The Fashion ReModel, launched at Global Fashion Summit 2024, is a project designed to decouple revenue from production. It aims to make circular business models the norm by harnessing the fashion industry's creative potential. Learn more here.

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This clip features Nick Jeffries, Senior Expert at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, discussing the Circular Building Toolkit and companies designing for a sustainable future. The Foundation is an international charity promoting a circular economy, which eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature through design.

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Our new season, "Origins: The ideas shaping the circular economy," explores the inspirations behind the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's concept of a circular economy.

The season premier delves into biomimicry, the practice of finding solutions in nature. Join us to discuss its origins and implications with Stefano Semprini (Biomimicry Co-director) and practical applications with Chad Wasilenkoff (Helicoid Industries Inc. CEO).

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Get ready for the new season of The Circular Economy Show, launching Tuesday, July 16th! Over five episodes, we'll delve into the movement's origins, exploring influential schools of thought like Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle, and meet organizations applying these principles today. Subscribe to The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's YouTube channel to catch every episode.

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U.S. wetlands, vital ecosystems like marshes and swamps, face an urgent crisis. Half of these critical habitats in the lower 48 states have vanished since the 1780s. A 2023 Supreme Court decision further stripped federal protections, leaving remaining wetlands vulnerable to destruction.

This loss devastates biodiversity; nearly 50% of threatened and endangered species rely on wetlands, with over a third living exclusively there. Wetlands also protect water quality and mitigate flood risks. Act now: Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect more critical habitat for wetland-dependent species. Learn more at www.saveourfreshwater.org.

Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Switzerland's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, was interviewed on the red carpet at the Giga Connectivity Forum 2024.

This inaugural forum convenes country partners and stakeholders to chart a course for achieving universal school connectivity by 2030.

Oxford data scientist Hannah Ritchie debunks the overpopulation myth, a concern prominent since the 1960s. While global population is still growing, its rate has significantly slowed, contrary to earlier exponential growth assumptions. Ritchie, a lead researcher at Our World in Data and Oxford, specializes in environmental sustainability.

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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the ITU, was interviewed on the red carpet at the inaugural Giga Connectivity Forum 2024.

This forum convenes country partners and stakeholders to strategize for achieving universal school connectivity by 2030.

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Standard optical fiber, the bedrock of modern broadband, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. This foundational technology has been crucial for global connectivity since its inception.

The ITU standard G.652, established in 1984, marks this significant milestone. Learn more about it here.

The "Not a woman’s job?" photo exhibition is organized by the UN Office in Geneva's Perception Change Project, with participation from CERN and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The exhibition showcases women (18+) who have challenged gender stereotypes and overcome barriers in science and technology. ITU stakeholders were invited to submit photos highlighting these achievements and stories.

Monika Gehner, Head of Corporate Communication at ITU, spoke with Elisavet Mike, a network engineer whose photo was submitted to the exhibition.

Witness the Big Food Redesign Challenge as participants innovate to create nature-first products, transforming obstacles into opportunities. This initiative aligns with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's mission as an international charity promoting a circular economy. Driven by design, this economy eliminates waste, circulates materials, and regenerates nature.

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Experience the Big Food Redesign Challenge, where participants race to create nature-first products. Watch them navigate design complexities, push boundaries, and transform obstacles into opportunities for innovation.

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In episode one of our "Redesigning Food" series, Dunia Bora, Nutricandies, and Spoon Cereals innovate by transforming previously unwanted ingredients. Vincent (Dunia Bora) creates cookies and juices from invasive species. Gustavo (Nutricandies) makes nutritious chocolate spread from discarded cocoa parts. Annie and Jonny (Spoon Cereals) repurpose oat-milk leftovers and ancient grains into hearty porridge.

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Multi-robot systems (MRS) offer significant benefits, including enhanced efficiency, collaboration, operational flexibility, and fault tolerance. Researchers aim to create autonomous swarms of terrestrial, aerial, and underwater devices capable of complex, collaborative missions.

However, these systems face challenges in reliability, scalability, communication orchestration, middleware design, interoperability, and standardization. This talk, presented by Enrico Natalizio (Université de Lorraine), explores the advantages, challenges, and future perspectives of networked robotics and communication systems, charting interdisciplinary paths to realize MRS's full potential.

Network virtualization, also known as network slicing, allows multiple isolated logical networks to coexist on a single physical infrastructure without performance or security interference. Initially envisioned to evolve Internet architecture, it later provided bandwidth guarantees for cloud applications in data centers.

Now a pillar of 5G and beyond mobile networks, network slicing delivers differentiated services with stringent requirements. Despite significant research over two decades, its end-to-end deployment remains unrealized. This talk covered its genesis, evolution, key challenges, solutions, and the outlook for 5G+ network slicing.

Edge computing reduces data transfer costs and enables real-time, private data processing by relocating computation to local devices. However, realizing its full potential requires advanced data analysis and content generation, specifically generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This talk investigated the challenges of deploying generative AI at the edge. It aimed to enhance privacy and efficiently use network and computational resources. The discussion considered edge environment limitations and current solutions for optimizing AI models on resource-limited devices, addressing efficient distributed learning for applications like Large Language Models.

Speaker: Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia.

This talk introduced VisionX, a research area at the intersection of learning, reasoning, and communication. It explored VisionX's key enablers, mathematical tools, and contrasted it with current research efforts.

Recent results in semantics-native communication and emergent communication protocols were presented. The discussion highlighted the critical importance of transmitting semantic information, rather than redundant or useless raw data, to enable effective task completion.

Speaker: Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland