From Compliance to Circular Business: Making DPP Work in Practice

The Digital Product Passport is moving from regulation to implementation and is becoming a key part of Europe’s circular data infrastructure. The challenge is no longer whether DPP will happen, but how companies should prepare their data, ensure interoperability across value chains and turn DPP from a compliance requirement into a tool creating real business and circular value. DPP GS1

The Forum will connect EU regulation, standardisation, technology and real-life business implementation, bringing together policymakers, standardisation experts, technology providers and companies already preparing or testing DPP solutions.

AGENDA:

10:00–10:10 | Opening

Why DPP Is Becoming the Digital Backbone of the Circular Economy?

Speakers:

• Hubert Bukowski – Research Director, INNOWO

• Olena Kobylchenko – ESG Manager, GS1 Poland

• Elliana Jensen-Abieva – CEO & Founder, CircularTech Forum – The Global DPP Community

10:10–10:30 | Regulatory Radar

DPP 2026: What Is Coming and When?

A concise update on ESPR, delegated acts, priority product groups, the EU DPP Registry, data requirements and responsibilities across the value chain.

Speakers:

• Alexandru Ion, Team Leader, Digital Product Passport, DG GROW

• María González Torres, Scientific Officer, Circular Economy and Sustainable Industry Unit (B5), European Commission's Joint Research Centre

  
  

10:30–11:15 | Standards Behind the Passport

No DPP Without Interoperability

How can millions of DPPs operate across different countries, sectors and IT systems? Product identification, data carriers, data structures, APIs, access rights, interoperability and the relationship between European and global standards.

Speakers:

• Dr Grzegorz Sokołowski, GS1 Standards Implementation Manager, GS1 Poland

• Rik Holvoet, Co-founder, TripleR.io

• Dagmar Zoder, Chief Revenue Officer, Narravero GmbH

• Prof. Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts (UCA), UKA

• Dr Kartik Chawla, Scientist Innovator, Data Ecosystems, TNO

11:15–12:00 | DPP LIVE

Show Me the Passport

Instead of talking about DPP, we show how it actually works. Each company/pilot gets approximately 7 minutes to demonstrate a real solution: product → QR/data carrier → DPP → data → user → circular value.

Speakers:

• Kamila Kocia, Market Development Manager Digital Solutions, Avery Dennison,  'Textile Loop' Pilot lead, CIRPASS-2 consortium

• Anna Adamczyk, CEO, Veridi

• Alexander König, Senior Manager Sustainability, GS1 Germany

Each demonstration should answer the same questions already proposed in your document: What is identified? What data is included? Where does it come from? Who updates it? Who has access? What does the company gain? What does the next actor in the circular value chain gain? DPP GS1

12:00–12:30 | Closing Summary

Beyond Compliance: What Would Make DPP Really Work?

All speakers

Organised by: GS1 Polska & INNOWO