Accord hosts a number of seminars and technical training sessions throughout the year. See below for upcoming dates or take a look at some of our past events.
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
Online Insight Hours
Insight Hours are a member-only offering, featuring topical presentations on a range of issues and trends relevant to our membership.
Accord Members can access past available Insight Hours on demand via our website.
Sector Roundtables
These sector-specific roundtables are a fantastic opportunity for members to discuss the current operating environment and priority issues for their sectors. Watch this space for upcoming roundtables in 2023!
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.
Accord Insight Hours
Accord members can access available recordings for past Insight Hours via the Members area. Login to view
2021
- Insight Hour Packaging Series: Labelmakers | 14 October 2021
- Insight Hour Packaging Series: APCO | 6 October 2021
- ‘Opening up’: a discussion of considerations and issues post-lockdown | 15 September 2021
- Insight Hour with Davoren Environmental: PFAS Review Report | 9 September 2021
- Looking After Yourself, People and Productivity in Unpredictable Times | 31 August 2021
- Insight Hour with Frost & Sullivan | 17 August 2021
- Online AICIS Workshop | 4 August 2021
- Insight Hour: Stewardship scheme for small-format cosmetics | 14 July 2021
- Insight Hour with GlobalData | 8 July 2021
- Insight Hour with the NZ EPA | 16 June 2021
- Insight Hour on the Voluntary Industry Animal Test Code | 8 June 2021
- Measurement Law Review – options for reform | 3 May 2021
- UK regulatory arrangements for cosmetics under Brexit, with the UK CTPA | 18 March 2021
- Modern Manufacturing Initiative opportunities, with the Department of Industry’s Manufacturing Division Engagement Branch | 11 March 2021
- Modern Slavery Statement requirements, with the Australian Border Force Modern Slavery Business Engagement Unit | 24 February 2021
- Personal care & cosmetic consumer insights with GlobalData | 18 February 2021
2020
- The Australian Government’s Ban on Testing Cosmetics on Animals – Retail-level Communications Campaign | 10 December 2020
- Clean Beauty: innovation, compliance and promotion with UL | 12 November 2020
- Collaboration Opportunities for industry with Monash | 29 October 2020
- Post-budget economic update with HSBC’s Chief Economist, Paul Bloxham | 22 October 2020
- DAWE update on the National PFAS Position Statement and the National Standard for Environmental Risk Management of Industrial Chemicals | 15 September 2020
- NTC update on ADG Code 7.7 | 27 August 2020
- GlobalData Home Care Insights | 13 August 2020
- Hand sanitiser issues including DISER update | 21 July 2020
- NZ EPA Briefing on update to GHS 7 | 7 July 2020
- GlobalData the new ‘red lipstick effect’ | 25 June 2020