Help IKEA Denmark reach their goal of be 2030 goal of becoming fully circular and climate-positive. Today, zero-waste operations are held back by subjective grading of returned items, no real-time resale pricing, and labor-intensive manual sorting of complex, multi-material waste.
The goal is to explore how AI, automation, and data can help IKEA make smarter circular decisions, from waste recognition to data-enabled routing and human-machine collaboration, keeping products and materials at their highest value for longer and minimizing the use of virgin materials.
Challenge track winner: Team Blenders
Student teams’ solutions to the challenge:
Team Blenders
Simon Ramos, Emma Kristiansen, Summer Hsia, Jonas Kersting and Omar Montelongo.
Team 13 SepÖda
Carsten Grønli, Yihhsin Hsiao, Thaís Matos, Chizhi Liu and Deakshat Harshan Arounkumar.
Team Round 2
Abdelrhman Hatem, Johanna Boywitt, Gloriano Sherifi, Flore Goupil, Anirudh Sonti and Nikhil Kaarthik
Team IKEA Loop
Álvaro Martí, Nessma Fouad, Patricia Salas, Sara Khedr and Jacob Wierup
Team Sweet16
Marine Gaebler, Hang Nguyen, Artur Małuszek, Rachel Hogg, Jaymin Panchasara and Nithiyashri Sathis.
Team EYEKEA
Fatih, Rui, Yacob, Max, Moe and Paula.
Team Full Circle Moment
Mathis, Luca, Sadia and Magnus.
