Events

Canberra Day 2023

Canberra Day, with a big difference!

• Industry Leaders’ Networking Dinner: Wednesday 6 September, 7.00pm | The Boat House, Grevillea Park, Menindee Dr, Barton ACT 2600
• Canberra Day Seminar: Thursday 7 September, 9.00am | East Hotel 69 Canberra Avenue, Kingston, ACT 2604

Each year, Canberra Day brings together government and industry for valuable updates and discussions on the policy and regulatory reform landscape affecting the hygiene, personal care and specialty formulated products industry that Accord represents.

But Canberra Day 2023 will be a Canberra Day with a big difference!

For the first time, Industry Leaders from the hygiene, personal care and specialty products industry will showcase our industry to government. The Industry Showcase will provide an opportunity to demonstrate the essentiality of our industry’s products across every facet of daily life, our industry’s commitment to go ‘beyond compliance’ and positively contribute on important social and environmental issues, and how industry association membership is an important indicator of responsibility and a commitment to excellence. It will also be an important opportunity for our industry to communicate some of the challenges facing companies doing businesses in Australia and the impacts of these.

Canberra Day will, as in past years, also include timely policy and regulatory updates from government to our industry. Invited government speakers include representatives from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the TGA and the Simplified Trade Systems Implementation Taskforce. Full program information coming soon.

Industry Briefing & Annual General Meeting

Join us in Melbourne for the Accord Industry Briefing & AGM!

Please see event schedule below:

• Networking Industry Leaders’ Dinner with special guest Prof John Skerritt (outgoing head of the TGA): Tuesday 30 May, 6.30pm | Le Meridien Melbourne, 20 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
• Industry Briefing & AGM: Wednesday 31 May, 9.30am -1.30pm (including lunch) | EY Offices, Level 23 , 8 Exhibition Street Melbourne

Industry Briefing Programme

• Cherelle Murphy, Chief Economist for EY Oceania, will present a post-budget economic update and financial year outlook.
• Professor Mark Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist for Environment Protection Authority Victoria, will provide an update on contemporary environmental issues and relevant policy priorities on the horizon for EPA Victoria.
• Andrew Davies, CEO for B Lab Australia & New Zealand, will present on B Corp Certification; what it is, the certification process and what it demonstrates in terms of a company’s social and environmental impact.
• Marc L’Huiller, Partner – Customer Strategy & Insights Lead for EY Oceania, will present on current consumer trends and provide insights from EY’s latest consumer research from their surveys that run every 8 weeks.
• Accord will also provide an advocacy update including our new strategic framework, a summary of Accord’s recent achievements and key priorities moving forward.

Accord members login to register. Don’t have a login, contact Steph shollands@accord.asn.au

Sustainability Seminar

Date: Thursday 23 March 2023
Time: 9.30am – 1.30pm (including lunch)
Where: Business Sydney, Level 23 45 Clarence Street Sydney, NSW 2000
Cost: $150 + GST & Booking Fee | Register

Open only to Accord members and members of the Australian Society of Cosmetic Chemists. Accord members can register via the link below; ASCC members, contact shollands@accord.asn.au for the registration link. 

In the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, Business was once again found to be the most trusted institution. But with high trust comes great expectations, with companies expected to do more, not less, on sustainability and climate change issues.

Coupling this with the spate of recent negative media surrounding take-back schemes and collected materials being warehoused rather than recycled, companies need to be realistic and transparent about their sustainability targets and practices. It’s better to be upfront about where you are on your sustainability journey, and strive for improvement, than to be caught out misleading customers and consumers.

Similarly, the ACCC has made greenwashing a compliance priority area, so it’s not just reputational damage that’s at stake if a business is engaged in false and misleading claims.

Join us for this special Sustainability Seminar as we deep dive into current sustainability drivers, best practice and potential solutions for a range of key issues impacting the hygiene, personal care and specialty products sectors.

Confirmed speakers:

• Tom Robinson, CEO of Edelman Australia. Tom will be speaking on the results of the 2023 Trust Barometer, including the findings on business needing to do more on societal issues, its role in strengthening social fabric, as well as the ways business has sustained, and can continue to do so, its trust advantage.

• Nicholas Heys, Director, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Nicholas will be speaking on the initial findings of the ACCC’s greenwashing compliance sweep.

• Ashleigh Burnham, Head of Sustainability Leadership & Transformation, Edge Impact. With over a decade’s experience in sustainability strategy, reporting and communications, Ashleigh helps organisations define their sustainability ambitions and bring them to life, to create the next wave of sustainability leaders.
• Accord Australasia – The Accord leadership team will be speaking on the challenges and opportunities for our industry sectors, what Accord is doing to promote the positive steps already taken by our sectors to governments and learn about potential Association and industry-led initiatives to drive further sustainability improvement.