Highlights from the Disruptive Innovation Festival

Denmark has long been seen as a nation leading the way in environmental practices. From their clean streets brimming with bicycles to their windfarms generating 40%+ of their electricity demand and their world-leading district heating programme, Denmark is the envy of many a country. Now they have turned their attention to a circular economy, what challenges lie ahead, and how might they overcome them? In this documentary, we look the adoption of a circular economy at the level of a nation, as we speak to parliamentarians, business leaders and energy firms from across Denmark.

Colin Webster of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation investigates how the city of Amsterdam is transforming into a hub of sharing and collaborative lifestyles. This video exemplifies how the sharing economy goes beyond car sharing and deeply looks into how neighbourhoods can collaborate for common needs.

3D Print Canal House are architects that are 3D printing an entire Canal House. A 3D printer you can stand inside in. Is this the future of construction?

Jeremy Howard and Rand Hindi, both at the forefront of developments and challenges posed by Deep Learning, will look at how life-changing machine learning will actually be. They will look at future implications and respond to input from the live studio audience.

Gretchen Hooker of the Biomimicry Institute and Colin Webster of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation discuss the crossovers between two frameworks: biomimicry and the circular economy. The video is intended as a conversation-starter, and it covers design, economics, and misconceptions of both frameworks. Both speakers have extensive knowledge of introducing their respective frameworks to educators.

In this webinar, Ken Webster will argue that our linear 'take-make-dispose' economy is a 19th century heritage adrift in the 21st century reality. The time is right to move towards a circular economy - a regenerative model based around feedback-rich flows allied to new business models. The economic advantage lies in designing out waste, enabling access over ownership, using materials in cascading systems and radical resource productivity with the prospect of rebuilding capital and resilience.

Leontino Balbo Jr has developed an approach to organic sugar cane production with the potential to disrupt the whole agricultural sector itself. Join this session to hear about Leontino’s work in more detail, the keys to its success and how it might impact the development of our global food systems in the future.

This session with Marshall Clemens will take a broad look at a map of the economy to provide a context for what our current capitalist system looks like today.

Project Ooho invented a new form of packaging water: in flexible plastic bubbles. This video features SustainRCA and Project Ooho.

Energy delivery and transportation are combined by InventEV, a Detroit-based start-up who have produced a truck that can take power to the scene. The concept will substantially reduce harmful emissions, save fuel and maintenance costs and generate temporary grid power. Featuring Dave Stenson.

Solartonic is a young Detroit-based company which develops innovative solar power solutions, including a vertically integrated solar street lamp and other building-integrated solar solutions. Hear from Founder Brian Tell about the benefits of the technology he's helped to develop, and what he sees as the next big thing in solar power.

Welcome to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s iTunes U channel, a resource and learning base for rethinking our economy. Colin Webster, our Education Content Manager, will quickly introduce you to this collection.

Vice-President and Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Competitiveness and Investment Jyrki Katainen, one of the key stakeholders in the process, and Former Danish Minister of the Environment and MP Ida Auken discuss the EU’s ambition to seize the considerable opportunity brought about by circular economy models.

Open Source is a development coming from the world of software and spreading nowadays to a lot of other areas - including hardware or physical objects in general. It is a methodology for collaboration. circular economy needs new forms of collaboration. If you put the definitions of Open Source and circular economy next to each other, you see that they overlap in many areas. In fact, it looks like Open Source could be the missing link for circular economy. And it might also look like, Open Source is the only or at least most promising way to a circular economy. Join this session to find out why. Lars Zimmermann, Economist: co founder OPENiT Agency (openitagency.eu) and Open Source Circular Economy Days (oscedays.org). Personal website larszimmermann.de Sam Muirhead, Activist & Consultant: Sam Muirhead (cameralibre.cc) promotes Open Source Hardware, Free Culture, Free Software and Open Data and develops methods and workflows to apply the open source concept to video and other areas outside of software. As part of the Open It Agency in Berlin, he develops strategies, workshops and solutions to help businesses and organisations go open source.

SunPower is a US-based solar power company that has been at the cutting edge of its sector for 30 years. Having recently adopted a circular economy framework, SunPower now makes longer-lasting products that can be reused or upcycled at the end of their first life. It is the first and only PV producer to receive Cradle to Cradle Certification. Its larger-scale operations include a Californian solar power plant that has a nine-month energy payback period. That fact, coupled with the drastic cut in CO2 emissions compared to coal and gas, partly informs the prediction of COO Marty Neese that by 2050, 40% of global electricity supply will be generated by solar installations. The future, we are told, lies in distributed production of renewable energy, with customer control of the individual processes at the heart of the system. Hear more from Marty Neese about how, and where, he predicts the solar transformation will play out.

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is the expanding network of everyday objects—you can expect some 35 billion connected devices by 2020. The internet won’t be about your mobile phone or laptop anymore, it will be dominated by communication between devices, chips scattered over the natural world, and sensors embedded in our bodies. Should we fear or welcome the next internet? In this session at the Disruptive Innovation Festival, Phil Howard, author of “Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up”, and Sophie Hackford from Wired Consulting, will debate the value of the IoT and the privacy concerns that arise. They will discuss how perfect behavioural data creates new opportunities for public conversation, community building, and political power, and you will have an opportunity to put questions to them.