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Conference Wrap Up
and Research Priorities
Bob Pfahl, iNEMI
2010 Environmental
Research Stakeholders
Forum
Schoenbrunn Palace
Vienna Austria
November 8, 2010
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1. Evaluate opportunities for
industry/academic/government collaboration on
proactive environmental programs
2. Define academic research needs to support these
programs
3. Establish the foundation for the 2011 iNEMI
Environmental Research Priorities
4. Identify leading academic institutes/program in key
areas for the ICT industry
5. Stimulate funding for necessary research
Five Objectives/Steps of Forum
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• Materials
• Understanding impact before use
• Sustainable Materials Management
• Energy
• Alternative Energy
• Recycling/Reuse-
• Eco-Design
• Effective Tools for rapid multivariate analysis
• Sustainability
• Establishing Shared, peer reviewed, data bases
• Developing Example Business Cases on Sustainability
10 Year Needs for R&DBy iNEMI Topic Area
Two Break Out Groups
Established
Methodologies & Tools
Materials
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Methodologies & Tools - Participants
•Bill Bader -iNEMI
•Randy Kirchain - MIT
•Tom Okrasinski – Alcatel Lucent
•Pat Eagan - Wisconsin
•Anna Karin Jonbrink – IVF Swerea
•Penwipa Trisiripanit– Office of industrial economics
Bangkok
•Kittinan - National metals & materials Tech Centre - Thailand
•John Pflueger - Dell
•Nils Nissen – Fraunhofer IZM
•Barbara Karn – US EPA
•Lauren Heine – Clean Production Action
•John Malian - Cisco
•Grace O’Malley – iNEMI
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Materials- Participants
•Carol Handwerker – Purdue
•Todd Brady – Intel
•John Davignon – Intel
•Sluis van-der-Sietse - DSM
•Hans Wendschlag - HP
•Jan-Willem Scheijgrond - Philips
•Seb Nardecchia - Flextronics
•Kurt Van Der Herten – IBM
•Colin Fitzpatrick - University of Limerick
•Adrian Beard – Clariant
•Wayne Rifer – Green Electronic Council
•Ann Peters – Green Electronic Council
•Bob Pfahl – iNEMI
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Seven Current Research Proposals
1. Establishing Shared, peer reviewed, data
bases
2. Simplified LCA For Key Product Segments
3. Simplified LCA For Unit Processes (Raw
Materials)
4. Developing Sample Business Cases on
Sustainability
5. Improved Knowledge of User Behavior
6. Eco-Reliability (Green applications need to
have high reliability, multi-stage life cycles or
short life time with full asset recovery
7. White List of Materials that are Acceptable to
Use
Conference Wrap Up
Bob Pfahl, iNEMI
Session Objectives
1. Learn from One Another – Best Known
Practices; Keys To Success; Critical
Issues
2. Maximize Results from iNEMI Projects
3. Create an Action Plan on Materials
Declarations
4. Further Clarify Environmental Research
Priorities & Plans to Move Forward
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Materials Declaration
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Best Practices
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Potential Projects
Next Steps on Environmental
Research Priorities
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iNEMI Environmental Research Stakeholders:
Follow Up to Vienna Forum
Date: Tuesday March 8, 2011
Time: 7 AM-9 AM PST
10 AM- Noon EST
3 PM-5PM GMT
Format: Webinar
Tasks: Determine interest and teams to Support
Developing Research Proposals
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Next Steps
• Face-to-face meeting in Berlin the week of April 25
• Web-ex meetings as necessary
• Final Face-to-face meeting in conjunction with
ECTC in Lake Buena Vista, Florida the week of
June 1
• Integration into 2011 iNEMI Research Priorities by
iNEMI Research Committee, June-July
• Publication, August
