About
A Circular economy - one where waste is eliminated and resources circulated - is critical to a sustainable future. And as with most sustainability challenges, manufacturers and engineers are on the front line of this battle.

In this panel session we will bring together experts from different sectors and disciplines to explore the key role that engineers and manufacturers will play in realising the transition to a circular economy and to explore the practical steps they can take to make this happen.

Touching on examples of the circular economy in action, we will consider the challenges and benefits of a circular model for engineering, and look at the tools and technologies that can facilitate this new paradigm of production.

Attendees will learn about:

• Challenges and benefits for manufacturers
• The role of digitalisation
• Practical first steps toward a circular economy
• Skills for a circular economy
• Examples of the circular economy in action
Presenters
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Nial Greeves
Director - Energy - Frazer-Nash Consultancy
Nial Greeves is Energy Director at Frazer-Nash Consultancy, responsible for leading a department that comprises of 200 staff across 10 locations. The strategic aim of this part of the Frazer-Nash business is to use its expertise to help customers manage their transition to low carbon, and to play a real part in shaping the future energy infrastructure. With an extensive knowledge of the energy sector, Nial has managed major, multi million pound projects on both operational and decommissioning power plants. Nial is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Nuclear Institute.
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Ann Watson
CEO - Enginuity
Ann Watson has been the Chief Executive of Enginuity Group (formerly known as Semta) since 2014 and works strategically with engineering employers to identify and develop solutions to the many skills challenges within the sector.

With over 20 years of experience in the skills and engineering sectors, Ann has a unique breadth and depth of knowledge, developed through a variety of senior roles in relevant organisations.

Ann is currently helping to shape skills policy through her dominant role as a National Manufacturing Skills Task Force group member and is leading the Enginuity Group through another major transformation programme to be a digital organisation, delivering digital solutions to solve the sector skills challenges of today and tomorrow. She is also a non-executive director of EAL, Engineering Council and Derwent Training Association.
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Bertram Stern
Sustainability Manager for Arburg
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Fiona Charnley
Co-Director
Associate Professor of Circular Economy and Co-Director of the Centre for the Circular Economy, University of Exeter Business School

Dr Fiona Charnley is Associate Professor of Circular Economy and Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for Circular Economy within the University of Exeter Business School. Fiona works and has published extensively within the field of design, innovation and manufacture for a circular economy. She is Co-Director of the recently funded UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub harnessing the UK’s leading research capabilities; creating new knowledge, tools, behaviours and relationships to capture economic, social and environmental value from a Circular Economy. Fiona leads multiple government and industry-funded research projects and has extensive experience of working with organisations from across sectors to identify new approaches to design, innovation, manufacture and business modelling in the transition towards a circular economy.
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Andrew Wade
Host - Senior Reporter for The Engineer
Andrew Wade is senior reporter for The Engineer, where he has worked since 2015. Over the course of his journalism career he has covered everything from Irish general elections, Premier League football and the Japanese tsunami of 2011, to maritime satellite technology and the latest trends in robotics, renewables and the entire kaleidoscope of the engineering world.
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