Julian is Exec Chairman and founder of http://digi.me, the decentralised personal data solution which empowers individuals to share more & better data to enable businesses to provide more & better value, with 100% privacy, full security and consent.

Initially an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specialising in interoperability and the military internet, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the USA, Germany, Malaysia and Australia prior to sale to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian is an angel investor in more than 20 start-up businesses, including firms such as Hailo, DataSift and Astrobotic.

Julian is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, and is also a Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut.

Liz Salmi is a former punk rock drummer turned cancer patient, who now works for an academic medical center on a research project called OpenNotes. She helps hospitals and health systems understand the changing nature of patient-clinician communication in the age of connectivity, and interpret and implement research emerging from the OpenNotes movement.

After being diagnosed with a life-limiting condition at age 29, Liz immediately put her digital communications skills to use by blogging, chronicling her daily symptoms, and seeing how much trouble she could get into with her online medical information. Today, she is passionate about empowering regular people to become more engaged in their own health care and improve their experience as patients.

In addition to her work with OpenNotes, Liz leads a palliative/neuro-oncology research network established by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and serves on the Board of Directors for National Brain Tumor Society. Her interests include clinical informatics, citizen science and human-centered design.

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Matiu founded One Good Street, a social networking platform to encourage neighbour initiated care for older residents at risk of social isolation and loneliness. Matiu is the Deputy Director of the Health Transformation Lab at RMIT, designing towards cultures of innovation and creativity in healthcare. Matiu has a Master’s degree in Public Health and broad clinical and managerial nursing experience, including working in Tijuana, Mexico with Nobel Prize Laureate Mother Teresa in international border aid, and as an emergency, oncology, intensive care nurse and is a sexual health Nurse Practitioner.

Matiu contributes to health system innovation through involvement with Better Care Victoria as a board member and the Emerging Leaders Clinical Advisory Committee. Matiu is a Rotarian and a member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and mentors the next generation of undergraduate and postgraduate science students through the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health Mentoring Program.

Dr Ruth De Souza (FACN) is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at RMIT, based in the School of Art and Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform, researching data-intensive transformations in health and wellness within the context of informationalization. Ruth’s work interrogates the impact of mobile and wearable health technologies on health care through the lens of health literacy, consumer participation and cultural safety.

Renee is a mother of 3 children, the youngest of whom was diagnosed with Prader-Willi Syndrome not long after birth. Renee now spends her days caring for her son and volunteering full time as President of the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of Victoria, helping to build on the supports and services provided by the Association over the past 40 years.

Previously, Renee has spent most of her career in the insurance industry and enjoys working with organisations to improve business outcomes by implementing and reviewing procedures to assist organisations work more efficiently and effectively.

Grahame Grieve is HL7’s Product Director for “FHIR” – the leading healthcare data exchange standard of the future. Grahame has a background in laboratory medicine, software vendor development, clinical research, open source development and has also conceived, developed and sold interoperability and clinical document solutions and products in the Australian market and around the world. Grahame has worked to develop standards and solutions with several US vendor consortiums, and the national programs of Canada, England, Singapore, and Australia

Over the last 20 years Ben has been responsible for delivering rapid growth within start-ups & large enterprise organisations within in NZ, Australia and the USA. Ben is currently GM Australia for Soul Machines, a ground-breaking high-tech company of AI researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, artists and innovative thinkers who are re-imagining how we connect with machines.

Gillian Mason is a person with heaps of time-consuming medical appointments, is disabled, chronically ill, a physiotherapist and rehabilitation researcher. At Hunter Medical Research Institute, for the University of Newcastle, she manages the Priority Research Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury’s Stroke Research Register, and its consumer engagement and communication strategy. She is a science communicator for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Repair. As a clinical research assistant for the Centre for Rehab Innovations, her focus is on innovating solutions for delivering individualised rehabilitation in the home and community setting. Living with multiple chronic illnesses, she has gained insight into and lost patience with inflexible healthcare. Without radical change, the way healthcare is delivered in Australia will continue to both restrict people with chronic illness from accessing healthcare itself, by design, and limit the time, energy and cash left over for participation in employment and society more broadly. Gillian is busy overcoming her own learned ableism to properly value and leverage her lived experience expertise as an advocate for meaningful consumer involvement in health and medical research.

Professor Keith McNeil plays a key role in the clinical leadership of the state-wide eHealth program. He works closely with key clinical stakeholders to maximise the clinical and patient safety benefits associated with technology in the healthcare setting.

Prof McNeil has previously worked within Queensland Health as the Head of Transplant Services at The Prince Charles Hospital, Chief Executive Officer at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and Chief Executive Metro North Hospital and Health Service.

More recently, Prof McNeil was Chief Clinical Information Officer and Head of IT for the NHS in England following roles as Chief Executive Officer at Addenbooke’s Hospital and Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust.

After a tragic accident in 2014 Monique woke from a coma to numerous injuries including the amputation of her right leg. It was through hydrotherapy that she rediscovered her love of swimming and just one year after her accident she was named on the Australian Dolphins Swim Team. In 2016 she won her first Paralympic Silver Medal. As a member of the Swimming Leadership team she also manages her Endometriosis calling for better education surrounding women’s health in sport. Monique is currently training with hopes of competing in Tokyo 2020.

Dr Louise Schaper is on a mission to fix healthcare. As leader of Australia’s peak body for digital health, Dr Louise Schaper, is a passionate advocate for the transformation of healthcare. As CEO of HISA she brings together world-class clinicians, researchers, innovators and organisations from across the biomedical, health and technology spectrum who are committed to the improvement of health outcomes enabled through innovative uses of technology and information. She is a facilitator, an innovator and a change agent who explores and leverages the convergence of people, systems and technologies in the transformation and future of health and medicine. With a background as an occupational therapist, Louise has a PhD in technology acceptance among health professionals, is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics, a graduate of Stanford’s Executive Leadership Program, a Certified Health Informatician and a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. Louise is an in-demand speaker and writes for academic and industry publications. Louise is host of the popular Dissecting Digital Health podcast, she is always online, and yes, she does have the coolest job!

Brigadier Isaac Seidl is a specialist medical administrator and general practitioner. He completed his medical training at UWA, and has undertaken a number of Army appointments across various military environments, including deployments to East Timor, Pakistan and the Middle East Region. He has also served in Qld Health in an executive role in Townsville Health Service. Brigadier Seidl has published in the literature and presented at national and international conferences on subjects including health leadership, clinical governance, veterans’ health and ethics. He has held academic appointments at the University of Queensland and James Cook University. Brigadier Seidl lives in Canberra, with his wife and two children.

Dr Louise Schaper is on a mission to fix healthcare. As leader of Australia’s peak body for digital health, Dr Louise Schaper, is a passionate advocate for the transformation of healthcare. As CEO of HISA she brings together world-class clinicians, researchers, innovators and organisations from across the biomedical, health and technology spectrum who are committed to the improvement of health outcomes enabled through innovative uses of technology and information. She is a facilitator, an innovator and a change agent who explores and leverages the convergence of people, systems and technologies in the transformation and future of health and medicine. With a background as an occupational therapist, Louise has a PhD in technology acceptance among health professionals, is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics, a graduate of Stanford’s Executive Leadership Program, a Certified Health Informatician and a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. Louise is an in-demand speaker and writes for academic and industry publications. Louise is host of the popular Dissecting Digital Health podcast, she is always online, and yes, she does have the coolest job!

Michael provides strategic advisory services to large organisations with a focus on leadership, digital health, governance, strategy, planning and transformation.

Michael was Director-General of Queensland Health from July 2015 to September 2019. Queensland Health employs approximately 100,000 people and provides a public health and hospital system for nearly five million people.

Michael was chair of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) providing advice to the COAG Health Council from 2016 to 2019 and was on the Board of the Australian Digital Health Agency from July 2018 to September 2019. The ADHA is responsible for the My Health Record. Michael has also previously been on the Board of Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners, an NHMRC accredited Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre.

Over the past 20 years, Michael has held senior executive positions in New South Wales and Queensland. Michael has worked as Chief Executive HealthShare NSW and was the inaugural Chief Executive of eHealth NSW. In Queensland, Michael has worked in both social and economic portfolios at the Deputy Director-General level including health, education and infrastructure. Michael has also worked in the private sector including as a Principal with PwC.

Michael holds a Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in psychology, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education. Michael has a passion for organisational excellence and supporting values-based organisations and teams achieve outcomes that improve the lives of everyone.

David Wang is a Medical Student at the University of Melbourne, based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has a long-standing interest in Health Informatics and is passionate about empowering the future generation of digital health leaders and promoting health informatics to the young talent of Australia.

In 2018, David and HISA started the HISA Student Network, a new community of practice group designed to support and enable health informatics student around Australia to achieve their career aspirations. He is currently the chair of the HISA Student Network and is a HISA VIC State Committee Member. David has a special interest in Radiology Informatics and conducts a research project in Machine Learning.

Leanna is a dynamic thinker and development-focused PhD student and Fellowship by Training candidate with the Australasian College of Health Informatics. She’s also a senior cardiac nursing team member with highly developed clinical leadership expertise. Leanna led a team to co-design a mHealth intervention to promote heart failure self-management and advance consumer informatics.