Australian Healthcare Week 2024 | IQPC | 19 March 2024 | ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

This is not just any healthcare event – this is the biggest gathering of healthcare professionals across the entire health ecosystem.

Join thousands of industry peers at this unparalleled event, with 7 dedicated free-to-attend stages tackling Digital Health, Nursing & Midwifery, Aged Care, Artificial Intelligence, Start-ups, Healthcare 2040 and Patient Experience!
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better....
With over 100+ case studies, presentations and panel debates - the official agenda & speaker line-up is now available to download!

Check out what's on the agenda at all 7 Free-To-Attend stages!

2024 Speakers

ADVISORY BOARDS:

Christina Igasto
Chief Digital Health Officer and CIO, Western Sydney Local Health District

Sandip Kumar
Executive Director, Strategy, Transformation and Major Capital, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

Dr. John Lambert
Chief Clinical Information Officer, NT Health

Di Mantell
Chief Executive Officer, Celsus

Rod Sprenger
Director – Digital Health, New Women’s and Children’s Hospital Project, Women’s and Children’s Health Network (SA Health)

Richard Taggart
National ICT Director, Calvary Care

Voni Leighton
Co-Founder & Clinical Director, Vitalis Health & Home Care

SPEAKERS:

Josie Rudman
Transformation Director and Chief Nurse, New Hospitals Programme, NHS England

Maryanne Hawthorn
Executive Director Strategic Reform, Planning and Partnerships, Western NSW LHD

Peter Spryszynski
Country Manager, Q-bital Healthcare Solutions

Myra Drummond
Senior Director Operational Readiness and Commissioning, Queensland Health

Claire Harris
Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Lisa Altman
Director, Strategy, Innovation and Improvement, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network and South Eastern Sydney LHD

Martin Canova
Executive Director Strategy & Transformation, NSW Pathology

Rod Sprenger
Director – Digital Health, New Women’s and Children’s Hospital Project, Women’s and Children’s Health Network (SA Health)

Leanne Creighton
Senior Director, Operational Readiness and Commissioning, Queensland Health

Joanne Holden
Service Transformation & General Manager, Bathurst Health Service, Western NSW Local Health District

Scott McDonnell
Director of Nursing & Midwifery Services, Camden & Campbelltown Hospitals 

Nicole Lancer
Project Director Ballarat Base Hospital Redevelopment Project, Grampians Health

Sacha Mott
Director Commissioning | Westmead Redevelopment, Western Sydney LHD

David Keenan
Director, Danbar Consulting

Julia Beckingsale
Director, Design and Technical, New Footscray Hospital Project, Victorian Health Building Authority

Anita Hodge
National Manager Patient Reported Experience Measures and Outcomes, Healthscope

Mark Mitchell
Principal | Health Sector Leader, Billard Leece Partnership

Chloe Hannigan
Program Manager for the safe care of MH and behaviourally disturbed patients in acute care facilities, Sydney LHD

Elizabeth Browne
Director Operations Shared Clinical Services, Prince of Wales Hospital

Ian Premak
Sales Leader | Sustainable Infrastructure (SI), Pacific, Johnson Controls International

Kate Copeland
Executive Director, Strategy & Planning, Assets & Infrastructure, and Strategic Developments, Metro North Health

Chris Blackwell-Frost
Chief Executive Officer, Vanguard Healthcare Solutions

Mark Eager
Chief Executive Officer, Mobile Health Group (NZ)

Josie Rudman
Transformation Director and Chief Nurse, New Hospitals Programme, NHS England

Ed Marx
Healthcare Futurist | Former Global CIO, Cleveland Clinic USA

Robert Marshall
Chief Strategy Officer, St Vincent's Health Australia

Susan Pearce
Secretary, NSW Ministry of Health

Dr Teresa Anderson
Chief Executive, Sydney Local Health District

Frank Tracey
Chief Executive, Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service

Chris Blake
Group Chief Executive Officer, St. Vincent's Health Australia

Lesley Dwyer
Chief Executive Officer, Central Adelaide Local Health Network

Stewart Dowrick
Chief Executive Officer, Mid North Coast Local Health District

Tobi Wilson
Chief Executive Officer, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

Wendy Richards
Senior Director, Workforce Strategy, Queensland Health

Sam Peascod
Assistant Secretary, Digital and Service Design, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Dr. Alexander Beath
HITH Medical Lead, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Michelle Fitzgerald
Group Chief Digital Officer, St Vincent's Health Australia

Dr. Rachna Gandhi
Global Chief Data & Digital Officer, Ramsay Healthcare

Tat Garwood
Chief Nursing & Midwifery Informatics Officer, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

Prof. Mark Horrigan
Director, Hospital in the Home and Virtual Care, Austin Health

Christina Igasto
Chief Digital Health Officer and CIO, Western Sydney Local Health District

Dr. Emily Kirkpatrick
Executive Medical Director, Calvary Amplar Health

Sandip Kumar
Executive Director, Strategy, Transformation and Major Capital, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

Dr. John Lambert
Chief Clinical Information Officer, Northern Territory Health

Voni Leighton
Co-Founder & Clinical Director, Vitalis Health & Home Care

Jean-Frederic Levesque
Chief Executive Officer, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation

Ed Marx
Healthcare Futurist | Former Global CIO, Cleveland Clinic USA

Loren Sher
Clinical Director of the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Northern Health

Gareth Sherlock
Former CIO, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Cleveland Clinic London

Richard Taggart
National Director Information Technology and Digital, Calvary Health Care

Meghraj Thakkar
Board Director, Grampians Health

David Rowlands
Member, Roster of Digital Health Experts, World Health Organisation

Peter O'Halloran
Chief Digital Officer, ADHA

Peter Birch
Founder & CEO, Talking HealthTech

Lesley Bennett
Chief Executive, East Metropolitan Health Service

Julianne Parkinson
CEO, Global Centre for Modern Ageing

Claire Scapinello
Chief Executive Officer, ECH Inc.

Fay Flevaras
First Assistant Secretary, Digital Transformation and Delivery – Aged Care Reform, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

Robert Day
Assistant Secretary Dementia, Diversity & Design, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Annette Hili
General Manager ANZ, AlayaCare

Linda Feldt
Interim Chief Executive Officer, ACH Group

Todd Yourell
Chief Executive Officer, St Andrew’s Village Ballina

Lee Martin
Chief Executive Officer, Tanunda Lutheran Home

Deidre McGill
Chief Operating Officer Home & Community Support, Bolton Clarke

Ian Kelleher
Chief Operating Officer, Rockpool Aged Care

Arif Mohamed
Vice President - Residential, AlayaCare

Katie Formston
Head of Design - Property and Capital Works, HammondCare

George Margelis
Independent Chair, Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council

Dr David Sykes
Director, Centre for Dementia Learning, Dementia Australia

Sarah Newman
General Manager General Manager BaptistCare at home | NSW, ACT & WA, BaptistCare

Kaushik Sridhar
Award Winning ESG Expert | Founder, Orka Advisory

Jennene Buckley
Council Member, National Aged Care Advisory Council

Mick McHugh
National Asset Manager - Aged and Community Care, Calvary Care

Prof. Claire Johnson
Director of the Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program (PACOP), University of Wollongong

Dr. Tim Henwood
Group Manager Research & Development, Southern Cross Care (SA, NT & VIC)

Sue-Ellen Smith
General Manager, Blue Care

Jan Golembiewski
Director, Pyschological Design

Loren Sher
Clinical Director of the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Northern Health

Katharine See
Chief Health Outcomes Officer, Northern Health

Rob Tassie
General Manager Digital Health and Innovation, Wesfarmers Health

Shireen Martin
Director Connected Care and Partnerships, NSW Health

Timothy Leen
Executive Director Transformation, South Metropolitan Health Service

Prem Prakash Jayaraman
Director, Factory of the Future & Digital Innovation Lab, Swinburne University

Rebecca Psellos
Head of Strategy- Health Services, Bupa

Prof. Alison Lemoh
Trainer, Clinical Geneticist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Barbara Daly
Co-Director, Nursing & Operations Emergency Specialty and Continuing Medicine (ESCM), Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney

Prof. Paul McMurrick
Head, Cabrini Monash University Department of Surgery, Cabrini Health

Dana Mouwad
Manager Strategic Partnership & Programs, WSLHD
Director, Health Literacy Hub

Dr. Niladri Ghosh
District Medical Lead, Virtually Enhanced Community Care, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District

Kristi-Lee Muir
Virtually Enhanced Community Care Service Lead, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District

Katrina Campbell
Director, Healthcare Excellence and Innovation, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Dr. Susan Jack
Clinical Director, National Public Health Service – Southern, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand

Kristy Crooks
Aboriginal Program Manager - Health Protection, Hunter New England Local Health District

Freya Raffan
Patient Experience & Service Development Manager, RPA Virtual Hospital

Michelle Padget
Assistant Director of Nursing, Clinical Improvement Unit, Metro South Health

Natalie Wilson
Director, Transforming Your Experience, South Western Sydney Local Health District

Aaron Hall
Stream Lead, Patient Reported Measures, Agency for Clinical Innovation

Dr. Ian Oppermann
Chief Data Scientist, NSW Data Analytics Centre

Dr. Nirvana Luckraj
Chief Medical Officer, Healthdirect

Farah Magrabi
Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Martin Canova
Executive Director Strategy & Transformation, NSW Pathology

Dr. Andrew Hallahan
Executive Director Medical Services, Clinical Governance & Risk, Sydney Local Health District

Joshua Kovoor
Medical Officer, Central Adelaide Local Health District

Saurabh Jain
Chief Executive Officer, TrialKey

Jacqui Cross
Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officer, NSW Health

Prof. Jennifer Hurley
Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, SA Health

Maria Lingam
Executive Director Nursing & Midwifery Services, Western Sydney Local Health District

Naomi Dobroff
Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer, Monash Health

Tat Garwood
Chief Nursing & Midwifery Informatics Officer, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

Amanda Clark
Executive Director of Nursing, Nursing Workforce & Patient Experience, Central Adelaide Local Health Network

Dr Jen Bichel-Findlay
Chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Network, Australian Institute of Digital Health

Catherine Barratt
Principal Nursing Advisor, Chief Nursing & Midwifery Office, WA Health

Kasia Bail
Professor of Gerontological Nursing, University of Canberra

Kassandra Packwood MACN
District Deputy Director Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Excellence and Digital Health, Southern NSW Local Health District

Karen Grace
National Director, Professional Practice, Australasian College of Nursing

Phillipa Power
Group Director Clinical Workforce, Epworth HealthCare

Galina Lawrence
Clinical Nurse Specialist, North Metropolitan Health Service

Nathan Moore
Lecturer, University of Sydney

Keith Wicks
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Officer, NSW NMA

Catherine Barratt
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Officer, NSW NMA

Karen Grace
National Director, Professional Practice, Australian College of Nursing

Harikesh Pushpapathan
Investment Manager, Stoic VC

Dina Titkova
Senior Manager, UNSW Founders

Bronwyn Le Grice
Chief Executive Officer, ANDHealth

Bronwyn Le Grice
Chief Executive Officer, ANDHealth

Kumaran Mani
Global Lead - A.Catalyst Mentoring Value Stream, AstraZeneca

Amit Rana
Executive Director, Healthesis

Christina Igasto
Chief Digital Health Officer and CIO, Western Sydney Local Health District

Zachary Tan
General Partner, Aegis Ventures

Vinayak Smith
Head of New Ventures, Virtus Health

Victor Windeyer
Senior Portfolio Manager Future of Healthcare Fund, Australian Unity Limited

Kim Smyth
General Manager Investment, ANDHealth

2024 Sponsors & Partners

PLATINUM PARTNER:
• Hospital Products Australia

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• Q-bital

LEAD AGED CARE TRANSFORMATION PARTNER:
• AlayaCare

LEAD VEHICLE LEASING SPONSOR:
• Origin Energy

PREMIUM PARTNERS:
• Aruma
• Comp Now
• Crown Furniture
• Daelibs Workforce Guidance
• Genesys
• Hills Health Solutions
• Hipac
• Ingram Micro
• Juvo Solutions
• Kingsway Group
• Microsoft + Nuance
• Nespresso
• Pudo Robotics
• Zipline

SPOTLIGHT PARTNERS:
• Australian Eggs
• Gensure Biotech
• Ideagen CompliSpace
• Johnson Controls
• MTX
• NNT Uniforms
• Personify Care
• RingCentral
• Schneider Electric
• Service Now
• Stantec
• Stryker
• Ventia

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Aruma

SPONSORS:
• 3M
• Advance Care
• Aidacare
• Alpha Lifecare
• Androgogic - AU
• Antidote Biomedical
• Aspire4Life
• Assa Abloy
• Austco
• Australian Electronic Maintenance Services
• Axis Health
• Baypac Labels
• Benevolent Society
• Bluescale
• Bollore Logistics Australia
• Brother International Australia
• Cavagna Group
• CC Medical
• Charter Care Services
• Comen
• Concept Health
• Construction Specialties
• Contract Care Recruitment
• Coviu
• Debetrek
• Delegate Group
• Distech Controls / Grosvenor Engineering Group
• EverYoung AI
• Finch Healthcare
• ForaCare
• GENTEC
• Gloup
• Gold Medal Safety Interiors
• Grace
• Hangzhou Singclean Medical Products
• Healthcare Logic
• Hearing Loop Australia
• HID Global
• Honeylight Consulting
• Innovate Care
• InteliCorp
• Joinstar Biomedical
• KAP Medical
• Kezu
• Kimberly-Clark Professional
• Livingstone
• Medigrafix
• MediRecords
• MenuLogistics
• Modsel
• Mororola solutions
• My Disability Support Services (My DSS)
• My Medic Watch
• Neu Industries
• NEVERalone
• Nova Biomedical
• O&M Halyard
• Onyx Healthcare
• Peacock Bros
• Quuppa
• Remote Staff
• RFiD Discovery
• Rubbermaid Commercial Products
• Sensotec
• Sentaris
• Shenzhen Comen Medical Products Co. Ltd.
• ShiftCare
• Solaris Paper
• Soularch Healthcare
• Spacelogic
• SPL
• Splice Marketing
• STERIS Australia
• T-Pro
• Tessvida Technologies
• The Grafix Group
• The Robot Factory
• ThoughtWare
• Translationz
• TrialKey
• Uniformity
• Upcover
• Uplinx / Alcatel Lucent / Omni-Health
• Vanguard Health
• Visionflex
• Vitalcare
• Wilhelm Integrated Solutions
• World Kinect
• X Lab Systems
• Zipline