02 to 20 November 2015

The Disruptive Innovation Festival, launched in 2014 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is a three-week online festival bringing together thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, makers, learners and doers to catalyse system-level change for a future economy. Offering a mix of online and global real world events, the DIF will explore ideas and technologies that are changing our economy. Participants from all over the world can attend sessions running across multiple formats and time zones and are able to apply to host their own session as part of the ‘Big Top Tent’ or ‘Open Mic’ programmes during the Festival. The DIF was hosted from 2 – 20 November 2015, at www.thinkdif.co

RECODE Network hosted different sessions as part of the Cranfield University Big Top Tent. 

Catch up session available

Catch up session available

Catch up session available

08 - 10 March 2016

RESOURCE Event

The RECODE Network was at the RESOURCE Event in March, as part of the Cranfield University stand. The Resource Event is the leading resource efficiency event in the UK. Check the NEWS section to know what happened during these 3 days. 

04 - 06 April 2016

The RECODE Network presented at The Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016 (SDM16) conference in a special session on Re-distributed Manufacturing for Resilience and Sustainability.

01 February 2016

Manufacturing Analytics - The role of Big Data in the Future of Manufacturing

Read about the Manufacturing Analytics - The role of Big data in the Future of Manufacturing event in the NEWS section.

For more information, please visit the event's website 

20th December 2016

Consumers as Unusual Workshop

This workshop was hosted by one of our feasibility studies in Imperial College London.

The workshop aimed to envisage the future where people are engaged in the design of the products they use, and resource efficient product lifecycles can be incorporated within more localised and responsive structures of manufacturing and product adaptation.

2nd November 2016

The Manufacturer Smart Factor Expo

Daniel Keely from Cisco and Nick Liddell from The Clearing presented The Shoe Lab in this high rated event. To know more visit the event's website.

15 September 2016

Positive Economy Forum

Dr Mariale Moreno talked about the RECODE Network and the Shoe Lab in the How to be free in the Big Data world pannel session.  

Watch the full session here.

16 June 2016

Dr Mariale Moreno was a keynote speaker at the Hetfordshire Chamber of Commerce's second Envrionmental, Sustainability and Innovaiton: Circular Economy Conference. To see the full programme visit the event's website.

17 - 22 June 2016

The RECODE Network hosted with the Re-distributed Manufacturing in Healthcare Research a special session in RdM. The topics discussed were:

• Application, evolution or performance of production technologies enabling RDM (e.g. additive manufacturing)

• Value chains and supply network analysis

• Literature surveys of RDM-related research and development

• Economic data and analysis

• Human factors and user-design

• Compliance, standards and quality assurance models

• Innovator profiles, open innovation and new forms of engineering organisation

• New business models and RDM commercialisation case studies

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration in design and production

• Deploying RDM in challenging environments

13 June - 1 July

Dr Fiona Charnley spoke alongside Philippa Oldham - Head of Transport and Manufacturing at IMechE

Cyndi Rhoades - Founder/CEO of Worn Again, and Michael Hague-Morgan, Commercial and Engineering Director at Autocraft on the 'Nothing New Under The Sun: The Circular Economy Workshop Panel'. To see the full programme visit the event's website. 

03 - 06 July 2016

The RECODE Network hosted a special session on RdM.

The session explored the opportunities presented by Re-Distributed Manufacturing and investigate the complex challenges for practitioners and academics associated with alternative models of production and consumption.

25 - 26 May 2016

Dr Mariale Moreno spoke alongside Steve Lee - CEO CIWM, on the 'Waste and Circular Economy Workshop Panel'. To see the full programme visit the event's website.