Unlocking the Future of Digital Product Passports
Digital Product Passports Festival 2025
- October 9, 2025
- 9.00 – 17:30
- Postillion Convention Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
A full-day event as a unique opportunity for stakeholders to come together and realise the potential ánd urgency of Digital Product Passports (DPPs). Whether you are just starting or already deeply involved, this event is designed to provide valuable insights and foster collaboration.
Read a participant’s article following the DPP Festival:
The EU wants to give products a sustainable passport: is this realistic?
Written by Isabel Rutten, TNO intern
Event Goals
- Create an overview and structure in the DPP World
Understand the key players, the ecosystem, and the current state of the art - Highlight DPP benefits and obligations
Emphasize that beyond legal obligations, there are significant benefits to introducing DPP - State of the art
Explore what is already available and identify what still needs to be done - Foster collaboration
Identify common topics for collaboration within the CoE-DPP and inspire each other through shared learning experiences - Learn from and share knowledge with leading experts in the field.
Who Should Attend?
- DPP users
Companies that have implemented, or are looking to make use of DPPs and want to gain a better understanding of the concept and its possibilities - Policy makers
Meet the organizations and sectors impacted by policy and discover how the realization of policy is progressing - Sectoral and intermediate organizations
Build collaborations and learn from other sectors so you can best drive DPP value creation in your ecosystem - DPP solution providers
Gather market demands and improve interoperability between vendors.
Event Programme
Registration and coffee/tea
Welcome and opening
Rogier de Boer (Ministry of Economic Affairs), Peter Verkoulen (CoE-DSC), Marc Zegveld (TNO)
Implementation status of the European DPP in a global context
Carolynn Bernier (CIRPASS-2 / CEA)
DPP for public authorities
Alexandru Ion (European Commission)
Farm-level data sharing: Evaluating the potential of the DPP & EBW at DG AGRI
Seth van Hooland (European Commission)
Panel discussion – Addressing gaps in DPP landscape
Moderator: Elliana Jensen-Abieva (CircularTech)
Panelists: Carolynn Bernier (CIRPASS-2 / CEA), Alexandru Ion (European Commission), Seth van Hooland (European Commission) and Sjoerd Rongen (CoE-DPP/TNO)
Break
CoE-DPP introduction and vision
Sjoerd Rongen (CoE-DPP / TNO)
DPP Landscape scan: Roles and players
Laura van den Aarssen (CoE-DPP / TNO Vector)
Initial results ‘Adoption Pulse – DPP in the Netherlands’
Mariane ter Veen (INNOPAY)
DPPs in practice
Michiel van Yperen (GS1 Netherlands)
Panel discussion: DPP adoption
Moderator: Sjoerd Rongen (CoE-DPP / TNO)
Panelists: Simon de Jong (Ministry of Economic Affairs), Stephanie Ottenheijm (Topsector ICT), Laura van den Aarssen (CoE-DPP / TNO Vector), and Peter Verkoulen (CoE-DSC)
Pitches
Lunch
Session 1 A: CIRPASS-2 Applications and impact session
Organized by: CIRPASS-2
Moderator: Boriana Rukanova (TU Delft)
– Update from CIRPASS-2 mattress Pilot
Rik Holvoet (TripleR)
– Live showcase from CIRPASS-2 lighthouse pilot: Tumble-dryer DPPs at scale
Rembrandt Koppelaar (EcoWise)
– CIRPASS-2 SME-focused consultations in support of DPP adoption
Sophie Charpentier (Chalmers Industriteknik)
– The potential of the DPP for administrative burden reduction
Boriana Rukanova (TU Delft) and Kartik Chawla (TNO)
Session 1B: DPP Standardisation
Moderator: Frank Drijfhout (TNO)
– 13:45 – 14:00 Status DPP standardisation CEN/CENELEC/NEN
Gunhild Otto (NEN)
– 14:00 – 14:15 Status UNTP standardisation
Suna Akbayir (Artech International BVBA)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Wegener (Siemens)
– 14:30 – 14:45 DigiGo: Standardisation in built environment
Maurits Cammeraat (DigiGo)
– 14:45 – 15:00 Panel and Q&A
Session 1C: ‘Adoption Pulse – DPP in the Netherlands’ – learn from the frontrunners
– 13:45 – 14:15 Fresh insights – what do DPP parties say about opportunities and challenges | Introduction
Richard Ooms (INNOPAY)
– 14:15 – 15:00 Panel discussion: experiences from practice, challenges, benefits and daily impact
Panel: Laura Koedijk (Studio Anneloes), Jan Post (Groeien met Groen Staal en Philips Personal Health), and Tako Johannesma (Witgoed Brigade)
Moderator: Mariane ter Veen (INNOPAY)
Session 1D: DPP Applied Research Projects (funded by Regieorgaan SIA and Topsector ICT)
Moderator: Erik Knol (SIA )
– 13:45 – 13:55 Opening, the fundamentals of applied research by universities of applied sciences
Erik Knol (SIA)
– 13:55 – 14:25 Pitches of 7 SIA DPP projects
1. DPP4CD: Digital Product Passport(s) for Circular Denim: From Pilot to Practice
Pramod Agrawal (Saxion)
2. Digital Product Passport for the Circulair Oogsten van KanaalPlaten (COKaP)
Franco De Vita (Saxion)
3. Standardisation and Automation of Modern Product Passports (STAMP)
Eva Koenders (HAN)
4. Digital Product Passports: the Key to a Circular Value Chain for Electronic Devices
Pascal Sluiter (Hogeschool Utrecht)
5. Fibre Forward
Tahis Marti (Avans) and Helmer van Merendonk (Hogeschool Utrecht)
6. The Molecular Digital Physical Digital Product Passport (M-DPP)
Troy Nachtigall (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
7. Digital TEMPO in the Construction Sector
Helmer van Merendonk (Hogeschool Utrecht)
– 14:25 – 15:00 Discussion
Erik Knol (SIA)
Break
Session 2A: DPP use cases
Moderator: Isabelle Tilleman (CoE-DPP / TNO)
– 15:30 – 15:50 Renewable Fuel Passports in The Netherlands
Yvo Hunink (Regenstudio with Rijksdienst Voor Ondernemerschap (Dutch Enterprise Agency))
– 15:50 – 16:10 Battery passport
Boriana Rukanova (TU Delft), Gurleen Sandhu (Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH), Theodor Chirvasuta (TNO)
– 16:10 – 16:30 Textile DPP case
Miriam Geelhoed (Modint)
– 16:30 – 16:45 Panel and Q&A
Session 2B: CIRPASS-2 architecture
Moderator: Carolynn Bernier (CIRPASS-2 / CEA)
– 15:30 – 15:45 CIRPASS-2 DPP system Architecture proposal
Huib van Nieuwenhuijze (TNO)
– 15:45 – 16:00 CIRPASS-2 ontologies for semantic interoperability
Theodor Chirvasuta (CIRPASS-2 WP4)
– 16:00 – 16:15 DPP use cases for the European Business Wallet (EUBW)
Carolynn Bernier (CIRPASS-2 / CEA)
– 16:15-16:30 Data spaces: Driving interoperability in the DPP ecosystem
Jesús Alonso (BAIDATA Association)
– 16:30-16:45 Updates from CIRPASS-2 DPP regulatory observatory: China & Vietnam
Rembrandt Koppelaar (Ecowise)
Session 2C: DPP Solutions
Moderator: Frank Drijfhout (TNO)
– 15:30 – 15:45 DPP Interoperability between domains
Carsten Stöcker (Spherity)
– 15:45 – 16:00 DPP Risks and mitigations
Rik Rurup (CoE-DPP / TNO)
– 16:00 – 16:15 Open source DPP software
Leon Visscher (TNO)
Networking Drinks
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