I am an educator and consultant specialising in digital health and digital transformation. Based on my career experience in business, government, health and IT, I advocate on ways to make digital health more impactful in our lives and I enjoy opportunities to assist organisations to achieve healthcare transformation. I moderate and chair events on the topics of digital transformation. I co-organise the Melbourne meetup group “Ai-in-Healthcare” and serve on Biogrid Australia as Dep. Chair and on the VIC Council of AIDH and Precision Healthcare Community of Practice. Through professional and personal experience I have directly experienced the benefits of diversity and I am committed to advocating for increased #techdiversity in the tech sector. Twitter: @longboardfella

Originally a zoologist and science communicator, Ben worked for the Australian and Chinese governments before being diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age twenty-eight. After undergoing eighteen months of cancer treatment, Ben decided on a career change. He became a doctor in 2018 and is now undertaking training in psychiatry. Ben volunteers, advocates, writes and speaks about colorectal cancer, cancer in young adults, medicine and medical education, and is committed to advocating for change in Australia's healthcare system. His memoir, called The Patient Doctor, was published in July 2022. Twitter: @benbravery

Sonya is a passionate and trusted people oriented international leader with a wealth of health and humanitarian sector experience in improving organisational performance and having a direct impact on quality outcomes. She has enjoyed a successful broad career to date across various organisations and disciplines including managing large portfolio of programs and leading successful teams.

Nicole is the Founder of Kin Fertility. After a misdiagnosis of an all-too-common reproductive condition, Nicole started Kin to help women take control of the decisions that impact their bodies and their reproductive health. Kin launched Australia's first subscription service to the contraceptive pill, and is now supporting women across the rest of the fertility journey, from conception through to postpartum. Twitter: @nicoleeeee12312

India is Partner in PwC's Health & Wellbeing practice. She is a clinician by background and Lead Partner for both NSW Health and the Virtual Care Practice. She focusses on digitally enabled transformation of healthcare bringing experience from the UK, Singapore and Middle East. Twitter: @india99349896

Karen Hay is a Digital Transformation Lead for Health Industry, Go-To-Market Strategist, Public Sector with Salesforce. Karen joined Salesforce in 2022 after a 20-year public sector career in Canada. She started as an infectious disease epidemiologist at a local public health unit (where her first outbreak was SARS), then joined the Ontario Ministry of Health in 2006 where she set up the provincial infectious disease surveillance and monitoring program and led the response to many provincial and national outbreaks (including high profile outbreaks of listeriosis, rabies, and H1N1), before leading the development and implementation of foundational provincial digital health assets, including Ontario’s prescription drug repository and immunization registry. Throughout her career, she has led pan-Canadian efforts to modernize public health technology, establishing interoperability frameworks and terminology and messaging standards. As the Director of Public Health IT Solutions, Karen led Ontario’s technology response to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing and implementing new provincial systems for case & contact management, vaccine administration & inventory management, and public-facing systems for vaccine appointment booking, proof of vaccination certificates (QR codes), and a COVID-19 lab results viewer. Karen has an honours B.Sc. in microbiology & immunology and an M.Sc. in medicine/community health & epidemiology from the University of Saskatchewan. She was the 2019 recipient of Digital Health Canada’s Leadership in Digital Health Award.