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Award
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Thank you for joining us at our 2022 Comcare National Conference!
Over the two-day conference, we welcomed:
- 750+ delegates
- 350+ conference dinner guests
- 50+ keynotes, sessions and panels
- 35+ sponsors and exhibitors
It was great to see you all live and in-person, promoting and enabling safe and healthy work.
Conference wrap-up
Speakers
Future Crunch
Cancer researcher
Political EconomistTané Hunter is a cancer researcher and science communicator.
Dr Angus Hervey is a political economist specialising in the impact of disruptive technologies on society.Shane Fitzsimmons AFSM
Commissioner of Resilience NSW
Shane Fitzsimmons was appointed as the inaugural Commissioner for Resilience NSW and Deputy Secretary, Emergency Management with the Department of Premier and Cabinet from 1 May 2020.
Dion Devow
2018 ACT Australian of the Year, Managing Director of Yerra
Dion Devow is the Managing Director of Yerra, Owner of Darkies Designs and 2018 ACT Australian of the Year. Dion has been honoured for his outstanding service to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business community.
Christine Morgan
CEO, National Mental Health Commission
Ms Christine Morgan is the CEO of the National Mental Health Commission and National Suicide Prevention Adviser to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Ms Morgan is a passionate leader in mental health care reform, committed to listening and responding to the voice and needs of those with lived experience.
Kurt Fearnley OAM
Australian wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley OAM is one of Australia's most well-known and respected athletes.
Belinda Neil
Belinda Neil had more extraordinary experiences before she was thirty-five than most people have in a lifetime – working as an undercover operative, saving lives as a hostage negotiator, heading up an elite counter-terrorist team during the Sydney Olympics, and catching some of the worst criminals in NSW.
Professor Sidney Dekker
Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University
Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands.
Dr Fiona Kerr
NeuroTech Institute
Dr Fiona Kerr is the Founder of The NeuroTech Institute (NTI), a multi-disciplinary body working at the intersection of neuroscience, emerging technology and ethical practice. NTI researches and consults internationally on a range of topics regarding the neuroscience of both human-human and human-technology interaction, neurogenesis and complex systems dynamics.
Ellen Fanning
Conference MC
In her 20 years as an award-winning public affairs journalist, Ellen Fanning has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from Sir John Grey Gorton to Malcolm Turnbull.
Speakers
Future Crunch - Tané Hunter, Dr Angus Hervey
Cancer researcher
Political EconomistTané Hunter is a cancer researcher and science communicator.
Dr Angus Hervey is a political economist specialising in the impact of disruptive technologies on society.Shane Fitzsimmons AFSM
Commissioner of Resilience NSW
Shane Fitzsimmons was appointed as the inaugural Commissioner for Resilience NSW and Deputy Secretary, Emergency Management with the Department of Premier and Cabinet from 1 May 2020.
Dion Devow
2018 ACT Australian of the Year, Managing Director of Yerra
Dion Devow is the Managing Director of Yerra, Owner of Darkies Designs and 2018 ACT Australian of the Year. Dion has worked in Indigenous affairs for over 20 years and has been honoured for his outstanding service to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business community. Dion has a passion for celebrating diversity in Australia and will share his personal experience of working as a conduit between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to bring people of all nationalities together.
Christine Morgan
CEO, National Mental Health Commission
Ms Christine Morgan is the CEO of the National Mental Health Commission and National Suicide Prevention Adviser to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Ms Morgan is a passionate leader in mental health care reform, committed to listening and responding to the voice and needs of those with lived experience.
Kurt Fearnley OAM
Australian wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley OAM is one of Australia's most well-known and respected athletes.
Belinda Neil
Belinda Neil had more extraordinary experiences before she was thirty-five than most people have in a lifetime – working as an undercover operative, saving lives as a hostage negotiator, heading up an elite counter-terrorist team during the Sydney Olympics, and catching some of the worst criminals in NSW.
Professor Sidney Dekker
Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University
Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands.
Dr Fiona Kerr
NeuroTech Institute
Dr Fiona Kerr is the Founder of The NeuroTech Institute (NTI), a multi-disciplinary body working at the intersection of neuroscience, emerging technology and ethical practice. NTI researches and consults internationally on a range of topics regarding the neuroscience of both human-human and human-technology interaction, neurogenesis and complex systems dynamics.
Ellen Fanning
Conference MC
In her 20 years as an award-winning public affairs journalist, Ellen Fanning has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from Sir John Grey Gorton to Malcolm Turnbull.