Designing Circular Business Models: A Hands-On Workshop
- Date
- 2026-02-20
- Location
- नई दिल्ली, दिल्ली, India
- Host
- Delhi Climate Innovation Week 2026
About this event
Circular business models are no longer a side conversation. They are becoming a practical way for companies, startups, and ecosystem builders to reduce waste, create new revenue streams, and design more resilient operations from the ground up. This hands-on workshop in नई दिल्ली is built for people who want to move beyond theory and start thinking clearly about how circularity can work in real business settings. If you are exploring how to redesign products, services, supply chains, or customer relationships for longer-term value, this session is designed to help you do that with structure and momentum. What Is This? Designing Circular Business Models: A Hands-On Workshop is an in-person working session focused on the practical side of circular thinking. Rather than treating circularity as a broad sustainability concept, the workshop looks at it as a business design challenge: how do you create models that reduce waste, keep materials in use, and still make commercial sense? The format is intentionally interactive. You should expect a session that combines guided learning, structured discussion, and applied exercises. The goal is to help you think through the building blocks of a circular model in a way that is relevant to your own work, whether you are operating inside a large company, building a startup, or supporting innovation across an ecosystem. This event also sits at the intersection of corporates, enablers, startups, community, and networking. That means the room is likely to bring together different perspectives on the same challenge: operators looking for implementation pathways, founders looking for viable models, and enablers looking for frameworks that can support others. What to Expect The workshop is designed to be practical and participatory. Instead of sitting through a long presentation, you will spend time engaging with ideas, testing assumptions, and discussing how circular approaches apply in real business contexts. You can expect elements such as: A grounding in the core principles behind circular business models A structured look at how value creation changes in circular systems Exercises that help you examine products, services, materials, and customer flows Discussion with other participants working across corporate, startup, and ecosystem roles Space to identify opportunities, constraints, and next steps for your own context The session will likely move from shared understanding into application. Early discussions may focus on the logic behind circularity and the different types of models organizations can explore. From there, the workshop can help participants translate those ideas into more concrete design choices around offerings, operations, partnerships, and customer engagement. Because this is a hands-on format, the value comes from active participation. You will get the most from the session if you come ready to question existing assumptions, contribute examples from your own work, and engage openly with others in the room. Why Attend If you are hearing more conversations about circular economy strategies but want a clearer way to act on them, this workshop offers a useful bridge between ambition and execution. It is a chance to sharpen your understanding of what circular business models actually require, and where organizations often get stuck. You will leave with more than inspiration. The real benefit is the opportunity to build a working lens you can apply after the event. That might mean identifying where your current model creates unnecessary waste, spotting opportunities for reuse or recovery, or seeing how circularity could unlock stronger long-term business value. Attending can be especially useful if you want to: Explore circularity in a way that is tied to business model design, not just high-level sustainability messaging Learn through doing, with practical exercises rather than passive listening Compare your thinking with others facing similar innovation and implementation questions Build connections with people across corporates, startups, and enabling organizations Leave with ideas that can inform strategy, pilots, partnerships, or internal conversations There is also real value in the peer environment. Circular business design often requires cross-functional and cross-sector thinking, and being in a room with people approaching the challenge from different angles can help surface insights you might not reach on your own. Practical Details This is an in-person event taking place in नई दिल्ली, India, which makes it especially well suited for participants who want a more engaged workshop experience and stronger face-to-face networking. The in-room format supports discussion, collaborative exercises, and the kind of nuanced exchanges that are often harder to create online. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, February 20 at 11:00 AM GMT+5:30. A late-morning start gives attendees space to arrive settled and ready to participate fully, which matters for a session built around interaction rather than observation. A few things to keep in mind before attending: Come prepared to participate, not just observe Bring current business, product, or program challenges you are thinking through Be ready to engage with people from different sectors and stages of work Expect both learning and networking value from the session If you are looking for a concrete, collaborative way to explore circular business design with others who are serious about building practical solutions, this workshop is a strong place to start.
Who should attend
This workshop is for you if you want to turn circular economy ideas into practical business decisions, frameworks, or experiments. - You work in a **corporate role** and are exploring how circularity could shape product strategy, operations, supply chains, innovation, or sustainability efforts. - You are a **startup founder or team member** looking for business model opportunities built around reuse, recovery, longevity, service models, or smarter resource flows. - You support others as an **enabler, advisor, incubator, accelerator, consultant, or ecosystem builder** and want stronger tools for guiding circular business thinking. - You are responsible for **designing, testing, or scaling new offerings** and need a clearer way to connect environmental goals with commercial viability. - You value **interactive learning and peer discussion** more than passive talks, and you want a room where ideas can be challenged and improved. - You are looking to **meet others in the community** across startups, corporates, and support organizations who are working on similar transition challenges. If you are serious about practical application, open to discussion, and interested in building models that create value with less waste, you will likely feel at home here.