AGENT: Business Influence for Impact (A bushfire relief fundraiser)

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.

In order to deliver this special event, 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.

All Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com.au/melbbiz4impact Further details on event page...

***ALL ticket proceeds and raffle proceeds from this evening will be donated to Wildlife Victoria & Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) split evenly.

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.

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.

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.

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.