Circularity Unleashed
Circularity Unleashed
Join us as we interview the author of the book, CIRCULARITY UNLEASHED. Dennis Dahrendorff has worked more than 15 years in the consumer electronics, including buyback, trade-in, electronics insurance, refurbishment, and international resale.
Speakers
Track: Retail & Future of Commerce
Language: English
Access: Trade Visitors Only
The book CIRCULARITY UNLEASHED explores the structural challenges behind circular business models — from sourcing and diagnostics to repair, remarketing, recycling and large-scale system design.
Author Dennis Dahrendorff will share why traditional circular electronics initiatives frequently stall when treated as ESG marketing rather than rigorous economic systems governed by unit economics and reverse logistics.
Through concrete operational insights across take-back, diagnostics, repair, and remarketing, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers will learn how to design trade-in and refurbishment workflows that actually scale profitably.
By the end of the session, attendees will walk away with a clear blueprint to turn their device returns and residual value recovery into sustainable commercial growth rather than a compliance cost center. Learn
• Why many circular economy initiatives fail once they scale
• How time, uncertainty and decision speed determine value creation
• Where circular systems leak capital and operational stability
• How repair, refurbishment and remarketing interact under real market conditions
• What it takes to build circular models that are economically durable