AGENT: Business Influence for Impact (A bushfire relief fundraiser)
Event description
StartUp Creative & ALTS Projects, along with Local Peoples, LaunchVIC, Matters Journal and Stone & Chalk (plus more) have teamed up to present a fundraiser event bringing together Melbourne-based businesses, creatives, entrepreneurs and the wider startup ecosystem, in order to raise money for bushfire relief efforts. Focusing on using our collective business power to make positive changes that will benefit the environment in which we live.
This special event will aim to communicate a message of self-activation - our ability to implement small, but significant, change to influence our individual impact, and the ability to empower ourselves with knowledge in the face of leadership that persists with inaction on climate change.
This event will focus on informing our entrepreneurial, creative and business communities on the state of affairs of our environment, provide relevant education on the practical ways we can use our businesses to make real and lasting change, and empower each other to take urgent and immediate individual action to reduce our collective impact on this planet.
In order to do this we have assembled a panel of informative thought-leaders who are using their businesses to have influence on the wider community, and call for a change in the minds of everyday consumers.
Our guests will share a number of ways they are personally doing this, the impact they are striving for, and most importantly, will provide tips, tricks and hacks as to how we can do the same.
***ALL ticket proceeds and raffle proceeds from this evening will be donated to Wildlife Victoria & Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) split evenly. Find out more about them here:
https://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/
Flow of the evening:
6:00pm - Attendee Arrival, drinks available
6:30pm - Discussion
7:15pm - Audience participation + Q&A
7:30pm - End of Discussion and further connection
8:30pm - End of Evening
Our speaking guests:
Rebecca Scott OAM - Co-founder and CEO of STREAT
Bec Scott is the Co-founder and CEO of STREAT, a Melbourne-based social enterprise that works with marginalised young people aged 16-24 years and provides them with a healthy self, job and home. STREAT run a portfolio of 11 foodservice businesses, including cafes, an artisan bakery, a catering company, and a coffee roastery.
To date STREAT has worked with over 2,200 young people who have helped serve over 3 million customers. Prior to starting STREAT, Bec spent a decade at the CSIRO working in science communication. Bec is also passionate about the arts and has spent 20 years collaborating with artists, photographers, illustrators, writers, makers and designers.
On a weekend you'll usually find her doing an arts side project, pottering around in STREAT's garden with her partner Kate, or playing Lego with their son Will.
Fleur Studd - Founder, Melbourne Coffee Merchants and Co-Founder, Market Lane Coffee
While Melburnians have always been coffee-obsessed, Fleur Studd has helped take that obsession to the next level. She founded coffee importer Melbourne Coffee Merchants over decade ago, with the aim of sustainably sourcing the very best coffees from around the world and sharing the extraordinary stories of the producers behind them.
Fleur is also co-founder of Market Lane Coffee, a roaster and retailer with 6 outlets and over 50 staff, that’s part of the daily routine of thousands of Melbourne coffee-lovers. Fleur's mission is to redefine what coffee is and can be, and to build a market for, and appreciation of, specialty coffee. In doing so she hopes to ignite positive and lasting change in the coffee industry and build a more sustainable future for coffee producers and their communities.
Nick Byrne - Director, Typehuman
Nick is the director of Typehuman, a web design & innovation studio based in Melbourne, Australia. Nick started TypeHuman because of a belief that we need be more conscious about designing and bringing about a human centric web; this is in the face of increasing surveillance, attention economy, and powerful and growing data monopolies.
Prior to TypeHuman, Nick helped launch Digital iD, and have been involved with launching startups and supporting innovation efforts of corporate Australia.
Nick spends his time between researching the impacts and opportunities presented by emerging technologies (especially blockchain), and supporting the team who are working with clients looking to learn more about, or implement new technologies.
More to be announced very soon!
Your Hosts:
Kaylene Langford - Founder, Startup Creative
Waving the flag at the peak of the StartUp Creative mountain is Kaylene Langford - entrepreneur, passionate coach, sunshine-seeker and all-round go-getter. Kaylene is committed to drawing together young, motivated individuals and throwing them in the mix with industry experts, funding opportunities, development programs, mentors, inspiring events and keynote presentations.
Kaylene continues to expand and evolve StartUp Creative into the leading source of inspiration and information, found at the place where courage and creativity collide.
Garry Williams - Founder, ALTS Projects
Gaz runs ALTS - a content/ engagement hybrid focussed on 'unconventional career paths and the projects that consume us.'
Projects that fall under the ALTS family include events such as Melbourne Tech programming, FuckUp Nights Melbourne and Sydney, as well as the freshly created AGENT (Melbourne) and Snap Crackle Pop Culture. He is an advocate for side projects and experimentation in the creative, tech and sub-culture realm.
Major Presenting Partners:
Local Peoples - creative design and event curation
Local Peoples are citizens of good design and social impact. They specialise in human focused brand identity and experience design (as is demonstrated by their BCorp certification.) They employ sincere community engagement, place-making, content production and digital services to help design and build healthy, resilient and resourceful communities.
Matters Journal - creative design and event curation
A weekly digital and biannual print publication telling interconnected stories from the worlds of arts, design, technology, health, food and the environment.
LaunchVic - venue donation and event curation
LaunchVic is Victoria's startup agency. Their role is to grow Victoria's startup ecosystem by investing in organisations & projects that support startups to scale innovative companies, & deliver benefits to the Victorian economy.
Stone & Chalk - venue donation and event curation
Stone & Chalk is Australasia's leading independent, not-for-profit innovation hub. We foster and accelerate the development of world-leading technology startups and act as a centre of gravity for the innovation ecosystem.
Our Supporters:
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*Victorian Innovation Hub is an accessible venue with lift access available from street access and flat floor seating on ground floor. If you have any questions relating to accessibility on the evening, please contact hello@alts.today
*ALTS-organised events operate as a diverse and welcoming environment free of any form of harassment and inclusive of people regardless of their gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, ability and more. Should you encounter any behaviour adverse to this code of conduct, please contact us at hello@alts.today and report anonymously or in-person at the event if you choose.
*This event is photographed, with crowd photography published on social media. Should you wish for photography featuring yourself not to be featured, please contact us at hello@alts.today or advise us in-person at the event.
*Booking fees for this event support Indigenous Scholarships to close the gap for indigenous students via the Humanitix ticketing platform. Humanitix is the not-for-profit ticketing platform that gives events impact.