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Wednesday, May 21st

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Thursday, May 22nd

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08:30	Welcoming Coffee + Registration
09:30	Market Overview
09:45	What is behind the refurbished boom : value for money, environmental awareness? Paulo Almeida Head of Refurbished business Worten The best of technology is here, at Worten. We are a brand that has been present on Portuguese homes, for more than 20 years. Easing the access to technology, innovation and the best price. With more than 230 physical stores in Portugal and Spain, central offices and distribution centers, we are more than 4.000 workers in multidisciplinary teams.
10:15	Are OEMs really serious with device sustainability ? Jan Stryjak Associate Director; Europe and Sustainability Research Lead Counterpoint Research Counterpoint is a global technology market research firm in the TMT industry. Our detailed analysis of report helps you to make better business decisions. Alexandra Asanache ESG Consultant Lenovo Romania Lenovo is a global technology powerhouse, ranked 217th on the Fortune Global 500 and a $62 billion revenue company with 77,000 employees worldwide, focused on delivering “smarter technology for all.” Building on our success as the world’s number one PC maker, Lenovo is expanding our research into growth areas to advance “New IT” technologies (client, edge, cloud, network and intelligence).
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	European refurbished smartphones market : can it continue to rise ? Room 1 Second-Hand Fashion and Circular Economy : what we can learn Room 2
11:30	Supply challenges : is there enough volume to match the demand ? Room 1 Andreas Mayer Founder TRUSC TRUSC is the digital platform that connects companies with verified buyers and makes the sale of used hardware easy and secure. With TRUSC you promote the circular economy, conserve resources and reduce CO2 emissions by selling and reusing your IT hardware. TRUSC's aim for the future is to help exceed the potential of the circular economy by 2030. Ensuring quality through refurbished terminals and grading: From A+ to C ratings Room 2 Clare Egan Head of Sustainability rebuy reBuy," is a German-based company specializing in the recommerce sector, with a primary focus on buying and selling refurbished electronics and media products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, cameras, books, and gaming consoles. Rebuy’s refurbishment process includes extensive testing, cleaning, and, if necessary, repairs to ensure that every item meets specific standards of quality and functionality before being resold. Juha-Matti Kykkänen Business Director RCK Finland Oy RCK Finland is a domestic family business with roots dating back to the 1930s. Today, the company offers both traditional workplace supplies and important elements of the workday as well as tomorrow's services and product concepts.
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Telecoms operators: Promoting and best pratices for sustainable development Room 1 Dr. Henning Never Project Lead at Group Wide Sustainability Program Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG is a German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn and is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. Tibor Foti Founder Telcos Telcos s.r.o. is a Slovak company focused on providing refurbished devices with a commitment to the circular economy. They blend telecom expertise with sustainability, offering high-quality second-life devices at competitive prices, backed by a two-year warranty. Their products undergo strict quality checks and are packaged in environmentally friendly materials. Telcos work with Slovak Telekom, 4ka, Swan, Orange and NAY. Alex Hess Country Manager, Germany Assurant Assurant, Inc. is a global provider of risk management products and services with headquarters in Atlanta. Its businesses provide a diverse set of specialty, niche-market insurance products in the property, casualty, extended device protection, and preneed insurance sectors. Addressing Productivity Challenges in Smartphone Refurbishment: Strategies for Efficiency and Growth Room 2 Adrian Preda Vice President of Operations Swappie Swappie was founded in Finland in 2016 by Sami Marttinen and Jiri Heinonen. The idea came about when Sami had an unfortunate online-shopping experience - he paid upfront for a second-hand iPhone that he never received. He later found that many others had been scammed too! That’s why safety and reliability are such big priorities for us when it comes to buying and selling refurbished smartphones.
13:30	Secondary market for CPE, gaming console and other electronic devices Room 1 Anne-Catherine Péchinot CEO Easy Cash Easy Cash is a French company specializing in the purchase and resale of second-hand goods, including electronics. Easy Cash offers a variety of refurbished smartphones across different brands like Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. These devices go through thorough testing and quality checks to ensure they meet performance standards before being resold. They offer a buyback program, making it easy for people to trade in their old phones toward a refurbished model or receive cash. Key factors driving a positive trade-in experience Room 2 Ferhat Topuz Founder Valyuu Valyuu is a marketplace based in the Netherlands that specializes in buying and selling refurbished smartphones and other tech devices. It focuses on sustainability by offering pre-owned tech products in various conditions, from “like new” to "good," allowing customers to select based on their budget and preference. Valyuu ensures quality by refurbishing devices, testing functionality, and often providing a warranty for added assurance. Andrii Kosar CEO & Co-Founder Breezy Breezy, a full-cycle provider of sustainable solutions for tech device trading and have activities in the CIS, Eastern Europe and ME. Breezy’s services include Trade-In as a Service for large retailers, telecom operators, and e-commerce platforms, as well as tech device buyback. Refurbished devices are processed at Breezy’s facilities and returned to the market through partners and the company’s own branded retail.
14:00	Coffee Break
14:30	Challenges of the repair market for the secondary market Room 1 Refurbishment and Globalization: Allies or Antagonists in a Sustainable Economy? Room 2 Grace Romero Circular Solutions Manager Fairphone Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones and headphones. It aims to minimise the ethical and environmental impact of its devices by using recycled, fairtrade and conflict-free materials, maintaining fair labor conditions throughout its workforce and suppliers, and enabling users to easily repair their devices through modular design and by providing replacement parts.
15:00	Mobile Device as a Service (MDaaS): The Future of Flexible Business Mobility Room 1 Mobile Operators and Circular Economy: Greenwashing or Genuine Business? Room 2
15:30	Cocktail Party

09:30	Market Overview
09:45	Refurbishers : a big industry under construction Tim Seewöster Managing Director asgoodasnew Founded in 2008 and based in Germany, asgoodasnew is a European circular economy pioneer for premium consumer electronics products, such as smartphones, tablets, MacBooks & iMacs, cameras & lenses, smartwatches and other valuable gadgets. Working from offices in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder), the company covers the entire value chain of the European re-commerce market. Through its own sourcing, operations, and sales platforms, asgoodasnew has developed a unique vertical business model with extensive technical know-how and direct access to millions of end consumers. To date, asgoodasnew has helped over 1,000,000 customers throughout Europe to impact their ecological footprint by finding a new home for their preloved gadgets or helping them purchase a fully tested, refurbished device.
10:15	Circular Economy – Opportunities and Challenges Beyond Refurbished Smartphones
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	How can operators and OEM suppliers work together to recycle or refurbish rented routers and boxes? Refurbished smart devices : key issues with OS and pre-installed Apps.
11:30	The shift from traditional linear life cycle management to more circular models Thomas Gros CEO & Co-Founder Circulee We believe that companies and organizations have a responsibility to be more sustainable. And that overhauled IT can make a simple but effective contribution to this. We developed circulee based on these ideas - because every used device saves valuable resources. Even a single circulee laptop produces around 400 kg less CO₂ than a new one. And also reduces costs. Green IT has never been easier. Creating a better legal framework for the refurbished market
12:00	Lunch
13:00	What are the main trends of sustainable tech and gadget remarketing? Build an In-House Second-Hand Program
13:30	Unlocking the Value of New Devices Through Second-Hand Innovation Classified Platforms : Driving Access, Trust, and Sustainability in the Circular Economy
14:00	Coffee Break
14:30	Retrofitting vs. Refurbishing: Strategies for Extending the Lifecycle of Tech Products Overcoming Barriers to Business Fleet Deployment with Refurbished Tech: Challenges and Solutions
15:00	Navigating the Future of IT Asset Disposition: Challenges and Opportunities When premium is less dominant : lessons from CEE markets
15:30	Networking Coffee

Welcoming Coffee + Registration

Time (CEST), 08:30 - 09:30

Market Overview

Time (CEST), 09:30 - 09:45

What is behind the refurbished boom : value for money, environmental awareness?

Time (CEST), 09:45 - 10:15

Paulo Almeida

Head of Refurbished business

Are OEMs really serious with device sustainability ?

Time (CEST), 10:15 - 10:30

Jan Stryjak

Associate Director; Europe and Sustainability Research Lead

Alexandra Asanache

ESG Consultant

Coffee Break

Time (CEST), 10:30 - 11:00

Second-Hand Fashion and Circular Economy : what we can learn

Time (CEST), 11:00 - 11:30

European refurbished smartphones market : can it continue to rise ?

Time (CEST), 11:00 - 11:30

Ensuring quality through refurbished terminals and grading: From A+ to C ratings

Time (CEST), 11:30 - 12:00

Clare Egan

Head of Sustainability

Juha-Matti Kykkänen

Business Director

Supply challenges : is there enough volume to match the demand ?

Time (CEST), 11:30 - 12:00

Andreas Mayer

Founder

Time (CEST), 12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Time (CEST), 12:00 - 13:00

Addressing Productivity Challenges in Smartphone Refurbishment: Strategies for Efficiency and Growth

Time (CEST), 13:00 - 13:30

Adrian Preda

Vice President of Operations

Telecoms operators: Promoting and best pratices for sustainable development

Time (CEST), 13:00 - 13:30

Dr. Henning Never

Project Lead at Group Wide Sustainability Program

Tibor Foti

Founder

Alex Hess

Country Manager, Germany

Key factors driving a positive trade-in experience

Time (CEST), 13:30 - 14:00

Ferhat Topuz

Founder

Andrii Kosar

CEO & Co-Founder

Secondary market for CPE, gaming console and other electronic devices

Time (CEST), 13:30 - 14:00

Anne-Catherine Péchinot

CEO

Time (CEST), 14:00 - 14:30

Coffee Break

Time (CEST), 14:00 - 14:30

Refurbishment and Globalization: Allies or Antagonists in a Sustainable Economy?

Time (CEST), 14:30 - 15:00

Grace Romero

Circular Solutions Manager

Challenges of the repair market for the secondary market

Time (CEST), 14:30 - 15:00

Mobile Operators and Circular Economy: Greenwashing or Genuine Business?

Time (CEST), 15:00 - 15:30

Mobile Device as a Service (MDaaS): The Future of Flexible Business Mobility

Time (CEST), 15:00 - 15:30

Time (CEST), 15:30 -

Cocktail Party

Time (CEST), 15:30 -

Time (CEST), 09:30 - 09:45

Market Overview

Time (CEST), 09:30 - 09:45

Time (CEST), 09:45 - 10:15

Refurbishers : a big industry under construction

Time (CEST), 09:45 - 10:15

Tim Seewöster

Managing Director

Time (CEST), 10:15 - 10:30

Circular Economy – Opportunities and Challenges Beyond Refurbished Smartphones

Time (CEST), 10:15 - 10:30

Time (CEST), 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Time (CEST), 10:30 - 11:00

Refurbished smart devices : key issues with OS and pre-installed Apps.

Time (CEST), 11:00 - 11:30

How can operators and OEM suppliers work together to recycle or refurbish rented routers and boxes?

Time (CEST), 11:00 - 11:30

Creating a better legal framework for the refurbished market

Time (CEST), 11:30 - 12:00

The shift from traditional linear life cycle management to more circular models

Time (CEST), 11:30 - 12:00

Thomas Gros

CEO & Co-Founder

Time (CEST), 12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Time (CEST), 12:00 - 13:00

Build an In-House Second-Hand Program

Time (CEST), 13:00 - 13:30

What are the main trends of sustainable tech and gadget remarketing?

Time (CEST), 13:00 - 13:30

Classified Platforms : Driving Access, Trust, and Sustainability in the Circular Economy

Time (CEST), 13:30 - 14:00

Unlocking the Value of New Devices Through Second-Hand Innovation

Time (CEST), 13:30 - 14:00

Time (CEST), 14:00 - 14:30

Coffee Break

Time (CEST), 14:00 - 14:30

Overcoming Barriers to Business Fleet Deployment with Refurbished Tech: Challenges and Solutions

Time (CEST), 14:30 - 15:00

Retrofitting vs. Refurbishing: Strategies for Extending the Lifecycle of Tech Products

Time (CEST), 14:30 - 15:00

When premium is less dominant : lessons from CEE markets

Time (CEST), 15:00 - 15:30

Navigating the Future of IT Asset Disposition: Challenges and Opportunities

Time (CEST), 15:00 - 15:30

Time (CEST), 15:30 -

Networking Coffee

Time (CEST), 15:30 -

Agenda

Worten

Counterpoint Research

Lenovo Romania

TRUSC

rebuy

RCK Finland Oy

Deutsche Telekom

Telcos

Assurant

Swappie

Easy Cash

Valyuu

Breezy

Fairphone

asgoodasnew

Circulee