#2026ENVIRO
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 WELCOME FUNCTION
 Adelaide Convention Centre
 6:00-8:00pm

 Dress: business / smart casual

 OPENING PLENARY: GOING CIRCULAR

 9:00am

Welcome and introduction
Gayle Sloan - CEO, WMRR

Welcome to Country
Luke Wilson

Official opening
Senator the Hon Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water (video)

Keynote | Creating a circular economy in Scotland
Iain Gulland - former Chief Executive, Zero Waste Scotland

Fireside Chat | Going Circular: Driving circularity in Australia
Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group (CEMAG) members, Vaughan Levtizke (former Chief Executive of Green Industries SA), and John Gertsakis (Director, Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence) sit with Iain Gulland to deep dive into the settings needed to move the dial on circularity in Australia.

 SECOND PLENARY: GLOBAL INSIGHTS

Keynote | The Global Circularity Gap Report 2026: Measuring the circularity value gap
Simon Vardy - Partner + Eleanor Lee - Associate Director, Deloitte

Keynote | Lets talk about carbon
Susie Smith - CEO, Australian Integrated Carbon

Fireside Chat | From circular ambition to circular action
Andrew Morlet - Senior Advisor, Circular Economy, Standard Chartered and former Chief Executive, Ellen MacArthur Foundation sits with WMRR CEO, Gayle Sloan, to discuss his journey and experience in this space and how to shift the thinking from ambition to action and drive circularity at scale (video).

 SESSION 1: CE INSIGHTS

Circular Regulatory Systems 
Esther Hughes, - Principal Consultant, MRA Consulting Group

The Reuse Playbook
Amy Smith - Senior Consultant, Climate and Sustainability Services, Arup 

City of Sydney de-fit waste metrics and circular fitout guidelines for retail and hospitality
Vanessa Cullen, FTD Circular

 SESSION 2:  CE LEARNINGS

Designing for Circularity: Embedding material recovery and lifecycle thinking in a utility-scale
wind farm
Shaun Devine - Principal Consultant, MRA Consulting Group 

From Policy to Practice: Circular economy success stories and lessons from South Africa’s EPR Journey for Australia
Sally-Anne Käsner - Founder, Circular Vision (video)

Regulation Fosters Innovation: How circular solutions can be sustainable with government policy
Neha Modi, Business Partner - Innovation & Circularity, Cleanaway - YP Scholarship Winner

 CLOSING PLENARY: EU REGULATION

Keynote | The European Union: CE policy and programs
Françoise Bonnet - Secretary General, Association of Cities and Regions for Sustainable Resource Management (ACR+) (virtual)

 CONFERENCE DINNER
 The Drive
 6:30-10:30pm
 
 Dress: cocktail

 OPENING PLENARY: SETTING THE SCENE

 9:10am

Opening address
Emily Bourke MLC - South Australian Minister for Climate, Environment and Water; Minister for Tourism

Keynote | Measuring Circularity in Australia: How circular are we?
Dr Alessio Miatto - Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO

Keynote | The importance of (good) design
Dr Brandon Gien - Chair, Good Design Australia

 SECOND PLENARY: CE IN AUSTRALIA

Keynote | Australian Circular Design & Manufacture: The King Living story
Ben Sheehan - Chief Manufacturing Officer, King Living

Keynote | N/XT Life™ Circularity Program
Shaneel Deo - Managing Director, Milliken Australia

Keynote | Applying circular principles to the built environment   
Paul Rosenberg Vella - National Manager, ALD + Founder, Refit8

 SESSION 3: BRINGING CIRCULARITY TO LIFE IN SA

Transforming fashion's linear economy one step at a time
Ainsley Simpson - CEO, Seamless

Investing in circular solutions in South Australia
Goran Todorovic - State Manager - SA, ResourceCo

Panel | Bringing circularity to life in South Australia
Government, business and industry come together to discuss the policy and regulatory settings needed to move the dial on circularity in SA.

• Jon Gorvett PSM - Chief Executive, EPA SA
• Kat Heinrich - Director & Principal Consultant, Rawtec
• Brad Lemmon - Chief Executive Officer, Recycling & Waste, ResourceCo
• Josh Wheeler - Chief Executive, Green Industries SA

 SESSION 4: CREATING VALUE

 3:30pm

InfinitySeries: Conveyor Belts made and re-made in Australia
Mike Finlen - Principal Engineer, Fenner Conveyors (A Michelin Group Company)

 3:55pm

From Waste to Value: Partnering to grow South Australia’s PVC circular economy
David Daminato - Circular Economy Specialist + Felicity Isaac - Senior Innovation Adviser, SA Water

 4:20pm

Alignment, not Reinvention - Closing Australia’s resource recovery gap
Nicholas Firth - Key Account Manager, Veolia