Disposable coffee cups. Food packaging. 3 billion plastic straws a year.
When it comes to the service and hospitality industries, the level of waste being reproduced for landfill is rising, fast.

From grassroots start ups to established SMEs - who are the businesses trying to lighten the industry's footprint? This is your chance to meet them.

The Victorian Circular Activator (VCA) is holding an Industry Showcase on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th October. The showcase is a chance for products, services and initiatives increasing circularity in the hospitality and retail sectors to display their companies and engage with new audiences.

The showcase will be set up on Level One, 102 Victoria Street and will be attended by stallholders and members from the VCA and RMIT Activator teams for your browsing ease. Come and see the founders who are leading the way in making the service industry more circular. They are ready to share their learnings and projections for this area of the circular economy!

If you would like to display your venture, please fill out this form and we'll get back to you soon as possible: https://forms.office.com/r/b8t...

Scheduled walk throughs of the showcase (with one minute pitches from the founders!) will happen on:

Wednesday 26/10 @ 1:00PM AEST

Thursday 27/10 @ 1:00PM AEST

VCA Meet Up

We'll be wrapping up the two day showcase with a celebration of the VCA community and a chance to shape what's coming in 2023. On Thursday 27th from 5:30, we're throwing a party that brings everyone in the Victorian circular space together and you're invited. Expect to be fed, watered and an opportunity to interact with the VCA board to make your membership in the organisation even more rewarding for you in the new year. We'll announce speakers and activations on the night soon!

Keynote speaker: Joan Prummel: International Circular Economy Advisor at Rijkswaterstaat

As a strategic circular economy advisor, Joan Prummel has over 10 years of experience in stimulating and accelerating the circular economy, since 2013 also in international contexts. His main assignments are to create awareness of circular opportunities and to accelerate the implementation and to develop partnerships, programmes and projects that support implementation of circular principles; value chain collaboration (designer-producer-(re)user-recycler) and international exchange of knowledge and experiences.

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What's Possible? Entrepreneurship Month:

Together with the Victoria Circular Activator, you'll also be helping us boost our month of entrepreneurial events into action! What's Possible? is Activator's yearly highlight reel of everything RMIT has to offer in the world of entrepreneurship. A gathering of ideas translated into experiences, where you can choose your own adventure and become inspired by anything and everything possible. This year, our itinerary of events are spread across the month of October.

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RMIT Activator's Acknowledgement of Country