Title: Closing the Circularity Delta in Electronics

Type: Keynote

Event: MIT Platform Strategy Summit

Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA

In this video at the MIT Platform Strategy Summit, Peter Evans delivers a keynote on applying circular economy principles to electronics—boosting sustainability, extracting value, and meeting regulatory demands.

Core concept: The Circularity Delta

The gap between what a company spends on electronics annually vs. the net value recovered at retirement. Example: $1M spend, $100K recovered = 90% delta (only 10–15% value recovery through informal disposal).

Solution: Purpose-built circular platforms can push recovery to 30%+, cutting the delta in half and transforming ITAD into a value-generating operation.

Three-stage approach:

1. Pilot: Assess current recovery, identify improvements

2. Integrate: Align stakeholders, scale systems, embed circular platforms

3. Optimize: Use data to extend circularity to procurement, customer programs, sustainability—making it core to strategy

Why digital circular platforms matter:

• Transparency, compliance, secure data handling

• Multi-channel resale (B2B, B2C, C2C)

• Greater scale and geographic reach

The Circularity Delta concept was developed by Peter C. Evans and Guennael “G” Delorme in their white paper, Scaling the Circular Economy for Electronics: Why Every Business Needs a Platform Strategy.

Type: Panel

Event: ASD MarketWeek

Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, NV

In this video, Peter Evans moderates a live panel on recommerce—retail’s fastest-growing sector. Joining him: Jacques Stambouli, Matt Leavell, and Dennis Hoang. The conversation covers liquidation, resale, reverse logistics, and secondary markets.

Key topics:

• Growth drivers: Shifting consumer behavior, value shopping, off-price retail, and resale marketplace expansion

• New channels: eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Whatnot, TikTok Shop lowering barriers for entrepreneurs and businesses

• Sourcing & relationships: Long-term partnerships over transactions, diversification across suppliers, categories, and channels

• Technology: AI, automation, inventory systems—focused on solving real bottlenecks, not tech for tech’s sake

• Future outlook: Live selling’s rise, industry consolidation, professionalization, and massive underserved opportunities

Actionable lessons from leaders who’ve successfully scaled in recommerce—for entrepreneurs, resellers, liquidators, retailers, and reverse logistics professionals.

Moderator: Peter Evans

Panel Members:

Jacques Stambouli, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Via Trading Corp.

Matt Leavell, Founder & CEO, Buy Low Warehouse (also CEO of WHSL Market)

Dennis Hoang, Co-Founder & COO, Patturn

Title: Fashion Returns, Recommerce & AI-Powered Resale

Type: Interview with Patturn Founders

Location: All Things Circular Podcast, Dallas, TX

In this episode of All Things Circular, host Peter Evans sits down with the founders of Patturn, to explore how technology is transforming fashion returns. Patturn built a recommerce operating system for apparel, footwear, and accessories that helps brands process, grade, and resell returned inventory at scale—from inspection to pricing and multi-channel resale.

The conversation tackles modern e-commerce returns: most items come back near-new due to sizing or preference, not damage. Instead of liquidation or landfill, Patturn maximizes value through recommerce on eBay, Poshmark, and Depop.

A key theme is “single-SKU logistics.” Returned fashion items are one-of-one in size, condition, and style. Patturn’s system serializes inventory and distributes it across marketplaces in real time to maximize sell-through and pricing.

The episode also explores AI in recommerce—automated pricing, listing optimization, and future AI shopping agents that could source secondhand for consumers. As resale grows, intelligently matching supply with demand across fragmented marketplaces is a critical advantage.

Dennis and Davis also debunk the myth that buying return pallets is an easy path to profit. Extracting value from returned goods requires infrastructure, technology, and expertise.

Whether you’re a retailer improving return recovery, a reseller navigating secondary markets, or simply curious about the future of circular fashion, this episode offers practical insights.

Host: Peter Evans

Guests: Patturn Co-founders, Dennis Hoang and Davis Hoang

Global supply chains face resource scarcity, trade tensions, and environmental concerns. Platforms can improve resilience and sustainability across sectors including electronics where they optimize e-waste management, while also supporting efficient reaggregation of materials like EV batteries, industrial magnets, and rare earth metals.

Digital platforms advance ‘digital mining’ by connecting buyers and sellers in secondary markets, improving traceability and efficiency. Industry experts will provide actionable insights into how digital platforms can transform waste into new critical material streams. The future of resource security lies not in extracting more but in innovating smarter ways to reclaim what we already have.

Moderator: Peter C. Evans (Summit Co-Chair)

Panelists:

Technologies Jack Jia – Circular Cloud Sourcing and Operations, Microsoft

Sean Miles – CEO and Co-Founder, Recycle Global Exchange (RGX)

Katie Schindall – Vice President of Decarbonization, Strategy, Schneider Electric

Maire Callanan – Vice President of Commercialization, Alta Resource

Type: Keynote presentation

Event: 2023 Luohan Academy Digital Economy Conference

Location: Hangzhou, China

The Luohan Academy was established by Alibaba Group on June 26, 2018, in Hangzhou, China. It was initiated by former Alibaba chairman Jack Ma as an open research institute and global think tank focused on the socioeconomic impacts of digital technologyo this end. In 2023 Annual Digital Economy Conference at the West Lake State Guesthouse in Hangzhou, China from June 20 to 21, 2023. The conference brought together the world’s leading social scientists, digital economy practitioners, and policy makers for the interdisciplinary investigation of theory and practice, to generate new consensus and insights on the world’s most pressing issues.

Peter Evans presented on “Spurring Circular Economies through Digital Platforms”. His presentation and subsequent panel discussions focused on how digital infrastructure and data sharing can drive sustainability and facilitate circular exchange.

• Core Topic: How digital platforms and data-driven ecosystems can help companies transition from linear “take-make-dispose” models to circular economies that emphasize reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing.

• Collaboration Focus: Emphasized the importance of trustworthy data spaces to support demand-side mitigation.

• Network effects to circular scaling

Evans explained that positive network effects create a flywheel: as more users join, material/product availability increases, attracting even more participants. This scalability is crucial to reversing the circularity gap.

His presentation illustrated how platforms power the circular economy not just by making linear commerce more efficient, but by enabling regenerative, closed-loop business models through lower transaction costs, better discovery/matching, and network effects.

Type: Expert Panel

Event: MIT Platform Strategy Summit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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Digital platforms have largely fueled the linear economy (“take-make-dispose”). This panel explores how platforms can power the circular economy—a regenerative model that keeps resources in use, minimizes waste through recycling/refurbishment/reuse, and creates closed-loop systems.

Key discussion points:

• Case studies and best practices across industries

• Transformative potential of circular platform business models

• Key challenges: technology, monetization, policy, stakeholder engagement

• Opportunities for scaling platform-based circular models

The result is an enlightening perspective on the challenges and opportunities that arise when developing platform-based circular models, including issues around technology, monetization, policy and stakeholder engagement

Moderator: Peter C. Evans – (Summit Co-chair)

Panel

Kenny Arnold – Senior Manager, Service Design, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Maryam Al Mansoori – General Manager, Rebound Plastic Exchange

Deborah Weinswig – CEO and Founder, Coresight Research