People Power: Turning climate curiosity into action

​Care about our climate but unsure where to start?

​And want to win a year's supply of Ben & Jerry's?

​Join this high-energy, practical session designed for anyone who is climate-curious and ready to start making more climate-conscious choices in their everyday life.

​This session brings together leading brands, organisations and innovators who are turning good intentions into real-world action - showing how individual choices, when combined, can shift markets, systems and culture. This is not about awareness for awareness’ sake - it’s about practical steps, behaviour change and tangible next actions you can take.

​Across the session, you’ll explore everyday levers for change - from how you invest your money and shape your daily habits to how you consume food fashion and advocacy. Each speaker will share clear, accessible strategies regarding consumer power and making sustainable choices easier, more affordable and more collective:

• ​Financial Services & Investing (Christina Hobbs, General Manager at Future Super)

• ​Fashion Activism (Lisa Lake, Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion & Textiles)

• ​Food & Waste (Maxx Silver, Business Development Manager at OzHarvest Ventures)

• ​Daily Habits (d'Arcy Lunn, Founder and Director at Teaspoons of Change)

• ​Advocacy (Will Davies, Co-Founder Car Next Door)

​What to expect

​Hosted by Tegan Lerm - CEO of Project Planet, an experienced communicator known for engaging climate-curious audiences and turning big ideas into practical action, the session will feature a series of short, interactive 20-minute conversations across key sectors shaping everyday climate choices:

• ​Opening address by Monica Barone, CEO at City of Sydney

• ​Daily habits

• The power of small, everyday actions - and how collective individual choices can drive global impact.

• ​Investing & finance

• How your superannuation can become a powerful lever for change - shifting capital, influencing markets and accelerating climate solutions.

• ​Circular fashion

• With 15yrs as a sustainable fashion activist, Lisa will discuss the potential of clothes to change the world. Starting with your own wardrobe, all the way to new circular fashion businesses and innovative fossil-free fibres, you’ll learn how a passion for fashion can change the world.

• ​Food & waste

• Business as a tool for good, and how everyday food choices, waste reduction, and new food systems can significantly reduce emissions and support communities.

• ​Advocacy & education

• How purpose-driven businesses, consumer action, and strategic advocacy can drive system-level climate change.

​Why attend?

​This session is for you if you:

• ​Feel climate-curious but unsure where to start.

• Want to make more climate-conscious choices in your daily life.

• Are interested in how your money, habits and voice can drive change.

• Want to be part of a positive, solutions-focused climate conversation.

​Because when people act together - that’s when real change happens. And yes - all attendees go in the draw to win a year of Ben & Jerry's.