Program

Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence. He was named by the Australian newspaper as a “rock star” of Australia’s digital revolution. He is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW, leads the Algorithmic Decision Theory group at Data61, Australia’s Centre of Excellence for ICT Research, and is Guest Professor at TU Berlin. He has been elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award as well as the NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden.

He regularly appears in the media talking about the impact of AI and robotics. He is passionate that limits are placed on AI to ensure the public good. In the last two years, he has appeared in TV and the radio on the ABC, BBC, Channel 7, Channel 9, Channel 10, CCTV, CNN, DW, NPR, RT, SBS, and VOA, as well as on numerous radio stations. He also writes frequently for print and online media. His work has appeared in the New Scientist, American Scientist, Le Scienze, Cosmos, the Conversation and “The Best Writing in Mathematics”. His twitter account has been voted one of the top ten to follow to keep abreast of developments in AI. He often gives talks at public and trade events like CeBIT, the World Knowledge Forum, TEDx, and Writers Festivals in Melbourne, Sydney and elsewhere. He has played a leading role at the UN and elsewhere on the campaign to ban lethal autonomous weapons (aka “killer robots”).

Dr. Ian Oppermann is the NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist and CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre. Ian has 25 years’ experience in the ICT sector and, has led organizations with more than 300 people, delivering products and outcomes that have impacted hundreds of millions of people globally. He has held senior management roles in Europe and Australia as Director for Radio Access Performance at Nokia, Global Head of Sales Partnering (network software) at Nokia Siemens Networks, and then Divisional Chief and Flagship Director at CSIRO.

Trained in medicine with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Professor Coiera is Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, a group he co-founded in 2000. With a research background in industry and academia, he has a strong international research reputation for his work on decision support and communication processes in biomedicine.

He spent 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol UK where he led numerous health technology projects. He has overseen the development and trial of multiple e-Health interventions, including the Healthy.me consumer system and clinical decision support systems.

Kate Ebrill works with the Australian e Health Research Centre of CSIRO as the Product and Programme lead for the Clinical Terminology and FHIR Products. Kate has over 20 years of experience in leading delivery and implementation programs in health care with a key focus on initiatives which rive the adoption of standards to enable an interoperable digital health system. Prior to joining CSIRO Kate was the executive responsible for the establishment and operation of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s National Clinical Terminology Service and Clinical Informatics Programme and represented Australia on the General Assembly for SNOMED International. Kate is the lead for the Primary Care Data Quality Programme which is a collaboration, funded by the Australian Govt Department of Health, working with the primary care software industry and clinical profession to co-develop the standards to ensure clinical information can be exchanged with meaning between primary care systems.

Dr David Hansen is CEO of the Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO’s e-Health Research Program, leading 80 CSIRO scientists and engineers in e-Health research and implementation projects around Australia. David is also the current Chair of the HISA Board.

Farah Magrabi is an Associate Professor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She has a background in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering with postdoctoral training in Health Informatics.

Farah’s research seeks to investigate the safety and effectiveness of digital health technologies for clinicians and consumers. She is internationally recognised as a leader in this area, and has made a major contribution to documenting the patient safety risks of digital health by examining safety events in Australia, the USA and England. Her work has shaped policy and practice including a new specification by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TS 20405). In 2015, she received the Sax Institute’s Research Action Award for the international impact of her research on policy and practice to improve digital health safety.

Farah is currently investigating the patient safety risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and holds a Fellowship with the University of York’s Assuring Autonomy International Programme.

Peter Mulquiney is an actuary and Principal at analytics and actuarial consultancy Taylor Fry. He develops analytics techniques to benefit business, government and people. For more than 15 years, Peter has focused on innovation, providing statistical and analytics advice that keeps his clients at the leading edge of their professions, from the corporate world through to the social sector and accident compensation schemes.

Along with his Taylor Fry colleagues, Peter authored a recently released report for the NSW Government, as part of its initiative to improve the care of our most vulnerable citizens. This involved modelling individual lifetime pathways for each of the three million people under the age of 25 in NSW through their interactions with social services such as health, justice and child protection.

Peter holds a PhD in biochemistry and completed a research fellowship at Oxford University, awarded to him by the National Health and Medical research Council of Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Prashant is Principal of Analytics & Cognitive at Deloitte Consulting, Melbourne. He is also a Co-Faculty Instructor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. Prior to joining Deloitte, he was in award-winning, global roles as Sr. Director of AI at H2O.ai, Product Director at Oracle USA, and in other roles at McKesson, Healthways, and Siemens.

He is a lead author/contributor to 4 books on big data and machine learning, business intelligence, and technology innovation.

Prashant is on the Board of Advisors for the Centre for Affordable Health Coverage, Pistoia Alliance, and California’s CIAPM initiative. He has presented before the US Congress and is a participant in round tables at the White House.

Zornitza completed her medical studies, including an intercalated science degree with first class honours, at the University of Oxford, UK. This was followed by basic paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and advanced training in clinical genetics at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS). She was appointed as a consultant at VCGS in 2011. Her main areas of practice are reproductive and paediatric genetics, with a special interest in the clinical application of genomic testing technologies for the diagnosis of rare genetic conditions.

Karin Verspoor is a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Deputy Director of the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre at the University of Melbourne, and Deputy Director of the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies. Trained as a computational linguist, Karin’s research primarily focuses on extracting information from clinical texts and the biomedical literature using machine learning methods to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support. Karin held previous posts as the Scientific Director of Health and Life Sciences at NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. She also spent 5 years in start-ups during the US Tech bubble, where she helped design an early artificial intelligence system.

Emma Hossack is the CEO of Extensia, a leading Australian supplier of software solutions and technologies for the health care sector. Additionally, Emma is the CEO of Binder, an information logistics platform used across all industry sectors.

Extensia has deployed a number of implementations of privacy by design shared electronic health record systems across Australia over the past decade. Extensia recognised the global need for improved systems for aged care, chronic disease, indigenous care and disabilities to be built on trusted systems to enable the secure exchange of health information. This promotes individual autonomy and dignity as well as improved health outcomes & efficiencies.

Before acquiring Extensia, Emma practiced as a commercial lawyer as a Senior Associate with a National Law Firm based in Melbourne and in 2007 she completed a Master of Laws at Queensland University of Technology, majoring in consent models and privacy compliant sharing of health information.

Now based in Brisbane, Emma’s other interests and positions include current President of the Medical Software Industry Association, member of the Health Informatics Society Australia, Past President and current member of iappANZ (Australian and New Zealand International Association of Privacy Professionals) and is a representative on various Commonwealth Government reference groups.

With Emma’s experience and standing in both the areas of privacy and medical software, she is a frequent keynote speaker and author on these topics both in Australia and internationally.

Inaugural Chief Clinical Information Officer of NSW Health. Experienced Intensive Care Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry from community practice to NSW government.

Trish is co-director of the Flinders Digital Health Research Centre, a newly formed multidisciplinary entity to further digital health systems and technologies research. Her role is to foster digital health university-industry-government collaborations to contribute to ‘Digital Health Enabling Health Smart Living’. As a passionate contributor to, and advocate for, health informatics standards, Trish is a previous Chair of HL7 Australia, international co-chair HL7 Security and nominated expert on ISO health informatics standards. Trish is co-editor of HISA’s Privacy Guideline and E-Safety Professional Practice Guidelines, Board Member of HISA, primary author of the RACGP Computer and Information Security Standards, NPS MedicineWise Data Governance Committee member, amongst other industry and health advisory boards. She has over 100 health and medical information security and safety publications.

Trish’s research and capability span health cyber-security, privacy, mobile health, Health Internet of Things (HIoT), medical device security, data quality, governance, health software safety, and health informatics standards. Trish’s internationally recognised expertise in medical information security (as well as her liking for full-bodied red wine!?), and these together with her passion for practical outcomes and experience in healthcare computing are integrated to lead research and innovation in digital health..

Lachlan Rudd is eHealth NSW’s Director of Data and Analytics. Lachlan lead’s a new portfolio overseeing and coordinating all data and analytics related projects within eHealth NSW, which are growing in number and importance as progress is made towards the implementation of eHealth Strategy for NSW and the NSW Health Analytics Framework.

Lachlan’s previous role was Product Owner at Quantium, a company that specialises in the development of AI driven big data products. In this role he lead teams of data scientists, developers, testers and analysts in both India and Australia. He oversaw development and support of products deployed across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Lachlan has also worked for CSIRO in Canberra, where he delivered health projects for state and federal governments. Earlier in his career, Lachlan was Director of a Beijing based investment advisory firm, specialising in China outbound investment.

Lachlan holds Bachelor of Business (Finance and Mandarin Language) and Master of Mathematics (Applied Statistics) degrees from Queensland University of Technology.

Peter Leonard joined UNSW Business School in October 2018 as an esteemed Professor of Practice. He is responsible for working closely with academics to integrate scholarly achievement with practical experience for students, and for bridging the connection between students and industry members.