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Dr Peter Benjamin is the head of capacity building for the mHealth Alliance, directing the mHealth Expert Learning Network (mHELP). Until April 2013 he was the managing director of Cell-Life, a leader in mHealth based in South Africa. He has 20 years' experience in the use of ICT for social change and development. He was the founder in 1997 of the LINK Centre for research and education into ICT policy at Wits University. Originally from the UK, he moved to South African in 1994. He has a first degree in Physics, a Masters in Information Technology and his PhD in Community Informatics.

Read Bio As Australia's trusted GadgetGuy™, Pete Blasina has been de-mystifying and explaining technology to consumers for more than 25 years. The Gadget Guy is a regular technology commentator on a broad range of TV and radio stations nationally. Over the past few years Pete has been invited to be an Ambassador for a number of consumer technologies, such as Blu-ray, Digital Radio, Cyber Safety, and the NBN. The Gadget Guy provides valuable advice on how to assess product and make the most of today's technologies at the popular award winning website, gadgetguy.com.au.

Read Bio Adam Darkins leads the National Telehealth Programs for US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Successful implementation of telehealth within VA involves the use of health informatics, telehealth and disease management technologies to enhance and extend care and case management. Under his leadership, VA has developed the clinical, technology and business underpinnings to successfully implement and sustain enterprise-wide telehealth-based services that provided 1.7 million consultations to 680,000 patients in 2013. He has worked in health services development, transitioning care from hospitals into home and community settings, and implementing enterprise information technology systems in the US and UK since 1991. He has a previous clinical background in neurosurgery.

Read Bio David Davis is a Member for Southern Metropolitan Region. He was first elected to the Victorian Parliament as Member for East Yarra Province in 1996 and re-elected in 2002. In 2006, David was elected a member of the new Southern Metropolitan Region and was re-elected in 2010. David's academic background includes a Bachelor of Applied Science, a Bachelor of Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Arts (Applied Philosophy). Prior to entering Parliament he was a Chiropractor in private practice. David was Chairman of the Central Western Regional Council of Adult, Community and Further Education before being elected to Parliament and was a member of the Board of the Box Hill Institute of Technical and Further Education from 1997 until 2000. David has been a member of the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee, the Law Reform Committee and the Family and Community Development Committee of the Victorian Parliament. David has held Shadow Ministerial responsibility for Health, Planning, Manufacturing & Exports, Small Business, Industry & State Development, Major Projects and Environment & Climate Change and more recently Health and Ageing along with responsibility for Scrutiny of Government. David is currently the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council and is Minister for Health and Minister for Ageing.

Read Bio Dr Sarah Dods leads CSIROs research in health services delivery within their Digital Productivity and Services Flagship. In this role, Sarah leads multidisciplinary research teams focused on supporting the future sustainability of Australia's health system through evidence based digital services innovation to improve healthcare productivity, quality of care, and access to services for all Australians. Sarah has over 20 years experience in multidisciplinary innovation, including mining R&D, high-tech startups, and academia, spanning research and business roles. Her experience includes 13 years researching into future optical broadband networks, which are now becoming an everyday reality. She is passionate about translating the engineering infrastructure into social and economic value for Australians, through the digital economy.

Read Bio Anton Donker has been the CIO for Healthdirect Australia since August 2011. His extensive experience includes six years with whole-of-government responsibilities for ICT, information strategy, procurement, communications and rural government service agencies in Queensland. During this time he developed the Queensland Government's first information and on-line strategies and introduced video services to support health and education. He then spent six years as CIO for Queensland Health. Anton brought transformational change to Queensland Health ICT, including state-wide consolidation of major patient care and management applications (PAS, Pharmacy, Emergency, Laboratory, etc.), infrastructure, and support services, as well as the introduction of some of the world's most extensive and successful telehealth activities serving more than 800 sites. He has a particular interest in health and services into the home and use of technology in community and rural settings.

Read Bio Adam Kossak is a senior executive, lawyer and medical doctor with more than 20 years' experience with some of the world's leading health related software and information technology companies. Adam began his career as an in-house lawyer with a large global software company and rapidly progressed to more blended commercial/legal roles and ultimately into executive management. Adam's work in the health informatics industry lead him to an interest in medicine and inspired him to attend medical school. As a clinician, Adam has worked at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney Children's Hospital and undertaken clinical research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Adam is currently the Chief Commercial Officer with WiseTech Global, a diverse technology company operating in the health and logistics sectors. Adam has served at board level as an Executive Director, Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary. His roles at both operational and board level have provided him with the opportunity throughout his career to work with a variety of 'trusted advisors' across various domains, including law, finance, corporate advisory, strategy and information technology. When not working Adam enjoys going to the gym, reading, cooking pizza in his wood-fired pizza oven.

Read Bio Professor Richard Murray is President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and Dean of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University (JCU). Richard is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and trained as a procedural rural doctor and in public health. He previously headed the Rural Clinical School at JCU, prior to which he was Medical Director of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council where he had broad ranging clinical, population health, teaching, research and medical administration/management roles. He has participated widely in the national Indigenous and remote health policy agenda reflected in his research and publication record.

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Adrian has a deep understanding of the health system from many perspectives. His experience as a Neurosurgeon, Health District Chief Executive and advisor to a world leading consulting firm have provided a unique view that he brings to his presentations. Full of energy and pragmatism, he considers challenging questions in modern healthcare.

Read Bio Danny Sands is passionate about healthcare transformation, non-visit based care, collaboration in healthcare, and participatory medicine. He spent six years at Cisco, most recently as chief medical informatics officer, where he provided both internal and external health IT leadership and helped key customers with business and clinical transformation using IT. Danny's prior position was chief medical officer for Zix Corporation, a leader in secure e-mail and e-prescribing, and before that he spent 13 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he developed and implemented numerous systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement. Dr. Sands currently holds an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and maintains a primary care practice in which he makes extensive use of health IT (much of which he helped to introduce during his tenure at Beth Israel Deaconess). Sands is a founder and co-chair of the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine. In 2009 he was recognized by HealthLeaders Magazine as one of "20 People Who Make Healthcare Better."

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Bastian Seidel is a practicing GP in rural Tasmania and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong. He was one of the first GPs in Australia to conduct a consultation under the Medicare Telehealth program. He is one of the RACGP PCEHR advocates for Tasmania.

Read Bio Susi Tegen is the Chief Executive of the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA). Susi's previous experience to MTAA includes, Chief Executive of RANZCO, former Chief Executive of Limestone Coast Division of General Practice, and commercial acumen as Managing Director of a public company which researched, developed, raised capital and commercialised agribusiness opportunities. She is a Director on several medical boards. Susi has over 20 years' experience in the medical, health and agribusiness sector. Susi has an MBA (Melb), BA (Adel), Post Grad Dip Ed (UNE), GCCM (AGSM), FARLF and FAICD, and has been awarded numerous awards including a Telstra Nokia Business award and RIRDC SA Business Woman award.

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Dr Jeff Ayton is the immediate past president of ACRRM, and the current Chair of the ACRRM Telehealth Advisory Committee (ATHAC) and is the ACRRM Representative on the International Advisory Panel to Singapore's National Telemedicine Standards Advisory Committee. He holds current ACRRM board membership for General Practice Training Tasmania. He commenced with the Australian Antarctic Division as Chief Medical Officer in 2002 with responsibility for the Australian Antarctic program medical support and human biology and medicine research. The medical support arrangements include extensive use of telehealth. He is currently the Australian Delegate to the Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research Life Sciences Scientific Group and deputy chief officer of the SCAR Life Science Expert Group of Human Biology and Medicine. In 1992, Jeff wintered at Casey Station, Antarctica, as a remote area general practitioner. He has subsequently gained varied experience in other rural and remote medical practices as a procedural general practitioner obstetrician/anaesthetist including Lorne, Victoria, Norfolk Island, South Pacific, and remote mine sites in Papua New Guinea.

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Penny is a GP and Medical Advisor with Avant. She has worked extensively in the area of general practice, JMO, GP Registrar and medical student education for the past 20 years. She is a GP Supervisor with GP Synergy and Clinical Lecturer with Sydney University. Penny is the Director of the Hornsby - Brooklyn GP Unit, a department of Hornsby Hospital. The unit has a reputation for excellence in general practice education. Penny first developed her medico-legal interest through membership of the Medical Experts Committee at Avant in 1990. Since then she has completed a Masters in Health Law at Sydney University and has been working part time with Avant as a Medical Advisor since 2008.

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Dr Megan Keaney is a medical practitioner who joined the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) in December 2009 and commenced in her current role as head of the Medical Specialist Services Branch, within the Medical Benefits Division in January 2012. The Division has policy responsibility for Medicare and Dr Keaney's Branch has specific responsibility for Medicare funded telehealth. Since joining the Department Dr Keaney has had a senior medical adviser role and during 2011 was Principal Medical Adviser at the Therapeutic Goods Administration. Prior to joining the public service, Dr Keaney held senior positions in the medical indemnity insurance industry for 18 years. Dr Keaney's clinical background is in accident and emergency medicine and, until December 2009, she was Chair of the Board of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre and a member of the Advisory Council of Cancer Australia. Dr Keaney has an interest in remote health care and Aboriginal health.

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Dr Nathan Pinskier is a Melbourne GP with a long-standing involvement in primary healthcare, e-health, information technology, accreditation and practice management. He is the chair of the RACGP National Standing Committee for Health Information Systems and the medical director of the Australian Locum Medical Service. Until August 2013, he was the deputy head of the NEHTA clinical unit.

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Martin is a final year medical student at the University of Sydney, currently working at Orange Base Hospital in NSW. Martin has a strong interest in healthcare app development and was the winner of the 2013 HISA App Challenge with an entry called "iResident" - a task management platform tailored for junior doctors and ward staff. Martin has an undergraduate degree in Physics with the university medal from the University of Sydney. He is currently doing research on healthcare apps for improved patient triage with the George Institute for Global Health.

Read Bio Shane Solomon has over 30 years of international and national healthcare management expertise. In April 2013 Shane was appointed as Head of Health for Telstra's new Health Business Unit. Prior to joining Telstra, Shane was KPMG's National Partner in Charge, Healthcare. In this role, he worked with State and Commonwealth Governments, along with private sector health organisations. Shane was previously the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, managing Hong Kong's 57,000 public hospital staff. During his 5th year tenure, he implemented significant funding and service quality reforms, including a casemix pay for performance model, the ongoing development of a comprehensive integrated e-health system. Shane was also previously Under-Secretary of Health at the Department of Human Services (as it then was) and the first Group Chief Executive Officer of the integrated Sisters of Mercy Victorian hospital and aged care services group.

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Mukesh is an advocate for accessible health and healthcare for all.

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George is a physician with a passion for health reform that improves outcomes with technology one of the tools we can use.

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Gary is an advocate for telehealthcare in Australia within the community and in the home.

Read Bio Denis entered the Computer Industry in 1972 with the BP subsidiary SCICON after a short time with Fords in new model engineering in London. The advent of this industry and the impact that it would have on the motor industry was the initial attraction but it consumed him with rapid growth and its contribution to the transformation of the manufacturing and finance industries. During the past decade he has been engaged within Australia in the challenges of the healthcare sector as a leader of two major international healthcare applications providers and during the past year as the industry advisor to NeHTA. His strategic mindset and ability to translate and communicate the operational imperatives along with the process of execution is recognized within the industry. He has contributed to the eHealth agenda with product development in Australia of successful international EHR systems and advocates industry leadership as a key stakeholder.