Dr Osama Elhassan carries more 25 years of experience in digital transformation and advanced computing. He co-founded ZIMAM in 2016 to promote digital health across GCC countries, through continuous education and competency-based career-paths development. He is also an elected board of member of several local, regional and international Scientific and non-for-profit organizations such as Emirates Health Informatics Society, the Middle East and North Africa Health Informatics Society and the Roaster of Healthcare IT Experts at World Health Organization.

Distinguished Laureate Prof. Nick Talley at the University of Newcastle is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health. He is a part time Senior Staff Specialist in Gastroenterology at John Hunter Hospital. Nick is a gastroenterologist who is considered a preeminent international authority in the field. His research interests and expertise include the pathophysiology of neurogastrointestinal disorders, biomarkers and therapeutics. Nick has an outstanding academic track record. He is among the most highly cited researchers in medicine in Australia with more than 136,000 citations. His recent work has focussed on the microbiome, low-grade inflammation and unexplained gut disorders. Nick is a Chief Investigator on several successfully completed NHMRC and NIH grants and has attracted funding worth more than A$17 million dollars in the last decade. He is regularly the recipient of investigator initiated pharmaceutical sponsored grants. Prestigious research awards include the Distinguished Research Prize from the Gastroenterological Society of Australia, NSW Excellence in Biological Sciences Prize, NSW Scientist of the Year 2018, and the Peter Wills Medal from Research Australia 2018. He has had a major interest in climate change and health, and public health advocacy in his leadership roles. He is a Past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, former Chair of the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges, former Treasurer of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, former Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Newcastle, former Chair of Medicine at Mayo Clinic Florida and the University of Sydney, and a current member of NHMRC Research Council.

Professor Enrico Coiera has been working at the intersection of information technology and healthcare for over three decades. Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence, he still leads this field. He is the founding Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and the founding Director of The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), which was established at UNSW in 1998 and is now based at Macquarie University. CHI is the longest running biomedical and health informatics academic research group in Australia. He is also the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health and founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH).

Distinguished Laureate Prof. Nick Talley at the University of Newcastle is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health. He is a part time Senior Staff Specialist in Gastroenterology at John Hunter Hospital. Nick is a gastroenterologist who is considered a preeminent international authority in the field. His research interests and expertise include the pathophysiology of neurogastrointestinal disorders, biomarkers and therapeutics. Nick has an outstanding academic track record. He is among the most highly cited researchers in medicine in Australia with more than 136,000 citations. His recent work has focussed on the microbiome, low-grade inflammation and unexplained gut disorders. Nick is a Chief Investigator on several successfully completed NHMRC and NIH grants and has attracted funding worth more than A$17 million dollars in the last decade. He is regularly the recipient of investigator initiated pharmaceutical sponsored grants. Prestigious research awards include the Distinguished Research Prize from the Gastroenterological Society of Australia, NSW Excellence in Biological Sciences Prize, NSW Scientist of the Year 2018, and the Peter Wills Medal from Research Australia 2018. He has had a major interest in climate change and health, and public health advocacy in his leadership roles. He is a Past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, former Chair of the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges, former Treasurer of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, former Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Newcastle, former Chair of Medicine at Mayo Clinic Florida and the University of Sydney, and a current member of NHMRC Research Council.

Farah Magrabi is Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics at Macquarie University. She is an Associate Editor of JAMIA and co-edited the focus issue on Health Informatics and Climate Change which lays out a blueprint for action to mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health in 2022.