Transforming healthcare through connection

Victim. Survivor. Thriver A former world number 4, popular tennis commentator and best-selling author of her autobiography ‘Unbreakable’, Jelena Dokic’s story of survival is nothing short of remarkable, both on and off the court. Her rise in the ranks of tennis was meteoric, reaching the quarter...

Chris Boyd-Skinner is is a practicing clinician with over 15-years’ experience in critical care and has led national and international clinical governance in digital health initiatives for the Australian Government. He is a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Quality of Care and Patient...

Robin is the Chief Digital and Information Officer at Monash Health. He has over 20 years of leadership experience and a proven track-record of achieving success in digital health, innovation and integration of care. Robin began his career practicing medicine in Wales, UK and moved on to establish ...

George is a medical practitioner who has been deeply involved in technology for the last 30 years. Originally trained as an optometrist, he started tinkering with computers in 1981 when he bought his first PC, a Sinclair ZX80 before going back to medical school to complete his training at the...

A/Prof Talat Uppal is a gynaecologist with a clinical and research focus on abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), including heavy menstrual bleeding, iron deficiency and  procedural hysteroscopy.. She is Director of Women's Health Road (WHR), a multidisciplinary, hybrid, integrated,  women's...

Olga is the Head of Funds Management at Innovation Victoria, where she manages the University Innovation Platform, a pre-seed co-investment program that partners with Victorian universities to back startups and spinouts emerging from their research. Her funds management work spans fund...

Shelley Thomson is Co-Founder of the Patient Experience Agency, a human-centred design consultancy advancing practical, outcomes-driven healthcare reform. An allied health professional and facilitator, she helps health services embed Patient-Reported Measures and consumer partnerships, driving...

Matt is Chief Clinical and Consumer Officer at Healthdirect Australia, responsible for clinical governance, quality and safety across the nation's digital and virtual triage, health advice and information services, and for ensuring consumer perspectives are embedded in how those services are...

Dr Melvin Wu is the Chief Clinical Informatics Officer at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Singapore. He has been with the institution for over two decades, balancing direct psychiatric care at the National Addictions Management Service with clinical technology leadership for the larger...

Jackie O'Connor: Allied Health Professions Australia (AHPA) Digital Health Program Manager: Senior Policy and Strategy Advisor Jackie is a Prosthetist Orthotist with a Masters in Health Service Management. Wanting to address practice problems at a systems level led Jackie into policy and...

Mitzi Paderes is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Clinical Director with extensive experience in mental health service leadership, clinical governance, program implementation and service development. Her work spans the design and implementation of mental health programs, multidisciplinary...

Hafiz Ahmed is an internationally recognised cybersecurity, AI governance, and digital trust leader with more than two decades of experience helping organisations navigate the intersection of technology, risk, governance, and innovation. His expertise spans Cyber Governance, Risk...

Deepak Biswal is the Founder and CEO of CareMonitor which is a digital health platform that won the Australian Digital Health Agency Innovation award. Prior to founding CareMonitor Deepak was Head of Strategy, Asia Pacific for Philips where he was responsible for leading corporate and group level...

Mathew Born is the Director of Medical Workforce at Monash Health, one of Australia’s largest public health services. He has more than 15 years’ experience across healthcare leadership, workforce strategy, operations and organisational transformation. Mathew holds a Master of Leadership from...

Associate Professor Daryl Cheng is a medical executive leader and digital health consultant. He is a practicing consultant paediatrician and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH). He holds clinical research and educational posts as Honorary...

Dr Danny Cai is a dedicated Medical Director, General Practitioner, and Medical Educator at AvaElis Health. With over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Danny is passionate about transforming healthcare through connection. His expertise lies in utilizing digital health technologies...

Dr Chris Davis is a GP and Addiction Medicine Specialist working at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. He is also the clinical co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of the Clean Slate Clinic, a social enterprise with the mission of improving access to alcohol and other drug treatment across the...

Professor Kim Delbaere is an internationally recognised researcher specialising in fall prevention, mobility and healthy ageing. She is Discipline Lead of Physiotherapy at the University of New South Wales and a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Kim founded...

Professor James Elliott translates 25 years of pain science and clinical research into frameworks that change how leaders, organisations, and health systems understand pain, trauma, and human recovery. A member of the NASA Astronaut Spine Working Group, author of three books, and Academic Director...

Naim Fanaj is a psychiatrist and doctor of science in psychology, and Associate Professor at Alma Mater Europaea Campus College Rezonanca in Prishtina, Kosovo. He is Principal Investigator for Për Mendje të Shëndoshë (PMSH) in two Horizon Europe projects: RECONNECTED, which is developing and...

Zara invests in lived experience-guided tech solutions with global impact across disability, ageing, and health. Her background spans pharmaceutical R&D and portfolio strategy, life science corporate development, and industry innovation policy.

Dr Vaibhav Garg pairs clinical dentistry with his legal qualifications as a Solicitor and Barrister at Campbell Law and hands-on health enterprise management. Vaibhav lives his ideals, supporting health businesses with structured and sustainable growth through his consultancy, Salud Plus. As Senior ...

Dr Hannan is a Consultant Specialist Physician in General Internal Medicine in Perspective Medicine at the Epworth Richmond Hospital, Melbourne. From 1984 to 1992 he was the Medical Director of the OCIS implementation project created in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in the Prince of Wales ...

Roo Harris is a Founding Partner at Scale Investors, the first women-led venture fund investing exclusively into women-led startups in Australia. With a focus on the "Gender Innovation Gap," Roo backs founders who leverage lived experience to solve critical market failures in...

Associate Professor Shaun Hosein is the Clinical Director of Virtual Integrated Care at the Metro South Hospital and Health service, he is also a Senior Medical Clinical Coordinator with the Queensland Ambulance, and an Adjunct Associate Professor with Griffith University. His expertise spans...

Dave Jereb is an occupational therapist, author, speaker and founder of MoveAbout Therapy Services, a multi-site occupational therapy organisation with a team of 40+ across NSW. Over the past 25 years, Dave has worked as a clinician, business owner and coach, helping people and organisations...

Doctor Dominika Kwasnicka (MA, MSc, PhD), is a Principal Research Fellow / Associate Professor in Digital Health at the School of Public Health, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She also works for Silverchain - one of Australia’s leading not for profit providers of comprehensive in home...

Dr Angela Kwong is an Australian GP, Founder of Enlighten Me, and RACGP NSW State Lead for Specific Interests – Obesity Management. Drawing on more than a decade in general practice, Angela's work sits at the intersection of frontline clinical care, patient education and healthcare...

Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel works as a public and private paediatric surgeon in Queensland, and as the state-wide Clinical Lead for the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program through Clinical Excellence Queensland. He contributes to national and international advisory groups focused on ...

Sarah Powell is the Chief Executive Officer of Inherited Cancers Australia, a patient-focused organisation that supports families with inherited cancer risk. She leads ICA’s vision to create a future where families can navigate their inherited cancer risk with knowledge and confidence, free from...

Dr Sandeep Reddy is the founder and Chairman of the ‘Centre for Advancement of Translational AI in Medicine (CATAIM)’, a not-for-profit institute set up to enable the adoption of AI in healthcare. Dr Sandeep Reddy has a medical and healthcare management background, as well as being a certified...

Erica Rojas Wood is a Data & Application Specialist at the Diabetes & Endocrinology Department at Perth Children’s Hospital, and a Product Development Lead within the Children’s Diabetes Centre (CDC) at the Kids Research Institute. Using her previous experience as a Clinical Exercise...

Kelly Schulz is the Chief Curiosity Officer of Knowable Me, a market research company that helps organisations understand human diversity through lived experience insights. Kelly has held senior roles across complaints, accessibility and inclusion, customer experience, brand and...

Chintan Shah is Associate Director and Digital Health Executive at South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), New South Wales' (NSW) largest and fastest-growing Local Health District (LHD), serving more than 800,000 people through a workforce of over 18,000 staff. He oversees a $65M+...

Alastair Sharman is a nationally recognised digital health leader, advisor and former health executive with more than 25 years' experience leading complex transformation across healthcare, government and industry. Having served as Chief Information Officer for Children’s Health Queensland and...

Dr Loren Sher is an Emergency Specialist and the inaugural Program Director of the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED), Australia’s first state-wide, 24/7 virtual emergency care service. Since its launch in 2020, the VVED has supported more than half a million Victorians, easing pressure...

Rachel Sinanan is a PhD researcher at Federation University Australia’s ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Optimal Ageing, where her research focuses on digital health literacy and digital inclusion among adults aged 45 years and older. Her research challenges the assumption that...

Prof Karen Smith is the National Director of Research and Evidence at Silverchain Group, a leading NFP Community Aged and Health care organisation. She oversees the Research and Innovation area of Silverchain, which leads Silverchain’s ambition to be global leaders in research and innovation in...

Tyagi, an Associate Professor and Digital Health & Bioinformatics research lab head, has 20+ yrs of work experience in academia & industry. She also leader AI for sustainable healthcare systems at the RAIsE hub. Her research primarily revolves around the analysis of large-scale genomic and...