event: Turning Agriculture Upside Down

Lon Epstein
Director Of Sales And Business Dev.
The Junkluggers of NYC
Event: Creative Reuse & Public-Private Partnerships

Maité Ortiz
Circular Economy Manufacturing
Event: Get Started Composting: Supporting the Biological Cycle

Marianna Koval
Director, Invest NYC, Center for Sustainable Business, NYU-Stern School of Business
Event: Recycling Glass to Improve Concrete

Matthew Greenley
Research Fellow
CERC & CEA
Event: Upskilling and Reskilling: Building a Foundation for the Circular Economy

Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli
USCC Board of Directors, Director of Common Ground Compost LLC
Event: Municipal Parks & Composting

Michael Fishman
Co-Founder of Leaf Island, Principal of City Planning at Mott MacDonald
Event: Ecological Infrastructure: Key to Carbon Capture in The Evolution of Cities

Michael Plaster
- Pioneer Speaker
Executive Vice President & Lead Business Manager, Electrification
ABB US
Event: Closing Celebration

Mitchell Grant
Property Manager
RXR
Event: Commercial Properties and CE

Mik Strøyberg
CEO
Good Monday
Event: Internationalization Strategies for Sustainable Fashion & Textile

Mike Newman
CEO
Returnity
Event: Zero Waste Showcase for Business

Nicole Spina
Senior Project Manager & Circular Economy Lead
NYC Economy Development Corporation
Event: Opening Ceremony

Olayinka Credle
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Melanin Essentials
Event: Sustainable Beauty Circle

Patrick Moloney
Market Director Strategic Sustainability Consulting
Rambøll
Event: Circular Economy – Looping on Data

Pete Lankford
VP of Design
Erem
Event: Powering Circularity through Product Transparency

Peter Perrault
Senior Manager of Circular Economy Enel Group
Event: Inclusive Circular City Design
Inspiring Circularity Through Different Lenses

Phil Vos
Program Director of Urban Partnerships
Energy Vision
Event: 3rd Annual EGE

Poul Ejner
President
Renew Energy
Event: Food Waste & Biogas

Rasmus Bjerngaard
Co-founder CEO
Nextfood
Event: Turning Agriculture Upside Down

Rich Grousset
Senior Vice President
Business Development at Re:Dish
Event: Dishwasher Roles are Green Jobs
The Reusable City

Robert Rising
Principal
NYCitySlab
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse

Ruby Pittman
Vision 2048
Event: Group future-vision

Ryan Cooper
- Pioneer Speaker
Director of Circular Solutions
Rubicon
Event: Creating Resilient Food Systems

Saba Williams
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Melanin Essentials
Event: Sustainable Beauty Circle

Samantha Sommer
Director of Business Innovation
UPSTREAM
Event: The Reusable City

Sandy Nurse
Founder of BK Rot, New York City Council candidate
Event: Using Policy to Enable Circularity

Scott Allison
Senior Project Manager
CLEAN
Event: Water In The City: Bringing Circularity To Urban Water Management

Silvia Khurrum
Senior Engineer in R&D
Con Edison
Event: Waste & Energy

Shannon Goodman
Director
Lifecycle Building Center
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse

Stephanie Erwin
Co-Founder
Cahoots Co
Event: The Life of Jeans

Susan Inglis
Executive Director
The Sustainable Furnishing Council
Event: The State of Circular Practices

Søren Nielsen
Sales and Marketing
Circle Supply
Event: Design for Life – The Danish Way to Circular Design

Tazia Smith
Managing Director
Closed Loop Partners
Event: Insights Into Financing the Circular Economy

Tim C. McAloone
Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Event: Making the Transition to a Circular Economy (MATChE)

Tom Kennedy
- Pioneer Speaker
Principle & Circular Economy Lead
Arup
Event: Closing Celebration
Inspiring Circularity Through Different Lenses

Tricia Carey
Director of Global Business Development
Lenzing Group
Event: Textile-to-Textile Circularity

Urban Blomster
Market Director
Södra Building System
Event: Skyscrapers of Wood?

Valentino Vettori
Founder
Arcadia Earth
Event: Circular Collaborations for Change

Prof. Vasilis Katos
Senior Research Fellow at the CERC
Ecole des Ponts Business School (EPBS)
Event: Workshop: Digitalisation and Skills in a Circular Economy

Whitney Frances Falk
Founder & CEO
ZZ Driggs
Event: The Future of Furniture?

Yarden Harari
Associate
CallisonRTKL
Event: Activating Building Material Reuse