Digital Health Festival 2023 | Digital Health Festival | 5 June 2023 | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf VIC 3006, Australia

It brings together the entire health eco-system including hospitals, primary & allied care, aged care, pharmacy, research and policy. Mingle with technology companies, fast growing startups, clinicians and financiers in one extraordinary event space. Meet the people and companies at the forefront of the digital health revolution.

2023 Speakers

Dr Fiona Wood AM
Pioneering Surgeon, 2004 Australian of the Year

George Cozaris
Executive Director and CIO, Royal Melbourne Hospital & Royal Women’s Hospital

Dr John Halamka (US)
President, Mayo Clinic Platforms

Amanda Cattermole
CEO, Australian Digital Health Agency

Dr Daniel Yang (US)
Program Director, Patient Care, Gordan & Betty Moore Foundation

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

David Simpson (NZ)
Chief of Strategy & Partnerships, Southern Cross Healthcare (NZ)

Sandra Cook
Executive Group Manager DHR, ACT Health

Lily Liu
Director, Digital Health, Western Health

Vinayak Smith
Head of New Ventures, Virtus Health

Nam Lam
ANZ Country Manager, SailPoint

Sue Williams
CEO, Cabrini Health

Steven Maarbani
CEO, VentureCrowd

Tamra MacLeod
Executive Manager Clinical Services, Goodwin Aged Care Services

Dr John Lambert
CCIO, Northern Territory Health

Alastair McDonald
Director, Strategy & Architecture, SA Health

Dreda Heard
Commissioning Digital Health & ICT Services, Unitas Healthcare

Evan Davey
Founding Partner, Two Bulls/DEPT®

Dr Amandeep Hansra
GP, Investor, Founder

Dr Natalie Thorne
Lead, Scientific Director, Genomical, Melbourne Genomics Alliance

Ramesh Raghavan
Head of Digital Strategy & Architecture, Uniting NSW/ACT

Dr Stefan Harrer
Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Health CRC

Jeannie Joughin
Principal, OneVentures

Ben Chiarella
Director Clinical Innovation, Ramsay Connect

Anoushka Gungadin
Director Of Strategic Partnerships ANZ, HeraMED

Tim Doyle
Co-Founder, Eucalyptus

Liz Keen
Director, Clinical Governance, Australian Digital Health Agency

Theo Christian
Manager, Analytics Partnering, Alfred Health

Hailey Brown
CEO & Founder, Vacayit

Goran Petrovic
CEO, Mend Nutrition APAC

Travis Hodgson
Chief Delivery Officer, Healthdirect Australia

Margaret Dempsey
Digital Health Project Officer, APNA

Chris Ogg
CTO & Co-Founder, Healthcare Logic

Christelle Ucinek
Director, Medi-Map Group Australia

Shawn Wigham
Managing Director, HPA

Dr Loren Sher
Director of Victorian Virtual ED, Northern Healt

Dr Lance Emerson
CEO, Victorian Agency for Health Information

Nic Blair
Founder & CEO, Midnight Health

Dr Lorelle Martin
Operations and Evaluation – Cardiac Hospital in the Home, Austin Health

Gary Savarino
Manager, Solution Engineering – A/NZ, SailPoint

Alan Pritchard
Director, EMR and ICT Services, Austin Health

Ryl Jensen (NZ)
CEO, Digital Health Association

Herbert Down
Clinical and Digital Health Standards Governance Branch Manager, ADHA

Dr Janice Tan
GP; Regional Medical Director, Telecare; Clinical Consultant, HealthShare

Mike Connell
Vice President, Commercial, ResApp Health/ Pfizer

Chirag Lodhia
Digital Health Training & Adoption Co-Coordinator, Monash Health

Mazino Onibere
Head of Security, Regis Aged Care

Rebecca Saunderson
CEO, Consentic

Jagdeesh Singh Dhaliwal
Chair – Older Adults Expert Advisory Group,, North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network

Jenny Kirschner
Pharmacist, Founder PALS (Pharmacy Addressing Loneliness and Social-isolation)

Dr Elizabeth Berryman (NZ)
CEO & Founder, chnnl

Peter Browne
CEO, Next Practice

Dr Shannon Nott
Rural Health Director of Medical Services, Western NSW Local Health District

Mark Paul
Founder & CEO, Itheum

Dominique Robert-Hendren
Head of Clinical Innovation & Digital Health, Hello Sunday Morning

Fay Flevaras
First Assistant Secretary Digital Transformation & Delivery – Aged Care Reform, Aus Dep. Health

Arindam Chaudhuri
Executive Director Digital Health, North Adelaide Local Health Network

Kerryn Butler-Henderson
Director Digital Health, RMIT

Prof. Adam Dunn
Head of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health, University of Sydney

Luke Grana
CEO, Andi Health

Dr Erica Tong
Chief Pharmacy Informatics Officer, Alfred Health

Malcolm Hebblewhite
CEO, Atmo Biosciences

Kate Renzenbrink
Chief Nursing & Midwifery Informatics Officer, Western Health

Maggie Wołoszyn
Founder, For/ me

Greg Garratt
CEO, Medi-Map Group

Kate Save
Co-Founder & CEO, BeFit Foods

Prof Derek Chew
Director of Cardiology Victorian Heart Hospital, Monash Health

Dr Chris Bain
Lead for the Alliance for Digital Health, Monash University

Mary-Beth Brinson
CEO, Tali Health

Hamish Steel
Founder, Digital Health Festival

Ajay Radhakrishnan
Director – Data & Innovation, Peninsula Health

Melissa Fodera
Clinical Excellence Lead, Austin Health

Em Casey
Founder, What the Health

Tom Churchward
Head Scientist, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Health

Peter Birch
Founder, Talking HealthTech

Stephanie Miles
Regulatory & Clinical Affairs Manager, Seer Medical

Laurie Nicol
Chief Technology Officer, CancerAid

Kaye Hewson
Director, Australian Teletrial Program, Queensland Health

Shaun Francis
State Virtual Health Care Lead, RFDS Queensland

Peter Vranes
CEO & Co-Founder, Nutromics

Nicholas Opie
Co-Founder & CTO, Synchron

Cameron Botterill
ICT Director – Business Growth & Innovation, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

Desiree D’Cruz
Founder, Acegirl

Rachel Green
CEO, SANE Australia

Edgar Charry
CEO, Symex Labs

Michelle Rennie
Chief Information Officer, The Royal Children’s Hospital

Jarrod McMaugh
Digital Health Manager, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

Dr Nathan O’Callaghan
Leader, Precision Health Future Science Platform, CSIRO

Dr Qusai Hussain
Founder & CEO, Cyber Clinic

A/Prof Leah Heiss
The Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design, Monash University

Nicole Hosking
Operations Director Radiology & MIT, Austin Health

Chris Boyd-Skinner
Engagement Manager, Australian Digital Health Agency

Dr Omar Ibrahim
Researcher, Black Dog Institute

Chris Horwill
Founder, Cub Care

Carolyn Naismith
Divisional Manager Cardiac Services Specialty Surgery, Austin Health

Kirsty Garrett
CEO, Doctors on Demand

Athol Hann
Founder, fwards

Zoe Lush
Co-Founder, VedaScope

Lisa Brenton
Deputy Principal Scientist, St Vincent’s Hospital

Jonathan Jeffries (JJ)
Co-Founder, Think&Grow

Danielle Bancroft
Chief Product Officer, Best Practice Software

Dr Mian Bi
Lead Investor, Australian Medical Angels

Andrew Schafer
Software Technical Lead, Nutromics

Dr Kylie Bennett
MD, e-hub Health

Zachary Nielsen
Co-Founder, Ascend Health Group & Co-Founder, LUDDI

Idan Goldberger (IL)
CEO, Australian Friends of Seba Medical Centre

Natalie Phan
Digital Health Redevelopment Program Manager, South Western Sydney Local District

Robi Karp
CEO, Fluffy Spider Technologies

Booker Woodford
Founder, emote Care

Dr Angie Montgomery
CEO, InCheq | Telstra Health 2022 Brilliant Women in Digital Health

Dr Mataroria Lyndon (NZ)
Board Member, Te Aka Whai Ora Māori Health Authority

Dr Kara Burns
Program Manager, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, Melbourne University

Dr Paresh Dawda
Director & Principal, Next Practice Canberra & Prestantia Health

Chris Pymble
Founder & CEO, Graphics et al.

John Moran
Partner, Clyde & Co | Cyber (Incident Response) Expert

Dr Ron Tenenbaum
CEO & Co-Founder, The Clinician

Candida Wong
Head of Strategy – Group Finance & Strategy, Medibank

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

Dr Talat Uppal
Director, Women’s Health Road

Josh Corman
VP, Cyber Safety Strategy, Claroty

Ariel Linker (IL)
Director of Global Business Development, TytoCare

Zoë Callister-Hakewill
Podcast Host, Beyond the Medicine Cabinet

Dr Thomas Kelly
CEO & Founder, Heidi Health

Jonathan Salgo
Co-Founder, HeyHubble & T-shirt Ventures

Carolyn Mee
Founder, Sound Scouts

Andy Ellis (NZ)
General Manager, Medicly (NZ)

Prof Anna Peeters
Director, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University

Angela McLaren
Director, Equisec

Josh Isman
Co-Founder, PSYLO

Michael Winlo
CEO and MD, Emyria

Helen Frazer
Clinical Director, St Vincent’s BreastScreen

Deepak Biswal
CEO, CareMonitor

Sofie Karamzalis
Director Informatics, The Royal Women’s Hospital

Dr. Prash P.
Co-Founder, Enosis

Katarina Throssell
Investment Associate, Giant Leap

A/Prof Johan Verjans
Deputy Director, Medical Machine Learning, Australian Institute for Machine Learning

Dina Titkova
Senior Manager MedTech & Portfolio, UNSW Founders

Tim Hynes
State Manager VIC & TAS, Radium Capital

A/Prof Vikram Palit
Health Leadership, The Australian National University | Founder, Consultmed

Prof Farah Magrabi
Australian Institute of Health Innovation Centre for Health Informatics, Macquarie University

A/Prof Natalie Yang
Medical Director, Department of Radiology, Austin Health

Tam C. Nguyen
Deputy Director of Research, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

Boaz Gaon (IL)
CEO & Founder, Wisdom

Adam Seri-Levi (US)
Business Development Manager, Intuition Robotics

Angela Hehir
Program Manager Women’s Health Program, George Institute for Global Health

Adam Chee (SG)
Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, National Univeristy of Singapore

Sue Williams
CEO, Cabrini Health

Grace Tan
Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer, Nectar Brands

Sam Gledhill
Global Director – Digital Health, Movember

Dale Watkins
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Software & Informatics – AMEA, Illumina

Dr Silvia Pfeiffer
Co-Founder & CEO, Coviu

Christopher Skene
CTO, Aurabox

Rita Arrigo
Strategic Engagement Manager – National AI Centre, CSIRO

Charles Papp
Founder & CEO, KRE8 IT

James Sneddon
Co-Founder & GM, Stigma Health

Laurie Malone
CEO, VALD

Jane Prowse
Chief Technology Officer & Baret Product Lead, 5p

Dr Audra Gedmintas
Medical Director, My Emergency Doctor

Kunal Kalro
CEO & Founder, Eugene

Dr Emeline Ramos
Physician Executive, InterSystems

Padmini Janaki (In)
CEO & Co-Founder, Mind and Mum

Noel Toal
CIO, DPV Health

Pennie McCoy
Head of Health Programs – CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Spokesperson, Digital Wellness

Landell Archer
Director of Healthcare Solutions, Pexip

Joanna Morris
Co-Founder, Matilda

Craig Carter
Chief Information Officer, ACH Group

Olivia Orchowski
Founder, Femtek

Allan Sheffield
Founder, myDNA

Michelle Thomson
Senior Manager Human Centred Design, eHealth NSW

Phil Hayes-St Clair
Co-Founder & CEO, Drop Bio Health

Amio Matenga Ikihele (NZ)
General Manager – Community & Innovations, Moana Connect (NZ)

Michelle Gallaher
Founder, Opyl

Antoinette Manna
Workforce Development Consultant, Royal Women’s Hospital

Colin Pudsey
Founder, SilVR

Andrew Blunt
Emergency Physician, Mercy Health

Dr Brandon Carp
Co-Founder & President, Australian Society for Medical Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Dr Michelle Woolhouse
Founding Medical Director, Vively

Lukah Dykes
Managing Director, Heart AI

Priya Ramarao-Milne
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cloud-Based Genomics, CSIRO

Chelsea Webster
Nurse Unit Manager, Mercy Health Breastmilk Bank

Jayne Thompson
Head of Product, MediRecords

Peter O’Halloran
Chief Digital Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency

Dr Elizabeth Berryman
CEO & Founder, chnnl

AJ Moreland
Managing Director, Draeger AUS & NZ Webapp

2023 Sponsors

TITLE SPONSOR:
• Salesforce

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• SailPoint
• Zoom

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Cenitex
• Docu Sign
• T Health
• Venture Crowd

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Monash University
• Drager
• Evrima
• FPT Software
• Healthcare Logic
• HPA
• Imprivata
• Intersystems
• Kre8i.t
• Lumary
• Medigate
• My Emergency Doctor
• Outsystems
• Ping Identity
• Red hat
• Tytocare

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Annalise.ai
• Aurabox
• Binary Med
• Care Monitor
• Coviu
• Deloitte
• Drophio Health
• Eucalyptus
• 5p
• Fluffy Spider Technologies
• HSC Technology Group
• MediRecords
• Pexip
• R&Dium Capital
• The Clinician
• Two Bulls/DEPT
• Zipline

COFFEE CART SPONSORS:
• Commvault
• Health Beats
• In2Health

APP SPONSOR:
• NBN