Karen Webster is the Dean and Principal of the Melbourne campus of internationally acclaimed Design Institute LCI, fostering innovative and progressive design education. Karen has been a design advocate and leading academic in Australia’s creative industries for over four decades. She has served on numerous government and industry advisory boards across the creative industries. 

Samantha Seljak is co-founder and managing director of Seljak brand. Together with her sister Karina, she harnesses the value of textile waste to create beautiful products that are circular by design. Seljak Brand’s award-winning closed loop wool blankets are proving how small business can accelerate the transition to a circular economy and design for limiting global warming. 

Matt is driven by the potential for the world to make positive change. He has spent some 20 years working in the sustainability sector, with a particular bent for delivering a best practice waste and recycling sector that brings true circularity to our material usage.

Matt has spent time in consulting, the not-for-profit sector and more than eight years with SV.

Jordy & Julia Kay, Co-founders of Great Wrap manufacture home compostable stretch wrap from food waste. Working with a team of scientists and engineers they are proudly developing technology that will change the world, one roll at a time.