Australian Healthcare Week - Ageing Transformation Agenda Day 1
Australian Healthcare Week - Ageing Transformation Agenda Day 1
Ageing Transformation Stage Agenda Day 1
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Opening Remarks
George Margelis -
Independent Chair,
Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council
10:10 am - 10:50 am
Keynote Panel Discussion: The Next Frontier of Aged Care: How to Meet the Needs of a New Generation at Home and Beyond
Craig Carter -
Chief Information Officer,
ACH Group
James Britton - Chief Executive Officer, Geriatric Care Australia
Rameez Hassan - Chief Nursing Officer, Regis Aged Care
Saviour Buhagiar - Director of Seniors Services, Uniting
10:50 am - 10:50 am
System Reform Program
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Presentation: Aged Care Reform in Action: Delivering the New Aged Care Act and Support at Home Program
Elsy Brammesan -
Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Disability & Aged Care,
Department of Health and Aged Care
Presentation: Aged Care Reform in Action: Delivering the New Aged Care Act and Support at Home Program
Elsy Brammesan
Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Disability & Aged CareDepartment of Health and Aged Care
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Reserved for Australian Unity Homecare
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Presentation: 10 Moments that Matter: Re-Shaping Resident Outcomes with Uniting’s Household Living Transformation
11:50 am - 12:10 pm
Presentation: Delivering Improved Clinical and Economic Outcomes in Aged Care: A National, Value-Based, Team-Based Model
James Britton -
Chief Executive Officer,
Geriatric Care Australia
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Reserved for Camms Riskonnect
12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
Presentation: Navigating the New Aged Care Act: Operational Readiness, Workforce Culture, and Delivering Quality Palliative Care
Kelly Rogerson -
Chief Executive Officer,
Palliative Care South East
12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
Coffee Break
1:10 pm - 1:50 pm
Panel Discussion: Starting Tomorrow Today: Exploring Available Technologies to Transform Resident Experience
Brett Reedman -
Chief Information Officer,
Catholic Health Australia
Ronna Guzman - Consumer Advisor - Primary and Community Health, Northern Sydney LHD
Mick Young - Chief Digital Information Officer, Anglicare
John Papatheohari - Non-Executive Director, MADEC Australia
From ambient monitoring to digital engagement platforms, readily available tools are transforming how residents experience comfort, connection, and autonomy. When thoughtfully integrated, these technologies can create more responsive, dignified, and person-centred spaces. Emphasising presence over prediction, the focus shifts from future planning to immediate impact, reimagining the resident experience not as a distant goal, but as a lived reality already within reach.
1:50 pm - 2:20 pm
Fireside Chat & Demo: Enhancing Care, Connection, and Dignity With Digital Innovation in Aged Care
Nilmini Wickramasinghe -
Professor and Optus Chair Digital Health,
La Trobe University
With emerging technologies offering new pathways to improve outcomes, efficiency, and quality of life, there is so much front-line digital innovastion within the aged care space. In this fireside chat, Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe will explore the digital opportunities already reshaping aged care. From digital twins supporting proactive disease management, to AI-enabled tools enhancing clinical outcomes and resident satisfaction, to robotics addressing workforce shortages with culturally attuned, multilingual capabilities, the conversation will highlight practical innovations that reduce cognitive decline, ease system pressures, and reimagine what dignified, digitally enabled ageing can look like.
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Presentation: Transforming Medication Safety in Aged Care through Informatics
Johanna Westbrook -
Director, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research,
Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Medication management remains a major challenge in aged care, impacting resident safety and wellbeing. Traditional monitoring in Australia has relied on small-scale audits, limiting opportunities for improvement. The growing use of electronic medication administration systems enables data-driven insights through real-time monitoring, benchmarking, and predictive analytics. This keynote explores how informatics can transform medication safety by linking medication data with resident characteristics and outcomes to generate meaningful, actionable insights.
Johanna Westbrook
Director, Centre for Health Systems and Safety ResearchAustralian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Presentaion: Building Out Digital Agents And Automating Manual Work To Bring Agentic AI to BaptistCare
Daniel Pettman -
Chief Digital and Information Officer,
Baptist Care NSW & ACT
- Trialling workflows and processes to maximise efficiency and customer experience
3:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Healthy Ageing
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Presentation: Digitally Enabled Healthy Ageing: Overcoming Challenges & Empowering Proactive Care & Wellbeing
Sanka Amadoru -
Digital Health Advisor,
Australian Digital Health Agency
Join Sanka Amadoru as he explores how innovative digital tools can and should empower proactive care models that prioritise prevention, connection, and self-management to encourage the Australian population to age healthly. Discover opportunities to integrate technology across hospital, primary and community settings, address barriers such as equity and literacy, and highlight pathways for scaling sustainable digital care.
3:20 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Supporting Healthy Lifestyles Through Infrastructure, Nutrition, Technology & More
Jacqueline Quirke -
General Manager Lifestyle and Community,
RSL Lifecare Limited
Marianne Coleman - Henry Brodaty Mid Career Research Fellow, National Centre for Healthy Ageing
Vasso Apostolopoulos - Distinguished Professor, Head of Healthy Lifespan and Chronic Diseases Program, RMIT University
- Adapting infrastructure and models of care to support physical activity, accessibility, and independence
Marianne Coleman
Henry Brodaty Mid Career Research FellowNational Centre for Healthy Ageing
Vasso Apostolopoulos
Distinguished ProfessorHead of Healthy Lifespan and Chronic Diseases Program, RMIT University
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Presentation - To Be Confirmed
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm
Presentation: Living Younger, Longer: Redefining Healthy Ageing and Halving Years of Frailty
Tracey Johnson -
Chief Executive Officer,
Inala Primary Care
Australia’s ageing population is growing fast, and this session explores how a national focus on living younger, longer could add five healthy years to every Australian’s life while halving the years spent in frailty. Through prevention, early intervention, and community-based support, healthcare leaders play a vital role in empowering people to stay active, independent, and connected. Learn how system-wide collaboration, integrated care, digital health, and proactive, team based primary care can drive the next wave of health system transformation.
