Alina Brzeczek-Szafran delivered an invited talk at Australasian Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Melbourne, Australia. Alina talked about sustainable functional materials based on carbohydrate-derived ionic liquids. In the conference participated also our PhD student Bartek Gaida, who was doing that time his internship at Monash University. Bartek was very luck to take part in the conference in-person, presenting a research on phase change materials.