Startups
The Circular Economists Community Events
Mary TeehanFree to attend, with an optional €10 contribution to support the chapter when you register. Registration needs approval so we can give the venue final numbers.
The Circular Economists Rotterdam meets at the Van Nelle Fabriek. The theme is how to build a circular supply chain from day one, with hydrogen and its infrastructure as the case.
In 2025 the CIRCO Elektrolysers track brought companies building electrolysers to one table with the people who would one day have to recycle them, and it produced the first electrolyser routekaart. The next step on that routekaart hasn't been taken yet. On this afternoon we pick it up again.
Programme
14:00 Doors open, coffee and tea
14:30 Welcome
14:40 The CIRCO Elektrolysers track: what worked, what didn't and where the gaps are (Joost van Uden)
15:00 How Circular Intelligence works on those gaps, and the launch of the CI Gears and the ISO 59000 upskilling (Alexander Forrest)
15:20 A circular product before the supply chain exists, and the first financing (Ernout van Koten, Conscious Aerospace)
15:40 Break
15:55 Panel led by Mary Teehan, with ISO 59000 trainer Hans Kröder, Luke Ratterman and questions from the room
16:25 Drinks and networking until 18:00
For founders and teams of start-ups and scale-ups, industry, investors and government working on hydrogen, materials and the chains around them.
Coffee by Origin Collective, our sponsor, with tea and snacks. Tim Wilmes of Wilmes Films photographs and films the afternoon.