Events

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.

Canberra Day 2025

Register now to secure 2024 member pricing!

Industry Leaders’ Dinner 

Wednesday 3 September, 7.00pm | The Boat House, Grevillea Park, Menindee Drive, Barton ACT 2600 | Register

Canberra Day Seminar

Thursday 4 September, 9.00am | Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600 | Register

A long-held and highly anticipated annual event, 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.

Accord members will also be showcasing our industry to government as part of the seminar, communicating some of the challenges facing companies doing business in Australia and how right-size regulation and business policy could help bolster Australian industry.

Canberra Day, as in past years, will also include timely policy and regulatory updates from government to our industry.

Register from now until the end of July to receive 2024 member pricing for the events!

Past Events

Industry Briefing & AGM Events | Melbourne

Join us in Melbourne this May for the 2025 Industry Briefing & AGM events!

• Industry Leaders’ Dinner | Register
  Tuesday 6 May 2025, 6.30pm | Sofitel Melbourne on Collins
• Industry Briefing & AGM | Register
  Wednesday 7 May 2025, 9.00am – 1.30pm | Sofitel Melbourne on Collins

The events will kick off with an Industry Leaders’ Dinner on the Tuesday night, a fantastic networking opportunity to engage with sector leaders and peers. The following day will be the Industry Briefing & AGM, featuring an education program of expert speakers.

Stay tuned as we finalise additional speakers and special guests—you won’t want to miss this Melbourne networking event!

Meet our speakers!

Katherine Boiciuc | EY Regional Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Oceania

Katherine Boiciuc, also known as KB, is the EY Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the Oceania region.

Prior to EY, KB has more than two decades experience and is one of Australia’s go to professionals on tech. She’s led global teams at Telstra and more recently has been advising Australia’s next generation of CTOs as a Director at Maximus. She also sits on the boards of NSW Bureau of Health Information and Infoxchange (Australia’s largest technology not for profit).

KB holds an MBA and Master of Leadership from Deakin University, is a graduate from the London Business School where she studied Managing the Company of the Future, and is an accredited Futurist with the Institute for the Future in California.

Dean Pearson, Head of Behavioural & Industry Economics, National Australia Bank

Dean Pearson is an Industry & Business Economist with over 25 years’ experience in analysing the economy and assessing the implications both in Australia and globally. Dean leads a team of analysts responsible for monitoring key economic, business and consumer trends and identifying industries and customer segments which are likely to provide the strongest growth opportunities and greatest risks. Dean’s team is responsible for a number of key publications including: NAB Consumer Anxiety Index; NAB Wellbeing Index; NAB Residential and Commercial Property Survey; MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey; NAB Online Retail Sales Index; NAB Diversity Index; NAB Work & Family Survey; NAB Charitable Giving Index; and the NAB Asia-Australia Business Engagement Index.

Industry Leaders’ Dinner & Briefing | Sydney

25 February 2025 | Kimpton Margot Sydney

Join us for the first networking event of the year, featuring special guest presentations:

Perfume: The Evolution of French and American Fragrance
Michael Edwards, Fragrances of the World
Dubbed the “The perfume expert’s expert” by Evelyn Lauder, Michael Edwards has been an innovator, educator and passionate advocate of the fragrance industry for over 30 years. Working closely with perfumers and fragrance developers, Michael travels the world to record fragrance history with independence and impartiality; with integrity and accuracy. Michael’s work remains a universally embraced source of fragrance classification and an essential selling tool for fragrance houses and retailers.

The Essentiality of Beauty
Alex Davison, L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand
Beauty has been an essential human need from time immemorial. There has not been a culture, time period or civilisation that has not needed beauty or in fact survived without it. The beauty industry also has a major socio-economic impact, employing millions of people worldwide and making a significant contribution to the GDP. This session will explore the history and importance of beauty rituals as well as the role beauty plays in self-expression and self-identity.

The briefing will be followed by an industry leaders’ dinner, the first event celebrating Accord’s 2025 anniversary year: 50 years since our original formation in 1975 and 20 years as Accord, the combined voice of the hygiene, personal care and specialty products industry.

Thank you to our event sponsors: Coty | L’Oréal | Puig Oceania

On Demand: AICIS Introduction Training 2025

Our AICIS Introduction Training recordings are now available for members. The recordings are broken up into the following sessions:

• Overview
• What has changed?
• Introductions
• Categorisations
• Common Compliance Pitfalls
• The future of AICIS

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