diff --git a/example-projects/actix-web-example/Cargo.toml b/example-projects/actix-web-example/Cargo.toml
index aa30576..34668a5 100644
--- a/example-projects/actix-web-example/Cargo.toml
+++ b/example-projects/actix-web-example/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ edition = "2018"
 cloudevents-sdk = { path = "../.." }
 cloudevents-sdk-actix-web = { path = "../../cloudevents-sdk-actix-web" }
 actix-web = "^3"
-actix-rt = "1"
 actix-cors = "^0.5"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 bytes = "^0.5"
diff --git a/example-projects/actix-web-example/src/main.rs b/example-projects/actix-web-example/src/main.rs
index 7422fe0..1c1f551 100644
--- a/example-projects/actix-web-example/src/main.rs
+++ b/example-projects/actix-web-example/src/main.rs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ async fn get_event() -> Result<HttpResponse, actix_web::Error> {
         .await?)
 }
 
-#[actix_rt::main]
+#[actix_web::main]
 async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     std::env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "actix_server=info,actix_web=info");
     env_logger::init();